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[Q] What Browser is best? and why?

Hi all, I'm new to the android world, with the nexus s being my first android operated phone maybe even my first smart phone, had a Nokia n97 previous although it wasn't quite the smartphone advertised but thats another story.
The title says it all really I'd just like to know what browser you would recomend and why. I used to use opera on the n97 however there wasn't the selection available there is for android. I see dolphin hd pop up alot around the forums.
So please share your favorite browser and you reassons why. e.g speed, UI, customise ect
Cheers for everyone who takes part.

Firefox or Dolphin HD for the add-ons
Opera for speed
Stock browser for all-round

Stock browser for speed (less lag)

I also like the stock browser but I'm also a big fan of xScope Browser.

I usually use the stock because it seems the best all around as one of the above stated but to save pages I use Opera and I've been testing out some others as well

Im really liking the Dolphin mini beta at the moment. I find it quicker than stock and still runs everything perfectly.

For me the stock browser is the best atm :
- Firefox : looks promising, but way too slow for day-to-day use, needs optimizations
- Opera : don't like the rendering, almost impossible to click on links (try browsing Google Reader...), not really faster than stock (with turbo mode off)
- Dolphin / Dolphin HD : too bloated for me

The stock browser has been impressive so far. I haven't run into any problems so far
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The only thing that bothers me in the stock browser is the navigation through open windows. I'd love to have some proper tabbed browsing.
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nicholasbgr said:
The only thing that bothers me in the stock browser is the navigation through open windows. I'd love to have some proper tabbed browsing.
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I've extensively used the stock browser, Opera Mobile, and FireFox (nightlies and latest stable). I primarily use Opera Mobile (not mini) for almost everything because of how ridiculously smooth its pinch zoom and panning is compared to everything else out. To see its advantages, simply go to an image-heavy page like Gizmodo and try panning and zooming on any other browser (the newest FireFox included). To me, its smoother/better user experience is important than the javascript speed advantages in FireFox.
I have run repeated tests on both my N1 and my NS and have found that in SunSpider, the fastest is FireFox by a healthy margin, followed by the stock browser, distantly followed by Opera. However, in my experience, page loading has always been similar across all three, meaning that js speed doesn't factor that much in rendering most pages.
Extensions are a big draw in FireFox, as is Flash in the stock browser, but I find that Opera does everything I need natively. Plus, flash support is supposedly going to be added (as well as to FireFox Mobile).

x scope 6 is solid its fast and all around just great I know its not free but I think its the best one out at the moment until firefox comes out of beta and adds flash it may be king

stock for me.

Dolphin HD has a lot of add-ons that I thought sounded interesting and installed on my Galaxy S and Nexus One, but I never really used any of them, so that's a pointless feature for me. I found Dolphin HD to be bloated and much slower than the stock browser on any of my phones, even without add-ons.
I've kept the NS on stock based on past performance with Dolphin.

seems like I haven't really gave the stock browser the chance it deserves, to be honest dismissed it almost straight away.
Back to stock for me to give it a real test. Although I'm hoping firefox lives up to it's desktop browser standards.
Also quick question which is non related but I don't see the point in starting a new thread. I need to return my phone due to the back button not lighting up. I was just wondering if there is a away to save all my data to when I get my new phone i can put all my data back on. E.g phone numbers, sms msgs photos angry bird progess, music ect.
thanks again for any help.

I prefer the built-in browser for everyday use. I have one website that I get from a real estate broker which has some fancy frames in it that doesn't render correctly in the stock browser, for this site I use Opera mini.

i'm still can't decide which one is best
using (in no special order):
Stock 2.3 Browser
Opera Mobile
Opera Mini
SkyFire
Dolphin HD
FireFox beta
they all have their Cons/Pros
SkyFire was my main Browser until they screwed it up, and now it has become as broadware as Dolphin HD
I like both Dolphin and Skyfire for their Flash & Video support but... they are slow and broad.
FireFox still has much work to be done on it
Opera Mini & Opera Mobile is identical in Android, but in WinMo they were 2 different apps
so it boils down to Stock 2.3 Browser being the fastest, but.. not so great on Flash / Video support

can anyone answer my question on a way to back up all my data as I'm returning my phone tomorrow due to the back button light not working.
Is there away to back up all data, apps, contacts,photos, messages, angry bird progress. live wall papers. Or will i need to start all over again?
Also how can I earse all my data in order to return the phone.
Thanks in advance

[i9003] cant use opera & firefox broswers only dolphin Hd works

I had installed dolphin hd browser & find it the best accept that the developers missing out the most important feature of importing bookmarks from other browser, hence i wanted to test firefox4 mobile & opera 11.
Both browser are painfully slow & will open a page in 2-3 mins , none of them let me log on my rediffmail account, same slowness on other sites don't know what is making these 2 excellent browser so slow.
Is there a way out or these browsers are so slow (I cant believe that) my guess is that something is clashing between these browser so I closed all of them restarted the phone & tested individually but still the same slowness making them useless, where as dolphin hd works like a charm but its again useless as I cant import my bookmarks organized in folder & sub folder into it.

May be the mobile view is turned on in the dolphin browser, hence it loads faster, and the other other browsers opens the whole pages.
Did you try opera 6 mini?

Mobile view is off on all three browsers yet not working. I hope dolphin hd is not blocking them. Opera mini supports importing nested bookmarks?

I have been using Firefox mobile for several days now and it has been a bit faster than the stock browser for me. If you are worried about conflicts with other browsers try uninstalling them, but I doubt that is it.
Are any other network connections, like to the market or email, also running slowly?
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I am on 2g so already slow connection compared to 3g but even then dolphin hd, email market opens up 10-20 sec, but firefox simply refuse to open even in 1 min, it opens may be 3-4 mins which was bothering me hence I downloaded opera & that too is behaving the same way so I am concluding that either something is blocking these 2 added browser bcoz stock browser & dolphin are working fine faster as usual.
Cant figure out what is the issue, I need the bookmark to be imported as they are important part of browsing.

Try out Skyfire 3.0, one the only browser that supports Silverlight.

Opera mini is the Best for Slow Internet connections, or Skyfire on 3G would be my choice..

Which browser do you use?

[Q] Better Web Browser
I'm looking for a web browser for my TF that views pages in actual web form, not as mobile pages.
I think with a screen this size it should be possible, right?
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks

Soopafly Incredible said:
I'm looking for a web browser for my TF that views pages in actual web form, not as mobile pages.
I think with a screen this size it should be possible, right?
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks
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Skyfire has a desktop mode.
~DC

I use Dolphin, can set user-agent to Desktop.

Some people have suggested Dolphin HD as good replacement for the stock browser. I'm just not clear about your problem? My stock browser displays the webpages as my PC browser would. You can check Settings|Advanced and User agent string.
Hope this helps,
rio

I'm using Dolphin HD and like it better than the stock one.
~DC

I guess maybe I'm missing some steps, or haven't tried a few of them that you've mentioned. Just noticed that in my firefox browser (and also the stock browser) all of the pages (MSN, Facebook) are showing up in their mobile forms.
I'll try a couple of those you mentioned and see if I can find them...Thanks!

try Firefox

rio911 said:
My stock browser displays the webpages as my PC browser would. You can check Settings|Advanced and User agent string.
Hope this helps,
rio
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Do this to stop getting mobile versions!

rio911 said:
Some people have suggested Dolphin HD as good replacement for the stock browser. I'm just not clear about your problem? My stock browser displays the webpages as my PC browser would. You can check Settings|Advanced and User agent string.
Hope this helps,
rio
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Now we just need hulu to acknowledge this!

Dolphin HD
This should be a poll
If you get ADW EX you can adjust the standard (useless) browser widget to 2 columns by 7 rows (looks a lot better), then when you first click on a thumbnail it asks you which browser you wish to use, click your preffered item then you have a custon full size browser of choice widget.

Lately I have been experimenting with different browsers because I am not happy with the stock browser on Honeycomb because it seems to have a lot of issues and slow performance when rendering. I know that a lot of people have been recommending Dolphin Browser HD, and I have tried that alongside Mozilla Firefox. Which browser is everyone else using on their Transformer and how do you like it?
The thing I miss most about the stock browser is the sync with your google chrome bookmarks, so if anyone can suggest how to get that to work with Dolphin Browser or Mozilla, I would appreciate it. Mozilla seems to have the best rendering speed out of the two, however, Dolphin seems to have more features and a better overall interface. Both Dolphin and the stock browser have problems rendering this forum, but Mozilla seems to do it with ease. However, it doesn't seem as though Mozilla is proportioned right for Tablet use yet.
I guess each of the has their positives and negatives, which is why I want to see what everyone else is using and their thoughts.

I use all of them because I don't like any of them. Every one has some problems. The best is probably the stock one, but it doesn't have adblock and when I turn on flash some pages turn into literally hell because of ads. Firefox on the other hand is fast but has very few options and scales images very poorly (this forum looks ugly on it for example). Opera is strange (especcialy the tabs are strange). Dolphin looks like a bloatware.
I hope to see full desktop browser on Android some time. With extensions and such (Firefox mobile extensions are laughable, even adblock doesn't have any options).

to me the stock browser seems more and more like chrome...is it just me?

All Android browsers are really inferior... Right now I go back and forth between stock and Firefox... Don't like either...

stock is as fluid as it gets

I tried Dolphin... but to be frank, it definitely does seem like bloatware. Its overall pretty awful. I keep it installed just because I use it for some websites that the stock one doesn't work properly. But thats rare. And I don't care for it.
People keep saying that Dolphin is "optimised for honeycomb" but I really don't think so. If it were, it'd run a crap ton better.
I use stock. It doesnt always work perfect, and it has its flaws for sure, but its pretty darn fluid, the tabs work great, and its just a clean looking browser.

Stock for browsing and firefox for downloading .zip files
would prefer opera as its my desktop browser of choice but its just terrible atm on android

re browser's
I,d really like to like the stock browser, or dolphin (my usual favourite), but the opera mobile seems currently the only one that has that ipad floaty feel to scrolling. Why cant the others do this?

Dolphin hd beta 5 is awesome

Firefox with adblock is sweet. For watching Flash websites, I use stock or dolphin hd. I like opera too. I guess I will be using all of them as I see fit. That's what I like about android.

Javascript making some website to stutter

Hi,
I have experienced some extreme stutter on some website because of Javascript poor implementation in the stock browser (and also in every Webkit browser like Dolphin HD)
for example accessing the next website (which is a very familiar website and works great on my PC has this issues): http://www.techradar.com/
As soon as I disable JS in the browser settings the scrolling start working great as usuall.
I have also ran Javascript Sunspider test and received a result of 2246ms where in my PC I have received a result of 296ms!
Does anybody else also has this issue and maybe knows how to solve it?
Thank you.

I have not tried this but using Opera may help. They have always been know for having a fast JS engine on the PC anyway.

JS has been known to cause problems with the browsers, it was the reason why they would randomly exit (not FC, just exit). I was extremely surprised to see how much faster web browsing was with JS disabled in Dolphin, but sadly we need it for most websites and there's no way around it that I'm aware of.

I have to say that when I did check the same websites in Opera I didnt experienced any stuttering so I guess that JS issues could be solved one day.
The problem is that I find Opera inferior when comparing it to Dolphin for Pad or when comparing it even to the stock browser.
Wish I could find an all-in-one browser which just would work good and I would not have to switch between browsers when opening particular websites

dimako83 said:
I have to say that when I did check the same websites in Opera I didnt experienced any stuttering so I guess that JS issues could be solved one day.
The problem is that I find Opera inferior when comparing it to Dolphin for Pad or when comparing it even to the stock browser.
Wish I could find an all-in-one browser which just would work good and I would not have to switch between browsers when opening particular websites
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Maybe once firefox fully release thier android browser?
Also if you end up using Dolphin try out the Dolphin for Pad beta. It is the dolphin hd browser but made for tablets. Some people are saying it runs better than the dolphin hd so maybe it is made for tegra devices.

Firefox just looks bad. Its picture rendering abilities is awful.
I am currently using Dolphin for Pad and its a great browser but its based on the same Webkit engine so the same JS problems are still there.
Anyway I have found a way to quickly switch between browsers which helps a little. There is an app in the market called "Browser Switch" - so you can configure that when you click on share in Dolphin for Pad and choose browser switch it immediately opens opera(which does not has Webkit's JS issues) with the requested URL

You think that site is bad...try some Gizmodo's. You can switch to blog view on the main page, but if you click on to another link it reverts to their top story format.silly tablet barely works.
dimako83 said:
Hi,
I have experienced some extreme stutter on some website because of Javascript poor implementation in the stock browser (and also in every Webkit browser like Dolphin HD)
for example accessing the next website (which is a very familiar website and works great on my PC has this issues): http://www.techradar.com/
As soon as I disable JS in the browser settings the scrolling start working great as usuall.
I have also ran Javascript Sunspider test and received a result of 2246ms where in my PC I have received a result of 296ms!
Does anybody else also has this issue and maybe knows how to solve it?
Thank you.
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[Q] GB browser that get along with sites with troubled ssl.. that tops Opera Mobile

hello guys, I wanna ask you about android gingerbread browser (not specifically for GB, but that runs well) that can browse and download on secure sites with troubled ssl certificates. but I maybe also gonna discuss about opera mobile a lot.
I've tried a bunch of top notch browsers, and Opera Mobile happen to be the closest to perfection.
on the first attempt most browsers fail to load the site, it just trying to load all the time. like trying to do something that they don't know how to do it.
for smarter browsers that notice the problematic certificate, it prompt an action and allow us to browse. but not with downloading. it seems like it only use the ssl-notice-and-allow intelligence to browse and left behind the downloading part. make it looks like a smart-stupid split personality for browse-download activity.
for firefox : F***ING LAG, don't bother trying.
On the other hand Opera Mobile use the intelligence for both activities. if not because of the utter crap download manager, the browser could be the best.
Opera, while developing some of their apps for android all this time, they still have no idea on how the download manager works on android. maybe they still stuck on java j2me environtment mindset.
They have NO DOWNLOAD NOTIFICATION for all of their apps. they also unaware of the android system's slaughtering for apps that running in the background. So when we downloading some files then we leave it for some while, when we go back to the apps there are 3 possibilities :
1 - the download still running good, lucky you
2 - the download interrupted and fail, this will likely to happen
3 - the apps killed and reloaded with failed download, the only special abilities that Opera apps have
The hell? How could I enjoy my multitasking device with these conditions?
any suggestions for good browser out there?
check with downloading idm from this link:
https://ssl-proxy.my-addr.org/myaddrproxy.php/http/mirror2.internetdownloadmanager.com/idman615.exe
tried apps :
uc browser
uc browser mini
dolphin browser
dolphin browser mini
maxthon browser
maxthon browser mini
miren browser
one browser
ninesky browser