Guest JethroUK Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Just switched from android 2.3 to 4.0 On 2.2 the Internet browser used to auto-wrap text on zoom - so like for this forum i could pinch to zoom and any text would automatically zoom and wrap to screen size (to avoid panning) Also noticed it would only scroll EITHER up/down OR left/right whcih made it really easy to scroll down a column of text without it wandering all over On 4.0 it has 2 default browsers (incl Google Chrome) and neither behave like this - I have to either set font size in settings or double-click to zoom the browser but neither will wrap the text so it can be read easily - crap actually Dunno whether auto-zoom-text-wrapping (Black berry used to call it "columning" text) is an attribute of the OS or browser So in the first instance I'm just looking for the 2.3 gingerbread browser - so if anyone can give me the name of the browser I'll try and install it thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest holtend Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Try Opera Mobile browser, easily my favourite :) edit I know that doesn't answer your question, but it does behave how you want, and if you put it in single column view you won't ever need to zoom. Edited October 7, 2012 by holtend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JethroUK Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thanks but surely someone still has 2.3 OS and browser - whats it called???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Both Chrome and the default ics browser behave like you describe for me. And the stock ics browser is a great improvement. I loves it! :D But I don't have the stock GB browser either! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest foobert Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 The stock Gingerbread browser was just named "Browser" wasn't it? I'm no Android developer, but I would be impressed if it was as simple as installing something like browser.apk to ICS. I thought that the stock browser were usually pretty integral to the OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) ^^ you're thinking of Windows XP :D I searched for the gb browser ages ago. All I could find was browser+ which is the ics one. :( Edited October 7, 2012 by fr0do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JethroUK Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Both Chrome and the default ics browser behave like you describe for me. .. Then I haven't described it properly all the browsers (tried 42879 different ones) will pinch/zoom text but only my old Gingerbread one would automatically re-wrap the text to the screen width 'on-the-fly' hence all the other browsers have 'fixed' font size setting if I cant sort it I'll be looking to role back the whooole Operating system back to 2.3 PS Couldn't post here with any browser on my mobile cuz there are no quote buttons?????? Posted from My PC :o) Edited October 7, 2012 by JethroUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sedj Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Why not use Tapatalk app it is much easier and does what you say As has been mentioned use opera work's good Edited October 7, 2012 by sedj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 only my old Gingerbread one would automatically re-wrap the text to the screen width 'on-the-fly' They all do this. Some work with a double tap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JethroUK Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Sounds like mine is bust Tried few browsers but none re-wrap Tried double tap but results are random Wish I had stayed on old OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 This is my default view. Is yours different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 (edited) Omg Tapatalk is driving me nuts!! Edited October 8, 2012 by fr0do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr0do Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Hey m8. Just re read your problem. ICS Browser + does exactly what you want, I just tried it. * auto text reflow after pinch to zoom........ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.browserplus Note: that feature isn't on by default ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest holtend Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 (edited) This is my default view. Is yours different? Default is like this And zooming in is like this.. Obviously Opera And to quote someone when viewing mobile version just tap the post you want to quote. Edited October 8, 2012 by holtend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al_1604 Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 I'm currently running stock Gingerbread B892 (don't ask!). Anyway, if I go into 'About' on the stock browser settings I get: "Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.6: en-gb; U8815 Build/HuaweiU8815C02B892) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1" I'm not convinced that's really much help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JethroUK Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Try Opera Mobile browser, easily my favourite edit I know that doesn't answer your question, but it does behave how you want, and if you put it in single column view you won't ever need to zoom. I installed Opera Mini at first but that didn't work - Installed Opera Mobile today and that works perectly Fanks Fanks Fanks VVVVV Happy Bunny VVVVV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JethroUK Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Hey m8. Just re read your problem. ICS Browser + does exactly what you want, I just tried it. * auto text reflow after pinch to zoom........ https://play.google....oft.browserplus Note: that feature isn't on by default Cheers for that - I've got Opera Mobile which is working fine but nice to have a choice Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JethroUK Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 I'm currently running stock Gingerbread B892 (don't ask!). Anyway, if I go into 'About' on the stock browser settings I get: "Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.6: en-gb; U8815 Build/HuaweiU8815C02B892) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1" I'm not convinced that's really much help. cheers - Nice to know exactly what my old browser was called Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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