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Been using dolphin since 1.6, but want a change. Suggestions?
You could try xScope, fastest browser in most reviews
I use Skyfire.
Great features and the speed is also very good
Have been using Skyfire since I got my X10, very fast and nice browser.
And the flash tab is very usefull in some cases.
However since yesterday I have started working with the Xscope 6 browser.
And I love the zoom function by just swiping. Have not seen this function in other browsers. Some of the functions I don't love so much, but still a fast and basic browser.
If you visit alot of flash websites (why would you ? ;-) ) I would recommend Skyfire.
Otherwise try the Xscope.
Both are very nice.
my favourite browser is Dolphin HD
fast and very comfortable to use
Try Opera Mobile 10.1 beta (Android 1.6+)
http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?sub=++++&id=33290&location=270¬hanks=yes
eiabea said:
my favourite browser is Dolphin HD
fast and very comfortable to use
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Maybe its just me but how do you control the zoom in dolphin hd?
In the old one it had + - buttons that showed up when my touched the screen but now it just seems to be double tap to zoom in with no option to control just how much or little it zooms.
Annoying on my chess site where the board is either far away or too close to see the whole thing....
In the Dolphin Browser you can activate it in Settings. It was already checked when i had Dolphin but maybe its unchecked in yours. Dont know how it was called but it easy to find. I like the Firefox Browser but the Browser still need alot of work becouse no HTML5,no Zoom in and out Buttons and eats to much Internal Memory and RAM but i like the Style and how to switch Tabs and all.
try miren browser (miui browser)
i've tried the default android browser, skyfire, dolphin HD, opera, etc, and none of these come CLOSE to the speed of the miren browser. no lag, lots of settings, etc.
you can get the english version on the main xda apps forums. they're crazy over it.
the also seem to like the UC browser. i haven't tried it yet but people say it is good.
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try miren browser (miui browser)
i've tried the default android browser, skyfire, dolphin HD, opera, etc, and none of these come CLOSE to the speed of the miren browser. no lag, lots of settings, etc.
you can get the english version on the main xda apps forums. they're crazy over it.
the also seem to like the UC browser. i haven't tried it yet but people say it is good.
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MIUI is good.
lawonga said:
try miren browser (miui browser)
i've tried the default android browser, skyfire, dolphin HD, opera, etc, and none of these come CLOSE to the speed of the miren browser. no lag, lots of settings, etc.
you can get the english version on the main xda apps forums. they're crazy over it.
the also seem to like the UC browser. i haven't tried it yet but people say it is good.
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Thanks for the UC browser tip....installed it and its speedy fast...wow...loving it..and the UI is nice.
Definitely the best browser I have used so far.
I´ve installed and tried about six other browsers by now but none of them stopped me using Opera (mini or mobile) yet. Must say I used Opera as my phone-browser since 2006, so that probably makes it harder to get used to those fancy new browsers. Well I do like to try them, but it would take so much time to actually test and compare. If I had to choose right now, I would pick DolphinHD, for looks and feel (next to Opera .
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I´ve installed and tried about six other browsers by now but none of them stopped me using Opera (mini or mobile) yet. Must say I used Opera as my phone-browser since 2006, so that probably makes it harder to get used to those fancy new browsers. Well I do like to try them, but it would take so much time to actually test and compare. If I had to choose right now, I would pick DolphinHD, for looks and feel (next to Opera .
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Opera is best!!
I think everybdy agree.its jst they need sm chng
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Miren Browser, now supporting multiple languages...quick and well designed...
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Opera is good though
Xscope is fast browser but hard to use .
but how to zoom using Opera?
I use opera mini
how do i install the miui browser?
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how do i install the miui browser?
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It is now called Miren browser and the apk is in the android section games/apps...
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Miren Browser is the best ive tried too, just a question not a big problem but, do you pollpixx have any problems with miren when you click a youtube link in the browser and it doesnt work? on mine it just shows a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" screen...
Didnt noticed that yet, only thing I noticed that all external links are blank and you manually have to refresh, but they working on that as we speak...just watched a youtube movie from a twitter message directly and it went okay...
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Testing all browser including Dolphin, native, skyfire.... the best on all test Opera.
I compared Opera with Safari running on ipad (matching result)
check acidtest.org both score 100/100
can you give me more details on what is actually better? speed? i've used stock and dolphin and they both still lag. that's my main beef with the tab so far is that browser lags. does is still lag in opera?
How does it handle pinch to zoom and double tap to enlarge the column you tapped? I'm currently enjoying the latest Miren RC as it's so smooth, but anything that is even faster may be enough to change my mind .
moayyash said:
Testing all browser including Dolphin, native, skyfire.... the best on all test Opera.
I compared Opera with Safari running on ipad (matching result)
check acidtest.org both score 100/100
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Miren/MIUI Browser kills Opera, its in tne Market
Opera is the smoothest browser as it is GPU accelerated on the Tab. As an overall package it isn't quite up there with the likes of Miren or Dolphin imo.
No offense to anyone, but I think Opera sucks **** through a garden hose. Who cares about speed if half of the pages don't render correctly.
I'll never understand the Opera lovers.
its all choice and opinion but Miren is very nice looking, fast, (at least faster then stock on my GT) and intuitive. i used Dolphin HD but something simpler and appealing about Miren made me bounce...
my two cents.
A couple of times a year for the best part of a decade, I give the various Opera browsers another try, and I always find them to be a complete waste of time, either they're slow, they don't render pages "correctly", or their UI is just a complete mess. I'm sure it's fine in _some_ cases, but for my uses I find it to be horrible when compared with some of the other alternatives.
FWIW - Firefox mobile isn't looking promising, takes too long to start and doesn't seem to accept pages passed to it from many apps to open. I'll stick with DolphinHD until something that is better all-round turns up.
Edit: Hadn't heard of the Miren browser until just now, having a look at it and I'm quite impressed. Might make my primary for a while.
I also like Miren, but does anyone know why it always stays "zoomed in" on certain pages? For instance, if I load this web page on Miren (or any other browser besides Dolphin that is based off of the stock browser), it always loads up zoomed in to the upper left of the page. No matter what zoom settings or text size I tell it to use, still the same. Dolphin HD is the only one that doesnt do this.
Anyone??
I can't live without gesture support.... Dolphin HD for me... just hope they keep on improving it. Pinch to zoom could be smoother
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I also like Miren, but does anyone know why it always stays "zoomed in" on certain pages? For instance, if I load this web page on Miren (or any other browser besides Dolphin that is based off of the stock browser), it always loads up zoomed in to the upper left of the page. No matter what zoom settings or text size I tell it to use, still the same. Dolphin HD is the only one that doesnt do this.
Anyone??
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Go into settings and turn on "Panorama"
Indeed you are a noob. Dolphin is still superior. CPU acceleration ammounts to squat for us tab users. And the rendering, lack of user agent support, dodgy Java implementation (serverside) all make opera the worst mobile browser out there for the tab.
No offence, but you sir a noob.
I have tried every browser out there and xscope is hands down the best.
raqball said:
I have tried every browser out there and xscope is hands down the best.
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Why? I've read a few of these endorsements of Xscope, but there are rarely any reasons given.
I find Miren to have a much better user interface than any of the others. When it comes to features and customization, Miren is equal to or better than the rest. Miren is also very stable while being as fast or nearly as fast as any of the others.
Most importantly, Miren's interface seems designed for tablet use.
The default browser is actually quite good
Alcibiade said:
The default browser is actually quite good
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I agree! I'm trying the trail of xscope, but I don't think it is that much better than stock. I'm not convinced yet.
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+BroNNoS+ said:
I agree! I'm trying the trail of xscope, but I don't think it is that much better than stock. I'm not convinced yet.
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Just go and compare viewing Gizmodo or Engadget, Full. Not the mobile sites. but the actual full ones.
You will clearly see how sluggish and slow the regular browser is compared to opera.
Sadly Opera is really fast but as another person here said its lacking a lot of features and one of the most annoying bugs is that links do not get picked up correctly. I used it heavily as it is the smoothest browser (mainly due to its compression features) but I always had to zoom in to click small links..
drove me insane.
My 0.02
[Q] Better Web Browser
I'm looking for a web browser for my TF that views pages in actual web form, not as mobile pages.
I think with a screen this size it should be possible, right?
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks
Soopafly Incredible said:
I'm looking for a web browser for my TF that views pages in actual web form, not as mobile pages.
I think with a screen this size it should be possible, right?
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks
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Skyfire has a desktop mode.
~DC
I use Dolphin, can set user-agent to Desktop.
Some people have suggested Dolphin HD as good replacement for the stock browser. I'm just not clear about your problem? My stock browser displays the webpages as my PC browser would. You can check Settings|Advanced and User agent string.
Hope this helps,
rio
I'm using Dolphin HD and like it better than the stock one.
~DC
I guess maybe I'm missing some steps, or haven't tried a few of them that you've mentioned. Just noticed that in my firefox browser (and also the stock browser) all of the pages (MSN, Facebook) are showing up in their mobile forms.
I'll try a couple of those you mentioned and see if I can find them...Thanks!
try Firefox
rio911 said:
My stock browser displays the webpages as my PC browser would. You can check Settings|Advanced and User agent string.
Hope this helps,
rio
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Do this to stop getting mobile versions!
rio911 said:
Some people have suggested Dolphin HD as good replacement for the stock browser. I'm just not clear about your problem? My stock browser displays the webpages as my PC browser would. You can check Settings|Advanced and User agent string.
Hope this helps,
rio
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Now we just need hulu to acknowledge this!
Dolphin HD
This should be a poll
If you get ADW EX you can adjust the standard (useless) browser widget to 2 columns by 7 rows (looks a lot better), then when you first click on a thumbnail it asks you which browser you wish to use, click your preffered item then you have a custon full size browser of choice widget.
Lately I have been experimenting with different browsers because I am not happy with the stock browser on Honeycomb because it seems to have a lot of issues and slow performance when rendering. I know that a lot of people have been recommending Dolphin Browser HD, and I have tried that alongside Mozilla Firefox. Which browser is everyone else using on their Transformer and how do you like it?
The thing I miss most about the stock browser is the sync with your google chrome bookmarks, so if anyone can suggest how to get that to work with Dolphin Browser or Mozilla, I would appreciate it. Mozilla seems to have the best rendering speed out of the two, however, Dolphin seems to have more features and a better overall interface. Both Dolphin and the stock browser have problems rendering this forum, but Mozilla seems to do it with ease. However, it doesn't seem as though Mozilla is proportioned right for Tablet use yet.
I guess each of the has their positives and negatives, which is why I want to see what everyone else is using and their thoughts.
I use all of them because I don't like any of them. Every one has some problems. The best is probably the stock one, but it doesn't have adblock and when I turn on flash some pages turn into literally hell because of ads. Firefox on the other hand is fast but has very few options and scales images very poorly (this forum looks ugly on it for example). Opera is strange (especcialy the tabs are strange). Dolphin looks like a bloatware.
I hope to see full desktop browser on Android some time. With extensions and such (Firefox mobile extensions are laughable, even adblock doesn't have any options).
to me the stock browser seems more and more like chrome...is it just me?
All Android browsers are really inferior... Right now I go back and forth between stock and Firefox... Don't like either...
stock is as fluid as it gets
I tried Dolphin... but to be frank, it definitely does seem like bloatware. Its overall pretty awful. I keep it installed just because I use it for some websites that the stock one doesn't work properly. But thats rare. And I don't care for it.
People keep saying that Dolphin is "optimised for honeycomb" but I really don't think so. If it were, it'd run a crap ton better.
I use stock. It doesnt always work perfect, and it has its flaws for sure, but its pretty darn fluid, the tabs work great, and its just a clean looking browser.
Stock for browsing and firefox for downloading .zip files
would prefer opera as its my desktop browser of choice but its just terrible atm on android
re browser's
I,d really like to like the stock browser, or dolphin (my usual favourite), but the opera mobile seems currently the only one that has that ipad floaty feel to scrolling. Why cant the others do this?
Dolphin hd beta 5 is awesome
Firefox with adblock is sweet. For watching Flash websites, I use stock or dolphin hd. I like opera too. I guess I will be using all of them as I see fit. That's what I like about android.
Hello,
I`m looking for an internet browser for my 7.7 tab ICS 4.0.4.
All browser installed like chrome, maxthon, stock, opera, skyfire, except Firefox, all of them has lag, or how should I say ... while scrolling up/down through pages the navigation is not smooth.
Firefox seems to be the best choise, clearly like safari on ipad, but eats a lot of RAM, sometimes reaches over 130MB of RAM with 5 open tabs.
So, here is the question: what browser do you use that didn`t gives you headache?
Kind regards.
xpender said:
Hello,
I`m looking for an internet browser for my 7.7 tab ICS 4.0.4.
All browser installed like chrome, maxthon, stock, opera, skyfire, except Firefox, all of them has lag, or how should I say ... while scrolling up/down through pages the navigation is not smooth.
Firefox seems to be the best choise, clearly like safari on ipad, but eats a lot of RAM, sometimes reaches over 130MB of RAM with 5 open tabs.
So, here is the question: what browser do you use that didn`t gives you headache?
Kind regards.
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Try naked browser or holoweb. Available in playstore for free.
xpender said:
Hello,
I`m looking for an internet browser for my 7.7 tab ICS 4.0.4.
All browser installed like chrome, maxthon, stock, opera, skyfire, except Firefox, all of them has lag, or how should I say ... while scrolling up/down through pages the navigation is not smooth.
Firefox seems to be the best choise, clearly like safari on ipad, but eats a lot of RAM, sometimes reaches over 130MB of RAM with 5 open tabs.
So, here is the question: what browser do you use that didn`t gives you headache?
Kind regards.
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You can try Dolphin. It got a lot of add-on cool features. For me, I always love the simplicity and slicknwss of Chrome browser.
I use Opera with my Austrian 404 ICS,,, No lag what so ever. Very satisified
For me boat browser is the best, love it!
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Okay, 10x for replyes. After reconsidering your opinion, I must say that firefox still remain as the best "fluid" browser, but a RAM killer. Boat browset is amazing, less RAM killer and fluid.
Thanks again.
Sent from my GT-6800.
xpender said:
Hello,
I`m looking for an internet browser for my 7.7 tab ICS 4.0.4.
All browser installed like chrome, maxthon, stock, opera, skyfire, except Firefox, all of them has lag, or how should I say ... while scrolling up/down through pages the navigation is not smooth.
Firefox seems to be the best choise, clearly like safari on ipad, but eats a lot of RAM, sometimes reaches over 130MB of RAM with 5 open tabs.
So, here is the question: what browser do you use that didn`t gives you headache?
Kind regards.
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I tried all the known browsers so far,for me the best is Boat.Opera also is a good one but I find Boat faster in various pages.
I checked both of them with a stopwatch loading the same pages at the same time
I would use opera more (especially cos i use it on my desktop and love the fact that it syncs on Android/desktop perfectly). But the thing i don't like is the pinch and zoom. It lacks the ability to pan at the same time as zooming. Can't live without that I'm afraid.
Can't believe the dev team haven't added this.
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dolphin and boat
I can't live without tabbed browsing, so i prefer the dolphin browser and boat, both are light(boat seems lighter) and not memory hogs like firefox, i would have liked to like firefox but i dont like their tabbed browsing approach. I also love the web support of dolphin, i found many websites that i would normally open with no issues in a desktop browser to have issues with some browsers(esp banking and secure websites) but they always worked without fail on the dolphin browser. So it is a tie for dolphin and the awesome boat browser for me...
Firefox with AdBlock Plus is pretty nice.
After been trying most browsers for Android, my findings is that UC is really the only browser that takes good advantage of the weak GPU on mate 7. It is the only browser that runs smooth with flawless scrolling and pinch to zoom.. On all other browser there is visible stutter.
My conclusion is that if it wasn't for UC the mate 7 would had been a much more unsatisfying experience since my allergy to laggy browsing.
Try mercury browser.
Has ad block and runs smoothly.
With uc in desktop mode I found links were not clicking when pressing them like it was not using digitizer correctly.
No issues with native and mercury.
Edit: tried uc browser hd definitely is faster but same issue links not clickable in desktop mode. Have emailed them hopefully they fix it.
Have not tried HD version because it is made for tablet devices only not phones.
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Have not tried HD version because it is made for tablet devices only not phones.
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The hd version is very clean and contemporary and I am liking it in desktop mode.
The issue is with www.gsmarena.com in desktop mode links of news stories don't click for some reason. Could be the ad block is shifting the links not sure hopefully they fix it cause it's a very clean browser.
Uc is best and mercury browser is also good but UC is only best I find next is chrome and next is firefox
Scrolling and pinch to zoom is superior on UC browser. Rendering is not fastest but on heavy sites with a lot of ads UC Is typically faster. UC gui is much faster especially the super fast loading of previously loaded pages which is very useful. CM BROWSER have superior rendering time non-heavy and mobile optimized sites and not good for videos. Cm browser have slow scroll and zoom and mate 7.
Thanks for recommending UC Browser HD. I was look for a better browser and this looks great, it has a smaller ui than most browsers which is needed on such a big screen. I've not had any problems clicking links in desktop mode either.
Privacy nightmare
http://www.ucweb.com/company/privacy/
They track all your web traffic with injected cookies. I ll deal with a little lag.
gn0s1s said:
http://www.ucweb.com/company/privacy/
They track all your web traffic with injected cookies. I ll deal with a little lag.
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I'll take that risk as the speed is superior than other browsers including native.
Also discovered with the gsm website to click photo on left of news story and link opens.
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Am using normal chrome and no lag at all..
xlr8me said:
I'll take that risk as the speed is superior than other browsers including native.
Also discovered with the gsm website to click photo on left of news story and link opens.
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I dl'd UC just to see the diff in speed between it and Chrome beta... and the way it loads in, its much slower for a full page load, than chrome or opera is. And the zoom in out isn't noticeably smoother, unless you zoom pinch zoom in and out like crazy, but who browses web pages like that lol. So not seeing any advantages to using it. Privacy not an issue, until your employer or bank buys a history report on you from a third party, that has browsing history and web habits bundled... then its a big issue.
I am using chrome too
Nothing worng with it so far
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I dl'd UC just to see the diff in speed between it and Chrome beta... and the way it loads in, its much slower for a full page load, than chrome or opera is. And the zoom in out isn't noticeably smoother, unless you zoom pinch zoom in and out like crazy, but who browses web pages like that lol. So not seeing any advantages to using it. Privacy not an issue, until your employer or bank buys a history report on you from a third party, that has browsing history and web habits bundled... then its a big issue.
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You do realise that one ad blocks whilst the other does not.
Each to their own I guess but we all have different needs. :laugh:
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I'm using CM Browser without any issues.Particularly likes the auto full screen and night modes.
Simona Simmy said:
Am using normal chrome and no lag at all..
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Me too
nessqn said:
I'm using CM Browser without any issues.Particularly likes the auto full screen and night modes.
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Same here, i like it, night mode, desktop, pop up, threats blocker ecc...Everything working smooth and fine, also very light! Love it!
Simona Simmy said:
Am using normal chrome and no lag at all..
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Me too.
Opera has recently gone over to chromium on opera android platform since it is now open source for Android now. I was surprised how was opera has become totally superior or UC browser it is also faster then chrome because of less Google Bull**** under the hood.
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Me too.
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Same no lag on chrome for me
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Try opera you will experience it to be faster