Comments on: Skyfire bumped up to 0.9, learns to be social

By: Skyfire for BlackBerry Alpha gets exhaustively leaked | tech.shaundunne.com

Skyfire for BlackBerry Alpha gets exhaustively leaked | tech.shaundunne.com — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:14:55 +0000

[...] big fans of the Skyfire browser around these parts, largely due to its ability to chew up and spit out Flash video on Windows [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:23:06 +0000

Are you working on a Blackberry version?

By: sandy chwatuk

sandy chwatuk — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:05:26 +0000

The site is wolfgangsvault there concerts
will not stream using skyfire 9.0 or 85.0

By: sandy chwatuk

sandy chwatuk — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:02:46 +0000

When I try to play there concerts it will not work? However when I play there radio it works fine? Did anyone else try this site
and having problem streaming there concerts?

By: Gosho

Gosho — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:07:25 +0000

I can tell that skyfire is the fastest out there, i got e71 and neither the built-in browser nor the opera mini loads faster than skyfire, if u dont believe me just try!!! but still, either one of the browsers has its pros and cons, im looking forward to Mozila Mobile(fenex if im right), which looks very promising.
Skyfire is easy to use, navigate and search stuff on the web, keep up with the good work Skyfire TEam

By: Edison C Machado

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:10:55 +0000

I only have one thing to say, it works very well with my E66.
Now I can see the web pages with flash.
Installed without problem, and works fine.
sometimes even at justintv.

By: Omar Younis

Omar Younis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:16:10 +0000

miki –

What device are you using, and what version are you using?

I was able to read baltimoresun after 1 initial zoom-in, just fine.

omar

By: miki

miki — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:28:18 +0000

omar,

a site i frequently visit is baltimoresun.com. it was far more readable in the previous version but now you have to zoom in once or twice to make the text big enough and scroll left and right to be able to read it

By: Omar Younis

Omar Younis — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:33:51 +0000

Miki –

The goal was to resize the text large enough so that it’s big enough to read. This seemed to test fine on high-resolution devices such as the treo pro and HTC touch (not touch HD).

Of course, different users have different ideas of what is readable text and what is not. Can you give me the name of the site you were trying to read text on?

-o

By: miki

miki — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:15:37 +0000

when you first tap on the section that has text, the square thing comes up and you click again and it reformats the screen, however if the text is too small what am i to do? i zoom again using the plus minus thing and it won’t reformat the screen and i am forced to scroll left and right. maybe its just on my phone or something; i have htc touch

By: Waleeja

Waleeja — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:49:16 +0000

Salaam!
God iz the Friend of thinkers,
I m thinking nd soon will be
a 100% efficient human.
I trust in God,
nd skyfire ?
Aliabbas110@ymail.com

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:16:04 +0000

S’fire is not 100% !!!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:11:23 +0000

Skyfire has some appealing elements, I'll check out the updated version of the OS. For regular activities I found it to be a little "crude" though. Anything that won't even download and install correctly half the time makes me second guess it's security attributes. Wonder what justaskgemalto thinks about this security wise.

By: Dodot

Dodot — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:53:12 +0000

Hi! I’ve been a fan of Skyfire and I’ve been using v0.85 for the past two months on my Nokia E63. When I heard about the v0.90 release I immediately went to the Skyfire website and downloaded the app installer. Unfortunately it refused to start up – I could only go up to the startup screen and then after a while the app would close itself. Anybody else having the same problem? In the meantime, I’ll have to continue using v.0.85, which I immediately reinstalled on my mobile. Shame.. I was looking forward to the auto-fit feature.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:50:58 +0000

I’m still sticking with Opera Mini. The fastest and most popular mobile browser out there.

By: Omar Younis

Omar Younis — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:48:34 +0000

Miki –

You should not need to move left and right to read text.

The browser has been designed to fit blocks of text to the width of your screen after you’ve zoomed in. Coupled with updates to text size rendering, this should remove the need for you to use smartfit.

-omar

By: miki

miki — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:42:50 +0000

what the hell? did they remove the smart fit thing for reading text? its not in the settings anymore and i have to keep moving left and right. damn it

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:14:24 +0000

Does it still leave out basic features that all other mobile browsers have which make it impossible to work without a lot of manual manipulation of connection settings? Does it still require a connection to their servers before browsing anything? Does it still only install correctly about 25% of the time?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then I’ll continue to pass.