Skyfire is a free mobile browser that many people talked about for the last couple of months. And now the Skyfire has reached Alpha 3.5 stage (upgraded from Alpha 3.1). Just like the previous version, the Skyfire Alpha 3.5 is made mainly for Blackberry Bold 9000; especially those which operates OS 4.6.0.167 and 4.6.0.247.
However, it might be also interesting to see the Skyfire Alpha 3.5 works on the Blackberry Curve 8900 and Blackberry Bold 9000 which use the OS 5.0.xx version
The version of Alpha 3.5 is 1.0.0.12799.
Skyfire developers said that they removed the Stream Mode in the new Skyfire Alpha 3.5. Other new addition in the Skyfire Alpha 3.5 are:
- Inline Text Entry: You can now edit/enter form elements directly within the page, without being interrupted by a dialog box. Makes it more direct, convenient and retains the context.
- Click-to Call: The Blackberry client now will utilize tags in websites that trigger a phone call, when clicked (e.g. callto: and tel: links). You have to confirm before the call is initiated.
- Set as Default Browser: when set, links will open Skyfire
- Downloading of Files: you can now invoke the download of files to your device.
- Improved Scrolling: Further tweaking since the last Alpha.
- Reduced Checkerboard occurrences
- Alpha limit: We implemented a simple mechanism to limit the number of new users in our system. Once reached you see a message. If you encounter this and are part of this Alpha group then please contact us.
Several bugs found in this Skyfire Alpha 3.5:
- Clear cookies: When you clear cookies in advanced settings it will not work. Will be addressed in the next release.
- Inline Text: We are seeing several issues.
- Sometimes old text is visible (Issue 331 & 409), when re-entering text box, the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the text field (Issue 333).
- Download: timeout when downloading large files (Issue 435)”
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