25 August 2009

Skyfire Makers Today Released
A Major Update To Its Popular Web Browser

Skyfire, the makers of the same-name PC-like browser for mobile devices, today announced availability of version 1.1 of its popular free to download and free to use mobile web browser, related to minor bug fixes, general stability and functionality improvements.

Perhaps the most significant improvements is updated algorithm that improves page load time and brings you the content much quicker and the specific improvements related to S60 scrolling and zooming.

This release also improves performance for both platforms and offers specific improvements related to Symbian scrolling and zooming. In addition, they’ve improved the reconnect experience as well as mobile website browsing and added the WML support.

According to official Skyfire blog, there are also number of other minor improvements, bug fixes and security enhancements and it is highly suggestible to update it immediately by going to http://get.skyfire.com with your device.

Fixes in this release

• Improved page load times. For sites that take a long time to load, we updated our algorithm to bring you the content much quicker.
• Improved scrolling and zooming on Symbian. This is a much faster and smoother experience now.
• Improved reconnect. Skyfire will show clearly when you can start interacting with the web page in case it previously timed out and disconnected (to save battery life).
• WML support. If you are browsing to mobile sites that use the old mobile WML markup, you can now view the content.
• Improved mobile website support. Mobile.* websites are now rendered automatically as mobile with the exception of mobile.yahoo.com since it is a PC site.
• Page up/down navigation via short-key: You can use now ‘2’ and ‘8’ to easily navigate one page up or down. Great for reading articles. Now the short-key for invoking the Superbar is ‘*’. Please note that on some devices with a non-standard keyboard layout, short-keys may behave differently since this is phone specific.
• Updated Plug-ins: For Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime we have the newest versions to give you more compatibility with more sites.

• Skyfire quits on startup on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices: It affected a limited number of 6.0 and 6.1 devices as well. (Fixed Issue 7369)
• Multi-line text entry behavior on Symbian: This was an issue when you exited text entry mode with predictive text on, or used the navigation keys. (Fixed Issues 7149 & 7112)
• Superbar state on Symbian: Cancel button did not always exit from Superbar. (Fixed Issue 7156)
• Samsung Propel and Jack (AT&T): Could not uninstall Skyfire if the SIM card was missing. Fixed.

Known issues in this release

• Short-keys inconsistent on non-standard keyboard. On some keyboard layouts (half-qwerty, dual keyboards), the short-keys do not work as expected. (Issue 7498, 7408, 7581)