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Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by ans »

Sprint wrote: post #18

Just installed it on my Nexus One, agent is set to Desktop. Reddit (.compact) and other sites are rendered with a serif font now, scrolling is not fluid anymore but jerking in "waves". If I scroll fast everything is displayed blurred. It lost all my cookies. Font sizes are all over the place, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. It does not render like the desktop anymore. Zooming in, the text is not wrapped to fit t…

Same experience here, running this on my HTC Desire.

At least Opera is nice enough to provide older apks here:

http://arc.opera.com/pub/opera/android/

I downgraded mine promptly.

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by anovaskulk »

Sprint wrote: post #18

Just installed it on my Nexus One, agent is set to Desktop. Reddit (.compact) and other sites are rendered with a serif font now, scrolling is not fluid anymore but jerking in "waves". If I scroll fast everything is displayed blurred. It lost all my cookies. Font sizes are all over the place, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. It does not render like the desktop anymore. Zooming in, the text is not wrapped to fit t…

Same experience here, running this on my HTC Desire. At least Opera is nice enough to provide older apks here:

http://arc.opera.com/pub/opera/android/

I downgraded mine promptly. Future doesn't look good though.

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by yareally »

Looks like they didn't forward port opera:config and don't have a chrome:flags page so far either (or opera:flags). It's a little laggy on my galaxy nexus, but no gesture based controls like the stock browser is kind of disappointing since opera (desktop) is always known for its gestures.

Text reflow working is nice though.

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by porlw »

Is there any way to force it to keep the assets for open tabs in the web page cache?

If I have a few tabs open I should be able leave the browser, run enough stuff (take a call, play a game, text) to force the browser code to flush from memory, and come back and view the pages I have open without having to endure ANY reloading.

This seems to be a problem with all the android browsers I've tried.

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by jsnell »

CWIZO wrote: post #15

Has anybody tried this out on Hacker News? How does it display comments? The current (previous?) version handled this beautifully and was pretty much the only reason I used it as my default browser (chrome for instance is a total and utter FUBAR when it comes to text wrapping making in unusable (and I can't believe they still haven't fixed this)).

I think the battle for working font rendering in Chrome for Android has been lost, the developers apparently consider it "acceptable quality" and are "ramping down development":

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84186

Which is pretty amazing, considering how Chrome for Android seems to horribly misrender every other site. I'm almost tempted to switch to Opera thanks to them just adding an option to disable this misfeature, even if losing sync with desktop Chrome will be a bit painful.

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by polshaw »

ch0wn wrote: post #8

My personal favorite feature in Opera for Android is that it's available for Android 2.3 and up. That means you can get a modern and secure(!) browser on old or low-end phones that otherwise would never get a modern browser.

Not really a great feature of opera mobile 14.. the last version was available for android 2.1+, and Firefox mobile (IMO the best mobile browser) is available for 2.2+.

Sucks for my nook stuck on 2.1, no more updated browser. (I do understand why though, and can't say I blame them).

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by solox3 »

yareally wrote: post #23

Looks like they didn't forward port opera:config and don't have a chrome:flags page so far either (or opera:flags). It's a little laggy on my galaxy nexus, but no gesture based controls like the stock browser is kind of disappointing since opera (desktop) is always known for its gestures. Text reflow working is nice though.

opera:config does not work, but about:config does; it shows a curated list of applicable settings.

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by dalys »

CWIZO wrote: post #15

Has anybody tried this out on Hacker News? How does it display comments? The current (previous?) version handled this beautifully and was pretty much the only reason I used it as my default browser (chrome for instance is a total and utter FUBAR when it comes to text wrapping making in unusable (and I can't believe they still haven't fixed this)).

I think it works very good when text wrapping is turned on. But it acts a bit strange when it's off. Tried it just now on my Samsung Galaxy S3.

Text wrap off: https://www.dropbox.com/s/at5w97ecle0euwv/2013-05-21%2014.52...

Text wrap on: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ndx19cgmcd823k/2013-05-21%2014.53...

Text wrap on and zoomed in: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s2jsps4vhhdq3rq/2013-05-21%2014.54...

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by dgesang »

arianvanp wrote: post #2

Yay. The only reason I still tested for opera support was their rather popular mobile browser. Good to see them move to chromium. One less testcase

> Good to see them move to chromium. One less testcase

Yay. Because staying in your comfort zone is more important than software diversity.

Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

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Post by CWIZO »

dalys wrote: post #28
CWIZO wrote: post #15

Has anybody tried this out on Hacker News? How does it display comments? The current (previous?) version handled this beautifully and was pretty much the only reason I used it as my default browser (chrome for instance is a total and utter FUBAR when it comes to text wrapping making in unusable (and I can't believe they still haven't fixed this)).

I think it works very good when text wrapping is turned on. But it acts a bit strange when it's off. Tried it just now on my Samsung Galaxy S3. Text wrap off: https://www.dropbox.com/s/at5w97ecle0euwv/2013-05-21%2014.52... Text wrap on: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ndx19cgmcd823k/2013-05-21%2014.53... Text wrap on and zoomed in: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s2jsps4vhhdq3rq/2013-05-21%2014.54...

The last one is great. The first is a bit better than Chrome's but not by much. But I'll wait until they sort out the performance issues.
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