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[APP] Mozilla Firefox latest beta/alpha/pre versions

For those who couldn't able to download Mozilla firefox's latest beta!
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/
Just go here through your web/mobile browser and find the version you want to test! and for X10 download the armv7 version or the one with the suffix r7!
the beta 4 is pretty solid and stable, but I am testing the pre beta 5 version
And for those who says it is available in the market! It isn't for everyone...
If you are running on stock SE 2.1, chances are lesser...
Note: I am not responsible if you smoke your mobile as all these versions are still in beta/pre-alpha!

Firefox in Android, great.
One question: how light is this version? Latest Firefox versions for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X are heavy and eat a lot of RAM. Hope this changes in Android.

beta 4 is still huge and takes ages to start up. I cannot remember but about 10mb for the app? It lags when you open complicated webpages.

FF lags like hell for me. I tried beta 4 for a few days. It's a great browser, but they need to lighten the load a little.....It's just too tasking for its own good! I shouldn't have to kill all my other tasks just to get webpages to load. And flash is very spotty still

lightyear420 said:
FF lags like hell for me. I tried beta 4 for a few days. It's a great browser, but they need to lighten the load a little.....It's just too tasking for its own good! I shouldn't have to kill all my other tasks just to get webpages to load. And flash is very spotty still
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I prefer Dolphin Browser Mini.. Mozilla is not done yet. :/

The market version of ff is 18mb.
Anything over 5mb otherthan a game is crap. My rule, sorry.
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Tehouster said:
I prefer Dolphin Browser Mini.. Mozilla is not done yet. :/
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Skyfire is like lightning for me Thanks, though!!

lightyear420 said:
Skyfire is like lightning for me Thanks, though!!
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Skyfire is good, but Dolphin is my option!

Latest update (2.25.2011) seems much better, but I still had to take it off my phone. 14mb is too much without App2SD and everything else is sluggish since (on my phone) there's not much space left internally. I liked the Sync thing, it showed exactly what was the last pages on my desktop, but I use Chrome mostly and that syncs across computers too.
Reformatting the text still doesn't seem to work correctly.
Some jpgs were rendered poorly
confused on single/double tap to zoom, ran through preset sizes and returned to original. I suppose it works better if you have dual touch.
lag on touch, so you may "Next" twice

stable beta5 out!!
Visit this link from your mobile web:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/m/

FF on the desktop is pathetic, makes me wonder why they even bother with an Android version. 14-18mb for a browser? Really? I'm confident they've included a dishwasher+coffee maker and a sauna in there.
What can it do better than Miren Browser which can do all of the above in just a little over 2mb, and with great aplomb!

Are you kidding??? FF on desktop is the ****!!! There's literally nothing better for desktop pc that FF4 beta....I dunno what you're smokin', but where I come from, we don't touch any other browser. lol

^^ haha tell me about it
There was a time when I used to be a firefox user too, but the 3.xx versions started sucking ass. I then moved to the 4.xx beta and it's a lot better than before. The sluggishness and insanely high resource usage remains though :/ and they still haven't fixed it despite ELEVEN betas and being over a year in active development. Last time I checked there's one more beta due soon, may be more after that, too

tbh i think that the stock android browser has worked best

ozzyahmed said:
tbh i think that the stock android browser has worked best
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I personally like skyfire the best. It's got partial flash which saves on battery (according to the message when it loads ) and fb is integrated into the browser...speedy as hell, too!!
If firefox would just load pages faster I'd use it exclusively...I love the fact that they have sync working finally!! I've been dying to try it, but I can't get any web pages to load at all, even on my home wifi network with 15MB cable internet lol.....and all my background apps are killed, too

if someone can port the micro b browser from maemo 5 it would be great!
that is one kick ass browser!

ozzyahmed said:
tbh i think that the stock android browser has worked best
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true that, and on the desktop, ive tried IE9, FF4, and Chrome dev.. tested them for an amount of time, and have to say chrome beats both of those, both in speed and interface..
but thats just my opinion

Pierre Duc said:
true that, and on the desktop, ive tried IE9, FF4, and Chrome dev.. tested them for an amount of time, and have to say chrome beats both of those, both in speed and interface..
but thats just my opinion
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Latest Chrome beta is fast as a rabit after drinking coffee.
I´ve tried FF on Android and it's very very very heavy and slow... i´ve felt like trying to move a elephant with my fingers. Back to Dolphin HD.

Lofwyr said:
Latest Chrome beta is fast as a rabit after drinking coffee.
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LOL
I've always had issues with the dev channel betas so I finally moved onto the stable releases.

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LOL
I've always had issues with the dev channel betas so I finally moved onto the stable releases.
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then you are obviously doing something wrong ive been using dev chrome close to the day it came out.. only issue i had was a while back, when i couldn't scroll up a page with the mousewheel anymore.
but ok, can't really tell that i had a lot of benefit using the dev version above the stable one..

[Q] Laggy browser scrolling!

Is the issue of laggy and unusable browser fixed? Is there anycustom ROM that fixes it?

Disable flash.

I do not even have flash installed. It is a problem with android itself. I tried dolphin, stockbrowser and skyfire - same laggy performance. Only opera mobile works fine - because it is using hardware aceleration. Has someone used browsers from SGS or DHD (on custom roms)?

I have laggy browser only when page includes alot of big images. Overall it works fine. SGS browser is much more worse, than nexus s.

That of the SGS in 2.3.3 works much better than the nexus

Idk why google or Samsung don't address this issue.
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KULASSE said:
That of the SGS in 2.3.3 works much better than the nexus
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I have heard something else. No one has been happy with the browser of 2.3.3 with SGS.

I checked and firefox browser works quite well.

Browsing on Android is terrible, even with flash turned off or set to 'On Demand'
The whole readjusting the page thing to fit the width of the phone slows it down way too much.

Mic43 said:
I checked and firefox browser works quite well.
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default browser and dolphin HD gets sluggish scrolling whenever the page have images. I tried firefox recently and it was actually faster. Apparently it doesn't render the images completely when u load the page, it only shows a low resolution version of the image which is just enough for viewing on our 4" screen. Only when u pinch zoom in, the browser will render the image further display the image in more details.

tadaha said:
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default browser and dolphin HD gets sluggish scrolling whenever the page have images. I tried firefox recently and it was actually faster. Apparently it doesn't render the images completely when u load the page, it only shows a low resolution version of the image which is just enough for viewing on our 4" screen. Only when u pinch zoom in, the browser will render the image further display the image in more details.
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You are right i think. Its a shame though that most complex browser (dolphin) is inuasable.
Is dolphin works well on dhd or sgs?
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tadaha said:
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default browser and dolphin HD gets sluggish scrolling whenever the page have images. I tried firefox recently and it was actually faster. Apparently it doesn't render the images completely when u load the page, it only shows a low resolution version of the image which is just enough for viewing on our 4" screen. Only when u pinch zoom in, the browser will render the image further display the image in more details.
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I think opera mobile 11 is better than Firefox.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA Premium App

so which browser should i get on my phone for the best experience?

meetagrawal said:
Browsing on Android is terrible, even with flash turned off or set to 'On Demand'
The whole readjusting the page thing to fit the width of the phone slows it down way too much.
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Oh yea ? Have you tried all the phones with all the ROM's, etc., to see if everything on android fails ? Don't quite think so. So, no. Browsing on Android isn't terrible. Browsing on SOME handsets may be.
OH, and btw. The readjusting doesn't slow anything at all. Only the scrolling does, on some phones. But you should've know this if you ACTUALLY had some experience with Android.

lambda30 said:
Oh yea ? Have you tried all the phones with all the ROM's, etc., to see if everything on android fails ? Don't quite think so. So, no. Browsing on Android isn't terrible. Browsing on SOME handsets may be.
OH, and btw. The readjusting doesn't slow anything at all. Only the scrolling does, on some phones. But you should've know this if you ACTUALLY had some experience with Android.
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I do have experience with Android since I have a Nexus S right now.
I have tried different roms and no they have not made browsing any better. iOS browsing speed is far ahead of what Android offers. To have to install roms on a vanilla Android device by Google to speed up browsing confirms my point. My Nexus is not an old phone by any measure. My 3g iPhone has significantly less lag than my Nexus S. That's a problem. Most people are NOT using roms and don't know or want to even do it. If it can't work by itself, it's BROKE. Why would you attempt to justify a weakness of a product you own?
Do you have any experience with iOS? You would know how bad Android browsing is if you have ever used an iPhone.

I wasn't justifying a weakness for the Nexus. I was just pointing out that you can't say that all Android phones suck at browsing when you couldn't have tested them all. I wasn't referring at the Nexus. For example, on my Desire, the browsing was as smooth as it can get. I have in fact used the iPhone and know that it hasn't got problems, so that's not the point.

opera 11 is the nicest I think. stock browser sux. lets wait for gpu accelerated browsers
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Google hasn't delivered a decent browsing experience. They create android and if the stock browser sucks then it's an android problem. The browser is not some special feature that can excuse these kinds of issues at this point in the development of smartphone software.
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[Q] browser Performance

i just asked myself something and maybe someone could held me out. is there anychance we can hope for a better browser performance for our sensation? as i see the browser of de galaxy2 is hardware accelerated but not of our sensation. And the browser performance on my friends stock samsung galaxy s2 is still far smoother then on our heavily tuned sensation (InsertCoin 2.2.1 ROM for me)
im a bit disappointed of this browser performance

Really? Honest question: what lags for you? I haven't come accross a single webpage that even stutters. I want to try it on my phone.

Bernardos70 said:
Really? Honest question: what lags for you? I haven't come accross a single webpage that even stutters. I want to try it on my phone.
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honest answer:
just try the xda main forum (overview of all phones)
this ist just not acceptable. It laggs like f**king hell. Not all pages lag though. Though i recognize mini stutter and short lags on most of the pages. I really dont like this.
And i must say im always using the desktop view, not the mobile view.
and i cannot understand why a "dualcore" 1.2ghz!!! CPU is not able do render a webpage at 30fps. This lag feels like about 10fps browsing the xda Main Forum.
Even my old ancient pentium2 266mhz notebook is able to handle this page fluid.
Whats going wrong?

I know exactly what you're talking about, and if the Galaxy S2 can do that smoothly, that's awesome. But as far as usability goes, and me coming from a Galaxy S with Cyanogen.... it's way faster.
But I draw the line at usability. I used to go to www.ablogtoread.com often on the Galaxy S just to be completely slaughtered by a near completely lock up. I can browse that fine now.
The hardware acceleration does cause a tangible decrease in battery life as well. That's one side effect. Maybe someone can shed some light on this, maybe there is a hardware accelerated browser down the pipeline? Maybe Cyanogen will come through with that?

It's probably not what you want to read, but have you given Opera a try? It is way smoother than the stock browser, at least a far as rendering/scrolling. If you want to give that a try, get the bigger version of it from the market. I can't speak about the smaller one, but I think it is not as fast or as full featured as its big brother.

Bernardos70 said:
It's probably not what you want to read, but have you given Opera a try? It is way smoother than the stock browser, at least a far as rendering/scrolling. If you want to give that a try, get the bigger version of it from the market. I can't speak about the smaller one, but I think it is not as fast or as full featured as its big brother.
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Everything is very smooth, the UI, scrolling, pinch zoom,... Opera is supposed to be hardware accelerated, probably that's why
Swyped from my HTC Sensation

I think Opera on my Galaxy S 1 was smoother than the stock browser on the Sensation. Now, all browsers are not perfect (in fact, it renders the main page for xda forums very incorrectly and unpleasantly, at least as far as color goes, lol) so see if Opera is right for you.

Bernardos70 said:
I think Opera on my Galaxy S 1 was smoother than the stock browser on the Sensation. Now, all browsers are not perfect (in fact, it renders the main page for xda forums very incorrectly and unpleasantly, at least as far as color goes, lol) so see if Opera is right for you.
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gonna try opera in the next few minutes and try to share experience.
Still i gotta say im using the Dolphin HD browser and not the original browser, this is even worse
tried opera now and i must say that it is really a lot smoother then dolphin! Not as smooth as the sgs2 but near already. Only downside is the slow loading performance when loading other pages. Dont know why but dolphin loads pages almost twice as fast.
Damn couldnt be the two just be combined and we could enjoy a really superb browser
Hope theres still some performance optimations lleft for our device

Bernardos70 said:
It's probably not what you want to read, but have you given Opera a try? It is way smoother than the stock browser, at least a far as rendering/scrolling. If you want to give that a try, get the bigger version of it from the market. I can't speak about the smaller one, but I think it is not as fast or as full featured as its big brother.
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Opera mini is great for gprs
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i mostly never had an issue with browser performance on sensation. may be once in a while i will see some delay in loading the page, but that may be due to spotty t-mobile network.

Opera Mini must be the one I used with my Sony Ericsson s710 then, lol. Ah, the good old days of gprs.

lag/scrolling on xda forums

Does any on suffer with the same thing when scrolling on xda forums? Its like the browser can't keep up and all squares appear for a second or so till it finally settles down. Most other websites are the OK although I have noticed it on other ones too. I've tried dolphin browser too but the same thing happens.

Seems like it happens sometimes, but I use XDA Premium

I get this too- parts of the screen will be blank for a second or two, especially when scrolling from quickly from one end to the other. I have the default set to display 50 posts per page- maybe it might be more responsive with less posts.

Thanks for the reply guys. It does seem better on a post like this which only has a couple of reply. I just wondered why it happens on this site and others are OK

it's not only the amounts of posts, but the ads that are everywhere. so far there is no adblocker for the stock browser and adfree is only for rooted devices. lagfree are xda or tapatalk apps.

Ive found a fix... kind of. Switching the theme to classic in user profiles makes the forums much more usable

Browsers defo need a fix. Ive tried miren - fc if you leave the page, dolphin mini not powerfull enough and jumpy, stock is ok but can just close randomly. Im using dolphin hd which is an improvement but even oc and the custom roms dont remedy it completely but definately much much better.
Can only put it down to a bug. My sgs 2 does the same, my gtab done it until the devs sorted it out.
Classic view certainly is better - cheers for that

scottyf79 said:
Browsers defo need a fix. Ive tried miren - fc if you leave the page, dolphin mini not powerfull enough and jumpy, stock is ok but can just close randomly. Im using dolphin hd which is an improvement but even oc and the custom roms dont remedy it completely but definately much much better.
Can only put it down to a bug. My sgs 2 does the same, my gtab done it until the devs sorted it out.
Classic view certainly is better - cheers for that
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I agree it could do with a fix. Tonight I tried my cousins Ipad 1 and although it wasn't perfect it handled this forum better than our dual core tegra machines do. What was even more annoying was Google maps in street map mode was smoother at looking around than ours. Come on Google sort it out!

rob77 said:
Ive found a fix... kind of. Switching the theme to classic in user profiles makes the forums much more usable
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Yeah, changing the style to "XDA Classic" (bottom left) helps a lot.

rob77 said:
Ive found a fix... kind of. Switching the theme to classic in user profiles makes the forums much more usable
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Yeah, changing the style to "XDA Classic" (bottom left) helps a lot.
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nice find, will give it a try!
scottyf79 said:
Browsers defo need a fix. Ive tried miren - fc if you leave the page, dolphin mini not powerfull enough and jumpy, stock is ok but can just close randomly. Im using dolphin hd which is an improvement but even oc and the custom roms dont remedy it completely but definately much much better.
Can only put it down to a bug. My sgs 2 does the same, my gtab done it until the devs sorted it out.
Classic view certainly is better - cheers for that
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have you tried Dolphin for Pad or whatever it's called? There seems to be a tablet version of Dolphin Browser but if I remember correctly it was still beta. should be on the market though.

I prefer to browse xda using Tapatalk, but if you must use a browser for everything I suggest using Opera Mobile. The scrolling in Opera is a little choppy at times, but I almost never get blank areas on the pages while scrolling.
Bear in mind that much of these issues are due to the fact that most webpages these days have way more content and ads than mobile devices are designed to handle. Web developers need to learn to exercise some restraint and simplify their pages. I say stop visiting websites that are bogging down or crashing your device.

Which browsers are you guys using (For ICS Xoom)

Is Dolphin HD still the preferred method ?
Stock browser?
Chrome? doesn't do Flash though.
What else?

I love ICS Browser+. It is the stock browser with more options and tweaks. You can add a third ring to the Quick Controls. (best thing about stock browser, I never have to do anything but move my finger slightly to control all navigation). It is in the labs section. Quick Controls. On ICS Plus Browser it is just under Quick controls.
I use Dolphin for things still. But in general I have my ICS Browser+ set for PC mode and just use it for almost everything.
--Sent from GlaDos baked potato

I did try Opera and Dolphin but both of those seemed to have issues with the BBC iPlayer. The Dolphin one, for example, would not go full screen. So I have gone back to using the Browser+ as that seems to work fine.

I'm loving Chrome, use it on my xoom, gnex, and all my pcs. The sync function is awesome.

Chrome
Dolphin
Ics browser +
Opera
Overskreen. This one is the best floating browser.
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I've been using the stick browser mostly. It's seems to work well on my Xoom. I'm going to give the ICS Browser + a try though. Just looked at at on the market. Looks nice.

I use Chrome as my main browser, because it syncs bookmarks.
But for the occasional time I need flash on my xoom, I use the stock browser.

Quick ics browser

Quick ICS browser+ is way better than ICS browser+. For pages loading nothing can beat Opera Mini but it doesn't load every images on certain websites so i use quick ics.
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I tried, Opera, Chrome, ICS+, Stock, Boat, Maxthon, but i keep coming back to Dolphin HD. I think that once Chrome is officially released, i might drop Dolphin.

seems im the only one using opera mobile in my ics xoomstock was also nice but opera with sync rocks big time!

This is just the type of thread I was thinking about posting, I never got the chance though. I'm currently using ICS Browser+ but this brings up some questions I've been having. I recently got my Motorola Xoom and I love it!
The reason I'm using ICS Browser+ is because I can change the user agent. Right now I have it set to iPad otherwise pages just load mobile versions. The other question is, is it just me or does Google Chrome on Android stutter and show a lot of white when scrolling quickly?
Chrome also doesn't allow user agent switching and also only loads mobile desktop websites which is kind of surprising and really upsetting. I'm hoping Google changes it to load desktop websites by default.
Any suggestions for a new Xoom user?

Thanks all.. I'm trying out ICS quick browser, it is nice, but wow, one of the biggest reasons IMO for android tablets>Ipads is FLASH.
and the ICS quick browser + doesn't seem to do flash at all..
Meanwhile dolphin HD , seems to do it just fine, but I do like general browsing better on the +
sucks!
And Chrome simply will NEVER support flash, so thats done with too

Chrome+Flashify to redirect all flash content to Browser=THE solution. There simply IS no other solution. I wish Google would just put Flash into Chrome, but it's not their choice seeing as Adobe is Apple's *****.
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Rblacula said:
Chrome+Flashify to redirect all flash content to Browser=THE solution. There simply IS no other solution. I wish Google would just put Flash into Chrome, but it's not their choice seeing as Adobe is Apple's *****.
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YOU DA MAN!! thanks bro!! I love Chrome, but no flash is a deal killer for me, you saved me!!

fastfed said:
YOU DA MAN!! thanks bro!! I love Chrome, but no flash is a deal killer for me, you saved me!!
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Glad I could help!

Im using ICS Browser+ because it has more features than the stock browser. and opera mini because it's as smooth as the iPad's browser.

princenoob said:
Im using ICS Browser+ because it has more features than the stock browser. and opera mini because it's as smooth as the iPad's browser.
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Safari on my Ipad , is dog****.
It's horrible, it freezes, lags and just plain sucks.
Not alone with that problem either.
Every tablet has its issues imo, but so far this thing is rock solid

fastfed said:
Safari on my Ipad , is dog****.
It's horrible, it freezes, lags and just plain sucks.
Not alone with that problem either.
Every tablet has its issues imo, but so far this thing is rock solid
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I've noticed that, too, on my friend's iPad which I occasionally use. Chrome got an update which is (mostly) awesome! Way smoother, and pages load quicker for me! Only bad part is the new icon... In the Play Store it shows as the same, but on actual devices the colouring is faded, fugly, and gringey... I want the old icon back! The red looks pink-ish, purple-ish, and the green is puke green... Yellow is dingey as well. The white gradient is also coming from the left of the top instead of the centre... I'm kinda disgusted by it... It looks better on my Nexus S 4G because SAMOLEDs are oversaturated, but it's still a good 1,000 times more dingey! It's soooo much uglier, but I love its speed...

timrock said:
I think that once Chrome is officially released, i might drop Dolphin.
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Beta releases are effectively official releases in the world of Google.