I didn't make this, I just found it and put it in a flashable zip.
It was in the meXdroid Pre-Ghost Chili ROM, but for some reason not in the latest AIO version. I think it was also in the CM7 nightlies, but I'm not entirely sure.
Anyway, it just makes the webkit browsers(pretty much all browsers except Opera and Firefox) a little smoother, especially when pinch-zooming in.
I tested this working on CM7 nightly 204 and meXdroid Ghost Chili AIO.
It didn't work on MIUI and Sense ROMS. MIUI hanged at boot and Sense crashed the browser. You can try it if you want though.
Download:
http://www.multiupload.com/P4UCPVX4IY
The .zip flashes 2 files:
system/lib/libwebcore.so
system/lib/libwebkitaccel.so
Do you have some benchmarks or something?
Because I don't know if I will flash it if it is a "little smoother"
Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DZnie3u0YI
Dang! That's smoother than Opera! Wish it was working for MIUI though :/
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It's not smoother than Opera, but it's definitely an improvement.
Zooming out is still a little laggy like normal, and scrolling on large pages(like xda forums expanded view) is still laggy.
I wonder why they removed this from the CM7 nightlys though.
When I first judged the performance, I was basing my observations on the YT video. Now, I'm running CM7 and using the stock browser.
- the stock browser seemed smoother than Dolphin HD, but yes, not as smooth as Opera. Rendering wasn't perfect on Opera 100% of the time though (the google mobile page comes to mind).
- it was definitely smoother than normal, mostly after the page finished loading. When the page was still loading, scrolling was still fairly choppy. But still definitely recommended for those not on Opera.
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Definitely some difference on CM7. Stability is noticeably lower though.
Still not at Opera's level =/
Vellamo shows that it's now running close to 60fps instead of 30fps
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ChronoReverse said:
Definitely some difference on CM7. Stability is noticeably lower though.
Still not at Opera's level =/
Vellamo shows that it's now running close to 60fps instead of 30fps
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I use stock browser on meXdroidmod ghost chili AIO. It is buttery smooth. Way better than the video posted above. I really can't imagine it being better cause its that smooth.
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I actually used meXdroidmod AIO in the video. After I flashed gapps(non modded) it broke the theme.
Also, because all browsers on Android use the same webkit engine, I doubt one is smoother than the other. Because of this, this should work on all those browsers(incl. Dolphin HD).
With the exception of Opera Mobile and Firefox though. Those 2 use their own rendering engine.
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Browser.apk v2.3.3 - Crash after this path
Kernel 2.6.32.28-cyanogenmod-g2dcb436
[email protected] #1
Works great! They removed it from CM due to stability issues but honestly I rather deal with the occasional crash than slow browsing. For shame on all of you who didn't thank the guy for posting this! Wtf is wrong with you people?! Don't worry! I gave you 5 points to make up for it. Also, it only works on 2.3.4 and above...
sino8r said:
Works great! They removed it from CM due to stability issues but honestly I rather deal with the occasional crash than slow browsing. For shame on all of you who didn't thank the guy for posting this! Wtf is wrong with you people?! Don't worry! I gave you 5 points to make up for it. Also, it only works on 2.3.4 and above...
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Thanks
I haven't noticed any stability issues myself though, but I also rather have a occasional crash than the normal choppy browsing. I always had to use Opera, since the stock browsers were so horribly slow.
Let's hope IceCreamSandwich will be better. The ICS browser will supposedly have full hardware acceleration in the browser.
Also, I just tested this on my sisters' Nexus S, and it worked. Perhaps it works on more devices?
KnekKeR said:
Thanks
I haven't noticed any stability issues myself though, but I also rather have a occasional crash than the normal choppy browsing. I always had to use Opera, since the stock browsers were so horribly slow.
Let's hope IceCreamSandwich will be better. The ICS browser will supposedly have full hardware acceleration in the browser.
Also, I just tested this on my sisters' Nexus S, and it worked. Perhaps it works on more devices?
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Yeah, it should work for any phone with 2.3.4 and above. The latest CM Nightlies build 220 has a performance option to smooth scrolling in general. Combine with this and its pretty darn smooth. Opera is a great alternative but its rendering can be screwy sometimes. Plus, it always opens pages in overview which drives me nuts, lol! But ICS, we are ALL looking forward to. I was unaware that the browser would have full hardware acceleration. That's awesome! Our devices have a decent GPU and great CPU so we should be set!
Thanks for the mod, it works well on the CM7 nightly build that I'm running
Is this only for the g2?
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No, it also works on a Nexus S and probably more devices. But I'm not sure if the .zip will work on your device.
If it doesn't, you can just extract the zip and use adb to push "libwebkitaccel.so" and "libwebcore.so" to system/lib/.
Yep it works, snappy. Thanks dude
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sino8r said:
Yeah, it should work for any phone with 2.3.4 and above. The latest CM Nightlies build 220 has a performance option to smooth scrolling in general. Combine with this and its pretty darn smooth. Opera is a great alternative but its rendering can be screwy sometimes. Plus, it always opens pages in overview which drives me nuts, lol! But ICS, we are ALL looking forward to. I was unaware that the browser would have full hardware acceleration. That's awesome! Our devices have a decent GPU and great CPU so we should be set!
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Where is that smooth scrolling option?
I can't find it.
Tommebaas said:
Where is that smooth scrolling option?
I can't find it.
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I believe it's the 16 bit transparency option under CyanogenMod Settings - Performance
theSpam said:
I believe it's the 16 bit transparency option under CyanogenMod Settings - Performance
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It causes some visual artifacts, so it's turned off.
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Hey Guys,
New to GNex community..
I was using SGS2 and switched to GNex just yesterday.. quite happy with it..
I have observed that the Page/App scrolling on ICS is not as fast as it was on Gingerbread, especially in Applications like Facebook and few others..
Is this an issue with ICS or is it that the Apps are still not properly compatible with ICS.
any fix or workaround for this ?
Developer options force gpu acceleration
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I think if you force gpu it fixes it. I don't even have a nexus so I really don't know for sure. Also its actually an apo thing, once gb apps are updated for ics, the problem will be fixed.
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ChongoDroid said:
Developer options force gpu acceleration
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u mean to enable Force GPU rendering ?
will give that a try...
personally i dont find force gpu fixes scrolling for me, it actually makes scrolling worse mostly. Those choppy apps still just need updates i think to ICS like facebook. Perfect example is twitter. It scrolled very choppy and just finally got updated and now smooth like the stock apps.
RogerPodacter said:
personally i dont find force gpu fixes scrolling for me, it actually makes scrolling worse mostly. Those choppy apps still just need updates i think to ICS like facebook. Perfect example is twitter. It scrolled very choppy and just finally got updated and now smooth like the stock apps.
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Twitter was always laggy for me, until I turned on "Force GPU Rendering". Yes the new update fixed it so we don't need to enable this but still.
RogerPodacter said:
personally i dont find force gpu fixes scrolling for me, it actually makes scrolling worse mostly. Those choppy apps still just need updates i think to ICS like facebook. Perfect example is twitter. It scrolled very choppy and just finally got updated and now smooth like the stock apps.
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Same here. This and battery life are the two most debated "problems" with this device. From what I understand 4.0.3/4 are much better in this regard.
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ok guys !!
share what rom are you using ?
and the specific reasons for it !
stock V11a rom - rooted
i am using it because it actually has decent battery life (unlike the v10 series) and because i am waiting for tuesday to put Cyano on it.
I would also like to see the different reasons for using particular roms, good thread idea
@ aaki_rocker what is your rom and why?
For me lol.. depend on what i work on.. right now i use cm-9-20120629-UNOFFICIAL-p930 (my compiled CM9 test build)
CM9 RC1. Running like gravy since it launched. Its fast, smooth, and offers pretty sweet battery life even without HONOs kernel. Oh, and many of the things they released a couple days ago at the Google IO conference work on ICS(google chrome for android is ICS+ only).
Just a few of the perks of running a CM9 rom.
im using hono! not with hono kernel since max keep goin down to 100mhz
HO!NO! said:
@ aaki_rocker what is your rom and why?
For me lol.. depend on what i work on.. right now i use cm-9-20120629-UNOFFICIAL-p930 (my compiled CM9 test build)
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i switch between your flashable ics leak and nightly's of cm9 !
i do nandroid backups of the ics leak before flashing cm9 and i restore it if i get bored ! lol !
and what is the difference between your compiled build and the one from cm team ?
i'll give it a try though !
Cm9-rc. Flashed this morning running quite well.
Was running 0616 nightly lots of random random reboots and Bluetooth issues.
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CM9 RC1. I've hit a few FC glitches, but it may be due to my fault. I'll reflash in the near future and see what I get.
CM9 6/28 with HONO kernel v4
Just like to stay on top of things
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I'm running RC1 with HO!NO! V5 kernel. Its pretty smooth but I do get some occasional FCs. I like it though. And I change themes almost daily.
Edit: Having more force loses than i would like. It has been getting worse and worse. But Still like the fuidity of the rom, But could use a little more butter
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CM9 6/30 with HO!NO! V5 kernel. So far fast and GREAT battery usage (still at 100% for the past 2 hours). :good:
osmosizzz said:
I'm running RC1 with HO!NO! V5 kernel. Its pretty smooth but I do get some occasional FCs. I like it though. And I change themes almost daily.
Edit: Having more force loses than i would like. It has been getting worse and worse. But Still like the fuidity of the rom, But could use a little more butter
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You could try Fix Permissions, works wonders for me.
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I am using Hono's flashable leak.its been 3 weeks.i am having 0% drain in 8-9 hrs sleep mode.and i can play gta 3 2hrs straight from 87% to 15%.having very very rare blue flashes playing 65 (max)fps games...with the fluidity it gone far beyond cm9(because of the lg gashter sensor...i think).also with the display i think leak show true 326 ppi.not even stock that clear its like evrything blend with ur eyes.didnt get it in cm9.i have frozen all the bloatware and google backup transport.also wifi and data turned off while in sleep mode.Good work Hono.while i am writting this post its been 16 hrs in battery and 68%..and i switchd from 4s(tiny ass.. phone).if its display would a liitle more bright.
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Lg geshter sensor shows in CM9 sensor list??
A quick ques why ram shows 785.all 240 hardware reserved?
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Stock gingerbread ROM with HONO's kernel for me! CM9 just isn't as smooth for me, and while the ICS leak is as smooth (if not a smidge smoother than GB stock), the screen digitizer driver seems to not be perfectly calibrated (most noticeable and annoying when using swype or other "dragging/drawing" apps) on the ICS leak, AND it seems in ICS they screwed with the way zooming on images is handled.
1.) First, when web browsing, text doesn't auto align like it used to in GB, regardless of browser (with the exception of Opera, but I don't really like that browser very much)
2.) In email apps which DO allow pinch to zoom on emails with lots of images (such as touchdown and K-9), you can't seem to zoom out anymore in ICS when you could in gingerbread, so you're forced to have to slide around a ginormous email image to take a look at it rather than zoom out entirely and get an overview.
If anyone else knows of an email app that allows pinch to zoom to zoom OUT of a large email far enough to get a complete page overview in ICS, let me know. (I'm aware K-9 and touchdown still allow the zoom function, but they seem to cap how far you can zoom out in ICS far below getting a full image, when this isn't the case for these programs in gingerbread. Some strange global setting in ICS, it seems...)
itiskonrad said:
Stock gingerbread ROM with HONO's kernel for me! CM9 just isn't as smooth for me, and while the ICS leak is as smooth (if not a smidge smoother than GB stock), the screen digitizer driver seems to not be perfectly calibrated (most noticeable and annoying when using swype or other "dragging/drawing" apps) on the ICS leak, AND it seems in ICS they screwed with the way zooming on images is handled.
1.) First, when web browsing, text doesn't auto align like it used to in GB, regardless of browser (with the exception of Opera, but I don't really like that browser very much)
2.) In email apps which DO allow pinch to zoom on emails with lots of images (such as touchdown and K-9), you can't seem to zoom out anymore in ICS when you could in gingerbread, so you're forced to have to slide around a ginormous email image to take a look at it rather than zoom out entirely and get an overview.
If anyone else knows of an email app that allows pinch to zoom to zoom OUT of a large email far enough to get a complete page overview in ICS, let me know. (I'm aware K-9 and touchdown still allow the zoom function, but they seem to cap how far you can zoom out in ICS far below getting a full image, when this isn't the case for these programs in gingerbread. Some strange global setting in ICS, it seems...)
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i use maildroid !
i dont know whether pinch zoom is supported or not but its worth a shot !
I've tried fixing permissions to get rid of the force close but nothing. But itabnot force close in a sence. Its whenever I try to start an app, of the phone process, or the system setting, it say that unfortunately the *process name* is not responding. I've flashed the rom 3 times consecutively and the kernel and fixed permissions and the same things still happens. :-/. Guess its just my luck
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aaki_rocker said:
i use maildroid !
i dont know whether pinch zoom is supported or not but its worth a shot !
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Thanks for the suggestion!
I gave it a shot. Unfortunately, it also won't allow zooming out on emails if installed on ics even though when it's installed on gingerbread, it zooms out just fine. It's definitely a systemic issue on all ics-based roms for all phones. People have been complaining about it for all ics phones, not just the Nitro. Oh well. Till they change that, I'm sticking with gingerbread! Because of what I work with, tons of my emails are ginormous, and I need to be able to get a full overview for it to be useful. I don't have any major qualms with gingerbread anyway. Honestly, I just wanted to get rid of the color banding, but that'll just have to wait =P
osmosizzz said:
I've tried fixing permissions to get rid of the force close but nothing. But itabnot force close in a sence. Its whenever I try to start an app, of the phone process, or the system setting, it say that unfortunately the *process name* is not responding. I've flashed the rom 3 times consecutively and the kernel and fixed permissions and the same things still happens. :-/. Guess its just my luck
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Try a complete wipe (including your SD card). Also, don't restore anything from TiBu. Sometimes that will clean things out.
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CM9 RC1
I hate this. Because CM9 & AOKP are so freakin awesome. Great battery life
and incredible GUI options. Especially AOKP which I liked better than CM9.
But as good as they are, I'm just getting bettery performance with stock when it
comes to my only PERSONAL test. This doesn't mean stock is better overall. It
just means stock is better for the one test that I have which is pretty hard on a
phone.
I've tried CM9 as well as AOKP based on both ICS and Jelly Bean. Also tried
multiple kernels and performance settings. But no matter what I try, they all lag
REALLY BAD on this webpage that has tons of gifs on it:
WARNING: Some pages on this thread have nudity.
The direct page I'm linking is pretty PG13 though.
http://www.labusas.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151633&page=3
I like to show the gifs to my bar buddies. And can't do that with CM9/AOKP, but
stock ROM does it flawlessly. No lag for me at all when scrolling up/down the
thread page I posted. All the video gif's play nice & smooth.
With CM9/AOKP, they all judder/halt-stop/lag.
If I'm doing something wrong, please let me know. Cuz I really want to go back
to AOKP!
CZ Eddie said:
I hate this. Because CM9 & AOKP are so freakin awesome. Great battery life
and incredible GUI options. Especially AOKP which I liked better than CM9.
But as good as they are, I'm just getting bettery performance with stock when it
comes to my only PERSONAL test. This doesn't mean stock is better overall. It
just means stock is better for the one test that I have which is pretty hard on a
phone.
I've tried CM9 as well as AOKP based on both ICS and Jelly Bean. Also tried
multiple kernels and performance settings. But no matter what I try, they all lag
REALLY BAD on this webpage that has tons of gifs on it:
WARNING: Some pages on this thread have nudity.
The direct page I'm linking is pretty PG13 though.
http://www.labusas.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151633&page=3
I like to show the gifs to my bar buddies. And can't do that with CM9/AOKP, but
stock ROM does it flawlessly. No lag for me at all when scrolling up/down the
thread page I posted. All the video gif's play nice & smooth.
With CM9/AOKP, they all judder/halt-stop/lag.
If I'm doing something wrong, please let me know. Cuz I really want to go back
to AOKP!
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1. nandroid backup your current cm9/aokp rom
2. flash stock/touchwiz based rom
3. show your bar buddies the website you provided and giggle while you're scrolling like there's no tomorrow
4. after the bar, nandroid restore
problem solved
Thanks.
I already flashed a ROM called Resurrection [TEAM_INSOMNIA] and it's doing nicely so far.
I just went to that website with chrome on a JB rom to test, it's smooth as hell.
So you must be doing something wrong.
Just ran that site on cm9 using Chrome. Loaded almost instantly and was insane smooth. People are quick to blame the phone and software. User error maybe?
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I have been happy with stock ironically enough. I'll root so I can do some custom things but touch wiz hasn't bothered me much.
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Lag? It's got to be something youre doing.
samsung has done an awesome job with the stock TW on this phone so keep going back to stock every now and then. However the flashaholic in me wants to try every new ROM that comes out on xda. I always keep a nandroind of rooted+deboated stock handy.
Tophaholic said:
samsung has done an awesome job with the stock TW on this phone so keep going back to stock every now and then. However the flashaholic in me wants to try every new ROM that comes out on xda. I always keep a nandroind of rooted+deboated stock handy.
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This is true, stock wasnt horrifically as bad as I thought it would be then again I wanted to see cm9 running on this. Can you recommend a stock-like custom rom in the dev section? Or just stock itself is getting par performance as the custom ones?
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superprelude said:
I just went to that website with chrome on a JB rom to test, it's smooth as hell.
So you must be doing something wrong.
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Which JB ROM?
bootloopz said:
Just ran that site on cm9 using Chrome. Loaded almost instantly and was insane smooth. People are quick to blame the phone and software. User error maybe?
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I don't know what I could possibly be doing wrong.
I've tried two different SIII phones.
My LTE and also my 20Mbps WiFi.
Three different CM9/CM10 based ROM's.
Stock browser & Dolphin.
Always full wipe between ROM flashes.
Tried naked ROM's, without any setup or app installs by me.
Stock works great, CM9/CM10 doesn't.
What the flip!?!
CZ Eddie said:
Which JB ROM?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766684
Task's AOKP
superprelude said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766684
Task's AOKP
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Yep, tried that one.
Weird.
Chrome has been laggy and buggy for me on both stock and JB, I tried ICS browser+ and that works so much better IMO. Super smooth and fast
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I'm on aokp with stock kernel. Using chrome that website loafs perfect and smooth. With the custom kernels I was getting slow downloads page loading and bad battery. Stock kernel working fine on aokp.
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Running CM10 and Chrome and that page is perfectly smooth once it finally loads. From my experience, loading 50 animated GIFs at once is murder on any connection.
Okay this is distressing.
I've tried EVERYTHING to get CM9/CM10/AOKP to work smoothly on the page I linked above. Nothing worked.
And stock works perfectly each & every time I go back to it, on the first try.
Is there ANYONE else on CM9/CM10/AOKP who gets studdering/jerky behavior with those gifs? After the page loads up, the gifs should start playing and keep playing smoothly as you scroll up & down the page. No stopping, then starting.
in aokp/chrome, the scrolling is smooth yes but the gif playback kinda lags behind until you lift your finger off the touchscreen or until the scrolling stops
jxs1984 said:
in aokp/chrome, the scrolling is smooth yes but the gif playback kinda lags behind until you lift your finger off the touchscreen or until the scrolling stops
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Thanks, yeah it's not supposed to do that.
The gif animimation should be playing smoothly non-stop, even as you scroll up and down the webpage. All of the gifs should play smooth at all times, not just one or two.
CZ Eddie said:
Thanks, yeah it's not supposed to do that.
The gif animimation should be playing smoothly non-stop, even as you scroll up and down the webpage. All of the gifs should play smooth at all times, not just one or two.
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I don't see that happening. I mean my core i7 desktop barely plays gifs sometimes. I wonder if more resources devoted to the interface in JB is making it "perform worse", in terms of viewing gifs.
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+1 if you laughed your **** off at the gif's on that page.
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Does anyone fine scrolling a webpage on Google chrome a little bit slow as oppose to the stock browsers ?
It doesn't seem to do it on the nexus 7 and our didn't seem to on the gallacy s3, only see the issue on my note 2. Is anyone else experience this issue?
Same story here. The stock browser scrolls and zooms much smoother.
I've been seeing the same thing. I had the same issue on my GS2 and thought it was just the older hardware, guess not. Been thinking of switching to an alternative browser.
Personally I love chrome and have had no issues.
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Try Boat browser you wont look back, install Adobe Flash from XDA video below on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI87D7lVyA
For me chrome is also laggy. Best for me is stock+full screen and gestures....
I have to agree, It seems that the stock browser seems to work pretty well under most situations. I'm not sure why chrome behaves this way, it was the same on my note 1.
Chrome is bit laggy than stock browser.it was same issue on s3 too.
Before rooting when screen dim, I can click home screen and it returns to where I was.but now it closes down to homescreen.
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Does it perform any better with a different ROM? My nexus7 never had the issue, it was buttery-smooth and its only sporting a tegra3 CPU. I feel as if its maybe some sort of graphical driver or something...
The stock browser works fine, buttery smooth, almost as good as iPhone/Safari, but I'm at a loss as to explain chrome.. It worked fine on the S3 I tried at the shops (I think it was the I9305?). Has anyone had any insight as to why it might be slowish on some and faster on other devices?
kebabs said:
Does it perform any better with a different ROM? My nexus7 never had the issue, it was buttery-smooth and its only sporting a tegra3 CPU. I feel as if its maybe some sort of graphical driver or something...
The stock browser works fine, buttery smooth, almost as good as iPhone/Safari, but I'm at a loss as to explain chrome.. It worked fine on the S3 I tried at the shops (I think it was the I9305?). Has anyone had any insight as to why it might be slowish on some and faster on other devices?
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Chrome is laggy on any device including the Nexus 7 that I sold.
Chrome is laggy on my ipad 3 as well. Stock browsers seem to be much better integrated with cpu / gpu. Even on ipad safari owns chrome in terms of smoothness.
I have the Omega ROM on my Note II and Chrome is very stuttery when scrolling. I really like the way Chrome works but just can't use it due to the jerkiness of the scrolling, and it's also slower when flinging up and down long pages.
At the moment using Dolphin which uses the built in engine with it's own UI on top and liking it mostly. Will give Boat a try though.
elease early, release often. Today, we’re introducing Chrome Beta channel for phones and tablets on Android 4.0+. The Beta channel was launched in the early days of Chrome to test out new features and fix issues fast. Our newest Beta channel for phones and tablets now joins our Beta versions of Chrome for Mac, Windows, Linux and Chrome OS.
You can expect early access to new features (and bugs!), as well as a chance to provide feedback on what’s on the way. Just like our other Beta versions, the new features may be a little rough around the edges, but we’ll be pushing periodic updates so you can test out our latest work as soon as it’s ready. Even better, you can install the Beta alongside your current version of Chrome for Android.
Chrome for Android now benefits from all the speed, security and other improvements that have been landing on Chrome’s other platforms. For example, in today’s Beta update we have improved the Octane performance benchmark on average by 25-30%. In addition, this update includes interesting HTML5 features for developers such as CSS Filters. This is just one step of many towards bringing beautiful experiences to the mobile web.
Ready? Use it, abuse it, and tell us what you think. Our new Chrome Beta for Android is available now on Google Play (use the link, you won't find it in search)!
Posted by Jason Kersey, Technical Program Manager & Mobile Cat Herder
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/01/our-newest-beta-for-android-phones-and.html
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Difference is that Chrome Beta has newer features than Chrome on the Play Store.
Download Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.beta
... Personally I prefer the newest & latest stuff so I will be replacing Chrome with Chrome Beta on my N4. Posting for awareness.
Looking forward to try this out once I get home
Ngo93 said:
Looking forward to try this out once I get home
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Hopefully it will have more performance increases Google Blog said that you have to install it via the Play Store website otherwise you won't find it on the Play store. It probably does have increases as it does say it increases benchmarks.
Chrome for Android now benefits from all the speed, security and other improvements that have been landing on Chrome’s other platforms. For example, in today’s Beta update we have improved the Octane performance benchmark on average by 25-30%. In addition, this update includes interesting HTML5 features for developers such as CSS Filters. This is just one step of many towards bringing beautiful experiences to the mobile web.
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I decided to run sun spider on it the results are here
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r0cafella said:
I decided to run sun spider on it the results are here
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Mind comparing the stable Chrome and the stock browser as well as others? would be interesting to see the differences.
zephiK said:
Mind comparing the stable Chrome and the stock browser as well as others? would be interesting to see the differences.
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Looking at the benchmarks sun spider performance seems the same as regular chrome
I will test on AOSP Browser now
AOSP Results :-
1578.1ms
These tests I'm doing are anything but scientific BTW.
Ram hasn't been cleared I'm running paranoid android on stock kernel with stock clocks
On demand is governor iirc
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I didn't clear the RAM either. I have weird results:
Chrome Stable: 1952.0 ms
Chrome Beta: 1333.0 ms
AOSP: 1557.5 ms
lol?
another blog post,
http://googlechromereleases.blogspo...+GoogleChromeReleases+(Google+Chrome+Releases)
Performance is sluggish, noticeably on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S
Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver
Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites
164632 - Editing bookmark feature is broken
165244 - Text position handler jumps or disappears when moving
163439 - Clicking on links in yahoo.com not navigating on Nexus 7
166233 - Unable to submit comments on Facebook posts in desktop version of Facebook
165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
167351 - Youtube video controls are lost after returning from fullscreen video mode
162486 - iframe scrolling broken
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It's fast but pretty laggy when scrolling
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I might give it a try..but dolphin beta has been plenty fast for me.
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ztmike said:
I might give it a try..but dolphin beta has been plenty fast for me.
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Doesn't hurt to try I'm sure that eventually, it will get to the stage of stability as the AOSP Browser.
Try using www.theverge.com, IMO ASOP is still smoother, I now this is beta, but seriously Google please do not release Chrome v25 and still be less smooth than stock browser.
I like all the features, and it's nice that has better benchmark scores, but it's still kinda laggy/stuttery while scrolling. Not buttery smooth like AOSP Browser or Dolphin Beta.
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Try using www.theverge.com, IMO ASOP is still smoother, I now this is beta, but seriously Google please do not release Chrome v25 and still be less smooth than stock browser.
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Well that's the whole point of Beta.
Chrome Stable (how it was before today)
Chrome Beta (how it is today)
I personally don't feel any lag on Chrome and feels as smooth as AOSP browser. I never felt any lag on Chrome, but I do like AOSP Browser simply because it's Holo themed.
Is it just me or have they changed the page formatting for the beta? One thing I've always like about Chrome on Android is that pages are rendered and formatted so that text is nice and legible by default without having to zoom in all the time.
With this beta, page rendering seems to mirror AOSP and other browsers now. The same web site doesn't display the same in stable and beta.
Attached screenshots to show what I mean
just tried and still as disappointing as ever. won't use until smoothness is at least as buttery as aosp browser
So far, Chrome beta works perfectly, no input lag, scrolls nice and fast and smooth. Stock ROM, rooted, Franco v30 kernel.
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So far, Chrome beta works perfectly, no input lag, scrolls nice and fast and smooth. Stock ROM, rooted, Franco v30 kernel.
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I just tried it using the desktop verge and it seems to be significantly smoother. But, use chrome only as my second browser. [AOSP browser smoothness + full screen + quick controls = WIN!!] .
So, have replaced the std. chrome with chrome beta for now. I hope they add support for full screen and gesture controls. [ the current swipe from edge to switch tabs is quite diff to do one handed]
Been using it since last night, seems faster but there are still little niggles to it. But it's labeled beta so I can't complain. Just give it time and it will be as fast as chrome on Linux.
EDIT: Sorry, bit of a derp there. I meant as fast as it is on Ubuntu etc. Android is Linux Lol.
A Nexus Connoisseur!! AOSPA!! Franco Kernel!!
Weird, the other day I was wondering why we don't have a Chrome Beta for Mobile devices.
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Sweet! I'm not going to worry about the minute performance hiccups. It's nice to know I'm on the latest and greatest.