I tried this browser a while back and it was very buggy, uploading data to Craigslist or pictures to otther forums was a no go. Text input was a mess, and the overall experience was just buggy.
I have to say that sine the latest update (whenever that was... I seemed to have missed it) this browser can take anything I throw at it.
It seems faster than dolphin for pad which was my daily driver until I realized all of these bugs had been addressed. The graphics and speed are spectacular IMO and I honestly can't find any glitches.
Anyone else notice how awesome this opera moblie is now?
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point it to espn 3 and watch a stream, it'll crash. stock browser will crash too.
i am on vanilla 3.1 HC with no TW .
there is no HA on flash videos, other than that it is perfect..
Just did. Watched 3 different streams without crashing. A little slow but nothing too bad. Once started it streamed just fine.
Latest touchwiz ' latest opera
Give me another..
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The most annoying bug Opera Mobile has (or used to have, havn't used it in a while), has to do with text input fields like the "quick reply" box I'm just typing in. It loses all the text when unselecting the input field the first time and also when clicking on something like "post reply" or "advanced/preview".
You need to select the field, unselect it and select it again before you can start typing. The second time I lost a lengthy reply to that bug because I forgot to do so I stopped using Opera Mobile.
I like Opera Mobile but the market says the last update was june 30, so no update for quite some time. Is this bug really gone?
Try this snippet.
http://www.civinfo.com/forum/test.htm
Compare it to all other browsers.
gokpog said:
The most annoying bug Opera Mobile has (or used to have, havn't used it in a while), has to do with text input fields like the "quick reply" box I'm just typing in. It loses all the text when unselecting the input field the first time and also when clicking on something like "post reply" or "advanced/preview".
You need to select the field, unselect it and select it again before you can start typing. The second time I lost a lengthy reply to that bug because I forgot to do so I stopped using Opera Mobile.
I like Opera Mobile but the market says the last update was june 30, so no update for quite some time. Is this bug really gone?
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I had that too, but there is a quick fix for it. Set the zoom rate from 125% or so it is now to 100%. No more disapearing text.
Yes.. That's fixed.
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gokpog said:
The most annoying bug Opera Mobile has (or used to have, havn't used it in a while), has to do with text input fields like the "quick reply" box I'm just typing in. It loses all the text when unselecting the input field the first time and also when clicking on something like "post reply" or "advanced/preview".
You need to select the field, unselect it and select it again before you can start typing. The second time I lost a lengthy reply to that bug because I forgot to do so I stopped using Opera Mobile.
I like Opera Mobile but the market says the last update was june 30, so no update for quite some time. Is this bug really gone?
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As I was trying that is fixed I entered an emotican and gone was all my text....so that problem is not fixed. darn.......
ShannonAUT said:
I had that too, but there is a quick fix for it. Set the zoom rate from 125% or so it is now to 100%. No more disapearing text.
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Thanks.. you seem to be correct... no more disappearing text after setting zoom level to 100%
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Try this snippet.
http://www.civinfo.com/forum/test.htm
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???? I saw the difference in text formatting, but what else?
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???? I saw the difference in text formatting, but what else?
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All the graphics are missing (the flags) after the first line - as illustrated by the image at the bottom of the page.
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All the graphics are missing (the flags) after the first line - as illustrated by the image at the bottom of the page.
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Ahhh.. I see..
What else is Opera "missing"
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Don't know if this has been covered or not here but I figured I'd post if it hasn't and for users who are not aware of this. If it has then someone let me know and I'll ask for the thread to be removed.
Now I use the default browser alot because "Imo" its a nice and fast browser and suits my needs. But I was frustrated when I went into settings and unchecked mobile view in the default web browsers settings and yet some web pages still came up as the mobile version. So after some google searching I stumble upon a nice little tip. I'm sure more advanced users/members might already know this but it was new to me. Henceforth.
To make the default web browser show desktop mode for all websites try this.
Open up the web browser. Then in the address bar type
about:debug and press the "go" key on your keyboard.
Then hit menu and choose the setting option for the browser.
Then scroll down and you wil see a new list of settings. Then choose the one that says "UA String" tap on that and choose desktop. Then back out of your settings menu and go back to the address bar and type
about:debug
Then hit the search key/arrow next to the address bar and it will return the browser back to its normal state.
However the setting will not stick if you reboot or close the browser via app manger. ""I think as long as you keep the browser running it should stick"" However the settings do remain they just have to be activated again. So say you reboot or close the web browser. When reopen it just type
about:debug and hit the go key.
Then immediately after that just type
about:debug and hit the search key/arrow
to reactivate them again.
It might seem like alot but it actually can be done in just a few seconds and its worth it to me. And I'm sure there are alot of browsers on the android market that can make it alot easier but I perfer the stock browser. And it very well could be different methods of achieving this but this but, I don't have the knowledge and this way seems to work. Also if you check the "smooth rotate" option it give the browser a nice little animation when going from landscape to portrait or vice versa. Also it makes switching views a bit faster. I'm still searching google for what the rest of the options are for and what's the risks and benefits of them because I don't know. So I advise not to altar anything your not familiar with. But if you do happen to know what the other options are for and if they could speed up the browser please post the info. As I wrote above this if this has been covered elsewhere post it and I will ask a mod to remove this thread asap. Well hope some members with the evo3d will find this helpful or fun.
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I've also noticed this.
When I enable WiFi power lock it give you better download speeds.
Also if your like me and download a lot of files via stock browser after a while I noticed that my downloads will be a tad slower than say three weeks ago even after I cleaned cache via app and via recovery. What I've noticed is that the stock browser keeps a record of all your downloads. If you tap menu then select
downloads you will see what I mean. Now these are linked to your sd card's download folder. So what I did was create a download2 folder on my sd used root explorer to move all of my files from my download folder to my download2 folder. Then I reopened the stock browse and went to downloads and checked all of my downloads
"It was quite a few" and deleted them. After that I rebooted and the stock browser was back to downloading at the usual speeds. Not saying that this effected the download speeds to much but I want every bit of performance out of my phone Lol. If you try this don't forget to move what ever files you have in your download folder on your sd to a seperate folder because if you don't and you delete them from the browser you will erase them from your sd as well. Hope members can find this useful.
just tried it...didnt work for me. once i input about:debug, I got "about:%debug". what am i missing?
Interesting. I couldn't get any advanced settings. In fact, couldn't get stock browser into the debug mode. Went into settings to clear cookie data, cache, history and form data to get into debug mode. It still won't go into debug. But now I get all websites in desktop mode!
That's my story and I am sticking to it. Leaving it alone.
jinwu57 said:
just tried it...didnt work for me. once i input about:debug, I got "about:%debug". what am i missing?
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When you entered about:debug the first time did you hit the go key/enter key on your keyboard???
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liverstealerJobs said:
Interesting. I couldn't get any advanced settings. In fact, couldn't get stock browser into the debug mode. Went into settings to clear cookie data, cache, history and form data to get into debug mode. It still won't go into debug. But now I get all websites in desktop mode!
That's my story and I am sticking to it. Leaving it alone.
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When you first type about:debug hit the go key/enter key on your keyboard. Then hit the menu button and open up the browsers settings. Then scroll all the way down. You should see extra options.
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When you first type about:debug hit the go key/enter key on your keyboard. Then hit the menu button and open up the browsers settings. Then scroll all the way down. You should see extra options.
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Yes, I see that now. But, I was able to enable always desktop by just clearing cookie data, cache, history and form data. And of course deselecting enable mobile view. I suspect the form data may be the key.
Now espn, profootballtalk, engadget, gizmodo all show in desktop mode on my phone. YMMV.
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Yes, I see that now. But, I was able to enable always desktop by just clearing cookie data, cache, history and form data. And of course deselecting enable mobile view. I suspect the form data may be the key.
Now espn, profootballtalk, engadget, gizmodo all show in desktop mode on my phone. YMMV.
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You suspect the form data may be the key "puzzled" how so?? And nevertheless glad its working for you.
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You suspect the form data may be the key "puzzled" how so?? And nevertheless glad its working for you.
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Just guessing Don't see how the others would affect it. Still testing.
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Just guessing Don't see how the others would affect it. Still testing.
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Oh ok cool. A did you check out the smooth rotation option?? Also single column view screws up how the website looks so I left that one unchecked. Also to the way you mentioned in your earlier post that way worked for me as well. But an example of how only some websites still appear mobile was when I was using the mobile app engadget and one of the articles had a link and when I clicked on that link the site appeared as mibile. When I checked my settings they were all the same as you mentioned above. That's why I started my srarch. Also it happened with the news app I use wtmj4.
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Finally...got it. Thanks!
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jinwu57 said:
Finally...got it. Thanks!
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No prob. Glad you got it working for you.
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Oh ok cool. A did you check out the smooth rotation option?? Also single column view screws up how the website looks so I left that one unchecked. Also to the way you mentioned in your earlier post that way worked for me as well. But an example of how only some websites still appear mobile was when I was using the mobile app engadget and one of the articles had a link and when I clicked on that link the site appeared as mibile. When I checked my settings they were all the same as you mentioned above. That's why I started my srarch. Also it happened with the news app I use wtmj4.
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Yes, my method is hit or miss. Right now mostly miss. Trying your method for awhile.
Smooth rotate is pretty cool. Thanks
liverstealerJobs said:
Yes, my method is hit or miss. Right now mostly miss. Trying your method for awhile.
Smooth rotate is pretty cool. Thanks
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Thanks but its not my method. Just info I found searching. And yea I'm really liking the rotate effect lol. Also I checked wifi power lock and it seems to hold my wifi signal a little better. When I to the basement of my home wifi usually drops to 2 or 3 bars being the router is on the 3rd floor. With that checked I have 3 bars solid. Still testing the other settings.
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I also set my "Set connection count" to 20 and noticed a speed improvement on how sites load.
Other settings I changed:
Flash version - changed this to Flash 10 from Mixed
Enabled save Picture - turned this on
Enable GEP zoom - turned this on
UAString - set to Desktop
Thanks for the tip!
OP, what sites show up mobile? Engadget, Gizmodo, Espn already display in desktop mode..
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OP, what sites show up mobile? Engadget, Gizmodo, Espn already display in desktop mode..
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All show up desktop now.
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I also set my "Set connection count" to 20 and noticed a speed improvement on how sites load.
Other settings I changed:
Flash version - changed this to Flash 10 from Mixed
Enabled save Picture - turned this on
Enable GEP zoom - turned this on
UAString - set to Desktop
Thanks for the tip!
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I set mine to set connection count to 0 and got the same. Gonna try 20 now and see how it runs. Also do you notice a difference with the GEP turned on??? And no prob. Glad you could use the info.
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I notice zoom feels a bit smoother, but nothing to great. pages with embedded flash feel a bit more responsive while zoned in but the phone is so fast I don't know if it truly made a difference.
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Been running opera mobile 11.5.3, but have had zero luck with embedded youtube videos. Any others noticing the same in opera? Tried all kinds of different settings, clearing data, reinstalls, etc. Interesting enough, i get audio, along with a black box as opposed to the video.
Opera mini opens the vids in youtube, so worst case i go to that. Worth noting, this link works in every other browser i have installed and plays the embedded vids. So pretty sure its just opera mobile unfortunately...
Test page:
http://terrillthompson.com/tests/youtube.html
I do too. Same black box. Too bad cuz I love the smoothness and speed of opera.
tbns said:
I do too. Same black box. Too bad cuz I love the smoothness and speed of opera.
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same here, haven't found a browser that renders as quickly as opera. rarely ever see any tiles when loading pages.
Just tested on my skyrocket... loads with no issues. So its something with the prime. hopefully fixed in a future release. guess i'll shoot an email to the dev.
this is because opera mobile needs to update it for optimal use with our device also. only sound plays out. maybe we need to leave some comments on marketplace or email the developer to address the issue.
edit: I left a comment on marketplace. seen another guy named Ryan, that owns a Prime, also left the same complaint.
demandarin said:
this is because opera mobile needs to update it for optimal use with our device also. only sound plays out. maybe we need to leave some comments on marketplace or email the developer to address the issue.
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agree, just submitted bug report. wanted to make sure it wasn't something specific to my configuration.
demandarin said:
this is because opera mobile needs to update it for optimal use with our device also. only sound plays out. maybe we need to leave some comments on marketplace or email the developer to address the issue.
edit: I left a comment on marketplace. seen another guy named Ryan, that owns a Prime, also left the same complaint.
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i also notice this, however if you remember where the expand button is you can click on it and the vid will open full screen and work just fine
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franky_402 said:
i also notice this, however if you remember where the expand button is you can click on it and the vid will open full screen and work just fine
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what! seriously? dang..I ran out of Thanks so Thank You for this tip. ill make sure to try it out. so this goes for any flash video through opera mobile?
demandarin said:
what! seriously? dang..I ran out of Thanks so Thank You for this tip. ill make sure to try it out. so this goes for any flash video through opera mobile?
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Flash in Opera does work, but only in tablet mode, not in desktop mode. Thats a pity
fazerrider said:
Flash in Opera does work, but only in tablet mode, not in desktop mode. Thats a pity
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Ill try that out then. Thanks.
demandarin said:
what! seriously? dang..I ran out of Thanks so Thank You for this tip. ill make sure to try it out. so this goes for any flash video through opera mobile?
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as far as i can tell yeah, one other thing i wish they would fix is when you click a youtube mobile link instead of opening youtube it directs you to the youtube page, Opera needs to update so i can stop using two different browsers simultaneously
I put it in tablet mode and it didn't work for videos embedded in general section I was trying to look at. I press the big white play button n nothing shows up. I had flash on demand. So I tries again enabling itall the time and nothing shows up in that area period. SMH. Opera need to hurry up n update..lol
demandarin said:
I put it in tablet mode and it didn't work for videos embedded in general section I was trying to look at. I press the big white play button n nothing shows up. I had flash on demand. So I tries again enabling itall the time and nothing shows up in that area period. SMH. Opera need to hurry up n update..lol
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What I did is un/reinstall flash, set Opera to tablet mode and flash always on. Works for me. Only thing is that youtube mobile pops up. Not ideal, but doable till an update of Opera. Meanwhile I use boat browser.
I like the default browser but whats the deal with the copy/paste function? You know how you hold your finger on a spot in a text space and that little popup menu with tbe copy paste functions come up? For some reason it isn't working in the dumb mobile facebook inbox messages. I copied a link and was going to paste it into a reply I was writing but that dumb menu won't come up for nothing. Nothing happens. Thats the only text box it wont work in. So... I go to the full version Facebook site (which is zippy btw). Try the inbox there.... I load a message and suddenly it's like THE FORCE is affecting the screen. On full FB inbox message screen, it's like the screen keeps trying to move to the left, and it resists all attempts from you to straighten it to center.. Am i sounding weird or does this make any sense at all?
If you happen to use Swype, you can Swype from the "Swype key" to the letter "v" for pasting what's on your copy clipboard
I've had the same issue with the page constantly moving and not allowing entire sections to be viewed. It seems like it has something to do with the browser trying to format the text for mobile. Usually using Dolphin or another browser and/or turning mobile view off helps.
Whatever the name of the default browser is, mobile mode is off. I have tried Facebook in Opera Mobile. And in Opera on full FB inbox, the same problem happens inside the messages. The screen keeps moving to the left. It only does it inside messages on full version Facebook. Dolphin browser seems to use a ginormous amount of RAM just for small pages. It used over 118mb on google once.. Idk why so much memory usage. The computer never uses that much unless its tons of flash ads and java. Hmm
Is there a shortcut to access copy/paste like ctrl+v? No ctrl key. And I don't use Swype. Thanks for the help.
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Whatever the name of the default browser is, mobile mode is off. I have tried Facebook in Opera Mobile. And in Opera on full FB inbox, the same problem happens inside the messages. The screen keeps moving to the left. It only does it inside messages on full version Facebook. Dolphin browser seems to use a ginormous amount of RAM just for small pages. It used over 118mb on google once.. Idk why so much memory usage. The computer never uses that much unless its tons of flash ads and java. Hmm
Is there a shortcut to access copy/paste like ctrl+v? No ctrl key. And I don't use Swype. Thanks for the help.
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Stock keyboard doesn't have that function but swype and swiftkey do.
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I have swiftkey. Do you know how to get to that function?
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I have swiftkey. Do you know how to get to that function?
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hmm, I thought I could with swiftkey. Guess I it was slide it. Sorry.
Swype does it for sure, not sure why others don't have this function. Very useful.
Surprised me not a lot of posts on this problem here.
I have been unable to use the stock browser to do the "search in this forum" here with my Transformer and Transformer Prime. I tried the ICS Browser+, and the Xscope. They are all the same - When I click on the "Search in This Forum" button, the dialogue box and the keyboard show up It does not matter what keyboard I use, be it the Asus keyboard or my favorite Thumb keyboard, the keyboard just disappear faster than I can type.
I researched here and someone has this problem back to 2010 or 2011...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=950030
Well, well, well, by accident, I found the browser that does what it should do today, it is the Firefox. Well, it is not the fastest browser. So my question is, what browser you use that can do this "search in this forum"?
Don't tell me to us Tapatalk or the XDA developer app, or use my PC though, I am talking browser for Transformer...
I had problems galore with stock browser. Installed Dolphin browser and everything works beautifully now. The speed is greatly improved as well.
Why not use the xda app?
Oops just read your post lol
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This is an annoying browser glitch for sure. Drives me nuts.
CitiGirl said:
I had problems galore with stock browser. Installed Dolphin browser and everything works beautifully now. The speed is greatly improved as well.
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Dolphin doesn't fix it for me
Yep, very annoying. I usually just click on advanced search so that a new window pops up. It is this way on my phone in gingerbread as well.
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Yep, very annoying. I usually just click on advanced search so that a new window pops up. It is this way on my phone in gingerbread as well.
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My bionic does it as well. It seems like a lot of sites are making it much harder for mobile mobile users to use the full site. I absolutely hate mobile sites so I browse in desktop mode and many sites that worked just fine now require me to switch over to mobile veiw to post or search and some will not even allow any interaction anymore and where perfect just a few months ago. I rarely use rootzwiki since it changed and I have to constantly switch between desktop and mobile veiw to do anything.
I kinda feel dumb cuz I don't know if its actually something in predictive text settings I'm just missing or what. The problem is when I'm typing something in, primarily notice it in browser searching, I'll type words, then space bar, then word, space bar, etc etc. However, about 50% of the time, when I hit the space bar, it just deletes out the word I just typed and inserts another space. Last night I was trying to search "Galaxy S3 tips and tricks" and the whole thing came out "Galaxy S3[space][space][space]. WTF is going on here? Are others experiencing this at all? Its soooooo annoying.
FYI, it doesn't do it at all when typing out text messages so I'm wondering if it is something to do with browser or what. I tried clearing Samsung Keyboard cache and data and it worked for a bit, then started doing it again.
I think its definately keyboard related cuz if I switch and use a different keyboard, the issues disappear
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TechSavvy2 said:
I think its definately keyboard related cuz if I switch and use a different keyboard, the issues disappear
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I had this issue using the last version of Swype - Using the latest beta seems to have fixed it though.
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I had this issue using the last version of Swype - Using the latest beta seems to have fixed it though.
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I signed up for the beta on the Swype website, but a little confused as to how to really get my hands on the beta. Am I waiting for something to show up in my in-box or am I missing a link somewhere?
I believe you have to wait until the folks at Swype send you an email inviting you to the beta. IIRC it took about three days for mine to arrive when I signed up a year or so ago.
This and the copy paste issue is driving me nuts. How can they have such buggery on the shelves? I won't post off topic (not that I could copy/paste the link to that thread here anyway).
So my only option is beta, some pokey free or costly 3rd party keyboard app? Google tells me that, as these keyboards require internet access, I'm at risk of key logging activity due to the combination of permissions they require.