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dont mean to be crude but it really sucks compared to old stock gingerbread sense browser. what can i do to get a smooth browser experience with no flickers and slow rendering after pinch and zoom? i tried maxthon but even that is a bit slow in rendering after pinch and zoom. i flashed the downgrade fix but that still sucks. in gingerbread everything was smooth. any help? thanks
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dont mean to be crude but it really sucks compared to old stock gingerbread sense browser. what can i do to get a smooth browser experience with no flickers and slow rendering after pinch and zoom? i tried maxthon but even that is a bit slow in rendering after pinch and zoom. i flashed the downgrade fix but that still sucks. in gingerbread everything was smooth. any help? thanks
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G'day champ,
I understand what you're saying, I also had these problems. I don't tend to like Maxthon, Firefox is also still in what feels like an early beta stage.
I've moved towards Dolphin Browser HD, and I haven't had any problems with it at all. I'd provide more info, but I'm in a rush.
But let me know how it goes for you, as I'd love to hear your feedback on it.
Are we not liking Chrome, either?
yeah agree , before it was good but now i use chrome beta!
I got ics but I don't have any problems with my browser .
There's nothing wrong with the ics browser on my phone, and I think it's better because it has more functions.
ICS browser works fine for me on my nosense VI rom.
i tried chrome too. not really my cup of tea. im ok with dolphin though. you guys probably forgot what the gingerbread stock browser was like. I jus moved from gingerbread to ice cream sandwich and the difference is huge. i mean this new browser is ok, but i just wish it were more responsive and smooth with the rendering and pinch and zoom
I'm sure it'll be better after official release guys... And chrome is decent but I'm holding untill its released from beta
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I hate that link don't open up to the page I want, when I'm in a third party app.
Finally I am not crazy!!!
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I hate that link don't open up to the page I want, when I'm in a third party app.
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Yes thank you I have been having this problem too. I have only noticed it in Yahoo! Mail though. I have uninstalled it yahoo mail though. I have a full release version of ICS too. You would think they would check that with such popular programs as Yahoo Mail.
Thanks for the info. I've flashed a few ics roms & every1 of them has an unpleasant browsing experience compared to stock GB, especially on the desktop of utube. Does dolphin HD scroll & pinch to zoom smoothly on the desktop utube? I'd like to know b4 I reflash again for the 20th time. Thanx in advance
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Are we not liking Chrome, either?
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I'm using Chrome Beta, and has so many bugs. I use Opera 11.62 for my computer's browser, but Opera on mobile doesn't like HTML 5. So, I still use Chrome even though it kind of sucks.
Yes it does.
Though this may work better in devices with hardware buttons such as the Sensation (I wonder if it does):
There's no standard menu button and you have to hunt for it in each application, as in all of ICS
The menu "...." icon, in Google's finest new style, is unintuitive and most often hidden
Can't search the page or perform a menu action withotu abandoning my current scroll position
But I've had even worse issues:
I can't find where can I change my User-Agent so that I don't get the crappy "mobile" sites from everybody; I haven't paid 500 € on a large screen phone to get crippled versions
I can't find where can I add custom search engines
Screen estate is often wasted with yet another obnoxious toolbar made of obnoxious Google style icons (i.e. ugly, monochrome, abstract and unintuitive)
And that's just from 5 minutes of use. Back to Opera Mobile — I suggest you do the same; it's faster, has better features and a much better UI (well, anything has a much better UI compared to Google's stuff since Google+).
I've choosen for myself "ICS Browser+".
After I installed the latest update which I think is JellyBean the ICS+ browser doesn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it just crashes when the program is ran. Dolphin and Firefox still works, but I was getting used to the ICS+ browser. Anyone else have this problem or are there any other browser alternatives out there? Dolphin is really nice and I'll probably stick with that if I have no choice. Hey, at least flash works! I bust my girlfriends chops all the time about her iPad not having flash and some of her web pages just look horrible with Safari. She could never find an alternative browser for her iPad. Apple makes it very difficult to find programs that replace the core stuff on the iPad. A huge negative and one of the many reasons why I love Android so much better then ios.
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After I installed the latest update which I think is JellyBean the ICS+ browser doesn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it just crashes when the program is ran. Dolphin and Firefox still works, but I was getting used to the ICS+ browser. Anyone else have this problem or are there any other browser alternatives out there? Dolphin is really nice and I'll probably stick with that if I have no choice. Hey, at least flash works! I bust my girlfriends chops all the time about her iPad not having flash and some of her web pages just look horrible with Safari. She could never find an alternative browser for her iPad. Apple makes it very difficult to find programs that replace the core stuff on the iPad. A huge negative and one of the many reasons why I love Android so much better then ios.
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yes, for me it's the same.
Did you read the app description in the Play Store? It says "Not compatible with Jelly Bean"...
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Stock browser is just as good now imo. What are you missing that ics+ gives you?
It was called ICS+ (Ice Cream Sandwich +) for a reason. It was an extension of the ICS browser. I used myself as my primary, but yest with Jelly Bean the ICS browser is different, and as stated before it is shown in the app description that it will not work on JB. Now that said. I do hope they might make a JB+, but really the JB browser works just the same for me, without the home button.
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Stock browser is just as good now imo. What are you missing that ics+ gives you?
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I agree.
Stock in JB is just fine.
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Stock browser is just as good now imo. What are you missing that ics+ gives you?
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One of the features that I miss to this day is an extended version of "Quick Controls" -- the controls option you can turn on in Settings / Labs that displays a semi-circle pop-up menu when you tap right right or left edge of the screen. In the stock browser, the menu is very limited, with just a few functions. In ICS+, you could choose to add / activate numerous functions and customize your installation pretty extensively. It was very powerful, and very useful. At the time, it became a must-have feature for me, and I wound up preferring ICS+ to Dolphin, Firefox, Maxthon, etc. Really miss ICS+ and hope dev considers implementing a JB version.
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One of the features that I miss to this day is an extended version of "Quick Controls" -- the controls option you can turn on in Settings / Labs that displays a semi-circle pop-up menu when you tap right right or left edge of the screen. In the stock browser, the menu is very limited, with just a few functions. In ICS+, you could choose to add / activate numerous functions and customize your installation pretty extensively. It was very powerful, and very useful. At the time, it became a must-have feature for me, and I wound up preferring ICS+ to Dolphin, Firefox, Maxthon, etc. Really miss ICS+ and hope dev considers implementing a JB version.
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Yes I use these as well but there are over 15 given in the new stock JB. If you use quick ics browser you can configure them as well.
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Yes I use these as well but there are over 15 given in the new stock JB. If you use quick ics browser you can configure them as well.
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yes....I went back and checked. Some of what I was missing is in the fly out sub menus.
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Yes I use these as well but there are over 15 given in the new stock JB. If you use quick ics browser you can configure them as well.
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Also, see this thread for info on a setting in the stock browswer that really speeds things up-- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923285
If you're not rooted you can't use browser2ram, but honestly, I don't think it's needed to apply this tweak. Good luck!
Android 4.4 kills the old webkit android renderer and replaces it with chrome-webview. Unfortunately google didn't update the aosp browser at all in 4.4 so its only partially working. The address bar no longer autohides, it has visual glitches, is missing the history tab, and no longer has text wrapping. Its also significantly laggier than the old native webkit engine. Not only does this change effect the aosp browser, but it also breaks a lot of apps that rely on webview. This wouldn't be a big deal if the performance improved due to the change but it doesn't. It performs much worse than the old webkit engine.
It also is very disappointing to see google ship the kit kat source code with broken components. The fact that chrome still performs this badly a year and a half after coming to android is embarrassing.
Does anyone know of a way to port the old webkit engine to a standalone app, or revert the changes made to integrate chromium-webview?
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Android 4.4 kills the old webkit android renderer and replaces it with chrome-webview. Unfortunately google didn't update the aosp browser at all in 4.4 so its only partially working. The address bar no longer autohides, it has visual glitches, is missing the history tab, and no longer has text wrapping. Its also significantly laggier than the old native webkit engine. Not only does this change effect the aosp browser, but it also breaks a lot of apps that rely on webview. This wouldn't be a big deal if the performance improved due to the change but it doesn't. It performs much worse than the old webkit engine.
It also is very disappointing to see google ship the kit kat source code with broken components. The fact that chrome still performs this badly a year and a half after coming to android is embarrassing.
Does anyone know of a way to port the old webkit engine to a standalone app, or revert the changes made to integrate chromium-webview?
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This is why we need someone to compile 4.3 AOSP Browser with self-contained libwebcore.so + 4.3 webview library to fully get the original AOSP browser experience.
The closest we can get on 4.4 right now is Dolphin Browser + Dolphin Jetpack in terms of responsiveness and smoothness.. but it still has a few bugs, like the jumping pinch-zoom bug. However Dolphin Jetpack only works because it's a 100% in-house browser engine that replaces WebView in Dolphin. If you don't install Jetpack, Dolphin will be using the same buggy Chromium WebView.
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This is why we need someone to compile 4.3 AOSP Browser with self-contained libwebcore.so + 4.3 webview library to fully get the original AOSP browser experience.
The closest we can get on 4.4 right now is Dolphin Browser + Dolphin Jetpack in terms of responsiveness and smoothness.. but it still has a few bugs, like the jumping pinch-zoom bug. However Dolphin Jetpack only works because it's a 100% in-house browser engine that replaces WebView in Dolphin. If you don't install Jetpack, Dolphin will be using the same buggy Chromium WebView.
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Yes, definitely. I was trying to figure out how to do this myself but its a little above my head right now.
I started looking at the source code for the browser. What would be the best way to move the library into the app itself rather than rely on the android frameworks webview.
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I started looking at the source code for the browser. What would be the best way to move the library into the app itself rather than rely on the android frameworks webview.
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I don't know, figured you might know.
Hopefully more people see this and someone that has some idea where to start can help out.
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I started looking at the source code for the browser. What would be the best way to move the library into the app itself rather than rely on the android frameworks webview.
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Would that fix even Currents, Search and all the other apps based on WebView? Wouldn't that fix just the aosp browser?
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Would that fix even Currents, Search and all the other apps based on WebView? Wouldn't that fix just the aosp browser?
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Just the aosp browser. But thats a step in the right direction.
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This is why we need someone to compile 4.3 AOSP Browser with self-contained libwebcore.so + 4.3 webview library to fully get the original AOSP browser experience.
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Someone needs to make this happen... 4.4 is unusable to me in its current state because the browsing experience is so bad. Start a bounty maybe?
i agree with you!
How about to compile a android 4.3 version for nexus 5? or port a Nexus 4 ROM
The browsing experience on 4.4 is horrible and frustrating.. We have phones with quad cores and 2.3 ghz and web browsing is slower and laggier than on 4.3 lol. Good work Google!! Chrome on Android sucks so hard. And the shi%#@ chromium engine. One step forward, two steps back. I moved from 4.4 back to 4.3 BECAUSE of the horrible webview performance. Fix that &#&@ Google! Hopefully they add a fix or something like that. Instagram lags too and Google Now results and so many other apps. It's sad...
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Dolphin Browser + Dolphin Jetpack seems to work wonders on Kitkat. Nearly as good as 4.3 AOSP Browser performance, especially after the pinch zoom bug was fixed.
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Dolphin Browser + Dolphin Jetpack seems to work wonders on Kitkat. Nearly as good as 4.3 AOSP Browser performance, especially after the pinch zoom bug was fixed.
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I don't like Dolphin... Performance still worse than aosp 4.3 browser..
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Dolphin Browser + Dolphin Jetpack seems to work wonders on Kitkat. Nearly as good as 4.3 AOSP Browser performance, especially after the pinch zoom bug was fixed.
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Yes, Dolphin with Jetpack enabled is fast and double tap to zoom wraps text correctly. It's also much more battery friendly then Opera for Android, which wraps the text as well after double tap to zoom, but stutters sometimes horribly. Dolphin is almost always smooth, It's closest to AOSP Browser I found so far working on 4.4. Though Dolphin with Jetpack enabled (required to wrap text) has one major flaw - most of the time it covers xda forum pages with grey semi transparent overlay, in whole, or most part of the page. Sometimes it disappears, sometimes not. Enabling and disabling immersive mode sometimes helps, mostly not. I wrote to them about it. Dolphin devs are supposed to work on it, but so far last two updates of Jetpack did not fix it. Are you experiencing this grey obscuring layer on xda forum threads as well? (It does not happen on list of threads, only within a thread, over the text)
I miss AOSP Browser so much. Star the Issue 62378: KitKat WebView text wrap no longer works to fix webview.
If Google doesn't fix it, and to be honest I don't think they care, I'm realy looking forward to see somebody integrating 4.3 vebview within AOSP Browser so it works stand alone. I'd be willing to pay/donate for it. There are two apps on Play Store pretending to be AOSP Browsers, but they are mere impostors, one force closing on KitKat and the other full of adverts.
I'd be happy to downgrade to 4.3 on my Nexus 5 if that would be possible, just to have AOSP Browser working as it used to.
Nexus is becoming more Google and less Android with every next iteration.
Edit: I added two screen shots showing this grey overlay and without it.
Is anyone looking at integrating webview back into aosp browser under kitkat yet?
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Is anyone looking at integrating webview back into aosp browser under kitkat yet?
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We only can hope..
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I thought there would be millions of people complaining about broken text reflow in AOSP Browser and lack of uploading files through Browser, but mostly I fell like I'm the only one who cares. It's been two months now and Google still pretends there is no problem despite people staring that issue on their developer site every day. I stared it a well so I get few emails a day with people posting their complains about webview.
I file like Google is showing me finger and laughing.
Meanwhile Dolphin integrated their in-house WebKit, Jetpack, to their browser and you don't have to have Jetpack as a second app to Dolphin browser to enable it an text wrapping. With list update they fixed as well this grey semitransparent layer popping up on xda posts when you are logged on ( it was not coming up when I was logged out). So Dolphin is my default browser now.
Please somebody integrate old WebKit to Browser, plizzzz
Not sure if this helps?
The KitKat Chromium WebView doesn't reflow text. If you're concerned about text legibility please see the "NARROW_COLUMNS and SINGLE_COLUMN no longer supported" section in the <url=http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/migrating.html#Columns>migration guide</url> where the suggested solution is to use text autosizing.
If you really want to bring this effect back then you'd need to do something like this:
1. Put all of your content in a <i><div id="contentRoot"> </div></i>
2. Implement onScaleChanged
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class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
boolean scaleChangedRunnablePending = false;
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@Override
void onScaleChanged(final WebView webView, fload oldScale, float newScale) {
if (scaleChangedRunnablePending) return;
view.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
webView.evaluateJavaScript("recalculateWidth();", null);
scaleChangedRunnablePending = false;
}
}, 100);
}
}
// Don't forget to webView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
3. Use the following JavaScript
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function recalculateWidth() {
$("#contentRoot").width(window.innerWidth);
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or, alternatively you could try modifying the viewport meta tag.
The above should perform the reflow with a slight delay (which is there to keep the number of unnecessary re-layouts down to a minimum).
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Natakranta said:
I thought there would be millions of people complaining about broken text reflow in AOSP Browser and lack of uploading files through Browser, but mostly I fell like I'm the only one who cares. It's been two months now and Google still pretends there is no problem despite people staring that issue on their developer site every day. I stared it a well so I get few emails a day with people posting their complains about webview.
I file like Google is showing me finger and laughing.
Meanwhile Dolphin integrated their in-house WebKit, Jetpack, to their browser and you don't have to have Jetpack as a second app to Dolphin browser to enable it an text wrapping. With list update they fixed as well this grey semitransparent layer popping up on xda posts when you are logged on ( it was not coming up when I was logged out). So Dolphin is my default browser now.
Please somebody integrate old WebKit to Browser, plizzzz
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Sadly, nobody appears to care about text reflow. AFAIK at the moment only two browsers support it: Opera and Dolphin Jetpack. Although I'm not sure how are you supposed to browse non-mobile websites without it pleasantly.
Obvious, this is method that needs to be integrated into website
This seems THE thing!
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/56054/
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As of Android 4 Google has changed the default Webrendering engine from the old AOSP one to the (bad) chromium engine. As a result my favorite Browser the stock AOSP isn't working properly anymore, here is a summery of the browsers I have tested and the problems I had with them:
Chrome: Slow, laggy and worst of all random font size changes within a website, no flash
AOSP Browser on 4.4: Double tap to zoom acting wierd, no textreflow, no browser history tab anymore, force closes, laggier then on Android 4.3 and no flash on 4.4
Dolphin Browser: Laggier compared to 4.3, pinch to zoom not working. No flash on 4.4.
Can you recommend any Browsers that work well with 4.4.
I use Firefox at the moment... Works really good
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I recommend you Next Browser !
Maxthon
Puffin
Boat
Others: Sleipnir / UC Browser
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I recommend you Next Browser !
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I'd second that. It's a really fast browser with some excellent features.
Next Browser FTW. Chrome is a mess.
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wurzelsepp3 said:
As of Android 4 Google has changed the default Webrendering engine from the old AOSP one to the (bad) chromium engine. As a result my favorite Browser the stock AOSP isn't working properly anymore, here is a summery of the browsers I have tested and the problems I had with them:
Chrome: Slow, laggy and worst of all random font size changes within a website, no flash
AOSP Browser on 4.4: Double tap to zoom acting wierd, no textreflow, no browser history tab anymore, force closes, laggier then on Android 4.3 and no flash on 4.4
Dolphin Browser: Laggier compared to 4.3, pinch to zoom not working. No flash on 4.4.
Can you recommend any Browsers that work well with 4.4.
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I'm using Opera atm because it has text flow.
Have you all even tried Chrome? On my N5 there is no lag whatsoever, I am really impressed with the speed. At first I was so like "oh no" but gave it a try and I think Google did it right.
NEXT Browser kills the top of the page where the address bar lies over it, that is a no go.
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Have you all even tried Chrome? On my N5 there is no lag whatsoever, I am really impressed with the speed. At first I was so like "oh no" but gave it a try and I think Google did it right.
NEXT Browser kills the top of the page where the address bar lies over it, that is a no go.
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exactly. just turn down the text size to 50% in settings and chrome looks like every other android browser but feels smoother and has no problems at all.
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Have you all even tried Chrome? On my N5 there is no lag whatsoever, I am really impressed with the speed. At first I was so like "oh no" but gave it a try and I think Google did it right.
NEXT Browser kills the top of the page where the address bar lies over it, that is a no go.
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I personally have Chrome Beta for a while and it's very fast too
Really really better than with my old Note II.
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Next Browser FTW. Chrome is a mess.
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I would avoid any goteam products. They are known for privacy breaches.
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I don't get why people dont just use chrome. I have been using it on many devices and I find it to consistently be the smoothest and fastest and best looking browser.
I'm satisfied with Chrome Beta.
I have to admit, I've always used the AOSP broswer but Chrome has been performing pretty well so far on my Nexus 5. the only thing I really miss right now is Flash support.
I've used Naked on my N7 for a year or so, and works just as fast (faster) on my N5.
Chrome definitely isn't as fluid on the N5 as could be. Which is a real shame because it seems almost out of place, everything else on the N5 is silky smooth, then you open the browser, scroll around and pinch zoom. It feels a little choppy, like everything else is operating at 60fps but the browser is at 15-20fps is the best example I could give.
For those who say it's smooth, go browse the web on an iPhone 5 with Safari or the stock browser on an LG G2. I've used many phones and those two stand out to me as being the absolute benchmark in smoothness.
I think Dophin with Jetpack will be the best browser for the N5 once it becomes fully compatible.
Next browser is also awesome but like someone already stated, the top part of web pages are hidden an cannot be accessed. Probably not fully Kit Kat compatible yet.
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Have you all even tried Chrome? On my N5 there is no lag whatsoever, I am really impressed with the speed. At first I was so like "oh no" but gave it a try and I think Google did it right.
NEXT Browser kills the top of the page where the address bar lies over it, that is a no go.
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I personally have Chrome Beta for a while and it's very fast too
Really really better than with my old Note II.
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I'm satisfied with Chrome Beta.
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I don't get why people dont just use chrome. I have been using it on many devices and I find it to consistently be the smoothest and fastest and best looking browser.
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I have to admit, I've always used the AOSP broswer but Chrome has been performing pretty well so far on my Nexus 5. the only thing I really miss right now is Flash support.
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I agree even myself.
I have absolutely no issues with chrome.
It runs silky smooth at 60fps on my phone like any other browser.
Personally I don't use it though because It does not support flash player which is useful.
Firefox
Dolphin (with Jetpack)
And Next Browser (which I never knew about before this thread)
Are the personal preferred browsers of my choice.
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Sleipnir is a very solid browser. It has the best tab management I have seen in a mobile browser.
PlayStore link
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Chrome definitely isn't as fluid on the N5 as could be. Which is a real shame because it seems almost out of place, everything else on the N5 is silky smooth, then you open the browser, scroll around and pinch zoom. It feels a little choppy, like everything else is operating at 60fps but the browser is at 15-20fps is the best example I could give.
For those who say it's smooth, go browse the web on an iPhone 5 with Safari or the stock browser on an LG G2. I've used many phones and those two stand out to me as being the absolute benchmark in smoothness.
I think Dophin with Jetpack will be the best browser for the N5 once it becomes fully compatible.
Next browser is also awesome but like someone already stated, the top part of web pages are hidden an cannot be accessed. Probably not fully Kit Kat compatible yet.
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errhmmm
http://youtu.be/LY-KuPhC0Y0
Chrome beta is usable..... The other one is crap and...in general any other browser is miles away from AOSP browser
I'm so disappointed by chrome , I've been using it for quite a while ,it was unusable on my galaxy nexus ,then it got almost OK on the nexus 4 and now I have my nexus 5 and the performance is still poor , the scrolling is not smooth , its choppy ,sometimes the websites stop responding , the app feels ... Heavy
Ive been using Firefox for a few months and although the scrolling is noticeably better than chrome's it still has its issues , sometimes the text looks blurry and until it fixes itself you can't click on links on the browser , I attached a picture so you guys can see , pay attention to the "next page"button (on the bottom with the rest background ) ,it became unclickable , Firefox crashes sometimes too .
To make things even worse the aosp browser which performance was light years ahead of Chrome's now shares Chrome's poor performance because Google made some changes and now it uses the chromium engine
I don't know what to do ,I become so upset when I use the browser on iOS /windows phone , I love kit Kat but seriously Google make chrome on android just as good as chrome on desktop :banghead:
You tried chrome beta, it's actually a lot better
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You tried chrome beta, it's actually a lot better
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I didn't notice a big difference vs the regular chrome ,all I knew is that it had more features and with the features side I'm really satisfied ,I'm upset is with the poor scrolling performance and the lack of smoothness :'(
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I'm giving chrome beta a chance , maybe it's placebo effect but I feel it is a bit more responsive than the stable version , something I don't understand is why does the browser refreshes every time I switch to another app and then come back to the browser , it doesn't even remember my scrolling position ,very annoying , I don't understand 2 GB should be enough to keep the browser in memory :/
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Use Next browser, been using it since I got the Nexus, works really well and the start screen looks really professional, you can open it up and google search something straight away, really handy
Try Dolphin
I have tried various browsers including Chrome, Opera, Opera Mini, and Maxthon, but settled on Dolphin on my One S and, now that they've fixed some KitKat bugs, on the Nexus 5.
Dolphin is fast and smooth (ver. 10.2.1) although the UI is a bit awkward. Not as bad as Chrome's though. Unfortunately Dolphin doesn't even have a way to import bookmarks from other Dolphins on the same device. Nevertheless, it does seem very good, and much better than Chrome.
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I'm giving chrome beta a chance , maybe it's placebo effect but I feel it is a bit more responsive than the stable version , something I don't understand is why does the browser refreshes every time I switch to another app and then come back to the browser , it doesn't even remember my scrolling position ,very annoying , I don't understand 2 GB should be enough to keep the browser in memory :/
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Mine doesn't do this - mine doesn't auto refresh or lose it's place. Have you installed a custom ROM or kernel on your Nexus 5 or running stock? Is Chome up-to-date? (an annoyingly stupid question but has to be asked)
Try Boat browser. You won't be dissapointed.
You might like Mercury.
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no need to use chrome anymore, theres 'boat' loads of browsers! pardon the pun! waiting for a ported AOSP browser for n5
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Mine doesn't do this - mine doesn't auto refresh or lose it's place. Have you installed a custom ROM or kernel on your Nexus 5 or running stock? Is Chome up-to-date? (an annoyingly stupid question but has to be asked)
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I have stock rooted 4.4 on my nexus 5 , I'm using chrome beta right now but I'm quote sure it was the same with the stable chrome and yes , they're updated , I update my apps like a freak
GalaxySN00B:0 said:
Use Next browser, been using it since I got the Nexus, works really well and the start screen looks really professional, you can open it up and google search something straight away, really handy
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I tried, i like it haha but damn the UI it's a complete ripoff from IOS' safari, i didn't see a big difference regarding scrolling performance (vs Chrome) but at least it never froze like Chrome does
UPDATE: I take it all back; I accepted an update for Jetpack and now none of the Dolphin browsers I have--Dolphin, Dolphin Beta, Jetpack--will play html or flash videos. I am trying UC Browser which is really fast, even compared to Dolphin, but doesn't seem to respond automatically to links from other apps--e.g., google's gmail app or the google search app that came on the N5; you have to copy and paste the url manually into the browser. Obviously unacceptable.
The stock browser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser
It's extremely smooth just like the stock s4 browser
MrAndroid12 said:
The stock browser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser
It's extremely smooth just like the stock s4 browser
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1000 times this ^^
Chad_Petree said:
I tried, i like it haha but damn the UI it's a complete ripoff from IOS' safari, i didn't see a big difference regarding scrolling performance (vs Chrome) but at least it never froze like Chrome does
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Puffin browser is next on your list to try.
Other option, UC Browser. to me they both are some of the fastest.
MrAndroid12 said:
The stock browser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser
It's extremely smooth just like the stock s4 browser
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Forgot to mention that native flash is also supported.
Just grab a apk from adobe
Have you checked out opera beta? If you haven't but decide to, make sure you visit opera:flags There are some options that can improve the experience.
koeASOP 4.4.2 w/ Franco kernel
Anything, but chrome.
Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
If you're going to use the stock browser I suggested extracting apk from a Cyanogenmod ROM and installing it in your rom. All its option works including Private browsing. It works perfectly well compared to the one you download from play store.