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Started as a weekend project but took me almost two weeks. Please share any feedback.

Thank you, it's pretty sad that we've had to wait years for something that was available in nineties versions of Internet Explorer.

We didn't, I've been using Offline Browser[1] for quite a while now. This does seem more polished, though.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.nikodroid.o...

The feature of being able to share a URL from my browser to Offline is pretty sweet.

I was irate that I had to type out URLs, until I thought to try that :)

Bug report: hitting the Back button takes me out of the browser, while the back arrow goes backwards in web history. I expected them to be the other way around (behaving more like a normal browser).

It's not a bug, it's a feature :) I just hate that I can't exit the browser with a back button, but I may be the only one.

I don't know if it's reasonable to ask this, but it would be cool to have an option to swap them around?

I guess I'll always be assuming it behaves like Firefox, so I'm tripping myself up a lot.

Either way, very cool app.

It should be easy to add that option, I hope it will be in the next version.

Just 2 weeks! I am very impressed. Great work.

First URL I typed in was news.ycombinator.com, which wasn't valid until I added the http://. I don't think most users would know to do that. Could you default to https / http when it isn't specified?

Makes sense, I'll probably include a preview of the website as well. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for this. I take the subway every day of the week, and unfortunately we don't have internet service in the subway tunnels. I've been hoping for an app like this for a long time. Will definitely download and try it!

Nice, thanks!

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