Is it just me or does the ICS browser suck?
I installed chrome, but it has the same issue where it takes awhile for it to be responsive.
ICS+ browser is a bit better, but not leaps and bounds.
Dolphin is ok, certainly better than above. Still doesn't feel very responsive or fluid though.
Is there any decent tablet browser available?
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Opera mobile labs (I think that's what it's called)
Overskreen
boat browser
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I'm having no love with the browser. Feels like browsing on a 56k modem using some ancient linux distro. I tried all of them, with Maxthon being the fastest. Unfortunately Maxthon became unstable within a day.
The browser is turning into a dealbreaker. Maybe my expectations were too high.
please tell me that they fix this!! a quadcore and browser cant run smooth?!?
i'm using chrome and dolphin HD and it seems to be working fine. why would you all use stock browser anyways?
From what i've read, the browser is handled using the Tegra 3's "companion core."
Because it's clocked at such a slow speed, it has some lag.
I have been using Dolphin on both my TF300 and TF101. I really can't tell any difference in the time is takes to load a page on both tablets.
I have tried other browsers but keep coming back to Dolphin.
amcplus5 said:
I have been using Dolphin on both my TF300 and TF101. I really can't tell any difference in the time is takes to load a page on both tablets.
I have tried other browsers but keep coming back to Dolphin.
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i just miss not having no-script and adblock. firefox does have adblock for their mobile browser but firefox runs so slow on this tablet for me.
Totally disappointing experience. Browsing is a nightmare on my tf300t device. it's slightly better than tegra 2 devices (acer a500 and asus tf100), however still not ready for prime time.
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Totally disappointing experience. Browsing is a nightmare on my tf300t device. it's slightly better than tegra 2 devices (acer a500 and asus tf100), however still not ready for prime time.
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Why? Do you think this will improve through updates?
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jblah said:
i'm using chrome and dolphin HD and it seems to be working fine. why would you all use stock browser anyways?
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Safari stock browser is flawless! That's not a good enough reason for me.
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Stock browser is definitely sluggish. Downloaded Dolphin Browser for the first time and it works great, no issues here.
After testing just about every browser available, I have found that Dolphin and ICS Browser+ are the best options for me.
There is still an occasional lag when loading a new page where all input is ignored for upto 3+ seconds.
Flash in dolphin plays fine, but you cannot go full screen, then it crashes.
I and many others have same problem on prime (tf201)
and the whole tab isjust freaking slow.
I believe it's definitely asus crapware and maybe bad tegra3 optimization from asus.
as far as I know, htc one x (also tegra3) runs browsers just fine.
hell, my amaze 4g (dualcore s3 snapdragon) is just flying on ICS... while prime is dragging its tail
I'm freaking disappointed with asus... I really thought this will be my mobile workhores... but ist a piece of crap
Opera mobile runs flawless for me. My prime performance is great. no lag at all. UI super fluid & browser scrolling super fluid. I can't speak for some but me along with others have primes that work great.
Browser issues and other things are very well documented across majority of different devices on ICS. so not an Asus specific issue.
don't believe the hype. lol
I use the Chrome beta. Turn off page preloading and it runs fairly smooth. I'll give Opera Mobile a try later on, though; I like Opera on my desktop.
Just ran my TF300 through Vellamo. It scored pretty much exactly where you'd expect: slightly worse than the Prime, but better than most anything else. So, if a web benchmark is saying our device is great on the web... the issue must lie somewhere else, e.g. slow cache speeds (hypothetical idea)
I like Dolphin, but it occasionally crashes when I have multiple tabs open. However, when you reopen Dolphin, it forgets all the tabs that you had open just before the crash. Is there any way to fix that?
Mx browser no problems at all.....
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am using opera next, very fast and stable,
I have the tweak script and am oc @1.5 ghz
but still on 1 ghz and 1.2 it goes fast.
stock browser is good too thou...
I've installed dolphin and it works great, only thing I'm missingis is search on the site. If it's a big site I would like to search on a word on it! Someone knows how o do it on dolphins??
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I'm really really close to convincing myself to get a Xoom over an iPad 2, but what I'm really concerned with at the moment is how smooth Honeycomb is on the Xoom. Does it lag or stutter, maybe with a lot of widgets open? Does it slow down significantly with a lot of apps open and so forth?
Basically, how smooth is it compared to the iPad or iPad 2?
I find it very fluid. The only issue is typing lag, which can be very annoying. However, if you like to root and over clock, this is resolved by the new kernels - Tiamat and Launchpad TDR. This thing Xooomssss when over clocked.
I have not compared it to an Ipad 2.
I don think it's as fluid when scrolling from screen to screen as the ipad is. It's just as fast overall in terms of load times and stuff, but the ipad really excels at being very smooth.
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I don think it's as fluid when scrolling from screen to screen as the ipad is. It's just as fast overall in terms of load times and stuff, but the ipad really excels at being very smooth.
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IMHO it will only get smoother and smoother, now to the op, if you have an android phone it is pretty similar.
Very smoothh
It's cool. You have to understand that the iPad is smoother because it's just loading icons.
The Xoom loads way more things depending on the user. The scrolling is fast for me and doesn't lag. You will however see faster response from the iPad because it doesn't have anything intensive to load. Hope I explained it right.
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It's cool. You have to understand that the iPad is smoother because it's just loading icons.
The Xoom loads way more things depending on the user. The scrolling is fast for me and doesn't lag. You will however see faster response from the iPad because it doesn't have anything intensive to load. Hope I explained it right.
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True. The Honeycomb UI is probably requires more processing power. Some slight lag or juddering won't really be a dealbreaker for me though.
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I find it very fluid. The only issue is typing lag, which can be very annoying. However, if you like to root and over clock, this is resolved by the new kernels - Tiamat and Launchpad TDR. This thing Xooomssss when over clocked.
I have not compared it to an Ipad 2.
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Good to bear in mind. For me, Android without rooting is like buying a Skyline GT-R and not tuning it. It's good, and it will get you where you want to go, but it's not all it can be.
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IMHO it will only get smoother and smoother, now to the op, if you have an android phone it is pretty similar.
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Thanks. I've had the Nexus One, and now I use a Desire Z. Both are smooth, but sometimes a little lag comes out of nowhere. But it's tolerable, so no dealbreaker.
Of course, my Desire Z is overclocked to 1.4GHz, so it's silky smooth XD
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I would say it is as SMOOTH as the iPad. Where it falls down a bit it on responsiveness. As several people have already posted Android is doing a whole lot more on the desktop than iOS is which accounts for a lot.
When you go screen to screen in the default Xoom launcher it moves buttery smooth, but a bit slowly for my tastes. Therefore I installed ADW EX as my launcher and turned up the screen transition time to maximum speed. Now it is smooth AND responsive.
Just got mine yesterday. I'm amazed at how sensitive it truly is. It's just as sensitive as any iPad i've ever fooled with.
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Has anyone figured why they crash? My dolphins does sometime, of course stock does, and firefox.
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ATK was killing my browsers until I excluded them.
I Have the same problem for a month now
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I´m using Opera Mobile on my TF101 + TF101G + SGS2.
On the two Tablets Opera is crashing sometimes (specially if you surf with 2,3 tabs simultaneously), meanwhile on my SGS2 I´ve never had any crashes (using it the same way). I even have the same Bookmarks/Passwords/Speeddial).
So I think that the problem isn´t Opera itself, but our Transformers who have some problems in this area. Or does all Honeycomb devices have this problem?
Maybe it's an old topic but, my browser crash sometimes. When i had KRAKD 1.4.3 on it, it never crashed (for a few weeks).
When i want to go back to Revolver (3.11) with a FULL wipe, it crashed a few times a week. I think its related to the Kernel named Pandatest @ 1.5 Ghz. That's the disadvantage. But the advatage is: The 3D performance was improved by a little.
My single core Xperia play is pretty much on par in terms of internet speed compared to this quad core tegra 3 tablet and it sometimes even loads slightly faster on my xperia play. Why is this and is it normal behaviour? They are both still fast but i would expect my tablet to kinda smoke my xperia play.
Thanks
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My single core Xperia play is pretty much on par in terms of internet speed compared to this quad core tegra 3 tablet and it sometimes even loads slightly faster on my xperia play. Why is this and is it normal behaviour? They are both still fast but i would expect my tablet to kinda smoke my xperia play.
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The firmware is probably not even close to finished yet (ie there are various bugs who will be fixed either by Asus or the community (us)).
You can try browser2ram ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25286407#post25286407 ) and see if it makes a big difference (it should).
Note that your browser history and settings may not (as in maybe) be saved while in a browser session with browser2ram installed (if your tablet crashes and/or you use a task killer and reboot/power down and/or other stuff).
(I haven't tried it, btw. I will when I get the urge)
I'm unrooted on both devices so can't use browser2ram. Thanks for the suggestion though
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Other simple reasons for your differences are......You are comparing smaller screen with larger screen ...page rendering will be different size 50 KB vs 150 KB etc..similarly web browser may be different ...opera mobile (which renders pages faster) on phone vs stock browser on tab etc..
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I think it pretty much comes down to internet speed being the bottleneck. I think both devices have pretty good wi-fi chips and can browse at same speeds, but rendering on the phone would be less resource intensive since its a smaller screen and all..
It seems that my infinity is lagging some times, its inconsistent and I get "XXX is not responding"quite often and then close or wait, and when I connect the dock it happends even more often, and balanced mode seems to give better benchmark results than performance same story in games, this didn't happend on my prime but it did happend on tf300(I got the prime in February and returned it because the camera broke and I got the tf300 1 week Go and returned that as well for getting stuck really often)
This isn't so much a hardware problem but software look at Acer iconia tab a700 yes it is slower because of t30(infinity runs on t33) but it is consistent unlike the tf300 and 700 so Asus plz fix
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I'm getting some lag when its installing, updating or generally multitasking.
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There are believed to be I/O issues in the Infinity (and all Transformers for that matter). Using custom I/O scheduler after rooting seems to speed things up for those who did it, but doesn't remove the delays while installing apps etc. Actually, I believe this is pretty typical to Android devices, but I haven't used other high-end tablets, so can't compare with these.
My gnexus seemed to be fairly laggy on ics but jb seems to fix everything, and I don't seem t have any problems with multitasking
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Run it on balanced guys lags much much less
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Yeah. Same result here. Shure its io problems.
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My gnexus seemed to be fairly laggy on ics but jb seems to fix everything, and I don't seem t have any problems with multitasking
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Well, I hope they shove JB out of the door soon, then. I love my TF700, but the I/O issues are a bit frustrating, since they actually lock up the device entirely. Hope they can patch it out, or that the ROM chefs in here can work their magic and kill the bug.
In reference to the OP statement about the Iconia A700's upposed fluidity: I've see several reviews chastizing the A700 for not being able to fluidly play HD video. The choppyness is clearly demonstrated in quite a few video reviews, as well. (I'm not saying that I/O is at fault in that case as well -- it might be the Tegra 3 chip having issues pushing all these pixels. Who will tell?)
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Well, I hope they shove JB out of the door soon, then. I love my TF700, but the I/O issues are a bit frustrating, since they actually lock up the device entirely. Hope they can patch it out, or that the ROM chefs in here can work their magic and kill the bug.
In reference to the OP statement about the Iconia A700's upposed fluidity: I've see several reviews chastizing the A700 for not being able to fluidly play HD video. The choppyness is clearly demonstrated in quite a few video reviews, as well. (I'm not saying that I/O is at fault in that case as well -- it might be the Tegra 3 chip having issues pushing all these pixels. Who will tell?)
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The tf700 runs smoothly 1080p files, it may be because of the new t33, and you can see a major difference between the fluidity of the a700 and tf700
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Guys if you have problems with the browser , dolphin HD runs better than everything else out there.. really smooth
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Guys if you have problems with the browser , dolphin HD runs better than everything else out there.. really smooth
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Chrome man....runs smooth on my Bionic's leaked ICS update. I'm sure it will run great on the TF700
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Chrome man....runs smooth on my Bionic's leaked ICS update. I'm sure it will run great on the TF700
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Dolphin HD runs slightly better and chrome is not hardware accelerated for some reason
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Dolphin HD runs slightly better and chrome is not hardware accelerated for some reason
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Confirmed. It is faster than Chrome, thanks for mentioning it! I've seen it in the Market before, but I thought that Chrome beats everything just as on PC. Couldn't have been more wrong. I had no idea that Chrome did not support H/W accel.! What a shame.
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Confirmed. It is faster than Chrome, thanks for mentioning it! I've seen it in the Market before, but I thought that Chrome beats everything just as on PC. Couldn't have been more wrong. I had no idea that Chrome did not support H/W accel.! What a shame.
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Chrome does support H/W acceleration...strange that it doesn't work on the Infinity? It works just fine on my Bionic....
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Chrome does support H/W acceleration...strange that it doesn't work on the Infinity? It works just fine on my Bionic....
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Yes I know on my galaxy nexus chrome is H/W accelerated but I flashed jelly bean so the stock browser is very very smooth so I use the stock instead
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Confirmed. It is faster than Chrome, thanks for mentioning it! I've seen it in the Market before, but I thought that Chrome beats everything just as on PC. Couldn't have been more wrong. I had no idea that Chrome did not support H/W accel.! What a shame.
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Glad to help and you also don't get those "browser is not responding"
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Yes I know on my galaxy nexus chrome is H/W accelerated but I flashed jelly bean so the stock browser is very very smooth so I use the stock instead
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This is interesting, as it is said to be the other way around with the device's speed here (but perhaps, on the other hand, browser doesn't depend on I/O so much):
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...hmark-11-modern-devices-compared-in-13-tests/
Have you tested any of these before and now?
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This is interesting, as it is said to be the other way around with the device's speed here (but perhaps, on the other hand, browser doesn't depend on I/O so much):
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...hmark-11-modern-devices-compared-in-13-tests/
Have you tested any of these before and now?
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Hmmm this seems rather odd to see ics crush jb but in jb I do get some really poor benchmarks, on antutu I get 3943 I get a lower score on the CPU compared to ics but that's fine because the os is much more polished
, there is literally no lag in the graphics I compared it to the iPhone 4s and iPad 3 and believe it or not jb is slightly smother in basic os operations and its also faster when opening apps oh and in vellamo I get ~1500 both on my tf700 and jelly beaned nexus which is quite impressive for a 8 month+ phone,
One more thing worth noticing is that on dolphin(tf700) I get I lower browsermark score compared to the stock browser,
But hey in the end those are just numbers and jb is a much smoother is that ics and dolphin runs in the tf700 better than stock
I may post a video just to show you how smooth jelly bean is
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Hmmm this seems rather odd to see ics crush jb but in jb I do get some really poor benchmarks, on antutu I get 3943 I get a lower score on the CPU compared to ics but that's fine because the os is much more polished
, there is literally no lag in the graphics I compared it to the iPhone 4s and iPad 3 and believe it or not jb is slightly smother in basic os operations and its also faster when opening apps oh and in vellamo I get ~1500 both on my tf700 and jelly beaned nexus which is quite impressive for a 8 month+ phone,
One more thing worth noticing is that on dolphin(tf700) I get I lower browsermark score compared to the stock browser,
But hey in the end those are just numbers and jb is a much smoother is that ics and dolphin runs in the tf700 better than stock
I may post a video just to show you how smooth jelly bean is
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That's good to hear and actually shows how much more we should focus on everyday performance rather than benchmarks.
A video would be pretty cool, but I'd prefer one showing JB running on your Infinity ;D
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Yes I know on my galaxy nexus chrome is H/W accelerated but I flashed jelly bean so the stock browser is very very smooth so I use the stock instead
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The stock browser on Jelly Bean is Chrome...
KilerG said:
The stock browser on Jelly Bean is Chrome...
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No chrome is not stock, maybe on the nexus 7, but not on galaxy nexus , not just yet
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Hi,
Currently running on omni ROM with closed framework.
My pad is over clocked to 1500MHz, yet this tablet is slow to respond and laggy at best.
Is this something to expect from this kind of tablet or is there a solution for it?
Thanks.
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KatKiss ROM #23
I tried that ROM. The tablet behaves the same...
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Runs super fast for everyone else, something other than the ROM is the problem
Feast and smooth like you see on the latest tablets? (Android or iOS). There is a delay when the keyboard opens, a delay when the screen rotates and when apps are loading
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You just got this tablet or something?
No not as fast as the latest tablets, this is a 3~ year old tablet
Not sure but try some of the 4.3.1 ROMs - I've seen some people write that those actually run better.