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Which is the best PROVEN browser on Android? please give opinions also, I use xscope at the moment but is there a better one out there? I used to use dolphin mini but changed, what's the best?
Thanks
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That will always come down to personal preference. Personally I like Dolphin HD, it's almost as functional as a full desktop browser and supports plugins
I Tried Xscope but it didn't let me manage my bookmarks into folders and Dolphin used to crash when starting up. Now I am using Opera which surprised me as I hated it years ago on symbian but its really good these days.
Gonna have to go with opera, myself. I particularly like that you can set it to use less bandwidth while not on wifi.
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Is opera the fastest?
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Is opera the fastest?
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Opera Mobile is pretty fast, but lacks flash I think. The full opera is pretty much the same as any other browser.
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Opera Mobile does have Flash support & seems to be the fastest...Dolphin browser is good as it can get add-ons as our normal PC browser add-ons...
Easily answered: DOLPHIN HD
Will try dolphin
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Bumping this thread... I used to have an iPhone (it was the only way of getting unlimited data in the UK at one point, shoot me :cyclops so outright smoothness in browsing means the most to me. I use an old version of Opera Mobile (11.10.ADR-1107051709) below... The hardware acceleration really helps. I think this site is legit, if not mods please remove... It has flash and you can set the user agent to "Desktop" if not other to other machines.
http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/download/temp/1310050386_Opera_Mobile_11.10.ADR-1107051709.apk
Opera Mini is the best for saving on CPU/battery and is fastest because the rendering goes on on the server, but 404 File Not Founds come back annoyingly on secondary Google hits.
The newer versions of Opera Mobile seem more choppy, and I can't stand the webkit browsers (everything else). On ICS webkit becomes hardware accelerated, but I like my games too much not to stick to GB.
I prefer Dolphin hands down. If not dolphin then the Miren browser
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A bit of a bump, but I'm very happy with the new Opera Mobile (12.1.1). It's smoother than any other browser I'm aware of on Xperia Play + Gingerbread. The only problem is it takes a few seconds to start up (and you can get a "Application not Responding" during that sometimes).
I tried a couple dolphin crashed on startup for me alot but when it worked was great but I prefere maxthon stable pretty fast and simple
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I use Dolphin Beta & stock browser.
Dolphin Beta has some minor issues that need to be fixed while the stock browser works fine but is missing a lot of features compared to other browsers.
try using dolphin browser with the dolphin jet-pack add-on, i use and its pretty fast.
i use the stock one ever since... especially in ICS the stock has been much improved!
If you want more customization, dolphin browser might be the one, otherwise, use the minimalist opera mobile.
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I think most of us use dolphin... Its the best all around. Good size, better reaction time, looks sweet, & its a freakin dolphin...! Plus its always being updated.
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hello guys, i was wondering what the best browser for this phone was. which one is the smoothest with private browsing. thanks in advance...
try dolphin hd browser very nice smooth and awesome if you hit the back button it display a window if you wanna erase your history etc..
I like the stock browser...I downloaded the ics browser from the market yesterday and its pretty nice too. I just like the stock look of the browser. Other browsers I have tried just seem to clutter up the screen with too many options.
I use Dolphin HD as well; it's very smooth.
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I played with a lot of browsers. stock is actually very good and fast.
opera mobile and dolphin are both great browsers. another great browser is boat browser. Dolphin however gave me some problems.
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Dolphin HD is a very good browser, also gives you an option to close out of the browser and clear the cache and history. I recommend this.
Dolphin for me
Maxthon is best browser in my view. You may check which 1is best at: http://html5test.com
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chrome beta on ICS is good otherwise skyfire or dolphin hd
I prefer Opera Mini.
Opera mobile is the best, hands down :thumbdown:
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Dolphin HD cause I can turn off mobile view and turn on desktop view. Can't live without that.
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+1 more for Dolphin HD. Although Firefox Beta is growing on me
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...chrome.
If not on ics....get on ics.
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Try Quick ICS on Google Play Store. The real feature in this browser is to be able to customize the Quick Controls (read in that description). This is by far truly the fastest way to browse -with one hand!. I got mine customized to open, close tabs, launch bookmarks, go back & forward, reload page and manage tabs. With just the thumb, I can browse with ease. Another cool think is to setup upper / lower quick controls. On the upper, I have the "change browser mode" to switch between desktop and android - helps in loading certain pages that won't load properly with android mode. And on the lower controls, I have enabled Find and Invert screen. The invert helps reading at night / in bed. and of course the find to search stuff on the page.
Check it out. Plus, it is free.
Dolphin HD has been good for me. It has crashed a few times though where I've had to uninstall it and reinstall it to get it working again. Mind you, this was on a custom ROM (Beastmod 4.2) and I'm now on ICS via Darkside and have had no problems with it as of yet. I like the plugins that you can install such as the PDF saver and what not.
Many browsers can go from mobile/Android view to desktop not just dolphin.
Opera mini is fast but some things do not work fully because i think it's optimized for mobile viewing.
The fastest i think goes to boat browser. You guys can check that out. They copied dolphin a bit. The most fully functional would be opera mobile, but is slow at times. Dolphin is a great browser too, but there are times it does not load pages correctly or download correctly otherwise i would definitely go with them.
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Teo032 said:
Many browsers can go from mobile/Android view to desktop not just dolphin.
Opera mini is fast but some things do not work fully because i think it's optimized for mobile viewing.
The fastest i think goes to boat browser. You guys can check that out. They copied dolphin a bit. The most fully functional would be opera mobile, but is slow at times. Dolphin is a great browser too, but there are times it does not load pages correctly or download correctly otherwise i would definitely go with them.
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Yeah I switch from opera to dolphin and viceversa constantly.
Opera = almost 100% functional, but slow, ugly interface (having to tap 3 times to switch tabs for example)
Dolphin = Smooth, pretty and fast interface, but sometimes doesn't load pages correctly. (like pages w/ animated gifs)
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I really don't care for the stock internet browser on the phone. I tried out of opera and not really impressed either. So what is everybody else using? Thanks
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I use Chrome now. I used to use Dolphin Browser which is good too.
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I usually use Chrome. I used to use a browser called Maxthon Browser, it had good gesture support for opening/closing new tabs and such. There is also Firefox, but I don't use it unless I absolutely have to. It used to be extremely slow (regardless of device or ROM) but it seems that the newer versions are running more quickly, though it has some interesting features such as the ability to save a web page as a PDF and use of addons. There are plenty of other browsers out there. These are just the ones I have installed on my phone at the moment. I would suggest installing a few and then playing around with them to see if they are what you like.
Links:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mx.browser
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox
I used UC browser. Not too bad overall.
Right now i'm using dolphin browser beta. I tried to use chrome but it constantly crashed and I didn't like the fact it would run in the background when i backed out of the app.
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Right now i'm using dolphin browser beta. I tried to use chrome but it constantly crashed and I didn't like the fact it would run in the background when i backed out of the app.
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Was it just cached or was it actively running?
Chrome or Dolphin. Both have worked well for me on this device.
I use Maxthon too, but only on my non-rooted Kindle Fire.
Have you tried boat browser? Quite happy with that one.
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Killa357 said:
Was it just cached or was it actively running?
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I'm guessing activately running. I would swipe away all the tabs to close them, but when I press the back button to exit out the app then go to the task manager, It was in the active applications.
I feel like the Dolphin Browser is really slow on the stock ROM on Xperia Play. Anyone use it ? Or do people use other web browsers?
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I feel like the Dolphin Browser is really slow on the stock ROM on Xperia Play. Anyone use it ? Or do people use other web browsers?
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I'm using it on the stock ROM too. It is a bit slow, but it's the best browser for HTML5. It also randomly freezed and only a reboot fixed it, but this became less common on the newer versions. I still use it as my main browser though, not that much of a problem.
Very few slow downs, no FCs, no freezing. Stock .42 UK Gen.
Web browsing is slow on GB. I don't know what technology Dolphin Browser use, but the webkit engine on ICS and JB are much faster. However gaming is slower ofcourse.
I find it a very nice fast browser but i am not using the stock rom though.
Do you notice any diffrences when you install Dolphin Jetpack?
It's working a lot better now. Must have been an old version. Thanks all
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I'm a fan of Dolphin browser; seems to have minor display issues with CyanogenMod10.1 though.
I use it if I need to use data from LastPass.
For now, I'm trying to get used to Naked Browser.
Other than that, I also have the following browsers installed:
- Firefox Beta
- Opera Mobile
- UC Browser
- Dolphin Browser beta (aside from the stable Dolphin browser)
- Naked Browser
2.3.4 GB stock rom
so far Dolphin is best browser imo but I've found the newer ver. of dolphin occupy memory and feel much slower.
i would recommend stay in old ver. e.g. 9.0.1
I used dolphin browser but I prefer opera mobile
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abdel12345 said:
I used dolphin browser but I prefer opera mobile
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naked browser faster
Hi, I've been using Firefox since I got my Ion back in June 2012, but lately I feel it has gotten a lot slower and it went from crashing the home screen every once in a while to every time I use the browser. By crashing the home screen I mean forcing all the icons and widgets to reload once I exit the browser.
So I'm curious as to what browsers are you guys using now.
The stock browser is very good, fast and has some options
I use it with wifi networks. For 3G I use opera mini
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Hello I'm use stock browser and chrome because chrome I'm using for pc
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Lightning browser is the beeeest, (is like naked, but better UI)
Give it a chance
Maxthon for Android and PC
I use chrome beta ...its good..
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Stock browser.
I was using Chrome and I liked it a lot, but suddenly, after one update, performance dropped horrendously. It was when they introduced smooth scrolling.
Stock browser...its the best!!
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Chrome is good because of connectivity with pc and syncing but it's kinda slow compared to dolphin or stock. And also chrome doesn't support fullscreen which is a negative for me.
Mostly I use dolphin and its really good and now there is a plugin for connectivity with chrome and syncing tabs between pc and phone. Whenever I am on 3g I use opera mini, it is really good with data usage and pages open faster because they are compressed.
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Dolphin Browser,because it was (again WAS) a perfect and fast browser that I ever had when first time installing it...now,after a ton of update for the browser,it occasionally suddenly crash...I can only bear with it since it was a perfect browser for me
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ICS+ browser.
Opera mini & stock browser.
Naked browser
I use ICS Browser +
Based on stock Browser, it feels lightweight and fast, but with many extras and an intuitive handling.
Those that say chrome, cos of the sync with pc, you do know the stock browser does that as well don't you? I found chrome And stock almost identical apart from a few ui differences
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I used to use dolphin browser but in the last update works slowly and i change to firefox.
Stock browser & ucbrowser
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Chrome...
And UC for downloading.
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ICS+ browser.
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this or Dolphin.
Firefox and the browser smallapp Its really handy to Google something etc. while you are preoccupied with something else e.g. Texting
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