The full release of Chrome is now available on the Google Play store:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3121382/chrome-android-official
I was using the Beta before and noticed a lot of background battery drain, but hopefully it’s resolved now. If not, then back to the Stock browser…
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The full release of Chrome is now available on the Google Play store:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3121382/chrome-android-official
I was using the Beta before and noticed a lot of background battery drain, but hopefully it’s resolved now. If not, then back to the Stock browser…
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You should try ICS Browser +, it's way better than the stock sense browser. The quick rings it has are amazingly convenient.
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Does chrome do flash now? If not, another reason to use ICS+
No flash, i see a few minor changes. Still slow as f*ck. I use it as my everyday browser simply because of the bookmark sync.
Maps voice changed for me
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No flash, i see a few minor changes. Still slow as f*ck. I use it as my everyday browser simply because of the bookmark sync.
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Bingo. The new Firefox has flash and is much faster than Chrome (at least on the HOX).
I was having that battery drain issue too. so i uninstalled a few weeks ago.
now that it's out of beta i installed it again with a fresh charge and it doesn't seem to be draining battery any more
screw it. im just gonna use it so i can be all like "yo gingerbread friends! you cant use this!!"
I want to wait and see the verdict on battery life. It was awful this past week, ten minutes of chrome would knock out 30% of the battery. I'll give ICS+ a look though.
Any thoughts regarding other browsers like dolphin, opera, etc?
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The full release of Chrome is now available on the Google Play store:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3121382/chrome-android-official
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I'm so glad its finally here!!!!
Why is bookmark management so terrible in Chrome browser on Android? You can't import, export, or even sort. I realize you can sync with Chrome on your PC, but I don't want to do this, because I have hundreds of bookmarks there, and definitely don't want them all on my phone.
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I want to wait and see the verdict on battery life. It was awful this past week, ten minutes of chrome would knock out 30% of the battery. I'll give ICS+ a look though.
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I love Dolphin. It's tough to put my finger on exactly why but it seems to be intutive with what I want to do and it tabs and untabs well when executed from other programs and stuff.
Unexplained battery drain still seems to be there. That's a shame, as I really love the Omnibox syncing. Sigh.
Google should be able to do better than this.
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Unexplained battery drain still seems to be there. That's a shame, as I really love the Omnibox syncing. Sigh.
Google should be able to do better than this.
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Really? How significant? I haven't really noticed any yet.
Took this screen shot earlier today. Keep in mind that it shows a 19% battery drain even though I hadn't opened the app since taking the phone off the charger. How is that even a thing?
It's a shame because I really want to use Chrome for the syncing, especially after learning that it's coming to the iPad soon.
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I'm going to re-install it and see if I can figure out what exactly might be triggering the battery drain. My guess is that something in the background sync gets "stuck", so the app is constantly trying to sync in the background, but it could just as easily be something else.
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No flash, i see a few minor changes. Still slow as f*ck. I use it as my everyday browser simply because of the bookmark sync.
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You do know you can sync bookmarks with the stock browser also right?
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You do know you can sync bookmarks with the stock browser also right?
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In the beta you could. The import bookmarks from stock browser option is gone from Chrome's settings in the full version.
I use Chrome as my default browser and have for months. I for one love it. On the One X, it performs well and, as others have said, the Omnibox sync is very handy.
ICS Browser+ isn't bad but I vehemently oppose "pro" version monetization strategies as I am an open-source advocate.
I'll probably stick with Dolphin HD for now, it's been doing well for me recently and I'm wary of the battery problems people are having with Chrome.
A lot of people have been mentioning ICS+ recently, but I haven't given it a run yet. How does it compare to Dolphin for those who have used both?
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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
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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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I prefer Dolphin Browser Mini.. Mozilla is not done yet. :/
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Skyfire is like lightning for me Thanks, though!!
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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..
Anyone having performance issues with their charge? I had high expectations for this phone but im getting lag in just about everything. . IE this forum scrolling through threads is way laggy compared to fascinate. Im not sure if I have a bunk phone or if the hardware sucks or if its the ROM just sucks. Any hope for this phone?
No I'm noticing some laggy browsing as well. Coming from the Droid Incredible i figured this would be much quicker. At times I think 3g on it was faster than wifi on this. Im sure it'll speed up once the cache builds up for the sites i browse. I also notice my linpack and quadrant scores are pants on this. I would love root and a new kernel but that damn ota seems to be holding us back.
My guess is its the charge's browser. I read reviews where it has bad problems with sites with a lot of flash (such as the ads). just tried this site on both the stock browser and dolphin browser and dolphin browser works fine.
It was nearly unreadable on the stock browser. So try a browser from the market.
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My guess is its the charge's browser. I read reviews where it has bad problems with sites with a lot of flash (such as the ads). just tried this site on both the stock browser and dolphin browser and dolphin browser works fine.
It was nearly unreadable on the stock browser. So try a browser from the market.
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You're right, browsing on Dolphin seems much faster. It does still hang at the end but it isn't nearly as bad.
Also, while I know its a completely different phone from what I had, the keyboard and auto-correct drive me absolutely mental.
Auto correct can be turned off in menu->settings->keyboard
I just noticed that I have two burnt out pixels .. ack. bright red dots, mostly noticeable on boot screens.
I think it's the ROM. Everything seems sluggish / lags randomly on my charge. So far it really feels like touchwiz is to blame, but I imagine the filesystem is partially to blame.
It really sucks that my year old Incredible seems faster than a brand new "flagship" phone.
I removed alot of bloatware installed launcher pro and Opera mini, then I also removed Touch wiz and the phone is alot faster. Installing launcher pro and then removing/renaming the touch wiz apk made a big difference performance wise. I have no lag when using the interface now. And yes the stock browser is crap, I thought it was the phone as well, but after installing Opera I notice a big difference.
what exactly does the TouchWiz app do? What do you lose by freezing it?
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what exactly does the TouchWiz app do? What do you lose by freezing it?
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TouchWiz is Samsung's launcher. Do NOT freeze or remove it before downloading an alternative (such as LauncherPro) and rebooting to activate it. Otherwise ODIN will be in your immediate future.
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TouchWiz is Samsung's launcher. Do NOT freeze or remove it before downloading an alternative (such as LauncherPro) and rebooting to activate it. Otherwise ODIN will be in your immediate future.
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Oh Okay, well, I have to ODIN anyways if I decide to root, I had not read the forums yet before accepting ED2 the day I got the phone. I use LauncherPro anyways, but that's good to know.
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TouchWiz is Samsung's launcher. Do NOT freeze or remove it before downloading an alternative (such as LauncherPro) and rebooting to activate it. Otherwise ODIN will be in your immediate future.
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yes, that happened to me earlier today! hahaha.
Just picked up the Charge on Saturday..coming from a rooted eris. .did notice a little lag. Immediately installed launcher pro and noticed quite a difference.
One thing i notice is the menu keys do not light up..making it a little difficult to use in the dark. Any one else experience this and find a solution.
Thanks
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gemro311 said:
Just picked up the Charge on Saturday..coming from a rooted eris. .did notice a little lag. Immediately installed launcher pro and noticed quite a difference.
One thing i notice is the menu keys do not light up..making it a little difficult to use in the dark. Any one else experience this and find a solution.
Thanks
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I believe the keys not lighting up was also the default behavior for the Fascinate, and that was resolved with a custom kernel. This may be inaccurate, as I came from the Droid X, but luckily the key layout is identical so I didn't need any time to relearn.
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I believe the keys not lighting up was also the default behavior for the Fascinate, and that was resolved with a custom kernel. This may be inaccurate, as I came from the Droid X, but luckily the key layout is identical so I didn't need any time to relearn.
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Contacted Samsung support and they walked me thru a couple of troubleshooting tips . And now my lights are working.
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for the lights. go to the market and get keep the lights on app. and put the widget on the screen. solved my light problem.
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
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!!!!
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.
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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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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!!
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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.
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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...
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Beta releases are effectively official releases in the world of Google.
I find my S6 doesn't scroll nearly as well as one would expect. It's pretty good in settings and such. But Chrome, Google Play, News+ and Tapatalk are not fluid at all and skip all over. Chrome is probably the worst culprit and I've seen others have switched to the Samsung browser. Has anyone seen any improvement with a factory reset or any other solution? Anyone else feel it should be better? Apologies if this has already been mentioned, I didn't see anything recent. Thanks!
It scrolls great on mine. No issues that I've seen so far. The only thing that's annoying is when I flick a page up/down it comes to a stop quickly, I wish it had more inertia. But it's really smooth overall.
Notice the lag when battery is getting low using Chrome beta or when I have a lot of apps running. I was using Google music connected to a bluetooth speaker and tried using Chrome beta, music was skipping and kept losing connection with the speaker, after clearing apps everything was good then I seriously think it's a ram issue.
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I find my S6 doesn't scroll nearly as well as one would expect. It's pretty good in settings and such. But Chrome, Google Play, News+ and Tapatalk are not fluid at all and skip all over. Chrome is probably the worst culprit and I've seen others have switched to the Samsung browser. Has anyone seen any improvement with a factory reset or any other solution? Anyone else feel it should be better? Apologies if this has already been mentioned, I didn't see anything recent. Thanks!
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I don't know if this is an option for you, but I think some issues were introduced by installing the OTA out of the box. If you have the time and wherewithal to re-set up your phone I would recommend restoring your firmware using Samsung Smart Switch. I was getting pretty bad performance out of the box in Chrome/S Browser (many issues reduced with AdAway); however, Iwas noticing much better out of box performance after a system firmware restore. Perhaps something to try if you have the time and energy to do so
Edit: I want to make a distinction between factory restore and firmware update. The firmware update will rewrite the system files negating any effect of a janky OTA flash. A factory restore will not wipe and reset the system partition
Scrolling performance is indeed terrible, especially in Chrome. I don't think any number for factory reset will have any impact on this. Rather, it's a driver thing. Try disabling JavaScript in Chrome and you'll see that it scrolls almost impeccably. Breaks a lot of pages though. Adblock helps too cause it gets rid of those pesky ads. Finally, there's a package to download in the appstore called chrome Samsung compatability or some such, that some people feel improves the scrolling.
It's a sad state of affairs when my friends Galaxy S4 scrolls the same page smoother than my S6. Here's hoping it'll all be fixed via firmware soon.
glad it's not just me that's noticed this - agree hopefully they'll sort soon!
I think Android 5.1 outspeeds Android 5.0.
I have a Nexus 5 and this device is one of the first who gets updates of Google. I noticed a difference in speed and performance (micro-stutter, scrolling) between the 5.0.x and 5.1.x update. The 5.1 update is just more fluid and responsive.
I believe when we have the 5.1 update on our Galaxy S6, speed is beyond perfection!
We just have to wait for now
I've found the Firefox browser is much faster than Chrome and perhaps a bit faster than the Samsung one - still dissappointingly slow though, hopefully they'll resolve soon.
Frankly, I'm surprised more people haven't brought this up as a concern. Benchmarks are meaningless when the experience is dragging like this.
Chrome is not optimized for the S6 and it does have a Java scrips fail when ever a ad comes up(wich is always these days) thats why I use the built in browser wich is lightyears faster and smoother (by much!)then chrome browser.
my gs6 doesnt lag, maybe its because i blocked all the ads with adaway
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Chrome is not optimized for the S6 and it does have a Java scrips fail when ever a ad comes up(wich is always these days) thats why I use the built in browser wich is lightyears faster and smoother (by much!)then chrome browser.
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I'm guessing Google won't rush to optimize its apps for the S6 since Samsung is using an in-house processor? Does that make it harder for developers to get at?
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my gs6 doesnt lag, maybe its because i blocked all the ads with adaway
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I'd like to avoid rooting for once on this one.
I was playing around with Instagram on an S6 today. Scrolling is noticeably stuttery. I noticed way more dropped frames whilst scrolling down my feed on an S6 than I get on my Nexus 5. My N5 scrolls down an insta feed pretty much flawlessly. Scrolling on the S6 seems way faster than on stock android. Is that a Touchwiz thing?
I was also pretty fed up with Chrome on my S6. Now using UC Browser instead...it is absolutely fantastic. Very fast and smooth scrolling, with many features but still lightweight. Suggest you try it!
daffie said:
I was also pretty fed up with Chrome on my S6. Now using UC Browser instead...it is absolutely fantastic. Very fast and smooth scrolling, with many features but still lightweight. Suggest you try it!
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Nice, have installed it to try out! Chrome basically useless at present, been using Samsung Browser but happy to try this instead. Shame as I liked having sync with Chrome on my phone.
sm024 said:
I was playing around with Instagram on an S6 today. Scrolling is noticeably stuttery. I noticed way more dropped frames whilst scrolling down my feed on an S6 than I get on my Nexus 5. My N5 scrolls down an insta feed pretty much flawlessly. Scrolling on the S6 seems way faster than on stock android. Is that a Touchwiz thing?
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I don't think it's a Touchwiz thing, I just think there are several apps that haven't been optimized for the phone. However I have no idea what it takes or how difficult it is to optimize an app for different hardware. The stock browser versus Chrome is night and day, for instance.
alanjrobertson said:
Nice, have installed it to try out! Chrome basically useless at present, been using Samsung Browser but happy to try this instead. Shame as I liked having sync with Chrome on my phone.
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Agreed with the syncing...how does the UC Browser compare to the Samsung browser?
pdubcramp said:
Agreed with the syncing...how does the UC Browser compare to the Samsung browser?
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I think UC Browser is much better but decide for yourself
pdubcramp said:
I don't think it's a Touchwiz thing, I just think there are several apps that haven't been optimized for the phone. However I have no idea what it takes or how difficult it is to optimize an app for different hardware. The stock browser versus Chrome is night and day, for instance.
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So i've been playing around with the phone a little more and i think it might be a TW thing, because scrolling down the settings menu is just as fast. I guess i can understand why there are so many dropped frames when the scrolling is THAT fast!