[philly-d]

So as one browser disappears, another gets upgraded! Skyfire 1.1 is now available

From their press release...

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What’s new in 1.1?

• Improved page load times. For sites that take a long time to load, we updated our algorithm to bring you the content much quicker.
  
• Improved scrolling and zooming on Symbian. This is a much faster and smoother experience now.
  
• Improved reconnect. Skyfire will show clearly when you can start interacting with the web page in case it previously timed out and disconnected (to save battery life).
  
• WML support. If you are browsing to mobile sites that use the old mobile WML markup, you can now view the content.
  
• Improved mobile website support. Mobile.* websites are now rendered automatically as mobile with the exception of mobile.yahoo.com since it is a PC site.
  
• Page up/down navigation via short-key: You can use now ‘2’ and ‘8’ to easily navigate one page up or down. Great for reading articles. Now the short-key for invoking the Superbar is ‘*’. Please note that on some devices with a non-standard keyboard layout, short-keys may behave differently since this is phone specific.
  
• Updated Plug-ins: For Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime we have the newest versions to give you more compatibility with more sites.

Fixes in this release

• Skyfire quits on startup on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices: It affected a limited number of 6.0 and 6.1 devices as well. (Fixed Issue 7369)
  
• Samsung Propel and Jack (AT&T): Could not uninstall Skyfire if the SIM card was missing. Fixed.

Known issues in this release

• Short-keys inconsistent on non-standard keyboard. On some keyboard layouts (half-qwerty, dual keyboards), the short-keys do not work as expected. (Issue 7498, 7408, 7581)

Well so far so good, it seems to load pages faster than the previous version, and has no problems with any website or video I've tried.


(Not sure why the "Modaco Man" has a USA top on though, maybe something to do with server-side rendering?)


Anyhow, give it a try and as usual, let us know your opinions


Download it from http://get.skyfire.com/ or m.skyfire.com from your mobile browser.


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[ScreamingFalcon]

It appears Hulu is still blocking access thru anything but an actual PC though.

[agent.m]

Music to my ears!!

Just as I finally get flash working on opera for my compact v I wished skyfire would update. which they did. if they could make better use of vga screens like opera then it would be a killer app. Have to say so far its doing well. zooming is better. text wrapping would be good as well.

[jhnstn00]

ScreamingFalcon, on Aug 25 2009, 10:45, said:

It appears Hulu is still blocking access thru anything but an actual PC though.

Once upon a time it worked with previous versions... Currently get the following popup.

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[ScreamingFalcon]

jhnstn00, on Aug 25 2009, 20:16, said:

Once upon a time it worked with previous versions... Currently get the following popup.

That's due to Hulu blocking SkyFire's servers from allowing us to view the video thru the SkyFire redirect servers.

[D8LOM]

Skyfire is still not work on HTC Touch HD? Can someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[agent.m]

Try going to tvcatchup.com with skyfire and watch sky sports news....blisss. Cant believe how smooth the stream is. would be perfect if we could get the full screen on it.

[philly-d]

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