Hi all, been a long time since I've been on here.
I just bought 3 of the cheap 7 inch Hisense tablets for the kids (1 for myself) and have a question on browsers.
On my phone, I use Opera. I'm not sure which one it is, I think regular Opera but my wife I think has Opera Mini on her phone. Anyways, one setting that I have on both phones that is quite important is that it will show internet sites in a single column. This takes care of sites that have stuff down both sides or a bunch of links across the header and such so that they are all in a single column and it won't resize to fit and end up a tiny little page with unreadable text. For example, this site has HOME, CARRIERS, PHONES, TABLETS, etc across the top of the page as links and on my phone these would be listed in a column so that I could scroll down through and the entire site would be of readable size, including everything from the text to the clickable icons (think the "new post" icons in the forum next to the posts listed.)
I have installed Opera, Opera Mini, and Opera Classic and do not have this setting on the 7" tablets. I have tried several browsers now including those three as well as Dolphin, Firefox, the installed Chrome, the default browser that came on the tablets, UC Browser (the one I like best so far I think), BOAT, BOAT for tablet, and Puffin.
Most of these browsers I can get text large enough to view on the 7" tablet, but it still isn't as nice and as easy to read as on my little 3" phone with Opera and single column view. Some of those browsers though I could increase the text size, it still wasn't big enough to read.
None of those browsers could I increase or see how to increase the entire internet site so that I could click on links or as I said, the "new posts" buttons in forums (this is mainly for forums as I am subscribed to a LOT of forums.)
I can certainly pinch zoom in on any website in any browser, but that makes you have to scroll back and forth to view the website. On the phone, that is what the single column solves as it puts everything into a single column and allows you to just scroll straight down through the entire site. This is what I want for the tablet as then the entire site and all the clickable buttons and links will also be the correct size to be able to navigate around.
I also noticed that only Opera (and variants) and I think UC Browser seem to have the ability to long press on links and open them in a new tab. This is also an important feature in my eyes as that is how I read forums.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks!
I just bought 3 of the cheap 7 inch Hisense tablets for the kids (1 for myself) and have a question on browsers.
On my phone, I use Opera. I'm not sure which one it is, I think regular Opera but my wife I think has Opera Mini on her phone. Anyways, one setting that I have on both phones that is quite important is that it will show internet sites in a single column. This takes care of sites that have stuff down both sides or a bunch of links across the header and such so that they are all in a single column and it won't resize to fit and end up a tiny little page with unreadable text. For example, this site has HOME, CARRIERS, PHONES, TABLETS, etc across the top of the page as links and on my phone these would be listed in a column so that I could scroll down through and the entire site would be of readable size, including everything from the text to the clickable icons (think the "new post" icons in the forum next to the posts listed.)
I have installed Opera, Opera Mini, and Opera Classic and do not have this setting on the 7" tablets. I have tried several browsers now including those three as well as Dolphin, Firefox, the installed Chrome, the default browser that came on the tablets, UC Browser (the one I like best so far I think), BOAT, BOAT for tablet, and Puffin.
Most of these browsers I can get text large enough to view on the 7" tablet, but it still isn't as nice and as easy to read as on my little 3" phone with Opera and single column view. Some of those browsers though I could increase the text size, it still wasn't big enough to read.
None of those browsers could I increase or see how to increase the entire internet site so that I could click on links or as I said, the "new posts" buttons in forums (this is mainly for forums as I am subscribed to a LOT of forums.)
I can certainly pinch zoom in on any website in any browser, but that makes you have to scroll back and forth to view the website. On the phone, that is what the single column solves as it puts everything into a single column and allows you to just scroll straight down through the entire site. This is what I want for the tablet as then the entire site and all the clickable buttons and links will also be the correct size to be able to navigate around.
I also noticed that only Opera (and variants) and I think UC Browser seem to have the ability to long press on links and open them in a new tab. This is also an important feature in my eyes as that is how I read forums.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks!
