I believe it affects every Sailfish phone at the moment when using the Jolla browser. If you tap on a random point on the page the keyboard goes down and you can scroll down to the text area.
You are right, the UK culturally still is a European country. And there are many ties between the continent and the UK. At the moment truck drivers need not to go in isolation when entering the country, because they are so important. And ties, yes, our grandchildren are British and now I have to pay much more when I send them a parcel. And getting a Xmas parcel from them at the end of february (send in december), with mince pies, beginning to taste moldy, hm. No more interchanging of tasty cheeses either, what a pity.
You can always swipe away the keyboard anywhere in Sailfish by simply swiping down on it. It’s one of those useful features that isn’t really mentioned anywhere.
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Yes, but swiping down the keyboard makes writing reply even harder 
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Yep, blind-typing on Jolla’s OS into Jolla’s own Discourse instance is borderline ridiculous. I would’ve expected a CSS patch at Discourse level perhaps, or something, by now.
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If Chrome gives you hard time, try Vivaldi. It’s based on the same engine, with more privacy and a few nice features, such as adblock. Version 4.0 was just released with a few bells and whistles more 
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Does it provide WebView engine so other apps could display their stuff?
I have various Parental, Sports etc apps just failing to display their content because I think WebView isn’t there.
Replying to myself to note that picotts and mimic have both been built for aarch64 (thanks, ringus), so PureMaps has his/her voice back from the 64-bit Sea Witch – assuming that one of the languages supported by these TTS packages is the one you use . . .
Firefox provides WebView, for the apps that use the modern embedding API. I think there’s still the old API that expects Chrome, but most things I use these days use the new one.
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Anyone got chrome installed in 4.1 sony 10II? And personal ringtones?
If you don’t specifically need Chrome but just a chrome-based browser, you can try installing Bromite which works quite fine.
Really need chrome, but perhaps I’ll try bromite…
But still the giraffe form factor.
With regards to chrome, Brave is a chromium based browser that worked very well for me on the device.
I put logcat running on the Terminal and then tried using Chromium browser. Xperia 10 ii Dual Sim/Kvarken, with microG installed and running ok.
After a very short use (on a specific discussion forum, at hfboards.com) I get the Chromium browser stuck.
AlienEventHub fails to getVideoFrames is not supported
Then the Terminal starts flooding about ServiceManagement trying again for android.hardware.drm@1.0::DrmFactory/clearkey
This continues until I kill Android Support altogether.
Vivaldi browser seems to be doing the same thing.
Vivaldi freezes for me and lock the whole phone GUI. Tried with Opera instead and that performs way better so I recommend that instead.
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It freezed for me, too. I’ll open a new ticket for it.
I’ve now been using Xperia 10 II + SFOS combo for about 2 months now as my daily driver and my overall view of the combination is OK but there was no WOW-effect. I had Nokia N9 years ago but been an android user after that so I really don’t have any history with sailfish previously nor have I been following the progress over the years. I was prepared to have some annoying issues and/or bugs but as a whole, I think this is quite mature product overall. After getting used to the swiping, I find myself trying it with other phones I get in my hands constantly. 
Things I find annoying are mostly connected to my personal use cases but some bugs/features as well.
For example I can’t have my phone with me at work but I can divert calls from it to another number during the days. With android phones I always had a quick shortcut widget on desktop to enable call diversion and another one for to disable it. Just two steps, fingerprint to unlock and one press to enable/disable it. Now with SFOS I have to first fiddle a few times with the fingerprint sensor to see if it is working this time or if I have to give the security code first. Next swipe up, select phone, select people, select starred quick contact for call divert, select phonenumber and call divert is in action. The amount of steps is ridiculous.
Another issue is the constant dropping of connectivity when stepping out of reach of wifi, getting in to a place where there is no cell reception (also somewhat related to my work), etc. With a mobile device having to restart the network subsystem couple times in a day in order to see if I have e-mails or other messages is kind of a show stopper for me.
Third annoyance is the lack of seeing android downloads in the gallery app. If I use a file manager, I can browse to android storage but the gallery app seems to be missing a feature to add a folder to “follow” for changes.
Also regarding the android part I don’t know whether this is a bug or a known feature/issue, but has anybody else had any issues regarding copy-pasting text from sailfish specific apps to android apps?
For example I have quickddit reddit-application installed and when I copy an URL from there, I can paste it just fine to preinstalled sailfish apps but when I try to paste it to android firefox the paste is not available.
Despite giving a little negative rant above, those were pretty much all issues I have encountered so in overall SFOS is not a bad product and I just might stick around with it for a while to see how things are progressing over time. 
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I’m a bit buffed by this since I live in a ‘low’ connectivity part of germany. I live about 37 km outside of Berlin and there are ‘gaps’ in 4g (cough) out here, but I never have to restart network. And I never lose connectivity in a way that interrupts work.
It would be really usefull to know:
- What provider?
- Geographic location (proximity to populated center)?
Like I say, I live in a ‘notoriously underprovided’ region (well, for Germany!). I’m trying to grok what could lead to this lack of connectivity.