No italics in Dolphin browser (android)

April 22, 2013 1:19 PM

I use Dolphin as my default browser on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I've just noticed that italics don't show up in Dolphin. (Screenshot.) They do show up in the stock browser. (Screenshot.) I can't find a setting anywhere that indicates why the <em> tag isn't showing. Help? Here's the about screen for my phone, and for Dolphin, if those are helpful.
posted by mudpuppie to Technology (4 answers total)

Just so that you can say that you can answer "yes" to others who come into this thread: have you deleted and reinstalled Dolphin?
posted by misterbrandt at 1:43 PM on April 22, 2013

Response by poster: Why yes, I certainly did do that after you suggested it. No change.
posted by mudpuppie at 1:52 PM on April 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Have you tried installing (or uninstalling) the Jetpack add-on for Dolphin? It replaces the browser's rendering engine, which may or may not fix random display glitches (e.g. it stopped my tablet from randomly displaying blank spaces in AOL's news sites).
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 2:52 PM on April 22, 2013

Response by poster: That worked, HZSF. Thanks!

(Now to determine whether I really need Jetpack at all. I have no idea what it does, and the file is three times the size of the browser itself.)
posted by mudpuppie at 2:55 PM on April 22, 2013