Dolphin Browser HD is the successor to the popular Dolphin Browser. Featuring all of this mobile web browser plus so much more; swipe through Tabs, supports multi-touch Pinch Zoom, full screen browsing with many options tucked in menus, Gesture Shortcuts for bookmarks, browser controls, Add-ons and a lot more, skin your browser with Themes, and downloadable Add-ons of third party services. All this goodness is only available for Android 2.0+ phones (but that’s reason enough to upgrade to a new phone right?).
Pros
• Android mobile web browser with more features user experience enhancements over the default Android web browser
• Android App Recommendations powered by AndroidTapp.com
• AndroidTapp.com RSS feed via Add-on (many more add-ons like ad-blocker, password manager, screen cut, google translate, show IP and more)
• Tabbed browsing with swipe
• Multi-touch Pinch Zoom
• Gestures as shortcuts for common commands
• Add Themes
Cons
• Only available for Android 2.0+ phones
What's New in This Release:
· Tab sync: Take that article on the go, from your tablet to your phone
· History sync: Quickly dig up that amazing quote from the article you read yesterday.
· Pinch Zoom: multi touch to zoom in/out webpages on Android v4.1 devices
· Flash: better support for playing flash in fullscreen on Android 4.0.* devices
· Various stability and performance improvement
What's New in 8.5.1:
· Dolphin Garage: support add-ons and PhoneGap web apps developed by 3rd party developers by giving them access to 150 Dolphin internal APIs
· Support 4 new Add-ons: Dropbox / Pocket/ Evernote/ PhoneGap Add-on
· Support Wikipedia web app: open 20 million Wiki articles in 280 languages, without needing to install a native app
· Fixed "Package file is invalid" issue.
· Fixed constant crashing issue on all devices.
What's New in 8.2.0:
· Gesture: Create a Gesture for a bookmark while adding a the webpage to your bookmark list
· Close Tab: Added animation while closing a tab
· Progress Bar: A redesigned loading style for an ever smoother design experience
· Sidebar: Fully customizable sidebar options
· Open Previous Tab: Option to open upon launch
· Image Loading: Option to load only in WIFI network connection
· Various stability and performance improvement
What's New in 8.1.1:
· Settings: whittling down settings into the clearest format
· Bookmark management: edit/delete bookmarks straight from the Bookmark bar
· Removed Quick Access from Bookmark bar
· Dolphin Sonar/ Gesture: add option to change location of dolphin button
· Dolphin Connect: re-design overall interface for easier and faster connection
· Add image introduction to teach you how to set default browser
· Various stability and performance improvement
What's New in 8.1.1:
· Fixed problem that Stay in the Loop page cannot be skipped in Portuguese
What's New in 8.0.0:
· Re-designed Dolphin Sonar and Gesture: New interface, design, and easier access to help menu
· Menu bar: New design that gives easier access to most commands without having to leave the home screen
· Add-on Sidebar: New design that displays both Add-on icons and names
· New context menu and long press menu for more efficient browsing
· Various stability and performance improvement
What's New in 7.5.0:
· Fixed Dolphin Sonar crash issues
· Fixed Google Search issue reported by French/Italian users
What's New in 7.4.0:
· Dolphin Sonar - Dolphin listens and lets you use your voice to search, share, bookmark, navigate and more. it is so easy to use; you may just forget how to type.
· Webzine Add-on - We have transformed our magazine style reader into an Add-on for our avid readers.
· Add-ons - We have preloaded the 2 most popular Add-ons
· Sensitivity of Sidebars - Made Sidebar less sensitive and added indicating arrows.
What's New in 7.3.0:
· Optimized Dolphin Connect: beautify the interface, simplify the login flow, allow to use bookmark sync service with third party account directly
· Added browse faster and security feature to Dolphin Companion
· Access Sidebar by swiping at the very edge of screen. To facilitate easier browsing when zoomed in.
· Fixed freezing issue on Android 4.0+
· Stability and performance improvement.
What's New in 7.2.0:
· Added encryption to backup data
· Added option to disable Toggle Webzine button in the settings
· Add option to disable confirm dialog while exit Dolphin via back button
· Enabled option to disable "Rate me" dialog
· Enabled option to disable notification about Dolphin in settings bar
· Fixed multiple bugs related to Dolphin Connect
· Various stability and performance fixes
What's New in 7.1.0:
· Added option to remove bookmarks directly in Bookmarks Sidebar
· Enabled option to import bookmarks from Dolphin Mini
· Enabled option to select search engines other than Google
· Added pop-up notification to enable Dolphin as default browser when first installing Dolphin v7.1
· Fixed Google search issue that directed user to google.com
· Various stability and performance fixes
What's New in 7.0.1:
· Fixed crash issue with Dolphin Connect - Dolphin will crash when signing up Dolphin Connect by connecting with your Google account
· Fixed crashed problems with shiny shake - please update this add-on if you have
· Various stability and performance fixes
What's New in 6.2.0:
· Support Bookmark Sync(Beta)add-on: sync bookmarks via Dolphin account
· Add entry to exit Dolphin directly: by clicking Menu-> Exit
· Support Webzine in landscape mode
· Add option to change text size in Webzine
· Share Webzine content to Facebook & Twitter at the same time
· Add publishing date and update notification to Webzine column
· Add Hot Apps to Speed Dial
· Improve accuracy of Gestures recognition
· Fixed crash bugs in browser and Webzine
What's New in 6.1.0 / 6.2 beta:
Ability to exit Dolphin directly is available.
· Landscape mode is supported in Webzine.
· Text size option is available in Webzine.
· Sharing Webzine article content directly to Facebook & Twitter account is supported.
· Publishing date of each article and update notification are added in Webzine.
What's New in 6.1.0:
· Removed "Share via Dolphin Browser" when sharing page via email or other apps
· Added Top Twitter & Top Media to Webzine column source
· Improved the overall Webzine performance
· Added option to clear Webzine cache
· Added option to enable/ disable loading image in Webzine
· Added option to save image in Webzine
· Changed scroll way to list view in Webzine
· Fixed User Agent issue on some devices
· Fixed page loading issue on some devices
· Fixed crash bugs
What's New in 6.0.0:
· Change into new logo
· Webzine integrated
· Fixed crash problem on Asus Transformer & Xoom
· Fixed Google image issue
· Fixed some other random crashes
What's New in 5.1.0:
Bug Fixes:
· Page loading issue on most devices
· Select text issue on some devices
· Can't view desktop websites on some devices
· Double tap to zoom issue on some devices
· Clear cookie/history issues on some devices
· Save image issue on Droid Incredible
· Set "about:blank" page as homepage "Browser Settings -> Dolphin Settings"
Feature Updates:
· When launching Dolphin by opening an external link, Back to the original app instead of new tab page
What's New in 5.0.0 / 5.0.2 beta:
· Fixed page loading issue.
What's New in 4.2.0 / 5.0 beta 1:
· Innovative UI changes: fresh tab color; more elegant and more modern settings interface, fantastic fluorescent effect of context menu.
· Speed dial style new tab: access your favorite site easily, undo your previously closed tabs, and tell your most visited sites history at a glance.
· Powerful bookmarks sidebar: all bookmark folders, quick menu to access feature settings.
· Sub-folder supported.
· Faster browsing experience and more stable performance.
What's New in 4.6 beta:
· Dolphin HD v4.6 beta enables to delete a batch of bookmarks at a time.
What's New in 4.2.0 / 4.5.1 beta:
Fixed bugs:
· when choosing “View image” in the context menu after holding on an image, the original image does not show or open in a new tab
· the browser keeps forcing close when using some add-ons, such as using Tab Mix Plus to bookmark a tab
What's New in 4.2.0 / 4.5.0 :
· Improved stability
· A bunch of bug fixes
· Add 10 more gestures
· Add Gesture Animation
· Remove Bookmark url for each bookmarks in side bar
· Reduce the width of each bookmark field
· Refine UI in bookmarks folder page
· Refine UI in Settings page
· Long press page, menu show-up (Add bookmark/Gesture/Select Text/Close Tab)
· Long press address bar, menu show-up (Add paste)
· Select text Feature update
What's New in 4.4.0:
· New mini-style copy/select text feature
What's New in 4.2.0:
· Simplified Chinese support.
· A rolling process titles in tab bar.
· Long press the icon of gesture and drag the icon to the corner you want (bottom left & bottom right).
· Fix the bug that Copy URL cannot work.
What's New in 4.1.0 :
· Fixed some bugs
What's New in 4.0.1:
· Fix swipe action issue – side bar is too easy to slide out.
· Fix drag down window issue – cannot click the links on the top of the page.
· Bookmarks Folder Support
· Multi-language Support (12 languages) & UI upgrade
· Add Page Management feature to address bar.
· Fix some tiny bugs.
What's New in 4.0.0:
· Since Android 2.3 is coming on the way, we just improve the compatibility and reliability of Dolphin Browser HD. This new version won’t force close on Android 2.3. If your phone will be upgraded to Android 2.3, you can get this hotfix version installed to avoid incompatibility issue between browser and new Android OS. If your operating system version is still Android 2.3-, there is no need to download this hotfix version of Dolphin HD.
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