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[Q] Chrome Beta

Chrome Beta is released for ICS. I just downloaded from the market. Any pro and cons compared to the default browser?

Pros
Faster than default browser
Nice transitions
Easy tab management
Cons
No Arabic/Hebrew support (awkward)
no flash
Pretty much the same with visual enhancements
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I find they made the zooming a lot better than the stock browser. It has more of a mobile safari feel to it which I think is a good thing. Also, I love the fact that you can get to the open tabs on your desktop chrome.
There are missing things such as the quick control and the URL bar doesn't go away so you can't have full screen. I think it is also missing the feature to request the desktop version of a page also.

mazenimad said:
Pros
Faster than default browser
Nice transitions
Easy tab management
Cons
No Arabic/Hebrew support (awkward)
no flash
Pretty much the same with visual enhancements
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The no flash is defiantly a deal breaker for me, but hey, remember it is free and still in beta!

Also there is no way to change the UAString which means it will always be stuck in "Mobile" until/if they add the ability to change it (All websites will come up in mobile view).

Great info here. I was not aware of the lack of flash, but everyting else seems ok. Since it is just Beta, I am hoping for some great improvements. Browsing is WAY faster!

Cons:
- no flash... Ever
- pages run as mobile with no option to switch to desktop
- no accessibility options ... Can't run pages with inverted Colours
- runs as a service, eating up precious ram
- no chrome extensions - vs. Firefox mobile with plugins, Chrome is pathetic
I have no idea why anyone would use this as a primary browser, considering the stock browser is superior is almost every way.

It is just a Beta release.....
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Hydera5 said:
The no flash is defiantly a deal breaker for me, but hey, remember it is free and still in beta!
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Flash will not ever be coming. So don't hold out for it.

Herman76 said:
It is just a Beta release.....
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Is that how we justify crappy, unfinished software?
The browser is what it is, featureless.

EP2008 said:
Is that how we justify crappy, unfinished software?
The browser is what it is, featureless.
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Beta means that you can't complain for it missing something.
Google likes to "release early and iterate quickly". Which means a lot of things come out as Beta.

Immediately after getting ICS on my TF101, I installed Chrome Beta, it is nice, but as others have already said:
Pro:
- bookmark sync, i just LIKE IT, works same as desktop chrome: start typing url and it will autocomplete from your bookmarks... missed it on old browser.
Con:
- No arabic support (while default browser does support arabic)
- No flash, which i don't need much, i have it disabled on default Browser.
will it ever support extensions? that will be great

EP2008 said:
Is that how we justify crappy, unfinished software?
The browser is what it is, featureless.
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I hope you're joking..

Nexcellent said:
I hope you're joking..
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Which part? The way people use the term beta or the fact that there aren't many features?
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I see people didnt bring up the fact that you cant get rid of (at the very least) the status bar like you can with the Google Labs option in the stock ICS browser. Id use Chrome beta every second I was online with my SGN if I could "maximize" the screen.

EP2008 said:
Which part? The way people use the term beta or the fact that there aren't many features?
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I'm not questioning features, i'm questioning your expectations of a BETA product and your understanding of what BETA means. It seems to me that you're expecting this to be some magical browser from day one, which it is certainly not - that's why it's a damn BETA!

You guys are not aware of this pro:
It stops redirecting websites, just like desktop browsers. Opera, Dolphin, Firefox, or stock browser doesn't have this.
For me, this is the biggest plus.

When you email yourself or someone else a page using Chrome on your GN? Does it leave the subject blank? It's driving me nuts!

Issues with Latest Chrome Beta

Hi All,
I received the latest update for the Chrome Beta on my GNexus, and it now seems to have a big issue with the wikipedia mobile site.
If you got to a page that has a table at the top, for instance:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/Helium
If you then try to scroll the page, it refuses to move the page unless you touch the screen outside of the top table.
I have submitted a bug report to Google, but I was wondering if anyone else had found the same issue?

yup I see what you mean, it's happening on mine too....I needed to touch on the tables edge or outside it that is in order to scroll the page
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Same here. It has happened to me only with wikipedia mobile site. Everything's going great with other sites until now...

Same for me, only on facebook though
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How did you get the latest update? I don't think I got mine, and it's not showing up as needing to update on the Play Market.
I have version 18.01025.133

onthecouchagain said:
How did you get the latest update? I don't think I got mine, and it's not showing up as needing to update on the Play Market.
I have version 18.01025.133
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You probably got auto-updated. 18.0.1025.133 is the latest when looking in the "about Chrome" tab in the settings menu.

Ah, thanks.
And I too notice this issue with Wiki. The heck...

Mine as well. Much slower load times as well. Very disappointing update.

I have an issue more with the loading of pages. Before, if I scrolled down, it would already have the entire page loaded. Now, if I scroll down, I tend to get a teal colored bottom half covering whatever parts of the page weren't visible, as if it's loading the page as I scroll.

i cant even get my latest google chrome to load, i keep getting force closes right as i open it.

Not work with low dpi, you need to set 240 dpi. Hope an update coming soon for low dpi :-(

i thought i was the only on with this problem

Google chrome .16. It works fine. There is a kink in the latest chrome and aokp and cm9 roms
http://www.mediafire.com/?uyjta1swtp0w459
Yw.
Thanks if I helped
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Its disappointing chrome takes a good 5 seconds or so to load when you first start it up.

this is fixed now (by wikipedia).
edit: but the redirection to wikipedia's mobile site (en.m.wikipedial) is buggy now ...
edit2: cleared my cache (for the first time) and the problem is gone.

Browser issue please help

Hello, got a new nexus today and so far love it, but have found one major issue and hoping its just a bug or something i can fix, when using my net browser either my stock one or Dolphion and i google something and select images i see the images tiled like normal but cannot click on one and go to the larger image and scroll through and also i cannot go past page 1, if i select page 2 or whatever it does nothing...please help...

Nexus nub said:
Hello, got a new nexus today and so far love it, but have found one major issue and hoping its just a bug or something i can fix, when using my net browser either my stock one or Dolphion and i google something and select images i see the images tiled like normal but cannot click on one and go to the larger image and scroll through and also i cannot go past page 1, if i select page 2 or whatever it does nothing...please help...
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Ya that's happened to me once or twice, try force close browser or even rebooting the phone and it should be back to normal. I don't know why that happens.

im not the developer of it, but try the maxthon browser... its not the "simpleest" or the tinyiest, but the main reason for me to use it, that its the ONLY browser that works with the java based groupwise web overlay.
all other browsers slides all graphics to a non visible area or something... kinda weird.
YOUR problem should be gone with that browser too ... dont ask me why

Nexus nub said:
...when using my net browser either my stock one or Dolphion...
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Try Google Chrome for Android. Once you'll go Chrome, won't come back.
It's much better and faster. The only thing it's missing is Flash support.

Swift Key flow beta released!

Here's the download link!!
http://bit.ly/skflowbetatab
Let me know what you guys think.
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Responsibility said:
Here's the download link!!
http://bit.ly/skflowbetatab
Let me know what you guys think.
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You realize that this is a closed beta for VIPs and they do that so they get a closed loop of feedback? Not so a million people on the internets can download it and forget it's a beta and fuss about it.
Go to vip.swiftkey.com and sign up, I think they're pretty open about membership.
EDIT: Looks like I was wrong, all (most?) of Swiftkey's betas have always been closed. Looks like this one is not.

khaytsus said:
You realize that this is a closed beta for VIPs and they do that so they get a closed loop of feedback? Not so a million people on the internets can download it and forget it's a beta and fuss about it.\
Go to vip.swiftkey.com and sign up, I think they're pretty open about membership.
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It's an open beta man. I downloaded it straight from the SwiftKey site without signing up.
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khaytsus said:
You realize that this is a closed beta for VIPs and they do that so they get a closed loop of feedback? Not so a million people on the internets can download it and forget it's a beta and fuss about it.\
Go to vip.swiftkey.com and sign up, I think they're pretty open about membership.
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I think the OP was just trying to give easy access to everyone. No needs to flame him for it....

http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/
Phone
http://bit.ly/skflowbeta
Tablet
http://bit.ly/skflowbetatab

jersonf said:
http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/
Phone
http://bit.ly/skflowbeta
Tablet
http://bit.ly/skflowbetatab
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I've had success with the phone version of SwiftKey 3 on my Nexus 7 (and have been unable to download the dictionary for SKFb so far to test)... what is different on the tablet version on the N7?

jaysus145 said:
I've had success with the phone version of SwiftKey 3 on my Nexus 7 (and have been unable to download the dictionary for SKFb so far to test)... what is different on the tablet version on the N7?
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I've tried the phone version of swift flow but it never worked, probably because of the rom I'm using my phone, it kept force closing, although I did notice the phone beta had a normal landscape mode and the tablet had a split thumb keyboard.
So far this beta let's me flow (swipe ) in portrait and use a split keyboard in landscape like thumb keyboard.
Although I don't see why we have to download the language, and anyway.... I kept getting download failed if I followed the swift key install instructions, so I changed it from the Android settings, and (#2+3) and then went to download the language #1.
Nice feature is the voice memo, it gives a choice as what it thinks was said and you choose from the list.
I like android gestures and I like a split keyboard in landscape, this at the moment is looking good.

Wow!!!!!
Enviado desde mi Nexus 7

Cool, thanks for the screen prints.
P.S. I still can not download the dictionary

With the tablet version i'm unable to get the "flow" (swyping) to work at all.

airmaxx23 said:
With the tablet version i'm unable to get the "flow" (swyping) to work at all.
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There is a settings option for it... you didn't manage to hit that by mistake, did you?
Have you tried the phone version? I imagine that I will try both once I can finally download it

jaysus145 said:
There is a settings option for it... you didn't manage to hit that by mistake, did you?
Have you tried the phone version? I imagine that I will try both once I can finally download it
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I have flow enabled but it doesn't work on either beta for me. It works fine on my GS3 though.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it didn't help at all.

Edit: Doesn't flow in Boat browser or Chrome.

JaZart said:
It's an open beta man. I downloaded it straight from the SwiftKey site without signing up.
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Yep, I was wrong.. All of their previous betas that I'm aware of (and I've been on their beta tests for at least a year) have been closed that I'm aware of. My bad.

tcat007 said:
Edit: Doesn't flow in Boat browser or Chrome.
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It does, just not in the address bar which makes sense, go to Googles main page and try in the search bar, same with Firefox. (Androids gestures can to this)
Although the dictionary seems a bit off, just trying to get the word "off" using flow is a nightmare.
Androids gestures are better, but landscape in flow has split keys.

I can't get the "flow" typing to work in any app or browser at all.

this is a awesome keyboard but i cannot get the flow featuer to work on my nexus 10 or nexus 7. It only works on my GS3. Help anyone?
EDIT: It randomly started working on my nexus 7 but not my nexus 10

Works straight out of the box for me. The enable box was already checked and it works nicely. The history trace line is neat too.
I'm not convinced I like swiping on the 7 though. Perhaps my hands are too small but so far I prefer thumb keyboard.

jarayn said:
Works straight out of the box for me. The enable box was already checked and it works nicely. The history trace line is neat too.
I'm not convinced I like swiping on the 7 though. Perhaps my hands are too small but so far I prefer thumb keyboard.
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I have a stylus and using the flow feature with a stylus is awesome, it's a much better experience than just using my finger.
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Noticed that you can't use the flow in landscape, only in portrait, at least from what I tested. And that kinda kills it for me since Skype forces landscape atm.

[Q] Is anyone else experiencing Dolphin Browser locking up on Note 3?

Hey guys and gals,
I love Dolphin Browser and have been using it since I entered the world of Android with an S3 and then a Note 2. I switched to a Note 3 a few weeks ago and I've been having really strange issues with Dolphin. It's getting to the point where it's unusable. I've wiped cached, uninstalled, reinstalled, updated to latest Flash apk, so I've done all the troubleshooting I can think of. I'm hoping someone can help or at least tell me I'm not the only one experiencing this.
When I open Dolphin, I can click through one or two links. I don't know exactly what causes this, but soon after, I press a link and the browser freezes. I can open new tabs and zoom in an out of the tabs that are currently open, but the status bar does nothing, I cannot interact with any links/images/anything on the loaded pages, and nothing else loads. I have to close the app and wait at least 15 min, or wipe the cache and open the app again. Same thing happens every time.
It's extremely weird and very annoying. I love the app but will have to switch if I cannot fix this issue.
Has anyone else been experiencing this? Do you know how to fix it?

Poi25 said:
Hey guys and gals,
I love Dolphin Browser and have been using it since I entered the world of Android with an S3 and then a Note 2. I switched to a Note 3 a few weeks ago and I've been having really strange issues with Dolphin. It's getting to the point where it's unusable. I've wiped cached, uninstalled, reinstalled, updated to latest Flash apk, so I've done all the troubleshooting I can think of. I'm hoping someone can help or at least tell me I'm not the only one experiencing this.
When I open Dolphin, I can click through one or two links. I don't know exactly what causes this, but soon after, I press a link and the browser freezes. I can open new tabs and zoom in an out of the tabs that are currently open, but the status bar does nothing, I cannot interact with any links/images/anything on the loaded pages, and nothing else loads. I have to close the app and wait at least 15 min, or wipe the cache and open the app again. Same thing happens every time.
It's extremely weird and very annoying. I love the app but will have to switch if I cannot fix this issue.
Has anyone else been experiencing this? Do you know how to fix it?
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You are note alone. Apparently there are alot of users having this same issues and it has been addressed to the Dolphin Team. No email back on an update.

dragonstalker said:
You are note alone. Apparently there are alot of users having this same issues and it has been addressed to the Dolphin Team. No email back on an update.
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Great, hope to see it fixed soon. Since I can guess you're a Dolphin user, what secondary browser do you recommend/think is the best? I love how Dolphin renders webpages and haven't found another that does quite as well (IMO).

Poi25 said:
Great, hope to see it fixed soon. Since I can guess you're a Dolphin user, what secondary browser do you recommend/think is the best? I love how Dolphin renders webpages and haven't found another that does quite as well (IMO).
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I switch between Chrome and Stock depending on what i'm doing. Both have benefits

I use naked browser pro, aosp browser and chrome. Those are my favorites in that order.
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I have no problems with Dolphin at all and that's all I use. ...I need more info to help. .. What rom? Did you restore data? Etc
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I use Dolphin and I'm not seeing exactly what you are but it the browser is getting progressively annoying. What I'm seeing are pages taking forever to load. I click a link, the screen goes white...wait...wait....wait....get tired of waiting so I push 'stop' and then the page displays immediately. It's like it wants to pre-load the entire page before it shows anything at all, then it all comes up at once. Dolphin on my N4 recently developed this same behavior. If they don't get their stuff together I'll be ditching it.

My favorite browser by far and wide is Firefox. I used to use Dolphin before FF Mobile was stable enough for full time use but these days FF wipes the floor with Dolphin in terms of features. Firefox has an extensive addon collection for adblock, useragent switching, full screen, etc. plus it supports Flash Player and html5 videos perfectly. If you're not happy with stock and Chrome definitely try Firefox!
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I have also have the same issue of dlay loading with dolphin, it started with note 3, I stopped using it for now, using stock, is there any other browser that uses gesture like dolphin?
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Superdad_98 said:
I have also have the same issue of dlay loading with dolphin, it started with note 3, I stopped using it for now, using stock, is there any other browser that uses gesture like dolphin?
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I have the OPs exact issue sui it still isn't fixed over a month later. Started when I went to the note 3 from my note 2

TT_Vert said:
I have the OPs exact issue sui it still isn't fixed over a month later. Started when I went to the note 3 from my note 2
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I have downloaded jetpack from the market it is an extension to dolphin, it seems to fix the problem

Superdad_98 said:
I have downloaded jetpack from the market it is an extension to dolphin, it seems to fix the problem
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I have found that if I do not do a titanium backup restore of data or the app this dis not occur..

lock up
TT_Vert said:
I have the OPs exact issue sui it still isn't fixed over a month later. Started when I went to the note 3 from my note 2
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Have you tried to send a bug report to Dolphin Team?
You can send a detailed report in Dolphin Settings > Help > Send Feedback > Not responding.
I often do this to make Dolphin realize my issue and fix it.
You should try it !

xjeternity said:
Have you tried to send a bug report to Dolphin Team?
You can send a detailed report in Dolphin Settings > Help > Send Feedback > Not responding.
I often do this to make Dolphin realize my issue and fix it.
You should try it !
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so dolphin browser fixes bugs in their app just for you? that's pretty cool