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[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear tcat007,

Sorry for the inconvenience. Some user report us that some website show a huge size of font. We check the problem and find it caused by the browser setting "Open page in overview".

We have this switcher to control the way to showing web page. If it's set to "ON", it will show page in overview mode (all font looks small). If it's set to "OFF", it will show page in normal zoom (font looks well).

For your case, you could go to preference page and set "Open pages in overview" to "OFF". The problem will be gone.

Hope this could help you. :)
[Android Apps and Games] ExilHh:
best browser on market and a very kind support... big thanx to the dev team!

one suggestion:

please add a button for bookmarking the current site to the customizable toolbar.

during one handed use with the right hand its hard to reach the button in upper left side of the url.

thank you for reading this...
[Android Apps and Games] tcat007:
Thanks! That did it. I had that setting on "No" in 2.8, and it's default is "Yes" in 2.91. Never thought to look at the settings after the update.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
:D

Happy to hear it solved.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
:D

Thanks for suggestion. I will see what we can do.
[Android Apps and Games] serggrigorchuk:
Voice control is the future! Thanks Boat Team :) I am look forward to new voices commands ;)
[Android Apps and Games] 45droid:
Boat Mini was my default browser until that happened. I then switched to Boat browser and loved that. Version 2.4 update did the same thing to that browser. Luckily I created a TiBu backup before that update. Back to 2.3 for me. It is a shame though because the customizable toolbar is awesome.

That 'zoomed' state really was a big bonus of these browsers to me. I'm surprised I haven't seen more comments about it. Constantly zooming and reorienting the screen seems unnecessarily laborious to me.

With all that said I also agree this is the best browser out there and my hat goes off to the dev.

Never mind all that. Except for Boat browsers being the best. :cool:

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Thanks so much for this and for the great browsers. The customizable toolbar is exactly what I'd been wanting! :D

Here is one suggestion: How about an option in settings to always keep the tabs on top of the screen? This would eliminate the need for the dedicated "windows" button in the toolbar. Thanks again. I love this browser!
[Android Apps and Games] Fnorder:
You should add custom buttons to make the customizable toolbar really useful; Any number of buttons that allow the user to enter any url or javascript:string (for bookmarklets).

It would also be nice to add an option to disable the bottom toolbar unless menu is pressed. Perhaps also allow more buttons on the thing.

The ability to disable google autocomplete when entering text in the url bar would be great. (This and the persistent toolbar are major annoyances for me at least)

Last but not least; Less phoning home is great but make it completely optional, in a paid version if needbe.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
I'm so happy that problem is solved. And you can send any suggestion/comment to boatbrowser#gmail.com (replace # with @). It really help us to improve the quality of Boat Browser/Mini. Thanks for supporting. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Wow, thanks Fnorder. You suggestions are so great. I will review them with my co-worker.

Thanks you very much for supporting. Any further result will let you know. :D
[Android Apps and Games] tcat007:
Dumb question, what's "less phoning home" mean? :confused:

I agree a fullscreen in Portrait option would be great.... to many clicks to hit menu/fullscreen to get rid of the bottom buttons.
[Android Apps and Games] brordavid:
Love this browser! It´s by far the best ive tried! I wonder if its possible to change the position on the "extra toolbar". I´d like to have the exit button at that position.

Also if its possible to change the minimal number of icons in the extra toolbar (its 4 now, right?). /edit, nevermind. Got that one right. =)

Keep up the fantastic work!

/regards Bror David

/edit: toolbar icon numbers question
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Means that Boat is sending info from our phone to them. I believe, as stated by developers, that isn't sensitive info but nevertheless should be private and an option for us.
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Congratulations guys! There are some few things I would like to suggest.

Congratulations guys!

After being testing every browser on Market I only can say Boat 2.4.1 is THE BEST BROWSER. Nevertheless, as usual on these things, there are some few things I would like to suggest. :)

1. It's great to have Speed dial function in homepage

BUT

we need a way to change the order of thumbs. The best implementation I ever saw is on Miui default browser (Miren port).

2. I really think you've managed to have the most fantastic and unique gadget of all browsers around, the Customizable toolbar! It's a-m-a-z-i-n-g. That's why I can't understand why there are some guys here asking to change buttons one place to another or complaining about fullscreen/toolbar (I've put that button there, so you can also put the exit or whatever button you want)!

3. This one I just can't understand why is happening, when I'm typing the address, prediction is a mess (self explanatory image)!

4. Don't know if only happens on Miui ROM but as you can see Copy function is repeated, maybe one from system and the other from Boat interface.

5. Ok, I know flash will end one day but I have and use lots of Flash websites and this overlapping is really annoying.

6. Boat is sending info from our phone back to you. I believe, as you stated in one occasion, that isn't sensitive info but nevertheless should be private and an option for us... ;)

7. More Languages please. If you want I can manage to send you my language translation.

8. Finally the "piece de resistance" and Boat will be FLAWLESS. Please implement something like Dolphin's

Backup & Restore

function. I REALLY miss this in your browser.

P.S. As chipwreck1 mentioned, "function to import bookmarks isn't intuitive, it shows you by default a non-existing directory (/mnt/sdcard/Boat_Browser_free/bookmarks) and you can't choose another location to import bookmarks from. When exporting bookmarks, this directory is created - but nevertheless you have to copy any bookmark file into this folder..."
[Android Apps and Games] apx@dwx:
GREAT browser! i love the gepardish speed. just missing the additional automatic zoom into the page if u accidentally touch on two links at the same time (like opera)

but i hate the safari look-alike overview :P
[Android Apps and Games] dbx4:
Please add an option to turn off the animation when opening a new tab. Thank you!

Yep, looks like that's going to feedback.whalecloud.com, added to my AdAway blacklist.

That should definitely be optional!
[Android Apps and Games] ChronoReverse:
Just tried it out and I quite like it. Seems well designed while running lean and mean. I particularly like the customizable toolbar.

A few things which I think would be nice:

A) No mobile browser has this for some reason: a way to view the alt-text on images. The ones that appear when you hover the mouse on the desktop. Make it a hold-tap menu option if necessary.

1) A way to quick jump to the top and the bottom. Either a gesture or a button that appears with a flick (like in Opera Mobile).

2) Firefox Mobile used to have buttons that let you "tab" back and forwards through entry fields on a form. This functionality would be nice in Boat. Perhaps the Back and Forward buttons could be pre-empted to do this when zoomed in and filling out a form field?

3) A neat trick Opera Mobile uses is if you click a number of small hyperlinks in overview mode (like the page numbers in a forum thread), then it'll zoom in to that area.
[Android Apps and Games] IPB_Refugee:
Hello Bror David,

can you tell me how you changed the number of icons in the extra toolbar, please? (I'd like to have about 8 buttons there.)

Kind regards

Wolfgang
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Just put them there, you can have how much you want.

This is the way I like it.
[Android Apps and Games] electroforum:
It looks fine.
[Android Apps and Games] IPB_Refugee:
Hello,

thanks for the answer. Unfortunately that doesn't work for me. Every time I drag and drop an icon to the toolbar, an existing icon gets _replaced_. I cannot add icons (just replace or delete them). Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Device: ZTE Blade

ROM: CM 7.1.0 stable

Kind regards

Wolfgang
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
You have to drag to the first box, the one with dashed lines.

Would be great if developers could give us the chance to reorder them two. Right now you'll have to plan the order you want and place them from the last to first.
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Please give us the change to automatically clean cookies and history on exit, besides cache already implemented. Thanks.

Take care all suggestions I'm placing here already exists on other Android browsers, like Dolphin, Maxthon, Opera and Miren.
[Android Apps and Games] IPB_Refugee:
Ahh, I see. That's not a very intuitive handling and should be improved or explained on help pages. Thanks for your help, sushidog! :)

+1

+1

But nonetheless thanks for Boat Browser - it's already a nice one!
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
@mystifiyer

Thanks for supporting. In our latest release, Boat 2.5, it supports hardware accelerated. Please check it out. :)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear Fnorder,

Sorry for the late reply. Recently, we're really busy for the new release. Now, we have published Boat 2.5 (It has some helpful features). In the following release, we may support a more handy toolbar customization. We will have some UI work to make bottom bar disappear. For now, we cannot figure out a better UI design, which will be helpful, but not bother user. (a button to hide/show toolbar would be block user from web pages). We will keep working on it.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
@tcat007.

Yes. I'm also don't understand "less phoning home". :confused:.

Once upon a time, we try to support two kinds of UI customization. To customize UI when in non-fullscreen, and customize UI in fullscreen. But it seems it's too complicated for user. So, at last, we finished current toolbar customization, to solve part of problems. But, it's not a final solution. We still working on how to make Boat easy to use when in fullscreen mode.

I tried most of Browser out there, both on Android and iPhone. It seems they both have the same problem.

For now, when i daily use, I will put fullscreen-button on toolbar. It's so convenient to enter/exit fullscreen. It looks pretty good.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Now, I get the meaning of Fnorder. :(

As we state in this thread, we need the third-party to help us to improve the product quality. We try our best to minimize it. Also, we treat our user's privacy as the most important stuff. And we never try to collect them.

It's OK for our user have concern. But time could prove everything. We have only one faith, do what we can do to create a really handy browser or other mobile applications. To solve people problem, to help them improve their life.

Anyway, thanks for all your suggestion. We're always listening and trying to make things right. :)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear brordavid,

For the first question:

When you in toolbar customization page, you can hold the "exit" icon, then drag it to "extra toolbar", then "save". Now, you will have an "exit" icon in "extra toolbar".

For the second question:

It's a good suggestion, we will try to make it happen in the further.

Thanks for supporting.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
@sushidog,

Thank you very much. Following is the reply for your questions. A little bit late, quite busy recently. You're really a nice guy to help us on improving the quality of Boat. We will try our best to make Boat flawless. :)

1. Thanks for suggestion. We will try to make it happen in further. I will check MIUI and see how they implement this.

2. Really glad to hear that. :)

3. We do some kind optimization when input URL, but it seems obviously not enough. We’ve already treated it as a bug, will fix it in further.

4. Copy menu have some confliction with MIUI. It’s already in our bug tracking system, will fix it in future.

5. The overlapping really annoying. I will check this issue

6. Yes. As you said, we will have an option on this.

7. Currently, we don’t have enough resource for translation. The locales currently support come from our kind users. It will be great if you could help us on translation.

8. For now, we can backup/restore bookmarks. The user case is not quite user-friendly. We will try to optimize it. :)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Yes. Opera have this fantastic feature of auto-zoom when click on two links. For now, it's a little bit hard for us to make it happen (technical issue). Once we find a way, we will add it to Boat. :)

Some of our user like the Safari style, some one not. It's hard to make every body satisfied. But, in further, we consider add some different style themes. Hope that could satisfy you.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
When you customize toolbar, if you want to add icons to extra toolbar, please check attached images.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
At first, we consider all these stuff, including cookies and history. But I put all the options to the quit box, I'm concerned that it will make user confuse, why all these options here. Seems I cannot find a better solution.

BTW, The Boat 2.5 comes out, it support incognito mode (private browser). In that mode, history will not be recorded.
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
Hi there,

Whenever I try opening a link from another application say Twitter, Boat Browser would not open a new window, instead, it takes a current window and reload the page. Because of this, I lost the current page that I'm currently on.

Is there a way to automatically open a new window always when clicking a link from other applications?
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Thanks for your suggestion. Currently, this is the default behavior. I've submit this issue to my dev co-worker. We will try to optimize it. :)
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Congratulations, I'm using 2.5 right now, IT'S BRILLIANT BUT incognito mode isn't working, all my history is still there after I exit browser (yes, I checked incognito mode in definitions). Your great guys and your support to your users it's amazing.

Keep on the good work. Thanks for everything.

Edit: I talked to soon, incognito doesn't work at all. History, forms and cookies remain untouched after exit.
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
But apparently, this is not happening for Boat Browser Mini where links opened from other applications are always in the new window.

Hope you are able to look into it and change accordingly.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear bryant_16,

Sorry for the confusion before. I'm trying to make it clear. I'm using Boat Browser Mini 2.9.2. Following is my test result:

1. open a app (not Boat Mini), click on a link and choose Boat Mini to open it.

2. every time, a new window will be opened, unless reach the max limit (8 windows).

It seems Boat Mini acts as you want.

If Boat Mini not act as this, some bug may be happened. Could you please help us to fix this? Please let me know the steps to reproduce it. Thanks a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear sushidog,

Maybe we have some misunderstanding here. For example, user use boat for a while, under non-incognito mode. All history/search will be recorded. So user could find them in history page or when search. The information may be useful.

After turn incognito mode to "ON", under current implementation, Boat will not save password, not save form submission, not save history and search. But the record which is saved in normal mode will nor be removed. We think they maybe useful for the user.

Hope this could help you. If Boat still acts as a buggy way, please let me know. Thanks a lot. :)
[Android Apps and Games] kg3:
When I click on a youtube link it always asks if i want to play it in the youtube app or in boat. Is there a way to set the youtube app as the default as you can with the stock browser so that when clicking on a youtube link it loads it up in the youtube app.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Praxcelis:
Any chance of a compatible version for my Kindle Fire?
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Jiyucn there's no misunderstandings here. AFTER cleaning everything I turned incognito "ON", exit Boat, opened again, made some navigation and logged in Facebook.

Everything have been saved, even after exiting Boat and opened it again I could see all history and cookies with my passwords remained there, I managed to open my Facebook page without a single password retyped. Sorry Jiyucn, something is wrong here.

Also I think hod this new option to open videos on browser or YouTube application, even if I don't have it. This type of option should only be displayed WHEN app is installed, that's the way Android behaves in presence of similar applications.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear kg3,

It seems a good suggestion. At first, we don't sure about whether user like the behavior, "always open youtube link in youtube app, not Boat". Some people really like this. I'm add it to our product plan now. :)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
We feel sorry about that. We never have a chance to get a kindle fire to run Boat. Running a full test on Kindle fire and fix them is in our release plan. We will try our best to work this out. Thanks for supporting. :)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear sushidog,

For both incognito mode and youtube, Boat was designed to work as the way you expect. During our own test, I never met the result like you met. It seems its a bug of Boat.

Could you please let me know more information about this? I could reproduce the issue and try to fix them. Following information may be helpful:

1. the ROM you use

2. for the youtube issue, which website you're visiting. www.youtube.com or m.youtube.com or some other website.

Thanks a lot. :)
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Jiyucn, yesterday I've installed another ROM, all problems about privacy I reported are gone. So it seems MIUI can't handle those functions like others.

Unfortunately now I'm having a different issue. On InsertCoin 1.1.4 (official Desire Gingerbread based) I don't get the dialog to choose between YouTube app or browser (m.youtube.com).
[Android Apps and Games] kg3:
Hi jiyucn,

Thank you for your reply. I understand your explanation but like the stock if you don't want to always open YouTube links in the YouTube app then you don't select the remember option so everytime you click on a link it will ask to open in YouTube app or browser.

If you could also add the always open the market in the market app to your product plan that would be good too.

Thank you and keep up the good work. :)
[Android Apps and Games] kg3:
Hi,

When using the search tool within the browser, it brings up results from google.com. As I am from Australia, it is more useful if the search results are from google.com.au. Can you add a feature to choose which google you want the search results to come from eg. Australia, UK, China and so on.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Isira:
Why is it when I click on the URL box, the following appears on the drop down menu:

www.facebook.com

www.yahoo.com

www.youtube.com

www.google.com

www.dmv.ca.gov

www.hotmail.com

www.gmail.com

www.chase.com

This is on a fresh installation of Boat Browser with an empty speed dial and bookmarks. When a user has no speed dial and bookmarks, a user should see nothing instead of your hard coded URL's.

Just noticed Boat Browser Mini has the same "annoyance".
[Android Apps and Games] 18rmiller:
I have downloaded this before but chose not to use it for whatever reason. I would like to try it again but market says my app is not compatible. This is happening for other apps that I have downloaded before. Any way I can cure this? I have already tried to clear data and uninstall updates
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear 18rmiller,

I guess something wrong with the ROM or market itself. Could you provide more information like what ROM you're using, Android version, what device, etc. I will take a try. If I have any clue, will let you know. :)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear sushidog,

About the problems with MIUI. I will take a try and try my best to fix them. (If it's ROM's bug, maybe I would find a work-around).

For InsertCoin 1.1.4 issue, are you sure about Youtube app is installed? The dialog only popup when you have Youtube app.

If it's really a bug, could you please let me know where I can download the ROM. I will try to reproduce it.
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Sorry for late reply. My co-worker tells me he has already got this request. It will be added in next release. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] jiyucn:
Dear Isria,

We do some optimization here. When user install our browser and launch it at the first time. If he/she want to input URL, boat will try to get a list of most popular websites from Google as a input suggestion. Since they are the most popular websites, user's choice may be in this list.

We hope this would save user's input. Input in a cell phone is always not convenient. :)
[Android Apps and Games] sushidog:
Yes, YouTube is installed but no dialogue . On Miui is the opposite, I've got dialogue popup but no YouTube app.

InsertCoin 1.1.4: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1016940
[Android Apps and Games] 18rmiller:
It was because i changed my screen density. fixed now. I had to change the density back to stock, let it reboot and the reboot again and it started working. Best Browser here for me
[Android Apps and Games] DnaPolymerase:
There is something I don't get about the app. I tried to capture the packets sent from my phone just when I open google from Boat browser and it seems to send some kind of packets to a Server in China. May I ask what this is?
[Android Apps and Games] ChronoReverse:
Can an option be added to the long-press menu of a folder In Favorites be added: "Open folder in tabs"?

Also, is it normal that double-tap to zoom in doesn't work in landscape (on my tablet)?
[Android Apps and Games] Phrack:
After EXTENSIVE testing with Dolphin, Dolphin Mini, Dolphin HD, Miren, Ninesky, Maxthon, X-Scope, Opera Mobile this has become my default browser on Samsung Galaxy S GHT959 / froyo. It and Opera Mobile render webpages the fastest but Boat has smoother flash playback.

Currently using Boat 2.5.1 build 1488

jiyucn I realize you have so many feature requests it will probably take you a year to get to them all - there's only 2 that I have.

1. Could you add adobe flash toggle to the toolbar? It would make it much faster to enable/disable flash rather than having to go to the menus. Some websites I want to see flash others I want it off because it just slows down page loading with crap ads.

2. Is it possible to add more than 9 bookmarks to speed dial? One thing I have always liked about Dolphin Mini is the amount of bookmarks you can have in speed dial - I don't know what that limit is but I had about 20 :P

Anyway, excellent browser, keep up the good work! And please don't start adding so much feature bloat that the browser becomes sluggish, that's what happened with Dolphin and a few others I've been using. This browser is FAST!! Keep it that way!
[Android Apps and Games] JeepFreak:
I've been using this browser for 2 days now and I am already a big fan! There are lots of great suggestions in this thread, but one thing I miss a lot from the last browser I was using is the "reflow after zoom" option. Obviously I have to zoom in in order to read page is full of text on my phone, and it is annoying it to scroll back and forth, back and forth, for every line. Have I missed it this option somewhere? Or can it be added?

Thank you!

Billy

EDIT: I see now that this works for double-tap zooming, but not pinch zooming... perhaps this is a bug?