SGS2 is a fantastic phone but one of the most annoying things I find is when you zoom in on the browser, the webpage doesn't seem to do the screen auto-fit.
Double tapping it doesn't seem to do the trick either where this feature is available to the former SGS1.
I have already ticked the box for Auto-fit in the settings menu to no avail. I use browser zooming all the time and it's frustrating you have to scroll from left to right and vice versa to read for every single line. It's doing my head-in!! What else can I do to make this work?
Thanks in advance.
You need to totally zoomed out of the page then double tap and the text will be rearranged.
If you are already zoomed in, double tap once will do a zoom out, do that one more time to auto-fit the text.
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tmj12 said:
SGS2 is a fantastic phone but one of the most annoying things I find is when you zoom in on the browser, the webpage doesn't seem to do the screen auto-fit.
Double tapping it doesn't seem to do the trick either where this feature is available to the former SGS1.
I have already ticked the box for Auto-fit in the settings menu to no avail. I use browser zooming all the time and it's frustrating you have to scroll from left to right and vice versa to read for every single line. It's doing my head-in!! What else can I do to make this work?
Thanks in advance.
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This is another reason why not to use the stock SGS2 browser (the other being that it brings the battery to its knees).
Try Menu > More > Settings, uncheck "Open pages in overview", and check "Auto-fit pages".
nhat2991 said:
You need to totally zoomed out of the page then double tap and the text will be rearranged.
If you are already zoomed in, double tap once will do a zoom out, do that one more time to auto-fit the text.
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Double tapping only switches between overview and default zoom level - both of them do allow auto-fit. However, if you zoom in at a level greater than the default zoomed-in level, it certainly does not perform the auto-fit again as it should be and in this case double tapping would only take it back to overview level. I regularly need to zoom in more than the default zoom level. It's so annoying!! Surely, I'm not the only person experiencing this issue.
Opera Mobile has it.
There's already a thread on this topic about 500 pages long titled text reflow. Perhaps all your answers are contained there.
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There's already a thread on this topic about 500 pages long titled text reflow. Perhaps all your answers are contained there.
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Did a search for this but nothing came up. Have you got the link to that thread?
I need to find out how to resolve this issue as it's ruining my browsing experience..
tmj12 said:
Did a search for this but nothing came up. Have you got the link to that thread?
I need to find out how to resolve this issue as it's ruining my browsing experience..
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The clue to the referenced thread is in the post above yours, where he actually gives you the title of said thread. If you then do a search with that same title.........
This settings help..
U double tap it will zoom to a decent viewing level, and text has Bernard organised to fit the screen.. But if you zoom in manually, it won't autofit screen
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hua_wuxin said:
Try Menu > More > Settings, uncheck "Open pages in overview", and check "Auto-fit pages".
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Very helpful indeed , but like my previous post said
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Did a search for this but nothing came up. Have you got the link to that thread?
I need to find out how to resolve this issue as it's ruining my browsing experience..
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I did another test on the Samsung infuse today and text reflow definitely works. Now we just need to figure out why Samsung would leave it out of their flagship phone.
Dumbass browser move by Samsung, as well as not having settings for desktop displays.
'Best browser' in the industry: NOT because they don't enable these key features. Idiotic.
Regarding zoom you have to pinch zoom to required level and rotate the phone it auto fits your page in whatever zoom level.you should keep auto rotation on.
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Regarding zoom you have to pinch zoom to required level and rotate the phone it auto fits your page in whatever zoom level.you should keep auto rotation on.
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Yeah it autofit if you rotate it. But the funny thing it will autofit if you zoom in after a rotate.
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Just what the title says. cant find any tweak in google...
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Just what the title says. cant find any tweak in google...
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Try checking the settings...
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Try checking the settings...
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i have heard on youtube reviews it is not possible...thats why i am wondering.
the iphone browsing experience is great, and is full screen.
On the Leo it is not full screen, even when you zoom out.
what about ticking auto full screen in the settings menu?
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Just what the title says. cant find any tweak in google...
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I'm a little confused by this. Do you mean Opera 10? I only ask because the default Opera (9.7) that comes installed on the device is always in full screen, except when you use the menus.
same for opera 10.. always in fullscreen except when using the menus
maby i said it wrong...with fullscreen i ment viewing the whole page. only able to scroll down, not sideways.
Opera always goes to fullscreen mode automatically.
And actually it goes to REAL fullscreen, not like on the iPhone where you still have that bar on the bottom taking away screen real estate (that's already very limited on the iPhone anyway, with that low resolution and smaller screen).
Don't know where you found that information that Opera would not do this, but it's wrong.
You can turn that off in the settings, however.
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maby i said it wrong...with fullscreen i ment viewing the whole page. only able to scroll down, not sideways
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Ah yes, now I understand what you mean. Yes, you can do that also, by setting the "virtual screen width" higher.
if it still wont work, type about:config in your browser
and then go to user prefs and see if there are some options permanently activatet wich do not allow the browser to go into fullscreen!
This is what you're searching for:
- type about:config
- click on 'adaptive zoom settings'
- set 'virtual screen width' to 1000 (or something great enough for all the pages you visit)
- click 'save' and restart Opera
Thanks for the question, I'll include this in my next ROM
I like not having to scroll sideways, but was too lazy to change it
yeah thats it! i was to lazy to get my phone to look it up^^
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This is what you're searching for:
- type about:config
- click on 'adaptive zoom settings'
- set 'virtual screen width' to 1000 (or something great enough for all the pages you visit)
- click 'save' and restart Opera
Thanks for the question, I'll include this in my next ROM
I like not having to scroll sideways, but was too lazy to change it
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alrighty. thanks for the answer.
i think im gonna sell my 3Gs
Why won't the words go with the screen when you use multi-touch? Anyone else find this annoying?
kylez64 said:
Why won't the words go with the screen when you use multi-touch? Anyone else find this annoying?
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After zooming in, just double tap the screen real quick and it will re-align the text to fit. I think they did this so that the pinch to zoom would be smoother while trying to decide what zoom level you wanted.
try double tapping afterwards
I assume you are referring to the text not auto fitting to the screen after you zoom. I noticed this too and found it annoying but the go, is to simply double tap the screen after booming and it will fit the text to the screen.
That is what pinch to zoom does, it's just pinch to zoom. Goes as big or as small as you pinch. I know such an amazing feature we couldn't live without right? LOL It is nice to have but after using Iphone for 3 years I liked the doubletap method of Nexus automatically configuring zoom to text column size much better. Pinch to zoom is nice to have for the gallery and the maps though.
It worked on my Hero just fine. its just a bit of an inconvenience for me.
Dolphin Browser resizes the text for you, if you're using that then I have no idea what else could be the problem here. I didn't know people still use the default browser, it so. "default-ish".
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After zooming in, just double tap the screen real quick and it will re-align the text to fit. I think they did this so that the pinch to zoom would be smoother while trying to decide what zoom level you wanted.
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Huh? Doesn't double tap zoom out? If so, what's the point of pinching in and then zooming out again?
Paul22000 said:
Huh? Doesn't double tap zoom out? If so, what's the point of pinching in and then zooming out again?
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Its something Google added for the masses. With Multitouch, people can stop saying this phone is inferior to the iphone using that one point (it having multi-touch) as a basis.
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Its something Google added for the masses. With Multitouch, people can stop saying this phone is inferior to the iphone using that one point (it having multi-touch) as a basis.
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Who takes that seriously?
Hardware wise the Nexus is far better then the iphone
Software is more opinion based
Ive actually never owned or used an apple product so I can't compare, I found it rather boring
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Who takes that seriously?
Hardware wise the Nexus is far better then the iphone
Software is more opinion based
Ive actually never owned or used an apple product so I can't compare, I found it rather boring
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Tell that to the iphone users. You think the average, very average, as in teenage girls with puppies in their purses (I see that on TV.. lol) are going to care about superior "hardware". There going to look at the iphone, look at the Nexus One - and go "oh shiny", "oh I can zoom in and out with my fingers!".
The phone (Nexus One) can have all the superior hardware it wants, but there are thousands of ignorant people out there that believe the iphone is more superior than the Nexus One over simple things like multitouch.
But your question was "Who takes it seriously?", you may not take it seriously - but Google HAS to stop people from loving the iphone so much with any method they can ( at least I would believe). Exceeding with hardware was the first step.. and I'm going to infer that multi-touch was the 2nd step. I assume businesses must take even the most idiotic complaints into consideration..
Ok back to the topic at hand...
Am I wrong about the double tap thing?
It's not actually a double tap, but TWO double taps then, isn't it?
Or am I doing the double tap wrong, meaning there's a way to double tap to reflow without zooming???
Would be nice not to be comparing to the iPhone, but IIRC, I always had trouble getting the text to reflow when I zoomed in on a column of text on the iPhone. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough.
With Android, at least I can pinch, then double tap to reflow text. But that's not what I usually do - I usually just double-tap the element I want to zoom in on, and it seems to be readable-sized and in a single column. In other words, I like the Android pinch-to-zoom functionality in the Browser.
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Huh? Doesn't double tap zoom out? If so, what's the point of pinching in and then zooming out again?
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You might come across this problem if you have the "Open pages in overview" option unchecked in the browser settings. If it's unchecked, you'll be a bit zoomed in when a page loads, so double tapping will presumably zoom you out again.
In summary: if you're zoomed out (i.e. in page overview), double tapping zooms in and reflows text. If you're zoomed in a bit, double tapping zooms out to the page overview.
Well said... I completely agree with yah.
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Tell that to the iphone users. You think the average, very average, as in teenage girls with puppies in their purses (I see that on TV.. lol) are going to care about superior "hardware". There going to look at the iphone, look at the Nexus One - and go "oh shiny", "oh I can zoom in and out with my fingers!".
The phone (Nexus One) can have all the superior hardware it wants, but there are thousands of ignorant people out there that believe the iphone is more superior than the Nexus One over simple things like multitouch.
But your question was "Who takes it seriously?", you may not take it seriously - but Google HAS to stop people from loving the iphone so much with any method they can ( at least I would assume). Exceeding with hardware was the first step.. and I'm going to assume multi-touch was the 2nd step. I assume businesses must take even the most idiotic complaints into consideration..
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You might come across this problem if you have the "Open pages in overview" option unchecked in the browser settings. If it's unchecked, you'll be a bit zoomed in when a page loads, so double tapping will presumably zoom you out again.
In summary: if you're zoomed out (i.e. in page overview), double tapping zooms in and reflows text. If you're zoomed in a bit, double tapping zooms out to the page overview.
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Huh?
This will only work if you're 100% zoomed out then. This thread is about zooming in with pinch and zoom, and THEN using double tap, is it not?
As pjcforpres posted:
"After zooming in, just double tap the screen real quick and it will re-align the text to fit."
I think something is getting lost in translation here?
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Huh? Doesn't double tap zoom out? If so, what's the point of pinching in and then zooming out again?
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Here is what I am saying, I guess more clearly...
Do the pinch to zoom, then double tap the screen right after it. It won't zoom out, instead it will auto fit the text just like a regular double tap zoom. They did this so that the pinch to zoom is smoother and more fluid in it's motion, since instead of doing a bunch of resizings as it zooms, it does it once when you double tap the screen to let it know you are done zooming in.
Try it out, it is a great execution IMHO that sadly too many people haven't seemed to of figured out.
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Here is what I am saying, I guess more clearly...
Do the pinch to zoom, then double tap the screen right after it. It won't zoom out, instead it will auto fit the text just like a regular double tap zoom. They did this so that the pinch to zoom is smoother and more fluid in it's motion, since instead of doing a bunch of resizings as it zooms, it does it once when you double tap the screen to let it know you are done zooming in.
Try it out, it is a great execution IMHO that sadly too many people haven't seemed to of figured out.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, ok. NOW I see. DAAAAAMN, that was confusing.
To clear it up for other folks, the trick is to double tap *immediately* after finishing zooming in. So double tap actually does two *completely* different things based on whether you wait 1 second or don't. I get it now.
Wow, that should be officially explained somewhere, haha. How the heck did you figure that out?!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, ok. NOW I see. DAAAAAMN, that was confusing.
To clear it up for other folks, the trick is to double tap *immediately* after finishing zooming in. So double tap actually does two *completely* different things based on whether you wait 1 second or don't. I get it now.
Wow, that should be officially explained somewhere, haha. How the heck did you figure that out?!
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I am a genius!
I haven't had any problems at all with the pinch-zoom. I find that the double tab is perfect for reading text while the pinch zoom feature gives me added accuracy to choose a small link etc
I don't if it was mentioned somewhere in the thread but if you tap on the text it will auto center the paragraph. Another thing that's cool is that once centered, it stays snapped to the screen center so you can have perfect up and down scrolling. This has been around since day one.
First of all, I love my phone and I love the stock Android browser.
With that said, I see two ways the browser could be slightly improved.
I often find myself managing multiple tabs in the browser (4-6 at any given time). I find that when I go to my open tabs (Menu > Windows), it's very hard to tell which one is the active tab. I think they're listed in the order in which they're opened, but that doesn't help me when I constantly jump back and forth between them. There's no indication which tab is active, and the fact that the font is so large and you have a truncated URL and page title makes it difficult to tell what's what.
Is there an option or tweak that allows the active tab to be bolded/colored differently, font size to be reduced, display to be thumbnailed rather than listed, or to arrange the tabs in a different way (ie; last viewed on top rather than first viewed)?
My second question has to do with locking the orientation of the browser to either portrait or landscape. This would be useful if I'm laying in bed on my side reading webpages. I'd want the orientation to "stick" to portrait so that I'm reading like normal rather than have the browser switch to landscape and have to angle my phone so that the accelerometer switches back and stays on portrait.
Is there an option or tweak to force the browser to "stick" to either portrait or landscape mode for a given period of time?
Browser > More > Settings and check Landscape-only display.
Not sure about the other question though.
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Browser > More > Settings and check Landscape-only display.
Not sure about the other question though.
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Hmm, what I actually need it to do is lock into portrait mode, not landscape.
You should check out Dolphin Browser HD. Tabbed browsing, orirntation settings, add ons, tons more. Just search for it in the market.
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Here is a screenshot if how it looks. The tabs at the top can be scrolled to the left or right if you have a few.
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HTC did a much better job at tweaking the browser in Android than Samsung. (myTouch slide is my other phone).
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HTC did a much better job at tweaking the browser in Android than Samsung. (myTouch slide is my other phone).
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I agree to an extent, feels choppy when you choose a window on the slide though, and you're stuck with 3 tabs Max on it, I actually like HTC sense more than espresso.
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Solution: An app called "AutoRotate Switch."
Works flawlessly! Tapping the icon toggles between locked and unlocked orientations. Amazing.
I read about it here: http://lifehacker.com/5621959/autorotate-switch-toggles-screen-rotation-on-your-android-phone
Still in search of a solution to problem #1 which was:
Is there an option or tweak that allows the active browser tab to be bolded/colored differently, font size in tab overview page to be reduced, display of thumbnail overview page to be thumbnailed rather than listed, or to arrange the tabs in a different way (ie; last viewed on top rather than first viewed)?
Is it normal that the text doesnt wrap when you zoom in on the browser? I've had this problem with both the roms I've tried, twopointtwo, and incredibly re-engineered.
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Is it normal that the text doesnt wrap when you zoom in on the browser? I've had this problem with both the roms I've tried, twopointtwo, and incredibly re-engineered.
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I have this same issue, it is one of, if the only, issue I have with these ROMs.
I think they default to text wrapping turned off. I think it's in the settings. Otherwise can you double tap on it and have it wrap?
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I think they default to text wrapping turned off. I think it's in the settings. Otherwise can you double tap on it and have it wrap?
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If it's in the settings, tell me where because I looked all over and couldn't find it.
Double tapping just zooms in, no wrap.
Wraps fine for me using Nils' Business Sense -Desire-Z Based V6.1
Using the default browser with default settings.
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Wraps fine for me using Nils' Business Sense -Desire-Z Based V6.1
Using the default browser with default settings.
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Flashing that browser indeed works. Thanks! You can find the fix at the bottom of the first post here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901822
Double tapping works. When pinching to zoom, I double tap and the text realigns.
Anyone else try out these slide-out browser quick controls?
I 'love' them. I turned them on a few days after getting the tab and havent looked back.
How about you?
To enable this feature for the stock browser go to settings - labs - quick controls and make sure the box it ticked. Now in the browser, slide in from the side and a wheel of sorts will pop out with all your controls.
Very slick feature.
I have been using them since day one. Love it.
Yes, they're handy once you get the hang of them.
Very nice, thanks for sharing that tip!
To enable this festure for the stock browser go to settings - labs - quick controls and make sure the box it ticked.
Where is this? Dont have an entry for "labs" under "settings"?
Settings in the browser, not general setting on the tablet. Top right corner in the browser.
I think it actually comes enabled by default on the Xoom; needless to say it was refreshing to see when I first started using the tablet. Using the menu in the upper right hand corner is not as user friendly.
The only thing I have noticed is that it is difficult to initiate controls with the acer case, because the edge comes right up to the screen. I usually have to attempt the gesture a couple of times in order for the controls to come up.
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The only thing I have noticed is that it is difficult to initiate controls with the acer case, because the edge comes right up to the screen. I usually have to attempt the gesture a couple of times in order for the controls to come up.
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I've never had that problem. Simply slide your finger 'into' the screen, from the bezel. Works like a charm every time and I love how it appears at the exact position your finger made the sliding motion into the page, rather than a single static location.
If I had one feature request, it would be 1 more button you could use to hold it as a handle to slide the wheel up or down the side, and tap it to pin it or unpin it.
Heh - didn't even know this existed until I saw this thread. Not sure I like it though - I usually close the last tab to close the browser (since back makes you step through all pages viewed and home would leave it open.)
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Heh - didn't even know this existed until I saw this thread. Not sure I like it though - I usually close the last tab to close the browser (since back makes you step through all pages viewed and home would leave it open.)
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How do you close the browser with last tab? The tab disappears and browser turns full screen everytime specially when there's only one tab left. I find it hard to bring the tab to appear again.
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funny I know... I open up a new blank one... close the last one and then hit the back button to close the whole thing out... he he... I woudn't mind if the tabs were up there all thetime or use a quick menu to pop it up and down...
You can actually just do a long press on the webpage and it will bring up the tabs at the top, then you can close them.
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You can actually just do a long press on the webpage and it will bring up the tabs at the top, then you can close them.
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Yup. I just tried that and it does indeed work. Thanks for the tip!
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You can actually just do a long press on the webpage and it will bring up the tabs at the top, then you can close them.
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That's how I do it right now, but sometimes it selects the text for copy/paste instead of displaying the tab. You really have to find an empty spot on the browser page to make it work. Adding a new tab and closing, then closing the last tab requires a really fast finger to catch the last tab. Sometimes I'm slow to click on the last tab and it just hides again. How I wish the default browser has an option to exit, similar to Dolphin browser.
Why the desire to have an exit, to hide the porn your surfing?
Keeping the browser in memory is useful, because that is alot of what I use this thing for.
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Anyone else try out these slide-out browser quick controls?
I 'love' them. I turned them on a few days after getting the tab and havent looked back.
How about you?
To enable this feature for the stock browser go to settings - labs - quick controls and make sure the box it ticked. Now in the browser, slide in from the side and a wheel of sorts will pop out with all your controls.
Very slick feature.
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Yep, I turned them on the first day I got mine. Love 'em!