Hey
I'm wondering what browsers do you use on your tablets. I'm using aosp one for most of the time but it's pretty slow nowadays and I'm looking for something new. I tried chrome/chromium based browsers and they're fast but ram usage is huge and that makes them work bad with bigger pages.
What browser gives you the best experience on your tab 2?
Sleipnir is my best browser give it a go to see by yourself
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iks8 said:
Hey
I'm wondering what browsers do you use on your tablets. I'm using aosp one for most of the time but it's pretty slow nowadays and I'm looking for something new. I tried chrome/chromium based browsers and they're fast but ram usage is huge and that makes them work bad with bigger pages.
What browser gives you the best experience on your tab 2?
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I prefer UC browser-fast download.
It is pretty fast and it also has a good media player which supports all formats.
It additionally has a unique night mode which is pretty good.
It also gives us live scores of any sport if asked,Moreover it's only around 18mb in playstore for free.
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could be possible to installathe SGS II browser on our O3D?
cause i hate the standar browser,its slow and the bottom bar robs me the 20% of screen on horizontal mode...
SGS II browser,has nice multitouch effects which i think that could make our device to feel much softer..
I very much doubt it will make any difference, all browsers I tried on the GS2 when I had one were good, its down to the phone really.
I tend to use Opera Mobile on mine as its the best out imo its smooth and fast, I also used this on the GS2.
Jabbypants said:
I very much doubt it will make any difference, all browsers I tried on the GS2 when I had one were good, its down to the phone really.
I tend to use Opera Mobile on mine as its the best out imo its smooth and fast, I also used this on the GS2.
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you are right,opera mobile goes well,but i'm an effect-fanatic,and i love,the bounce effect when you reach the finish of the page,or navigating,trought menus...why lg its so shabby?
Use Dolphin HD browser, best far I have used with extensions: Fullscreen, Adblock, translation, xmarks, lastpass. What else would you need in mobile browser.
Dolphin browsers just don't feel as smooth to me, certainly not as smooth as Opera Mobile.
I believe that the browser has very smooth functionality in the sgs2. The opera is good but comes second to normalcy.
nicacapo said:
could be possible to installathe SGS II browser on our O3D?
cause i hate the standar browser,its slow and the bottom bar robs me the 20% of screen on horizontal mode...
SGS II browser,has nice multitouch effects which i think that could make our device to feel much softer..
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The SGSII browser is made for the SGSII and requires its hardware (Exynos Chipset) for it to work as it's hardware accelerated I believe.
Also I think it requires the touchwiz framework.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
PyroCF said:
The SGSII browser is made for the SGSII and requires its hardware (Exynos Chipset) for it to work as it's hardware accelerated I believe.
Also I think it requires the touchwiz framework.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Maybe yo are right and the browser just don't work on our o3d,but would be insteresting at least try to make it work...i'm with you with the touchwiz framework,it' possible that wpulde be a requeriment,i already talk with a rom cooker to see if he could implement this 2 features that would make our phone a lot smoother ...
Hello!
I'm a happy SGS user with flashing addiction and coming here in desperate need of help for my bro. Long story short, my bro is a total newb in mobile phones and computers and after watching my browsing experience which is totally smooth he bought a i9023.
After I tried it, his browser feels like theres no acceleration at all. Even 720p is like 3fps. Exactly like SGS with eclair.
What I dont want is to flash his NS and bring him into the addiction. He only needs a smooth browser.
Please help
I dont have much experience regarding this, but here goes:
Do you have any example of what kind of site he is trying to access? Would be easier for us to test ourself.
And, try the skyfire browser, maybe it is a good solution?
Miren browser.
Stock Android browser has no hw acceleration. Sorry.
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Well I tried any website like gsmarena or xda, which is working smoooooth on my SGS?
Why you want me to tell you websites? Do you want to say your browser is buttery smooth like on my SGS? Am I missing something?
Is 720p youtube working on your NS? Its buttery smooth on my SGS with same hardware as NS and NS was supposed to be "pure Google experience" as in the best android experience among other manufacturers especially ones with SAME hardware?
Please help,
Luka
devianceluka said:
Well I tried any website like gsmarena or xda, which is working smoooooth on my SGS?
Why you want me to tell you websites? Do you want to say your browser is buttery smooth like on my SGS? Am I missing something?
Is 720p youtube working on your NS? Its buttery smooth on my SGS with same hardware as NS and NS was supposed to be "pure Google experience" as in the best android experience among other manufacturers especially ones with SAME hardware?
Please help,
Luka
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Use the browser I mentioned before, it's hardware accelerated.
Opera Mobile has full hardware acceleration. It uses a completely different rendering engine. It uses OpenGL ES to render pages. If you have flash installed you can select which flash objects will play on a page to save processing power and battery
+1 to Opera Mobile. Very fast browsing experience.
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Opera Mobile has full hardware acceleration. It uses a completely different rendering engine. It uses OpenGL ES to render pages. If you have flash installed you can select which flash objects will play on a page to save processing power and battery
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I don't know what you are talking about. Have you tried opera mobile on SGS? It is smooth as a smooth can be. Computer smooth if you understand easier. On Nexus S is definetely NOT smooth. Even 720p youtube is not working in opera mobile. Opera mobile is the best "smooth" browser I tried on Nexus S but is definetely nowhere near smooth. Try SGS Opera mobile and you will know what I am talking about.
I also tried Miren browser. Nowhere near smooth, opera mobile is more smooth. Tried even on my SGS and Galaxy tab 10.1v, both nowhere near smooth. I dont believe it has got any kind of HW acceleration.
Beware, I'm saying it again: My bros Nexus S is completely stock, even root is not obtained. I want it to stay it like that, because everything works perfectly for my bro except battery life s*cks and browsers are nowhere near SGS-smooth with identical SoC!
I'm still searching for help!
Best Regards,
Luka
Stock Android has no GPU hardware acceleration, period. All UI elements including everything inside the browser is drawn with the CPU which obviously is quite ineffective. Samsungs Galaxy phones are the only android phones with GPU hardware acceleration. So if you want it there's currently no other way as to get a Galaxy S II with TouchWiz.
To me and a lot of other people its a bug, see here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
Sadly Google thinks otherwise, closed the thread, effectively giving everyone a FU
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Androyonisus said:
Stock Android has no GPU hardware acceleration, period. All UI elements including everything inside the browser is drawn with the CPU which obviously is quite ineffective. Samsungs Galaxy phones are the only android phones with GPU hardware acceleration. So if you want it there's currently no other way as to get a Galaxy S II with TouchWiz.
To me and a lot of other people its a bug, see here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
Sadly Google thinks otherwise, closed the thread, effectively giving everyone a FU
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Wow. The answer I was looking for. So the only way is to flash
Is there any ROM/Kernel with hw accelerated stock android browser? Or somekind of Galaxy S port of whatever?
Is CM7 here HW accelerated in browser?
Thanks for help!
Luka
This was one of the most interesting tests iv'e seen so far, i had no idea that the Google Chrome beta browser performed this good!
Chrome is great! I use it as my daily driver browser and its awesome. The only drawback is not being able to play flash content. However, the instances I need to view that content, I just load up one of my standby browsers. Being, Dolphin HDand Opera Mobile.
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Browser Mark looks good.
Sunspider...so and so...scored 1900 ms before on the old Atrix with 2.2 lol
Opera still better overall.
Battery was low on the ONE X which have meant it was doing the tests in power saving mode as well
Good comparision.... i will use chrome too
chrome....the most amazing browser ever...
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Chrome is great! I use it as my daily driver browser and its awesome. The only drawback is not being able to play flash content. However, the instances I need to view that content, I just load up one of my standby browsers. Being, Dolphin HDand Opera Mobile.
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You should use an app called Flashify if you don't already.
Chrome Beta is well beta, Safari on iOS is usually fairly behind on the WebKit updates.
I have a One X and used to have an iPhone , and I have to say Safari on iOS is fairly decent. Between Chrome Beta and Safari your not going to get major differences, since they use the same rendering engine under hood
Love Chrome Beta!
According to "Rules for General" posted in this forum, no comparison threads between devices are allowed.
Moved to Android-General
Having got fed up with Apple nonsense (even with jailbreaking) I sold my iPad 4 and got the note 12 (p900) - I should point out that this is the 3rd time I'd tried to flee Apple, my previous attempts via the original 10in note, and a windows tablet resulted in my fleeing back to Apple. This time tho I think ive finally found an android tablet that ticks all the boxes. However... I'm baffled how it is that Googles own browser chrome runs slower and less effectively on Android than IOS. Pages with gifs e.g. tumblr, senorgif are slow, to the point of not animating, and pages with videos often won't play when clicked, just buffering/spinning forever.
I found that firefox behaves much better, if still not quite as efficiently as chrome on the iPad. I checked task manager and both apps account for less than 30% max cup usage, and not a lot of memory.
It's not enough to make me jump ship - especially now I can have a 64gb sdcard filled with comics! - but it *is* disappointing. =(
I will have to agree with you on this. But Chrome is slow on my Windows 8.1 Ultra book too. But try Chrome Beta...it is a bit faster on the Note Pro
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Yup, chrome is horrible yet I somehow put up with it lol. I keep a copy of Dolphin on my gallery as well which performs better on some pages. With some tweaks chrome can be improved a little (google "speed up chrome android" and experiment with flags, especially setting the max tile one to 512) but still will crumble on some pages.
A good example of poor performance on chrome is trying to scroll on Android Central before the page finishes (it's even jerky after).
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A good example of poor performance on chrome is trying to scroll on Android Central before the page finishes (it's even jerky after).
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OMG! Android Central sucks on Chrome! I use Tapatalk when on that site...or their app.
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Yup. My wife's iPad 2 works fine for that site though using chrome... Go figure.
Hi, I've tried several browsers, there's always stuttering and lag, same for Facebook.
My zenfone 6 [Duak core intel] was so much more smooth, like butter.
Other interfaces interestingly are absolutely find, just browsing sucks
I've tried going from smart to normal, no difference..
Pls help.
Suffer from exactly the same!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-7/general/smooth-scrolling-t3172244
Regret of buying damn phone.
Kalemucu said:
Suffer from exactly the same!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-7/general/smooth-scrolling-t3172244
Regret of buying damn phone.
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I had the same issue and followed the suggestion in your quoted thread and I've been scrolling like butter ever since. Had it on Normal for about 4 days now and there's no noticeable difference in battery consumption either
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I switched it to the normal mode but it made only a little difference, I really miss my old LG G2, was a good boy
You guys need to use better browser.
This thread was posted a whilst ago.
Enjoy
Ps - ucbrowser hd ftw!
OK guys I did the following to greatly improve chrome Browsing:
-disable Tapatalk and or TalkBack, whatever its called
- disable. Motion app, not sure what it does but yea.
- increase chrome tilesize to 512, Google for instructions.
- force gpu rendering.
It's considerably better but scrolling isn't buttery. Chrome
lags due to Google ads and JavaScript. To get buttery smooth scrolling, you have to disable JavaScript but plenty of sites are broken that way. Chrome JavaScript engine is just isn't optimised for us, while googling I saw same complaints on galaxy s6 users! So this is case of Huawei and Samsung not optimising their drivers etc. This is in no way a hardware or weaker gpu issue. This is just poor implementation of Android by Huawei.
- I stopped using chrome and am using UC browser, (not HD or any other version) its super smooth.
Fb is still meh. Hoping for inputs regarding fb.
I've MT7-TL10 I never got lags when I'm browsing
very smooth scrolling
Using Google chrome, firefox, and the default one
phrozenflame said:
Hi, I've tried several browsers, there's always stuttering and lag, same for Facebook.
My zenfone 6 [Duak core intel] was so much more smooth, like butter.
Other interfaces interestingly are absolutely find, just browsing sucks
I've tried going from smart to normal, no difference..
Pls help.
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install B120SP04 and u will be happy
Can you tell me more about it? I have tl09