I have Android 2.2 installed (the clean way, after a factory reset), and have been trying alternate web browsers. Most give me lots of reasons to like them better than the clunky, and slow stock browser called "Internet", especially Dolphin HD, Galapagos, and Skyfire, but none of them will scroll the the text to maintain the column width within my screen space when I pinch-zoom to make it readable. The other browsers have the features which you should expect (and more) from a smart phone browser, but they can't be of any use when there isn't included among them the one feature which makes trying to read anything better than an unbearable pain in the ass. Well, I really don't want to stick with the stock browser, and there really should be a way to set up any decent Android web brower for text-scrolling, but after banging my head around the Settings menus for an hour, I still don't see a way. What am I missing here?

 

What I mean is that my default Incredible browser manages the display of the text in any column which I am reading, no matter how high I zoom in, so that I never need to do side-scrolling in order to read each line of text. It does this by shifting words on the right side down to the next line, effectively adding to the line count, but that's no problem compared to the problem which it solves. I do not have this feature working on Dolphin HDD, Galapagos, or Skyfire, all which load pages faster, and have smarter, more attractive UI tools.

You say you have a version of Dolphin which does this? Does it happen to be the default browser which HTC labels "Internet"? I have seen references on the Incredible forums which seem to refer to Dolphin as the default browser, but it really doesn't look even remotely similar to the Dolphin HDD, which I installed from Marketplace. This Dolphin appears to be popular, and I can see reasons for this, and it will actually work for me if I don't have push left, then right, and then back again for each line of text I want to read!

In short, I like this column-scrolling feature, but it's the only thing that I like about my default browser, and so I would like to get this working on otherwise better browsers.

 

Why do you reply to posts which you haven't read more than half of? I made it clear that I don't like anything else about the stock browser, and I cannot understand why the alternatives which are in so many ways more advanced don't have column text-scrolling too. Maybe they can be set up for text-scrolling, but I haven't figured out how to do it. I'd appreciate any explanation of this from one who understands what I'm talking about.

 

I don't know really know what you are referring to here, but I tested the very same article with both browsers. Try this site, with wide pinch and zooming on any article posted here, just make sure you test the same article with both browsers:

CNN

Text will scroll off the edge for any style of column on any page of this site when I use the default browser, but it does not work when I test the same article on Dolphin HDD, or any other browser. If you aren't missing this feature in Dolphin and other non-default browsers, then a need to know what's stepping on non-default text-scrolling in my system.

 

Yes, I'm testing the same articles. I've had this problem with Skyfire and Galapagos too, and I'll bet no one else has problems with these either.

I had found an "Auto-fit", which I made sure was checked when I considered it may mean text-column scrolling. It was under menu->Settings->System settings->Auto-fit pages. There is no "menu->more" or "advanced settings anywhere under this menu system, so I'm not sure that we are discussing the same browser. Anyway, what I found has not fixed my problem.

I tried re-setting Dolphin to default, and "auto-fit" is checked by default, but this didn't fix the problem either.

 

Precisely!

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and I never really doubted you on this, but it isn't working so on my Inc when I use Dolphin, or any other alternate browser. Why I have that problem is the question. And I do trust that we are discussing the same browser (not that I really think at this point that my problem is with the browser itself). I have been a little confused by the precise names here. The label which I see on the browser which I recently installed is actually "Dolphin Browser", with a green globe icon and a golden dolphin. Don't know if that is the reason why I couldn't find the same menu path which was specified by euph_22, but Marketplace can really make your eyes bug with offerings labeled "Dolphin HD" which are just skins and thems. I just wish the "HD" question could be left for a different thread!

 

GRROOOAANnnn!!!

I'm not using the same browser. I'm using the only Dolphin browser which I could find, and is actually a browser and not a browser accessory. It is simply called "Dolphin Browser". The icon is green and gold. It does not show that two-layered bank of buttons when you press the the Menu button, but a single row of buttons (and I don't have screenshot ability). There are the page directionals, the refresh button, the window selector, and a switch for the rest of the options, which show in a transparent balloon window. Only the top line may be similar to what you show in your images (actually, I have a star symbol on mine which I think should be a link for Favorites), but there is nowhere, within the non-scrolling options window or otherwise, that I see a "more" item.

So, guess I just wanna try the browser which you are using, if it's still available. What's the exact name?

 

Never mind, I found it! And everything works in this version, too.

I don't recall seeing more than one option when I went and installed the crappy Dophin version, and then they really do look too much the same. It was when the old version didn't scroll, and other popular browsers like Skyfire didn't either that I theorized it was the system, and not the browser, which controls the text-scrolling. I guess not, and I really do wonder why most browser just won't do this.

Thanks!

 

Yeah, I noticed all those themes, and that was why I was bugging before I found an actual app. I was sure then that I couldn't find more than one version available (you may expect to see versions with numbers), and then forgot about it when all I saw posted was HD. This is why I really wish that sites like Marketplace and Appbrain would list apps separate from the accessories. Anyway, thanks for sticking with me through this!