Was having a play with the Skyfire browser on my TP2 today. It's quite nice, and having some flash support is neat.
One major problem, though, is that it doesn't anti-alias text nearly as well as Opera does - I guess it isn't using Cleartype, maybe...? The effect of this is that you need to make text several point-sizes bigger in order to be able to read it than is the case with Opera. That's enough of a reason not to make it the default browser.
Also, based on a quick try, it doesn't seem to support the zoom bar.
Any way of getting around either of these issues?
And is there any way of getting a better frame-rate on flash videos than one gets with Skyfire? The bundled Youtube client seems to do a far better job.
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hi im just wondering if there are any apps that can play videos online like programs from here http://freedocumentaries.net
coreplayer maybe?
any others? thanks
If you want to watch the movie online, try Skyfire! It's definitely not very smooth, but AFAIK it's the only possible way to watch Flash 8 and higher content...
Thanks.. Ill install in now
agreed on skyfire but there are some others, this is what you should know.
skyfire - connection to a remoe pc running firefox, so works well but is a camera on a webbrowser! lol
iris browser - open source webkit, i like this for youtube and stuff like that which is embeded on sites, also allows for other flash things.
pie6, if you have a custom rom, u might get this, something like dutty, it works but OMG how slow it can be, sucks the life out of your processor.
these are just the ones i have used before, but i cannot talk about opera and flash, as ive never really had it work, other then just on basic flash presentations.
theres always iplayer via opera
Hi skyfire is no longer beta and an new version is released!
http://www.skyfire.com/
looking forward to this
Ah , i've been looking forward to playing with this, thanks for the heads up
ahh damn, its not native wvga =(
deepinside88 said:
ahh damn, its not native wvga =(
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Yes it is: "Supported Screen Resolutions (pixels) 240x240 320x320 320x240 (QVGA) 400x240 (WQVGA)
640x480 (VGA) 800x480 (WVGA)"
Lets see how well it playes streaming videos.. last one wasnt so good.
One word, YAY.
tunppi said:
Yes it is: "Supported Screen Resolutions (pixels) 240x240 320x320 320x240 (QVGA) 400x240 (WQVGA)
640x480 (VGA) 800x480 (WVGA)"
Lets see how well it playes streaming videos.. last one wasnt so good.
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Supported is a long way from native - it looks awful compared to Opera, blocky, gritty images, impossible to read anything without zooming...
The PC equivalent would be playing Quake in 640x480 on a 1920x1200 monitor...
how do you get it to change resolution?
yes okay it looks not as good as opera. but i think this is a really fast browser. i tink i will use this if i have only gprs connection and opera mini gave up
or you can use wvgafix3 to change the resolution =)
Meh stretched VGA =(. Good browser but that's the only bad thing about it, hope they'll change it one day.
shame its not full res on the touch hd.
Have they got sound working on video streams yet ???
this is nothing. still waiting on opera 9.7
Mach5 browser has same speed as skyfire but opera's clearity/resolution. Also, plays videos without any problems.
Here are the changes:
Skyfire 1.0 has a huge number of enhancements over the longstanding 0.9 beta:
* Thumbnail interaction. Now you can click on links immediately after the page loads without having to zoom in. This enhancement is especially helpful for high resolution phones, and for familiar sites where you know right away where you want to click. It makes getting to the content you want on the page simpler, quicker and more efficient.
* Improved Zoom. Double-tap or double-click to zoom over any element, including links, images or videos. The zoom interaction is smoother and more responsive as well. Best of all: when you zoom in you will get readable text instantly (beforehand, text was blurry and took a while to become sharp).
* Enhanced Navigation. When you navigate back or forward, you return to the last viewport (e.g. zoom level and portion of the page). Thus eliminating the need to pan and zoom into the section you were viewing on the previous page. Skyfire remembers even the viewport when you select a page from your history.
* Improved page handling. Enhancements have been made especially for AJAX-intensive sites such as Facebook and Gmail. If larger parts of the page get updated then the client will more quickly and accurately reflect this.
* iFrame handling. There's a solution for full-width iFrames in Skyfire
* Fast start. The developers changed both the sequence and behavior of the Skyfire launch so you get started as quickly as possible. You can type a search or URL in the Superbar while Skyfire is connecting in the background. You can put Skyfire to work before the start page is even loaded.
* Reconnect to last state. When you leave Skyfire in the background, Skyfire will disconnect to preserve battery life. Once you come back to it (after minutes, hours, days) it will reload the same page to the same zoom level and focus. Thus you can continue right where you left off. When you exit and start again, you will always land on the start page.
* Connection helper. There's a new mechanism in place to detect when connections cannot be established to Skyfire servers. If this is due to a network configuration (common in GSM land), then suggestions are provided to help out. This is especially useful if you are with a carrier/data plan that places restrictions on certain APN configurations, which interferes with Skyfire.
* Enhanced search results. Google results now include video, news articles, local results all blended on a single results page and ordered by relevance. Vertical search categories are still available.
* Improved RSS feed search. Find your favorite custom RSS feeds through the improved Add-Feed feature, found under the Customize menu on the start page. Search by site domain, feed URL, or even topical keywords.
* Easier sharing of RSS items from start page. Skyfire has exposed a simple “Share this article” link below each RSS story displayed on your start page to make it easier to share interesting items to Twitter and Facebook
* Remember last connection (Symbian only). Skyfire can now remember the last connection for you, so you will not have to choose a connection every single time. In addition, if you want to change the connection type while you are in Skyfire then you can do so.
sound is included. hm strange if i change the resolution to vga (wvgafix3) the texts and pictures are still noisy -.- dont understand that but i think a higher resolution will be not good for the skyfire servers.
waiting for 9.7
but i think 9.7 will be released end of the year. fennec also....
much better than the Beta's... I actually quite like this.
help needed
its not working with 3g connection wy not,
how can ill fix this.
please advise
sitaniace said:
its not working with 3g connection wy not,
how can ill fix this.
please advise
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Same problem here...
I'm using a TP2 with the stock WM6.5 ROM, and am interested in getting Flash support working on websites.
So far I've tried using FixOperaFlash.exe with the built in Opera 9.5, which doesn't work at all.
I've also installed Skyfire, which does work, but is so blurry and pixellated I just can't stand to launch it.
Is there a better option? I'm interested in doing things like watching the video/audio reports on the BBC news website, and maybe playing the odd Flash game.
EDIT: tried Internet Explorer. That gets as far as launching the Streaming Media Player on YouTube (but doesn't actually download anything - possibly O2 is blocking it, and it would work over wifi, I don't know). But it doesn't work on the BBC news website: just gives me a message saying "this content doesn't seem to be working, try again later".
so far there is no flash support for WM devices and they only way you can view flash is with skyfire and its pixelated because 1 you need to zoom in and/or 2 its compressed to save you on data costs and for speed
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so far there is no flash support for WM devices
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thats not true. it works for ie on wm6.5, and some builds of opera 9.5 out of the box, and fixoperaflash has enabled it on every version of 9.5 and 9.7 ive tried.
I've noticed on a few forum based websites when people imbed video clips such as youtube ones, I can't play them.
They either appear as a blank area which does nothing when I click on it or I just get an egg timer come up but the video never loads.
Only happens on my Desire and not on my laptop.
Phones arn't properly built to really play embedded video. Skyfire does play it a lot better than all other browsers but the website also needs to optimize it for phones but they don't. This isn't an issue as such, just something that needs to be addressed.
Thanks very much for the reply.
I noticed yesterday that even when I click on a link to a youtube clip (an address not just an imbedded video link) it seems to simply take me to a main youtube menu screen with a number of clips on it but not the actual clip I was linking to?!!
Anyone any ideas why that might be?
Download Miren Browser from the market en make sure you have flash installed. Then it should work
Then set the user agent to Default browser or Chrome. This way you can also view clips that are disabled for mobile view.
Get guy, I'm curious as to what browser you're using? I'm using boat mini.
Its light weight loads quick no lag very clean interface, which was just updated recently.
The default browser I found very laggy. Then I tried dolphin.. too much uneeded bloat and in my opinion, not a great interface.
My 2 cents on a few I've tried.
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Installed the Boat and so far it certainly seems "spritely".
What I like so far:
* Using the volume buttons to zoom
* 'Paste and Go' option for the address bar
* Small app footprint = Fast load
* The green denim theme is nice
What I don't like so far:
* Text re-flow isn't as good as Operas' (such as viewing forums)
Has a lot of promise, I'll continue to try it out. thanks.
I installed Boat... not the mini version. I like it very much. So much I uninstalled Maxthon. Thanks for the heads up!
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I'm using Opera Mobile. Works really well
So far I like the Boat Browser. Very snappy and quick and clean. Almost no lag noticeable. I like it over Opera, Dolphin and of course the stock browser.
One thing it does great as well, and that is youtube. I currently use it to play videos on youtube since the default app for youtube is still broken.
Edit: Alright, so as always, I can't find a browser to run the video's of the desktop version of Youtube properly. On Boat Browser, when you double tap on the video to make it full screen, you only get a small box for the video and the rest of the screen is black. This happens regardless of what resolution the Video is at (360 or 720).
My current solution to it for now is to just manually enlarge the video by pinching it out until it somewhat fits the screen. It is not true fullscreen, but it is better than nothing. And on a good note, the damn browser runs 720P videos like butter!
Chrome for me
I have used firefox & Opera before but those were extremely laggy. Chrome was a welcome surprise as I've heard reports that it's laggy but not to me. Very satisfied. Will need to try Boat sometime too.