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I downloaded dolphin browser HD from the market last night to give it a try. I wanted to see if it would make the browsing even smoother and faster than it already is on frf91, or run flash better or something. I don't notice anything different. I understand that it has a lot of great features like gestures, tabs, add ons that the regular browser doesn't. But as far as just the performance of page loading or scrolling or anything, do you guys see any difference? What do you like about it?
Lol you answered it in your own post.. It's about the extra features it has
Right I was just wondering if people saw a performance increase in certain types of pages or something. Or if anyone was noticing speed increases.
I don't see any improvements whatsoever with speed. For Dolphin, I have a bunch of gestures set up that makes my lift a lot easier by having a shortcut to "select text".
I guess the only other thing that helps is the convenient access to wipe history and cache. You can also set it to private browsing mode so it never remembers history.
I like being able to exit/close the browser
I have noticed a few features that make Dolphin browser great.
First is the UAs (user agent settings) can be set to desktop client always. I hate going to about:debug every single time on the N1 stock browser. The MT3GS has a stock browser with UAs options in the stock settings. Not having that, after already having it in a stock browser is just annoying.
Downloading is much more efficient with Dolphin for me. I have been able to get everything posted on xda through rapidshare and others. If I am about to download something on my computer, I chrome to phone the link, and use dolphin to download it and astro to move it to the root.
Text clarity is much better on Dolphin. This was especially noticeable when reading text sites, like the news.
The flash player is on Demand, which is annoying when your first testing it out, but I have grown to love that feature. Especially when a lot of sites are fattened up with flash advertisements and useless widgets all over the place. News sites are the worst of all. Even when your in an EDGE only zone a news story should load fine, but an animated advertisement loading in the middle of the page will slow you down.
Downside. I can't seem to establish a secure connection when attempting to connect to a website using verisign to verify the secure connection. I don't know if it is the secure connection that isn't working or the verification? I emailed Dolphin, maybe they will tell me.
I use Dolphin primarily, but the great thing about Android is that you can run both of them, or either of them whenever you please. Getting the best of both worlds.
What I like the most is the simple refresh and stop button next to the address bar
I just wish it had a better theme...the theme tries to be too flashy and the additional themes are equally as gaudy...a simple stock browser theme (same tabs and buttons and whatnot but with the stock android theme styling) would be great...oh well.
Just so I know, dolphin browser uses the default webkit browser core, correct? And it just basically is like the default browser with different settings, UI, and "skin" overtop of the default browser.
no one uses xscope?
dmo580 said:
no one uses xscope?
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Only for downloading files that Dolphin Browser seems to not want to download...
Skyfire 2.1 has improved alot. Its fast, the multi touch is better than it was with 2.0, and its flash player works much better than before. I use this when browsing casually (not logging in anywhere.) Love to watch worldstarhiphop videos with it cause flash 10.1 performance sucks on that site.
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i use xscope. although i like that dolphin has ability to sync bookmarks
Nope, stopped using Dolphin HD for a couple reasons:
1) It has tabs, which is awesome, but it's a little too complicated to reach them compared to the old dolphin. I liked being able to swipe down to bring down the bar.
2) It's buggy as hell. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it about three times now. Sometimes it doesn't register my clicks, sometimes it brings about the crazy screen problem, and sometimes it just doesn't try to load my pages.
I just wish the stock android browser had tabs implemented.
Xscope has 0 bugs and its fast
The ability for fullscreen mode. That's most important to me as I don't want the notification bar to waste space and to prevent further lcd screen burn in for my N1.
Although that feature is broken in the recent version but a fix is coming.
kolyan said:
Xscope has 0 bugs and its fast
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Fast yes. Zero bugs? No... it doesn't do text reflow on XDA forums properly vs. Dolphin.
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no one uses xscope?
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I do. Downloaded X-Scope and Dolphin the same day. There was something Dolphin did that I did not like, but can't remember what it was. But it was often enough it annoyed me. Never had an issue with X-Scope
Love xscope lite. Looks great, great features. many people don't know this but you can set up Flash to run automatically vs. "on demand"
I wasn't sure if all the browser improvements on 2.2 were just for the stock browser but doesn't seem anyone has noticed a difference in speed between stock and alternatives.
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Fast yes. Zero bugs? No... it doesn't do text reflow on XDA forums properly vs. Dolphin.
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Not sure what you mean by text reflow, but I set it to "wide" in one of the settings and it made the xda forums look exactly the same as dolphin/stock browser.
Anyone using XSCOPE on the EVO? I have been a big fan of MIREN BROWSER but now found XSCOPE 6. I cant decide which one I like better.. any thoughts?
I think that miren is faster
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adrycast said:
I think that miren is faster
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Well, Ive been playing with both and I cant decide which one is faster on my EVO.. hmmm...
I prefer Xscope on my N1, because some websites (my stupid bank, for example) don't work unless they see "iphone" as the UA string.
Xscope allows you to set specific bookmarks to use a custom UA string, whilst allowing you to leave the default as "Android".
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I prefer Xscope on my N1, because some websites (my stupid bank, for example) don't work unless they see "iphone" as the UA string.
Xscope allows you to set specific bookmarks to use a custom UA string, whilst allowing you to leave the default as "Android".
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Where do you do this?
I've been defaulting to Miren because I like how it renders pages (particularly how it fits frames/tables and such to fit the screen) vs. XScopes algorithm for doing the same.
On the other hand, Miren's bookmarking system is (in my opinion) seriously in need of an overhaul. First, you have to press the menu button to get the address bar and only then can you press the star icon (for creating a bookmark) and once you do, you have no initial option to name the bookmark! Miren just takes the page title and uses that automatically.
Worse yet, once you have the bookmark and manually change the title, at some point it seems Miren does some kind of auto-update on the names and REVERTS the bookmark names back to the page titles.
Luckily for Miren, I like how it renders pages enough to get passed that bookmark "feature".
If you have not already read the XScope manual in full, be sure to give it a read. It's not lenghty and straight forward.
Once I read that and learned all that XScope can do that I didn't even know about, I didn't want to switch to anything else. But that does not detail things like changing the User Agent of the browser to iPhone or iPad in cases where you might need to do that. It also does not detail how the browser handles video and makes it easy to send an online video into full screen viewing mode. Just long press on the video, a box appears in the left corner, press it and the video is in full screen mode.
Also, take a look into XScope's settings within the app and see if other browsers offer so many options.
To change the browser's Agent setting, just go into Settings and in the "Web page" section there is a "User agent" value that can be changed to "computer", "Android", "iPhone" or "iPad".
To get into Settings, press the circle with a downward triangle in it, then press the icon that looks like a hammer and wrench.
In xscope 6, is there a way to open videos from youtube in the actual YOUTUBE APP? in MIREN, I go to youtube.com, click on a video and it then asks me what I want to complete the action with. I tell it YOUTUBE APP and it formats the video correctly. Any way to do this in XSCOPE?
funny
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funny
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You Do Realize you've bumped a Thread thats over a Year Old right?
So, I've got my TB and have installed an earlier version of Swype (Evo).
I love that swype works great, except for the auto space with the stock SMS (Handcent FTW).
I've tried Dolphin Mini/HD, FF and Miren. I gotta say that I'm loving Miren, but because Swype auto space doesn't work at all, I'm back to the stock browser.
One of the things I love is being able to just type in search words in the browser bar, but I have having to erase the "http://www." everytime in the stock browser.
For example, if I want to search for "amsterdam", I go to the top, touch the browser bar, and see that everything is highlighted...EXCEPT for the "http://www."
So I need to manually delete/clear out the "http://www.", then go back and swype "amsterdam" to search from the bar.
Is there anyway to have the stock browser take out the "http://www." on the Thunderbolt as a default?
p.s. does Miren support swype auto space...if so, how?
I know what you're talking about and it's really annoying. On the Droid X, the browser would just clear out the whole bar. On the TB, i have forced myself into the habit of pressing the search button in browser when I want to search for something.
I must say I like the HTC browser much more than the Moto one, but the way it fills in http:// is just annoying as all hell.
I noticed that http bug in the stock browser as well. I'm sure it will get addressed soon (pardon the pun derp I couldn't help it.) As far as browsers not auto-spacing that's because those browsers use the address bar both for searching and for URLs, and there's no way for your keyboard know which one you are typing. I've been using opera for a while now, it's super fast since it's the only browser that uses hardware acceleration at this point, plus it has a separate address bar and search bar. Give it a try, you'll probably like it.
I don't think my browser does that. Then again if I'm going to do a search while in the browser I just hit the search button.
with the browser open, just tap the search soft key
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I would rather leave it the way it is. I think they actually put a lot of thought into how this works and intended it to be that way. It assumes that if you're tapping the address bar you wanna type an address. How annoying would it be if you had to type the http..... every time. Just use the search button.
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I would rather they bloody ask.. IE made options for that crap.
Check out the extra settings in the browser. It might be in there I would check for you but I don't have time. But I can direct you where to look. Go to browser> type in the url about:debug > hit enter or go whichever. It shouldn't do anything to the page but what will happen is if you hit menu> more> settings. It will give you much more edit menus. Give it a try.
Download and instal the aosp browser add on in the teslacoil rom thread, bak in the happiness!
Do you like this feature? Or do you have it disabled?
here's the FIRST poll: Are you staying on KitKat?
Turned it off
Turned it off as well.
Disabled for sure.. Idiotic idea to begin with!
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Yes turned it off... didnt like it
At first (in the DPs, with Chrome Beta) I kept it off because I liked to switch among the tabs and close them using the gestures, but since the final 5.0 was released, I got used to have different windows for different tabs, and I really like the fact that you can manage the tabs directly from the multitasking view, without having to actually open the app.
Anyway, I don't think "it's great", but it's not as bad as it looks before one gets used to it
I dont like it at all it just makes browsing much more complicated so i turned it off
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rogi19 said:
I dont like it at all it just makes browsing much more complicated so i turned it off
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exactly
stupid feature to incorporate!
The only matter for me is with merged apps and tabs you can't find how many tabs you already open.
Yes I turned it of because can't see tab count and it is not useful for adding new tabs
Turned it off , stupid idea...
I'm not sure it's great, but I use it so that I don't have to open Chrome up to manage my tabs.
"Useful" I think is how I'd describe it.
Why did google scrap the swipe to side to switch tabs anyway? They had it originally when chrome came out, now you have to swipe the address bar, dont feel like swiping with my thumb at the top of the screen. This is the only reason im not using chrome, opera has some handy buttons at the bottom for navigation.
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Why did google scrap the swipe to side to switch tabs anyway? They had it originally when chrome came out, now you have to swipe the address bar, dont feel like swiping with my thumb at the top of the screen. This is the only reason im not using chrome, opera has some handy buttons at the bottom for navigation.
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why do you think?
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The only matter for me is with merged apps and tabs you can't find how many tabs you already open.
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Exactly, with the recent tabs I have no idea how many tabs I have open. I was shocked when I switch it off and I have 20 tabs open wth. Also they really need to put a clear all or something on the recent apps, when the list gets too long it becomes kind of useless.
At first I thought it was a good idea. But then i got so used to the tab icon on old versions of chrome that I would sometimes press it even though its not there. Then I got annoyed that if you had many tabs, its not gonna show all the tabs in a row, sometimes you have to scroll thru other processed apps
Disabled!
If the recents / app switcher was not subject to the lag it has right now, (which is really disappointing when compared to 4.4.4's ease of window switching) it would be a substantial improvement. As it stands, there's just nothing that makes me want to see tabs displayed that way.
Didn't even know we had an option to do so. Turned it off right away.
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I look at the edge and think why is that border not used for switching open apps or tabbed browsing on a browser. Wish I knew how to code....
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I look at the edge and think why is that border not used for switching open apps or tabbed browsing on a browser. Wish I knew how to code....
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There is a panel available for recent apps, and although there isn't one for browser tabs, there is one for browser bookmarks which works pretty well.
Good to know. That's pretty cool. Waiting on mine.
You always have the lower left hand button on the phone for recent apps. I feel it's a nice improvement over the Note 3. I really like your idea of a tabbed drowsing bar. Seems lime a very natural fit for the edge.
Not sure i fully understand what your saying.
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There is the recent app button. That works for switching between open apps.
Then when your using the browser. If you just scroll down the menu will open and you can hit the Tab button and have mutli windows open.
Also there was a user that made a panel for recent apps and task manager.