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Better Browser for Hero.. ?

I just do not like the address bar and some display problems.
Basically I do not need multi-touch. The one from HTC Magic or Loccy's Better Browser is fine for me.
Is there an alternative for Hero or Hero ROM ?

you can try steel ...
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.kolbysoft.steel

telee said:
I just do not like the address bar and some display problems.
Basically I do not need multi-touch. The one from HTC Magic or Loccy's Better Browser is fine for me.
Is there an alternative for Hero or Hero ROM ?
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Loccy's Better Browser works almost perfectly on my Hero. Flash is missing but that only slowed down the browser and the search button brings up a normal address bar rather than a search bar. Just install it as per the instructions for installing on the G1.

I am playing with Opera Mini 5 that runs under Java. Loads pages faster than the normal browser but running inside Java slows the touch response down. It also doesn't use the standard keyboard which is a pity. I guess it can't really since this is running under Java.

Just a thought... you would have thought that android (developed by google) would have at least a mobile browser in the format of Chrome available... or does this seem unreasonable!

AshtonBRSC said:
Loccy's Better Browser works almost perfectly on my Hero. Flash is missing but that only slowed down the browser and the search button brings up a normal address bar rather than a search bar. Just install it as per the instructions for installing on the G1.
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How did you manage to get Better Browser working on your Hero? I tried installing Better Browser on my Hero and just got FCs.

seanyowl said:
Just a thought... you would have thought that android (developed by google) would have at least a mobile browser in the format of Chrome available... or does this seem unreasonable!
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Very strange thought considering the browser is available. It's just that OP doesnt like it and wants an alternative.

lsim001 said:
How did you manage to get Better Browser working on your Hero? I tried installing Better Browser on my Hero and just got FCs.
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Try uninstalling the original browser with adb uninstall com.android.browser first then installing the Browser.apk with adb.

seanyowl said:
Just a thought... you would have thought that android (developed by google) would have at least a mobile browser in the format of Chrome available... or does this seem unreasonable!
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Both Chrome and the standard Android browser are based on Webkit (FWIW so is the iPhone browser), so in essence you can almost think of the Android browser as being "mobile Chrome". Much of what makes Chrome different (separate address spaces and processes per tab etc) would really be applicable on a resource limited mobile device anyway.
However, at some point in the future, I'd expect Google to release a "Chrome branded" version of the standard browser for Android.
Regards,
Dave

there is a new browser released, no multitouch but the rest seems to be okay.
name: Dolphin

Opera Mobile
I heard rumours that Opera Mobile 9.7 was coming to android fairly soon.
Would be great to have it as the turbo mode is so useful on a slow connection.

anyone knows something about that mobile firefox?

The mobile FF was branded Fennec, I've not seen an Android build, but I didn't get on with the Beta in win-mob.
Still, it's nice to have options and I'll be checking out the various borwsers suggested in this thread.
Great discussion!

Loccy's Better Browser works on Hero ROM.
I can replace the Browser on MyHero 1.1.3.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551119&page=51

Incorrect
Actually the Dolphin browser as well as the default browser on the Android G1 does have multi touch and pinch zooming if your phone is rooted.
Mine does all of this with just about every Rom I have flashed..

Firefox Mobile release candidat ready for Maemo. Guess Android have to wait a while.
I really like Dolphin.

cbanbury said:
I heard rumours that Opera Mobile 9.7 was coming to android fairly soon.
Would be great to have it as the turbo mode is so useful on a slow connection.
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Opera Mobile 9.7 is out-of-date
Opera Mobile 10 is coming to android, but for OEM's to install on the phone only. So if AT&T or any carriers want to put a browser on the phone and chooses Opera, we can rip the APK out
Opera Mobile 10 will not be avail for consumers to download.

jaded17 said:
Actually the Dolphin browser as well as the default browser on the Android G1 does have multi touch and pinch zooming if your phone is rooted.
Mine does all of this with just about every Rom I have flashed..
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My phone's not rooted and they both have these. I still use the stock browser simply because of the flash integration, though I like Dolphin's tabs better. Anybody know of a way to make Dolphin use HTC's built in flash app?

[Q] Default browser prompt

Hello
I have more than one browser installed. I want to be able to use all of them, så I have not set a default one.
When I open the standard browser, each time I click a link I get a prompt for which browser I want to open the link with. Extremely annoying.
Is there any way to make the browser use the current session/app to open a link without the prompt?

Nobody gets this - or is there no solution?

The browser does that automaticly. You can set another browser as default but if you open the standard browser it opens the URL with it and not with the one set as default. The same with other browser like firefox, opera and dolpfin hd.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

This is a pita - and I can't believe this is how it's supposed to work but thank you for your answer

[Q] Google Voice (just for SMS/texting) - missing keyboard?

I had heard Google Voice worked fine on the Touch, but the lower third of the keyboard is always missing, rendering its SMS/text capabilities basically nil.
Anyone have a similar experience and/or have a workaround?

(sigh)
Well, I worked on the app trying different methods of possibly expanding the keyboard to full size to no avail. I searched the Market for any substitutes for GoogleVoice. Nothing there, either.
Has anyone found a substitute?

GV Mobile site.
I use the Google Voice mobile site: www dot google dot com/voice/b/0/m. It works great in Opera Mobile. I'm too new to post links, so you'll have to fix that address...

Drakkim:
Indeed! I ended up switching to using the mobile site (in Opera mini) just as you did. Worked fine for me.
However, of late, I decided to switch keyboards (currently both GO Keyboard and ICS Keyboard) and they end up working just fine in the actual Google Voice app. These keyboards don't get "cut off".

I use swifttabletx, but the corrections don't pop up, so i disabled them, and it works great.
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[Q] How can I make the browser forget previous sessions?

Hi,
I can't remember that it was like this on GB, but anyway now on ICS the browser always seems to remember previous sessions, I find this very annoying....
Browse Browse Browse, close browser....
Open browser, last opened page is shown, and press back and there are the previous pages again...
How can I make that the web browser forget everything from before and just starts with the homepage??
Tried to find options in the settings, but can't find it...
?

my way
hi there...well i am using opera mini and it has this cool features on ots setting where i always clear caxhe and history before i exit it ..try it out
if you are using the explorer that comes with the ics it has the same options as well in its setting ..do or and reopen the browser to make sure its done ...
and i agre its an annoying thing when evert site u cisit is saved for noisy people who likes to check ur perolsonal things .....
cheeers

Mr.Androidfan said:
hi there...well i am using opera mini and it has this cool features on ots setting where i always clear caxhe and history before i exit it ..try it out
if you are using the explorer that comes with the ics it has the same options as well in its setting ..do or and reopen the browser to make sure its done ...
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I know there is a manual way of clearing cache and history, but even that doesn't make the browser forget the previous session...

Gede said:
Hi,
I can't remember that it was like this on GB, but anyway now on ICS the browser always seems to remember previous sessions, I find this very annoying....
Browse Browse Browse, close browser....
Open browser, last opened page is shown, and press back and there are the previous pages again...
How can I make that the web browser forget everything from before and just starts with the homepage??
Tried to find options in the settings, but can't find it...
?
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The simple solution is to install Dolphin HD Browser from Google Play and set it as the default browser. There are loads of cool plug-ins for Dolphin won Play too. Like the Evernote plug-in that lets you post directly from Dolphin.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA

its some times
Gede said:
I know there is a manual way of clearing cache and history, but even that doesn't make the browser forget the previous session...
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well...some times it dosnt work...
but..when i go to the default webpage and then clear history and cache ..it works..try it or use dolphin ...personally i didnt like dolphin..opera is more user freindly i guess...but u decide

Debloat?

Anyone know if there is a debloat method for for this?

Phaze1585 said:
Anyone know if there is a debloat method for for this?
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Eh, I have uninstalled (or hidden, don't really know) quite some apps using this method:
Forumpost on XDA about unbloating without root
(XDA) Uninstall bloat without root
However, I encounter a small issue now. I also uninstalled this Browser from Vivo. Mainly because of the overkill of chinese in it, as well as that I (obviously) didn't use it, and I couldn't really avoid it. (switching the default browser to Chrome seemed to work, but whenever you leave that setting-screen and come back to it, this Vivo Browser is back in place. Uninstalling using the above helped, but now I encounter another issue. This Browser also was malfunctioning with certain radiobuttons on websites, which also made me not use it for login on certain public wifi's where I am regularly. However, without the Browser, I can't seem to let Chrome open in order to guide me to the Wifi login screen at all. Sometimes, on some wifi's, the redirect works (so I just open google.com in Chrome, and I get redirected to the login page straight away), but on some wifi's that is not happening. When in the Wifi-setting-screen I tap on "Tap here to authenticate", nothing happens....Anyone an idea?

eswa86 said:
Eh, I have uninstalled (or hidden, don't really know) quite some apps using this method:
Forumpost on XDA about unbloating without root
(XDA) Uninstall bloat without root
However, I encounter a small issue now. I also uninstalled this Browser from Vivo. Mainly because of the overkill of chinese in it, as well as that I (obviously) didn't use it, and I couldn't really avoid it. (switching the default browser to Chrome seemed to work, but whenever you leave that setting-screen and come back to it, this Vivo Browser is back in place. Uninstalling using the above helped, but now I encounter another issue. This Browser also was malfunctioning with certain radiobuttons on websites, which also made me not use it for login on certain public wifi's where I am regularly. However, without the Browser, I can't seem to let Chrome open in order to guide me to the Wifi login screen at all. Sometimes, on some wifi's, the redirect works (so I just open google.com in Chrome, and I get redirected to the login page straight away), but on some wifi's that is not happening. When in the Wifi-setting-screen I tap on "Tap here to authenticate", nothing happens....Anyone an idea?
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Did you log into a vivo account so now you have access to change out the launcher?

Phaze1585 said:
Did you log into a vivo account so now you have access to change out the launcher?
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Jup I am running another launcher now!

eswa86 said:
Jup I am running another launcher now!
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You should be able to do the same with the browser as you did with the launcher, set the browser as default.

Phaze1585 said:
You should be able to do the same with the browser as you did with the launcher, set the browser as default.
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True, I found the setting. However, whenever I leave that settings window (after setting the default browser to Chrome), and come back to it later, I see that it has swapped back to the Vivo browser. And for stuff like publicwifilogin I still got this vivo browser (and that caused some issues since it has issues with certain radiobuttons)...