What Happened to Dolphin Mini?

[larrytxeast]

I went to download Dolphin Mini browser, but it keeps showing Dolphin non-mini. I can't find Dolphin Mini anywhere. What happened to it? (I do have a year-old or so version of Dolphin Mini as an .apk file but of course you like to get the most up-to-date version.)

 

[mikedt]

Sure it was discontinued, it's no longer listed on Dolphin's website. So the one you've got, that's all there is, no more updates.

 

[funkylogik]

I guess with phones getting more powerful/fast these wasn't a niche for it?

 

[mikedt]

Despite its name "Mini", it's not like Opera Mini, which uses a proxy to compress pages to reduce data usage. Dolphin has their regular browser, the Jet Pack add-on, and Dolphin Express, which has various localization options. The regular browser can be setup to use Dolphin's proxy in a similar way to Opera Mini.
http://dolphin.com/download/


FYI, Dolphin is Chinese, and does send your information to servers in the PRC.

 

[funkylogik]

Meh it's still my primary browser and the PRC can know all they want about me

 

[larrytxeast]

I like the "mini" versions of browsers, I have Opera Mini and Boat Browser Mini. I do also have "Next" installed (and Chrome, as the phones come with it) for a more "rich" browsing experience (the user agent setting on Next is "desktop"), but I find Boat and Opera to typically do the job just fine.

I'm not sure what Dolphin "standard" does compared to what Mini did, if it's more like what HD was before or what Mini was before. I will say that I had used Dolphin Mini less previously because it liked to hang a lot, even when the connection was good, and I had started using Boat Browser Mini a lot in its place. Other than that, the main problem with Dolphin Mini is that on phones with no menu button, you can't access certain settings because it doesn't do the "3 dot" menu to accommodate such phones.

I guess it's time to bury it?

 

[mikedt]

Boat is another Chinese one, in the same manner as Dolphin really. These companies do rationalize their product lines from time-to-times, and if something is deemed to no longer have much of a need and doesn't justify any more development, it goes. If you got Boat Mini and Opera Mini, don't think you need "Mini" any other browser...


BTW Opera seems to do very well here in China, especially for a non-Chinese company. Their browsers are the standard stock for quite a few phones here, and they operate an app store, music store, Tmall and TaoBao portals, etc. ... http://oupeng.com/

 

[funkylogik]

Aye I remember symbian opera came with my Nokia n95

 

[EarlyMon]

Despite its name "Mini", it's not like Opera Mini, which uses a proxy to compress pages to reduce data usage. Dolphin has their regular browser, the Jet Pack add-on, and Dolphin Express, which has various localization options. The regular browser can be setup to use Dolphin's proxy in a similar way to Opera Mini.
http://dolphin.com/download/


FYI, Dolphin is Chinese, and does send your information to servers in the PRC.

Which information does it send?

I traced using Network Connections - none of my normal browsing went anywhere except as intended.

I don't get it.