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Has the browser lag been fixed?

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/22/google.pushes.first.nexus.s.firmware.update/
So apparently the first update for the nexus s. 2.3.1 was suppose to address the browser lag.
I've been creeping the Nexus s forum for a bit now and was wondering if the browser is as smooth as the galaxy s.
It seams like the browser when compared to the Atrix(had and returned) is a bit smoother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm3BJ2vKpGM
What are you guys experiencing right now?

The Galaxy S browser is special, it's hardware accelerated. The NS one isn't, and thus isn't as smooth.

Do you think Google will release the same update down the road? Have they acknowledged this problem yet?

There's alternative browsers such as Dolphin Browser HD. They work fine... at least for me.

It honestly does not make sense that Google would not address the browser lag. I hope it gets addressed asap cause I love going on worldstarhiphop
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zephiK said:
There's alternative browsers such as Dolphin Browser HD. They work fine... at least for me.
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Even with dolphin HD it lags. It even lags on the market website when you have the app screenshot on the page, how ironic...
The thread about black wallpapers here is impossible to scroll with NS. Disappointing and unacceptable.

No I don't think its been fixed yet. Galaxy s is a special case cause Samsung hardware accelerated it for that phone. How ironic, Samsung giving a better update over Google.

Opera !!! FLASH WORK
NO LAGG AT ALL !!!
Opera need to be ORIGINAL browser

On my side it feel somewhat slow when there is a Flash applet in the page and I try to zoom in while the page is still loading. But after that it seems to be fairly quick to respond.

m-p{3} said:
On my side it feel somewhat slow when there is a Flash applet in the page and I try to zoom in while the page is still loading. But after that it seems to be fairly quick to respond.
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Is this with Opera or the stock browser?

smurfit said:
Is this with Opera or the stock browser?
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try opera (full)
you WILL LOVE IT MAN !!! LOOOOVE IT ! 10000000%
FLASH, web pages WORKING SUPEEER SMOOOTH !!! suuuuper fast

avetny said:
try opera (full)
you WILL LOVE IT MAN !!! LOOOOVE IT ! 10000000%
FLASH, web pages WORKING SUPEEER SMOOOTH !!! suuuuper fast
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It is lag free indeed, I just tried it. It's missing all the options/plugins from dolphin though but so far so good. Thanks for the tip!

avetny said:
try opera (full)
you WILL LOVE IT MAN !!! LOOOOVE IT ! 10000000%
FLASH, web pages WORKING SUPEEER SMOOOTH !!! suuuuper fast
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Can you try www.tested.com please?
this nexus doesn't seam to be scrolling too well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1MmcE3ZOY
Just curious if it's his phone.

It's actually a bit choppy on Opera 11... weird. First site that I've seen that made Opera 11 slow down a lot. If you think that's bad though... try that site on the regular android browser. It's basically unresponsive lol. There's something at the top of that page that's causing the browser to bog... perhaps a bit of bad website code?
smurfit said:
Can you try www.tested.com please?
this nexus doesn't seam to be scrolling too well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1MmcE3ZOY
Just curious if it's his phone.
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dinan said:
If you think that's bad though... try that site on the regular android browser. It's basically unresponsive lol.
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Nah it's not that bad at all. Sure it's not great, but it's quite usable.

You know what, I had the same issue with my nexus s, really bad lag, even swiping down the mobile Facebook page was stuttery. I only just had mine, and it was already rooted with natarchy's kernel on and overclocked to 1.2Ghz. Also with clockworkmod flashed. So I thought this was a deal breaker, so last night I found s method using a nandroid backup off here to flash it back to stock, relocked the bootloader, and took it upstairs to charge up, ready to take back today. Well, guess what, tried it out again while lying in bed, and on every single big site I could think of, even like engadget. Like all the YouTube browser tests it was really quick, so I thought I'd put flash back on to measure the impact it had, which was minimal. The wife has an iPhone 4 so I pinched her phone and did a side by side comparison of browser load speeds and the nexus s was constantly a bit quicker, so, take from this what you will, is it rooting?, maybe it was the governor I was using, or the kernels, but it is more than respectable now. Also, scrolling through big pages is smooth too btw.

dinan said:
It's actually a bit choppy on Opera 11... weird. First site that I've seen that made Opera 11 slow down a lot. If you think that's bad though... try that site on the regular android browser. It's basically unresponsive lol. There's something at the top of that page that's causing the browser to bog... perhaps a bit of bad website code?
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I had opposite results ...opera browser was choppy on tested.com but stock android browser was fine.....not super smooth but just fine.

A little off topic but is there ANY way to get an unlimitedbdata plan if you have a new account?
If not...its back to sprint and bye bye GS2 for me. Already over the 2G mark and only twobweeks in!
Thanks

Never mind!

[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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+1
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.
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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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What web browser do you use?

So many options when it comes to browsers on the market today. I figure some of you bounce around from browser to browser like I do.
Whats your favorite and why?
My vote is probably XScope seems to be smoothest and nicest UI for me.

Dolphin HD myself, nothing comes close

EddyOS said:
Dolphin HD myself, nothing comes close
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lets get some reasons why. not to be annoying just bored at work

Yeah, I also like xscope. I have dolphin installed also though.I like how xscope doesn't have to reload the pages when you go back to a previous page.in dolphin, I had to keep opening and closing multiple tabs to circumvent the problem. And xscope's layout is pleasing also.

I use Dolphin HD because it's the closest thing to a regular browser. I have never used Xscope but I think I'll check it out.

I think i might be making the change to Opera since it uses their servers and reduces data usage on your phones end. Im a broke college kid with T-Mobiles ****ty 2GB 4G cap
2 Days and im at 300mb already..(no wifi at work)

That seems to be a good work around to your problem. Does it save even more data than just changing your user agent to android rather than computer?

I've been using stock since release but recently decided to test out Dolphin HD.
so far, I really like it.
feature I love the most is the gesture.
I can just scribble a pattern and it will take me to the webpage I assigned that particular scribble to.
very convenient.
also the tab feature with shake add-on.
it's like Google Chrome and you can shake your phone to change tabs.
speaking of add-ons, some helpful ones like the shake and screen cut.
I like the true desktop view option.
you can access your bookmarks and tool bar by just sliding the page left or right.
also very convenient.
doesn't seem to load all the flash ads as fast or well as stock. most of the time I just get a little emblem where the ad should be. guess if I clicked on it it would load the ad... not complaining though. who needs ads.
I'm still in the testing stage with different browsers, used to use Opera on my old phone, but so far, I'm really digging Dolphin HD.

I use stock. I see no reason to use a 3rd party browser. Stock does everything I need.
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smoochiezz24 said:
That seems to be a good work around to your problem. Does it save even more data than just changing your user agent to android rather than computer?
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honestly thanks to 3G watchdog ive noticed about 30 min of web surfing using stock browser only takes around 35mb tops (with flash enabled). Its not to bad but im going to test out opera to see the difference in data use. As for changing the agent im desktop allll day i hate the little mobile sites if i got 4.3 inchs of screen im gonna use it haha

Same. Stock browser is good for my.
nicky041192 said:
I use stock. I see no reason to use a 3rd party browser. Stock does everything I need.
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You all are missing out by not using opera mobile (not mini)..
I'm not sure it has quite as many features as dolphin, but its page rendering and smoothness make it stand out
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Miren browser.
It's in top 3.
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greengoldmello said:
You all are missing out by not using opera mobile (not mini)..
I'm not sure it has quite as many features as dolphin, but its page rendering and smoothness make it stand out
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I've tried opera, the best feature in my opinion is the smooth scroll. I love that feature because the sensation lacks a trackpad. How does rendering affect how you view the webpage? does it make it load faster or something? I haven't really noticed any differences.

everyday48 said:
Miren browser.
It's in top 3.
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I used that when it first got popular. Wasnt crazy about how it doesn't display anything till page is fully loaded, it also had a bad battery drain issue when it first was out.

smoochiezz24 said:
I've tried opera, the best feature in my opinion is the smooth scroll. I love that feature because the sensation lacks a trackpad. How does rendering affect how you view the webpage? does it make it load faster or something? I haven't really noticed any differences.
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It renders pages on their servers first, taking stress off your phone and reducing data. Speed's things up but I believe it does reduce image quality a little bit. (image reduction is honestly not really noticeable)

Dolphin HD for me. I love the add-ons for Last Pass and Read It Later. Feels like a full browser.

Dolphin hd
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Dolphin HD , its always getting better and great for one hand surfing

Web brower opera
I use opera mobile and opera mini, opera mini is the fastest one I have seen, but mini cant always the graphic website, opera mobile can do everything and in the setting it a setting call opera turbo which help it go even faster!!!!!

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.

[Q] Dumb Question about browser tabs

So sometimes when I am using the Gingerbread browser, I will touch the screen in a certain way and a "tab" interface pops up. I can't for the life of me figure out what the actual swype command is that is bringing up this screen. Does anyone know?

Lol stock browser.
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It might matter what browser you are using (TW or AOSP)

Many thanks for the helpful replies so far. I don't know if it is TW or ASOP. I'm on the Humble 5 rom. ASOP I guess since it is a ROM.... I have never heard the distinction until now.

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Many thanks for the helpful replies so far. I don't know if it is TW or ASOP. I'm on the Humble 5 rom. ASOP I guess since it is a ROM.... I have never heard the distinction until now.
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I am not exactly sure what you are talking about, the GB stock browser does not support multiple tabs or gesture input. As for humble 5, it has not been updated in some time, I don't even think there is a thread for it on XDA anymore is there? It seems tweak stock is generally thought of as the improved successor to humble, I've found. Well to each his own!
May I suggest that you use an alternative to the stock browser? Most android users use an alternative browser from the market, because the stock browser is laggy and it sucks, and 90% of the browsers on the market are much faster, support more features/customization, and are free. I would personally recommend dolphin browser mini or hd. It supports gestures, multiple tabs, is super fast, is free, and handles flash quite well. Check it out.

cliMAKtic said:
...It seems tweak stock is generally thought of as the improved successor to humble, I've found...
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Hmm... I'm not really sure what to think about this lol

Want a browser with tabs, gestures, and a bunch of stuff plus super fast? MAXTHON BROWSER!
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