Skyfire Version 0.80 Beta

[mjcole2003]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

Boy, do I ever agree with that. The zooming function flat out sucks IMHO.

I have an 8 year old daughter playing soccer & a 19 year old son playing college football.

Yesterday, I was at my daughter's soccer game & I had the college website running on my phone as it gives running real time play by play updates on what is going on in the football game. The problem is, on the college site in the box where the play by plays is running the text is way too small to read on the PPC without zooming way in.

With skyfire, I would zoom it in about 4 levels so I could read it just fine but on every single play update it would jump back out to the original zoom setting & I would have to start all over again.
After this happened about six times, I switched over to Opera 9 & everything was fine from then on. In Opera, it was MUCH MUCH easier to read the constantly updated plays & the zoom level never changed from my original setting.

~John

Did you post htis in skyfire forum? This definately is something they need to work on, being beta and all....

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by mjcole2003

Did you post htis in skyfire forum? This definitely is something they need to work on, being beta and all....

No, I don't really care anymore at this point. I am so sick of skyfire resetting itself as the default browser (even though I have told it at least 25 times in a row that I DO NOT want it as the default) that I am going to delete it from my system for now.

It once again gave me the "invalid user name & password" error last night & as a result refused to open a link that was emailed to me.

I can't deal with a program that constantly interferes with my everyday operation of my system & I will wait until all these bugs are worked out before I reinstall it.

~John

[wmdunn]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

No, I don't really care anymore at this point. I am so sick of skyfire resetting itself as the default browser (even though I have told it at least 25 times in a row that I DO NOT want it as the default) that I am going to delete it from my system for now.

It once again gave me the "invalid user name & password" error last night & as a result refused to open a link that was emailed to me.

I can't deal with a program that constantly interferes with my everyday operation of my system & I will wait until all these bugs are worked out before I reinstall it.

~John

John....don't give up on Skyfire, because it's working fine on many systems, including mine. Of course, I don't like the zoom feature as it is, but hopefully that will be re-designed shortly. If you delete SF from you system with it as the default browser, you may have some issues.....hang in there, there's nothing out there that's perfect, yet.

[scheel78]

I reverted back to an earlier version because I was having the same issues as everyone else. I like skyfire I hope they get the zoom feature ironed out. I like the zoom on opera mini the best out of all browsers.

[wjrandon]

Opera Mini's zoom is basically a single step non-customizable zoom. That wont be beneficial in Skyfire when attempting to adjust your zoom ratio to fit various video sizes. What Skyfire should do is merge the two styles of zooming together, allowing the application to give its best approximation of a zoom area on the first click and then allowing the user to interactively adjest the zoom box as they did in previous releases.

Problem solved!

[jblade]

Anyone have the .cab for .61 I would like to use it as .8 is not working

[dschoenike]

Originally Posted by jblade

Anyone have the .cab for .61 I would like to use it as .8 is not working

yeah, here ya go.

[ugabuga]

Grr down yet again asking for username and password. Man if Opera can only get Flash to work at a lot of sites i would never look at this browser again.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by ugabuga

Grr down yet again asking for username and password. Man if Opera can only get Flash to work at a lot of sites i would never look at this browser again.

I agree 100%

~John

[dschoenike]

C'mon guys, it's beta. I get just as frusterated as everyone else, with skyfires' quirks and issues. As with most/all betas, skyfire's counting on us testers to keep banging away on this browser and givin' them feedback on how to improve it. Dropping it from our devices and giving up on it won't help them fix the problems. We need to visit the skyfire forums on a regular basis and keep on them with our suggestions and concerns. As beta testers, we all can help make skyfire a truly awesome mobile web browser. dschoenike