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Atomic Browser = The best thing since sliced bread!

gwsat said:
What Web site caused the problem? I had the same problem in Safari when I tried to load ESPN. Safari just wouldn't swallow it, although, fortunately, Atomic handles ESPN well. Go figure.
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I don't know what site he's having trouble with, but here's one that works in Safari but spins forever in Atomic. Try for yourself (it's my site):
http://shermantown.dyndns.org:6885/gui/

You should receive a login prompt but I get nothing in Atomic.

Here's another one that loads in Safari but not in Atomic.
Https://wiki.atg.com

I think Atomic has trouble with sites that use untrusted certificates (the ones that would prompt an accept/deny prompt in Safari).
 
Love it now my new browser of choice. The only thing that bugs me no bookmark bar and you have to open bookmarks then go to imported bookmarks to get to them
 
macrobat said:
Love it now my new browser of choice. The only thing that bugs me no bookmark bar and you have to open bookmarks then go to imported bookmarks to get to them
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I emailed Atomic this morning asking to have the Bookmarks open where you left off. Please email them also and maybe we will git this minor annoyance fixed.
 
gwsat said:
What Web site caused the problem? I had the same problem in Safari when I tried to load ESPN. Safari just wouldn't swallow it, although, fortunately, Atomic handles ESPN well. Go figure.
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Every website. :(
 
No more sliced bread reference, it's awful!

Please, oh please!

Sliced bread is awful, it embodies everything that makes modern life crap. Sliced bread has all sorts of nasty additives, to start with; and they are put into awful plastic that makes bread disgusting.

Sliced bread is for people, who cannot see the real value of decent food.


As a saying - it's still poor. It kind of suits the UK, though...
 
Facebook chat

I bought the app and tested Facebook chat on it while setting it to identify itself as desktop Safari.

Unlike mobile Safari, the chat bar does show up on the bottom of the page in atomic browser. Chat works too (updates in real time like my desktop browser), although it's a bit buggy.

The chat bar doesn't stay at the bottom when you scroll the page, there is no auto-correct, and the keyboard doesn't automatically hide when you click off the chat box.
 
HXGuy said:
Yes Google Docs works but it's buggy.

I was able to edit my spreadsheet that I had previously created but I cand scroll down or to the right, it only shows me what fits on the screen.

I was able to create a new spreadsheet and that worked ok and while I could start a new word processing document, the keyboard would not pop up for me to type.
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For google docs try OFFICE HD. a great software for the iPad wordpeocessing and spreadsheets in one. Half the cost of pages.
 
Hint: change the color scheme in atomic settings to safari. Then you *really* start wishing you could set it as default browser. :)

After a few days, this has become my safari dock replacement. I am a nitpicke by nature, and any complaints I have are ones that have already been stated: not quite feeling like you have enough control and access with bookmarks. Wouldn't mind a bookmark bar. It also forgets it's in text edit/posting mode sometimes.

Otherwise, it just works. And the built in adblocking is hugely appreciated.
 
kernkraft said:
Please, oh please!

Sliced bread is awful, it embodies everything that makes modern life crap. Sliced bread has all sorts of nasty additives, to start with; and they are put into awful plastic that makes bread disgusting.

Sliced bread is for people, who cannot see the real value of decent food.
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Truly amazing what people will whine about. :rolleyes:
 
Buy now...will I have to rebuy when I exchange pads?

CDRacingZX6R said:
Thank you for posting this recommendation! I use the Ipad as my primary computer now, and I love the tab features in Atomic. Saves lots of time!
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Same here. I ignored my laptop for about a week...went to turn it on...and it was DEAD.

Anyway...glad to find this. I am only on the lite right now as I am looking to return my ipad wifi for a 3g HOPEFULLY this week.

This will be my first app to buy...seems like it is definitely worth the 99 cents.

Question is if I buy it now what happens when I get home with the new iPad...will i restore from the previous iPad backup? The computer where the original iTunes Sync is dead until I can get it to HP and back repaired.
 
MikePA said:
Truly amazing what people will whine about. :rolleyes:
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True that! I like sliced bread. I also like rare beef, deep fired pastries, biscuits and gravy, real butter, and cream. Gasp! It's getting harder and harder to be politically correct.:)
 
munckee said:
I grabbed it this morning after reading through the reviews here. Used it for n hour or so then walked away. Now it won't load a page. Just sits there spinning. :confused:
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Its probably frozen...to force quit it open it and hold down the home button until it closes...usually takes about 10 sec or so. I've noticed this in atomic quite a bit when I have several tabs open. It freezes, then I quit it, reopen and nothing loads...then I have to force quit it to get it working again.
 
I picked it up, I use tabs on the time on the desktop and it would be great to do it here.

That seemed to work well enough.

Problems I had:

Set to mimic firefox, it wouldn't load gmail (the real website and not mobile). It would just hang in the loading screen. Eventually I set it to mimic desktop Safari and then gmail finally loaded. However the page didn't function very well. The columns were all crammed together and I couldn't scroll down to see earlier message threads.

I was able to get gmail chaot to function just as it does on the desktop, which was great, but having the rest of the gmail website mangled kind of ruined that feature.

I checked on the googledocs that others hand mentioned. I could open a google doc, but there was no way to get a cursor onto the page and activate the keyboard to start editing your typical text type file.

I look forward to more development of the browser, but at least for me what is going to be the holy grail is a complete desktop experience of the whole google lineup of cloud computing, so if atomic or someone else could pull that off then I'd be quite happy.
 
harpy said:
I picked it up, I use tabs on the time on the desktop and it would be great to do it here.

That seemed to work well enough.

Problems I had:

Set to mimic firefox, it wouldn't load gmail (the real website and not mobile). It would just hang in the loading screen. Eventually I set it to mimic desktop Safari and then gmail finally loaded. However the page didn't function very well. The columns were all crammed together and I couldn't scroll down to see earlier message threads.

I was able to get gmail chaot to function just as it does on the desktop, which was great, but having the rest of the gmail website mangled kind of ruined that feature.

I checked on the googledocs that others hand mentioned. I could open a google doc, but there was no way to get a cursor onto the page and activate the keyboard to start editing your typical text type file.

I look forward to more development of the browser, but at least for me what is going to be the holy grail is a complete desktop experience of the whole google lineup of cloud computing, so if atomic or someone else could pull that off then I'd be quite happy.
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My understanding is that the browser is still basically Mobile Safari. The only thing changing your Identity will do is allow pages to load if the web designer forced a specific page because it detected you were using an iPhone/iPad, etc. Put another way, if Mobile Safari doesn't support a feature of Google Docs, identifying your browser as Firefox may not make a feature work.

From what I've seen, Google has been updating their software to function correctly in Mobile Safari. For example, a few weeks ago you couldn't edit Google spreadsheets in Mobile Safari / Atomic, now you can (at least if you don't change your Identify Browser As settings).
 
I can't seem to find the ability to save passwords like mobile safari?

Also, two finger gestures don't seem to work, three makes it go into full screen, but no matter what I do, 2 finger is just kaput.

Otherwise it's great,
 
radioactive said:
I can't seem to find the ability to save passwords like mobile safari?

Also, two finger gestures don't seem to work, three makes it go into full screen, but no matter what I do, 2 finger is just kaput.

Otherwise it's great,
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Make sure you're swiping long enough. They have to be pretty long. Otherwise go into settings and find the one that says "allow short swipes" or something. I find the two finger gestures work great.

Thanks to this thread - I've been using Atomic ever since I got my 3G. It's FANTASTIC. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the tabs. That's my biggest pet peeve in Safari, and that's the entire reason I use Atomic. The adblocker is fantastic to. This is a great program. It's on my dock, and Safari is on my last page of apps. haha!
 
So you guys get out the serrated knife every time you want a PB&J? If you do, you're part of a small minority. I buy Beefsteak seeded rye meself, or if I'm feeling wacky, Pepperidge Farms "everything" bread (like an everything bagel, but it's bread). What a weird conversation, let's find some more things that make most people's lives easier that we can look down on. Down with toasters, you should put the bread (which you've sliced yourself) in a pan with a long handle and hold it in the coals of your hearth.
 
astrorider said:
Its probably frozen...to force quit it open it and hold down the home button until it closes...usually takes about 10 sec or so. I've noticed this in atomic quite a bit when I have several tabs open. It freezes, then I quit it, reopen and nothing loads...then I have to force quit it to get it working again.
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Tried this a couple of times with no results. It never quits.
 
astrorider said:
Its probably frozen...to force quit it open it and hold down the home button until it closes...usually takes about 10 sec or so. I've noticed this in atomic quite a bit when I have several tabs open. It freezes, then I quit it, reopen and nothing loads...then I have to force quit it to get it working again.
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I was having some pretty bad stability problems with Atomic. I removed and reinstalled it, now it's working much better.
 
Love that I can open in a background tab, but always having problems getting the popup window to trigger so I can select that. Seems to be a sensitivity issue, like not holding down long enough, or to hard or soft, but it gets annoying.
 
First of all, I do like Atomic browser. But I have a question. Does anyone know how to configure it to accept the site with security certificate? I used it for work website which requires that. Safari is working. It prompt me to accept or denied the cert. AB didn't do anything, therefore, i could not access the site. Any help is appreciated.
 
macrobat said:
Love it now my new browser of choice. The only thing that bugs me no bookmark bar and you have to open bookmarks then go to imported bookmarks to get to them
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Yes! I was thinking the same thing while using it this weekend.

Julien said:
I emailed Atomic this morning asking to have the Bookmarks open where you left off. Please email them also and maybe we will git this minor annoyance fixed.
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Yeah, that is kind of annoying too when you are used to Safari. I un-nested a lot of my bookmark folders to minimize the impact of this missing feature.

There was something else that I thought of this weekend that would make it better but that thought escapes me this morning. :eek:
 
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