Little Web Browser [2]

Wee Jim

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Little Browser aims to be a very fast web browser. It is designed to be very simple to use and to load the webpage as fast as possible.
It reduces data utilization by displaying only readable content from webpages and by not downloading extraneous contents like scripts and images.
This app makes getting information over the web easier and faster especially when internet speed and bandwidth are limited and is very suitable for users on the move.

In-app purchase is available to remove ads.


Features
1. Reduces data utilization by not downloading images.
2. Bookmark webpages for quick site access. Saved bookmark can be accessed by searching for them by entering the bookmark name into the address bar (you may need to scroll down to find the matched bookmarks).
3. Quick access to recently accessed webpage (up to 10) via navigation drawer on the left.
4. Supports webpage zooming.
5. Supports back button to move to previous webpage.
6. Built in ads blocker for website
7. Invert color (white text on black background for pre android 4.4 Kit kat devices only)

Little Browser recognizes
• "mailto:" html link and redirects the user to his mail editor
• "tel:" link and opens the phone call dialog
• "geo:" link and sends the coordinates to the map program

Explanation of Permissions Required:
INTERNET: for accesing the web
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: for backing up and restoring bookmarks to/from sdcard
READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS: for importing system bookmarks into Lynx Browser

Quick Tip
• Access the tabs by sliding in from the left (see screenshot)
• Other shortcuts are also available by sliding in from the right (see screenshot)
• To go to "http://www.nba.com", just enter "nba" into the url text.
• Turn off Javascript for even faster browsing experience. (Warning: some sites with heavy usage of Javascript may fail to load properly. Just reenable Javascript when that happens)
• Hide address bar to increase amount of screen space
• Long click in manage bookmark to get context menu to appear (so that you can delete/rename selected bookmark)


This application is a work in progress.
Give it a 5 stars if you like it.
Free feel to let me know how the app can be improved for you (I am always on a lookout for ways to make it better)
I would appreciate if you can refrain from giving the app a bad rating. I am just starting out, give me a chance to fix it for you :)


Known Issues
• zooming does not work for mobile sites (update settings to use "Prefer desktop sites" to workaround this for the time being)

Ratings and reviews

This works well to save Data when I tested it on WiFi Mode, seems to use around 0.4MB to browse a full Forum Page on something like Spacebattle and it even managed to retain the formatting which is a lot better than my old Textbrowser that I used a few years ago. Since you can toggle Javascript on and off it's easy to log into accounts and then turn it off as well. Easily lets me do 5 times the stuff I would on Chrome which is a fairly big boost. Would never recommend this to be your main Browser when you have WiFi, or if you have a very large Data plan. But if your conscious of your usage I highly recommend this to you. Just make sure not to sign into anything to sensitive, something this small likely has few firewalls just to begin with.

so far so good, easy to use. we'll update rating after a few months of use. collects some personal data but say they do not share with third parties. Upstate March 2020. Works very well. No issues

I use this mainly for the ability to only load images over wifi. This has saved me more gigs of data than I can count! However, I don't recommend using it as your only browser since it can't run some videos or HTML5 elements.

What's new

Camera permission is needed for taking and changing picture on left slide out panel

0.9.68
• re-enabled ability to change top picture in left slide out panel