Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by CWIZO » Tue, May 21, 2013, 1:08 PM UTC

jsnell wrote: post #25

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…

I really don't understand how somebody could consider that to be OK. There's not even any logic (as far as I can tell) behind how it works. To me it appears as if it's randomly assigning font sizes to different DOM elements ...

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

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Post by gcp » Tue, May 21, 2013, 2:01 PM UTC

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.

Firefox will work from Android 2.2 and up.

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

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Post by devb0x » Tue, May 21, 2013, 2:15 PM UTC

I've used opera for ever. On my old symbians, my win boxes and even on my netbook (ubuntu)

but since I read that they moving off their own engine to webkit who cares.

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

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Post by markokocic » Tue, May 21, 2013, 2:53 PM UTC

gcp wrote: post #32

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.

Firefox will work from Android 2.2 and up.

No, it won't. It says that my HTC Desire running 2.3 is not supported.

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

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Post by yareally » Tue, May 21, 2013, 3:40 PM UTC

solox3 wrote: post #27

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.

Hmm, I tried it and it redirects me to about:blank

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

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Post by KORraN » Tue, May 21, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

I was long time Opera fan, but since sometime it's getting from bad to worse. For me Dolphin is the best browser for Android. On desktop I use Firefox, but mobile version has problems with rendering fonts.

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

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Post by bobsoap » Tue, May 21, 2013, 4:33 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #13

rubinelli wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried Firefox? I have an Acer tablet with the same Tegra, and I found the interface and responsiveness much better.

I've found Firefox quickly turning too slow for my taste, especially on my tablet. This usually only became a problem after a while, after it accrued a bit of history, and local user-data which needs to get searched, cached, updated etc. To be fair, I've had that problem with lots of browsers, including Chrome.

I've had this problem with every browser I've tried on both the tablet and the phone. Opera pre-chrome provides the only halfway decent and useable solution.

After reading all the comments on here, I'm pretty sure I won't "upgrade" to their Chrome version anytime soon. It's a shame.

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

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Post by ippisl » Tue, May 21, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

ippisl wrote: post #11

Sprint wrote: post #6

This nicely highlights a problem I see with controlled app store models. I would like to give this a try but looking at reviews I feel like I might not like it (always visible address bar, bigger text). So I might want to downgrade which is not "allowed". I am glad they let users move the navigation bar to the bottom, that is much easier to reach with one hand. I wish there were site specific preferences like on the…

I use opera mobile, downloaded a day ago. The address bar is hidden when you use scroll down, and i don't see any big text on page load. And regarding readability:i think opera is the best by far - because it has great reflow on zoom.

Sorry for my bad recommendation: just now my opera mobile updated itself to 14.0 . 14.0 sucks.

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

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Post by pasbesoin » Tue, May 21, 2013, 7:12 PM UTC

This is one that I think, barring a critical security concern, I'll give a couple of days before adopting. At least.

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

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Post by container » Tue, May 21, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

samuel wrote: post #4

Feels slower on my Galaxy S Plus. I'll try it a bit more, but the first impession ain't good...

Just auto-updated on my SGS+. First impression; almost unusable, although it used to be OK before. Got up to my desktop to write this comment, because Opera Mobile just became unresponsive and I didn't expect it to ever make it here (though it was on WLAN). After a reboot, went to m.slashdot.org and it took >5 seconds to respond to swipes even after loading, then got stuck for 15 secs when trying to type a new url.