Skyfire 0.9 Release Supports Blog, Twitter, WVGA

Chuong Nguyen | February 12, 2009 2:09 PM

For those with WVGA resolutions like the Touch HD or the XPERIA X1, fret not because the new Skyfire beta will have support for you. The new release is availablenow. Skyfire is already a robust browsing platform and great browser substitute for many, offering advanced Ajax and Flash 10 support. However, the new release brings added features including social networking support, improved text readability, and more.

What does all that mean? You can twitter and follow pocketnow.com on RSS for one thing. Another great improvement is the ability to download multimedia and other files. As usual, you can download the latest release from get.skyfire.com on your mobile.

Click on to read more about the new Skyfire beta.

According to the company’s press release, the new version will feature the following improvements:

• We’re
 Going
 Social: 
Our 
start 
page 
experience 
is 
brand 
spanking
 new 
and 
includes 
feeds,
 Facebook
 and
 Twitter 
integration.
 Catch 
up
 with
 news
 and
 your
 friend’s 
postings,
 easily 
share 
info
 and 
make
 yourself 
heard
 with 
few
 clicks.



• Improved 
Text
 Readability:
 We
 implemented 
a
 great
 solution 
to
 improve 
the 
readability 
of 
large text
 areas
 (think
 blogs 
and
 news 
articles)
 on
 small 
screens. 
We 
now 
automatically 
adapt 
the 
font


size 
for 
large 
articles 
in 
a 
way
 that 
once 
you 
zoom 
into 
the 
article 
you 
will 
be 
able 
to 
read 
it
 without
 the 
need 
for 
horizontal 
scroll. 
Use 
our 
contextual 
zoom 
function
 to 
fit 
the 
article 
to 
your
 screen
 width 
and
 it
 will
 make 
a 
pleasant 
reading
 experience. 
With 
this 
introduction 
we
 retired 
our previous
 Smart Fit
 solution.



• Widescreen
 screen 
support

• Improved
 Superbar: 
When
 you
 select 
one
 of 
the 
auto‐suggest 
entries
 you
 will 
get 
immediately
more
 refined 
suggestions 
(instead 
of 
launching
 the 
search 
right 
away). 
Handy
 to 
search
 for 
the
exact 
term
 that 
you
 are 
looking
 for.



• Download
 Media: 
Now 
you 
can
 see/listen 
to 
media 
that
 is
 accessible 
in 
Skyfire, 
and 
download 
it
to
 your
 phone 
as 
well.

• Updated 
page 
rendering

• Updated
 Plug‐ins: 
Including
 Flash
10,
 Silverlight
 2.0, 
final 
and 
newest 
Quicktime
 version.



• Log‐in,
 Bookmarks,
 History: 
Fixed
 reliability
 issues,
 where
 either 
of 
them
 were 
inaccessible.



Let us know how your browsing experience is with the updated Skyfire.

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