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Atomic Browser = The best thing since sliced bread!

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Originally Posted by macrobat View Post
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
Yes! I was thinking the same thing while using it this weekend.


you can edit the bookmark folders to move them back into the root bookmarks folder.
 
Maybe someone can help me. Is it possible to move your imported bookmarks out of the imported bookmarks folder?

call me lazy but I have to go through a bunch of folders to get to the link I want. I know I should re-save the ones I use a lot but I was hoping I didn't have to do that. I prefer to move all my bookmarks folders at once instead of individually.
 
I'm having 1 issue with atomic browser. I'm not using private mode but it's no longer keeping my history.

Other than that its the best investment I've made since I purchased my iPad.
 
RMXO said:
Maybe someone can help me. Is it possible to move your imported bookmarks out of the imported bookmarks folder?

call me lazy but I have to go through a bunch of folders to get to the link I want. I know I should re-save the ones I use a lot but I was hoping I didn't have to do that. I prefer to move all my bookmarks folders at once instead of individually.
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Yes. Navigate to the links you want to move, hit the edit button, touch the link you want to move then under "location", change the folder to the destination folder of your choice.
 
double329 said:
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.
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That's the issue I'm having. It's literally the only thing keeping me from using this full time as my browser.
 
ScubaCinci said:
Yes. Navigate to the links you want to move, hit the edit button, touch the link you want to move then under "location", change the folder to the destination folder of your choice.
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Thanks. Dev, please come up with a better UI for this because I never would have guess this.
 
tacoshell said:
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.
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That's weird, it seems to work every time for me. I just long press on the link and select open link in background tab.
 
MrDeeds said:
I'm having 1 issue with atomic browser. I'm not using private mode but it's no longer keeping my history.

Other than that its the best investment I've made since I purchased my iPad.
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me too. at first it wasn't clearing the history when pressed the clear history button. deleted the app and then reinstalled.
Now after clearing the history once, it will now longer keep any history at all.

the developer says that the next upgrade he may address it. But i get the feeling like he isn't 100% on what is causing it.
 
Has anyone had any success with Atomic Browser and HTTPS sites? I don't seem to be able to get Outlook Web Access to work on it or any HTTPS sites that I have to use for work.
 
greezychicken said:
Has anyone had any success with Atomic Browser and HTTPS sites? I don't seem to be able to get Outlook Web Access to work on it or any HTTPS sites that I have to use for work.
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FYI, I just try logging into the HTTPS OWA page here at work with Atomic, and I had no problems.
 
greezychicken said:
Has anyone had any success with Atomic Browser and HTTPS sites? I don't seem to be able to get Outlook Web Access to work on it or any HTTPS sites that I have to use for work.
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Try changing the browser identity in settings. My bank site didn't work until I changed the identity to mobile Safari-iPad.
 
I don't know if this is a possibility, but I would love if you could choose to save a file in goodreader right from atomic.
 
I replaced atomic for icab mobile last week and it's been great - great for power users. Icab's latest update fixes all quirks and adds a tab bar. Atomic's non conforming interface + unpolished functionality put me off.

Icab has a bookmark bar with support for folders and you can tweak almost all of it's features to your liking.
 
Same here. First I was using atomic, but after trying icab few weeks ago, I switched. Interface and reliablity are so much better. Combined with backgrounder it works like a dream.
 
you icab users, are you noticing a page redirect back to icabs website when you do google searches?

can anyone explain what is being done with the data, is it being saved on remote servers like opera?
 
Does iCab use gestures? If not, it's got nothing on Atomic.
 
patp said:
you icab users, are you noticing a page redirect back to icabs website when you do google searches?

can anyone explain what is being done with the data, is it being saved on remote servers like opera?
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I e-mailed the developer asking this same question, also asked in another thread. Opera Mini Browser certainly opened my eyes to how developers can store or not store our data. Atomic has clearly identified how they've managed to not function like Opera. If iCab is similar then it's worth the $1.99 purchase to try their browser and compare to Atomic.
 
I just bought iCab, haven't tried it yet. I'll post in a day or two my impression of the three browsers (including Safari) compared with each other.

Edit: quick impressions based on a few minutes of use: it seems on par with Atomic in terms of features, including tabs. The controls and tabs are laid out in a way that seems more in line with iPad and Safari standards. One bug I noticed is that if I view a site in landscape, then switch to portrait, then back to landscape, sometimes it gets stuck at the portraid width. This results in a big black bar on the right side of the Web window when in landscape mode. Rotating back to portrait and landscape doesn't fix it. However, zooming in and then zooming back out does fix it.

I've encountered one bug with Atomic - one day it got "stuck" and wouldn't let me interact with it at all. If I launched it, it would show the last page I was on, but I couldn't change to a different page, I could only click Home to back out. Trying repeatedly still had the same issue. I didn't do a force quit, I just used Safari instead. Later in the day, Atomic was working normally again.

Those two bugs aside, I don't think there's a compelling reason to pick one over the other, they're both good.
 
wombat888 said:
Those two bugs aside, I don't think there's a compelling reason to pick one over the other, they're both good.
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Any more impressions? Anybody else?

I have been using AB Lite, just waiting to figure out what to do with my iPad before I buy any apps because of a dead iTunes host computer. AB seems pretty cool because they at least offer a trial LITE version.

Anyway, I do REALLY like AB, but do find two shortcomings an issue. One, not being able to zoom in as much. The other is a GUI issue with the back button down at the bottom of the page.
 
My one annoyance with this app. When you zoom out more then the page width, you see the ugly checkerboard pattern only on the right hand side.

Anyone concur?
 
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