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If you’re in iOS, UC is a great way to pop out videos so you can, for example, watch a YouTube video while reading Hacker News. It also enables you to listen t
by AndrewWarner 9y ago
If you’re in iOS, UC is a great way to pop out videos so you can, for example, watch a YouTube video while reading Hacker News.
It also enables you to listen to just about any video in the background, when you switch to other apps.
- thisacctforreal 9y agoSounds handy! Can anyone speak to how it treats privacy?
- gbuk2013 9y agoA quick search does not inspire optimism: https://citizenlab.ca/2015/05/a-chatty-squirrel-privacy-and-security-issues-with-uc-browser/ https://citizenlab.ca/2015/05/a-chatty-squirrel-privacy-and-...
- snaky 9y agoPrivacy? On low-end smartphones with some trojan factory preinstalled? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/preinstalled-malware-targets-android-users-of-two-companies/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/prein...
- AndrewWarner 9y agoI don’t use it for anything that requires login
- jaxondu 9y agoYou can also enlarge the default font size similar to desktop browser. Can not do that on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Reading this site on UC is much easier on my eyes.
- figure8 9y agoThis text reflow feature is key to my choosing a mobile browser. I use Opera mainly for this reason. Text reflow used to be standard. Does anyone know why Chrome and Firefox removed it?
- jray 9y agoText reflow is a "must have".
- mintplant 9y agoThere's the Fit Text to Width add-on for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-width/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-w... The Accessibility section in the Firefox for Android settings also contains options for adapting pages to the system font size and overriding zoom-blocking. And there's the built-in Reader View which extracts and represents the text from supported pages.
- pmontra 9y agoFit Text seems to work, thanks!
- Godel_unicode 9y ago> watch a YouTube video while reading Hacker News. The YouTube app also does that (although possibly only if you have YouTube Red?)
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y agoFirefox does the same thing
- mintplant 9y agoFirefox for Android does background playback too, and even provides media controls (exposing play/pause etc through the standard system API). Some sites may need the Video Background Play Fix [0] add-on. For popping out YouTube videos I use NewPipe, a FOSS Android YouTube client [1]. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro... [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
- jordache 9y agohow does it get around apple's policy of not allowing another browser engine in the OS?
- staticvar 9y agoIt probably doesn't right? Also these devices are probably not iOS devices we are talking about but Android devices.
- tzahola 9y agoiOS definitely allows you to implement your own browser engine. The only caveat is that Apple doesn’t let third-party apps to mmap executable memory, so you won’t be able to create a JITting JS engine.