Am I the only one who finds the Browser in Android painful to use?
Slow, clunky, jerky no matter whether your on 3G or Wifi?
Henchman said:
Am I the only one who finds the Browser in Android painful to use?
Slow, clunky, jerky no matter whether your on 3G or Wifi?
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Are there any better full html browsers for other mobile platforms that are significantly better? I don't recall iPhone's browser being significantly faster (natch, as they both use webkit for a core). iPhone scrolls more smoothly but the Android browser doesn't do the annoying checkering if you scroll out of the rendered region.
jashsu said:
Are there any better full html browsers for other mobile platforms that are significantly better? I don't recall iPhone's browser being significantly faster (natch, as they both use webkit for a core). iPhone scrolls more smoothly but the Android browser doesn't do the annoying checkering if you scroll out of the rendered region.
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I'm not talking about the iPhone.
I'm talking about the crap performance of the G1 browser.
And yes, the Android browser should be better. Not the same or worse than any other available web browsers.
Isn't that the POINT of Android?
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I'm not talking about the iPhone.
I'm talking about the crap performance of the G1 browser.
And yes, the Android browser should be better. Not the same or worse than any other available web browsers.
Isn't that the POINT of Android?
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Well, I think for a full html browser the Android browser is doing a pretty decent job? You should keep in mind that some of the lag associated with loading a page over 3G is due to the lag associated with a wireless air interface. So that fifth of a second will never go away no matter how fast the cpu or how efficient the browser code.
I wasn't trying to say you were talking about the iPhone. Rather, I was trying to establish a context for overall mobile browser performance.
I havent been to happy with it lately...I let it slide for a while thinking it was because I only have EDGE in my area, but i went to Wash-DC a few weeks ago and it still sucked on 3G.
If you have root on your phone, consider Cyanogen's stable build (3.2 at the time of writing). I switched to that from JF's 1.51 and I've noticed a drastic increase in performance in everything (not just the browser). I also have noticed no appreciable degradation in battery performance. I highly recommend it.
You may take my advice with a grain of salt though since your complaint is with the browser performance. I have no data plan so all my net access is done over wifi.
I just got my G1 about a week ago. If it had not been for cyanogen's build, I would have taken the phone back and lived with an iPhone (I don't like software keyboards or Apple).
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If you have root on your phone, consider Cyanogen's stable build (3.2 at the time of writing). I switched to that from JF's 1.51 and I've noticed a drastic increase in performance in everything (not just the browser). I also have noticed no appreciable degradation in battery performance. I highly recommend it.
You may take my advice with a grain of salt though since your complaint is with the browser performance. I have no data plan so all my net access is done over wifi.
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Cyanogen's ROM's rock.
This latest one is awesome, and smooth.
Just wonder why it wasn't like this out of the box.
I'm hoping to see a Cyanogen version of Hero soon.
I, too, dread using the browser. I use opera mini 9 times out of 10. I find that it takes a minimum of 20-30 seconds to OPEN the stock browser, let alone do anything. Why must it always refresh the page that it was last on when you reopen it? I am always reaching for Menu -> stop.
Recently I set the homepage to about:blank
This helps a little for what it's worth.
Swapper used to work well to help with the browser suck, but it's not yet compatible with cupcake and it definitely had it's quirks
Try Steel. Much faster and better designed in my opinion. The sliders rule. Check out developer's website for beta cupcake version, it rocks.
The only thing that really annoys me is that whole refreshing thing. I look at a text message and then I have to refresh a page it took a minute to load in the first place? Aggrivating, As for overall performance, yes for a full HTML browser on a handheld its pretty damned good. Content heavy pages will always load slower on it and honestly I havent uses a better mobile browser than it (with the exception of Opera Mobile [not mini]).
performance issue !!
To be honest i love the performance of the browser untill i find myself in an area that only just has GPRS but not 3g or edge coverage.
GPRS is just not fast ata all and thats all iv found to affect performance, try comparing it to say internet explorer mobile or opera on any windows mobile device !!
also try browsing while connected to wifi network, it flys !!
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As I mentioned earlier, consider trying Swapper to help with the browser. It has been updated to work with android 1.5 now
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=483110&page=4
My experience with the browser is pretty good. The only thing I don't like about it is that when we press stop, it usually stops at a blank page. Or when we press back, we can't tell if it's going back yet, so we (I atleast), press it twice and it goes back twice. Or when we press back, it doesn't stop loading right away, it waits a few seconds or sometimes even full loads the page that it's currently loading.
Other than lack of multitouch I don't see too much of a difference between the iphone in rendering or speed. IMO the G1 and Iphone browsers behave like chrome and safari respectively, and are pretty much the same.
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I'm not very happy with the broswing on the HTC Dream (Rogers user here in Canada) It renders pages fantastically, I've gotten used to the panning around and such when the fit-to screen doesn't really do a great job.
The major issue I have is the fact that when I switch to another application, no matter what app, when I come back to the broswer the page seems to reload. Also, if I start to load a page and switch to another app, when I come back to the browser it seems as though it was waiting for me to come back before finishing the page load I tasked it to do while I was off in another app.
Is there an option I'm missing that can stop this from happening? It's annoying. I'm used to my Sidekick LX loading a webpage while I'm doing something else! This device is much more powerful, why can't it multi-task as well? ARRGH!
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I'm not very happy with the broswing on the HTC Dream (Rogers user here in Canada) It renders pages fantastically, I've gotten used to the panning around and such when the fit-to screen doesn't really do a great job.
The major issue I have is the fact that when I switch to another application, no matter what app, when I come back to the broswer the page seems to reload. Also, if I start to load a page and switch to another app, when I come back to the browser it seems as though it was waiting for me to come back before finishing the page load I tasked it to do while I was off in another app.
Is there an option I'm missing that can stop this from happening? It's annoying. I'm used to my Sidekick LX loading a webpage while I'm doing something else! This device is much more powerful, why can't it multi-task as well? ARRGH!
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It's a caching issue. There simply isn't enough available to have the browser/webpage sitting in cache while you perform other tasks.
In comparison to a Sidekick, I'd rather have a G1 that renders pages correctly in lieu of loading in the background.
don't get me wrong, I love how the G1/Dream renders webpages. I suppose it's just something I have to get used to.
I loved the SK because it was such a work horse. I didn't need to view any flashy pages, and the server side magic they did with webpage rendering to fit on the SK screen is something I wish my G1 could do. The SK could also switch back and forth between apps without lag, the short cuts responded quickly, and there was no "Oh... what? Oh... I see what you want to do!" feeling that Dream gives me every once in a while.
In all honesty, if Fido (i'm in Canada) had not decomissioned my hiptop data plan, thus killing my SK, I'd still be using it.
Having said all that though, as my sig says, I miss my SK (it did have it's issues with non-loading certain pages) but I'm starting to love this little device I've got my hands on now. I love it for its potential, I just hope that it lives up to it! The market is fantastic and when we get root (again, we are in Canada using Rogers branded htc devices) I'm sure I will be even happier.
i<3andr0id said:
don't get me wrong, I love how the G1/Dream renders webpages. I suppose it's just something I have to get used to.
I loved the SK because it was such a work horse. I didn't need to view any flashy pages, and the server side magic they did with webpage rendering to fit on the SK screen is something I wish my G1 could do. The SK could also switch back and forth between apps without lag, the short cuts responded quickly, and there was no "Oh... what? Oh... I see what you want to do!" feeling that Dream gives me every once in a while.
In all honesty, if Fido (i'm in Canada) had not decomissioned my hiptop data plan, thus killing my SK, I'd still be using it.
Having said all that though, as my sig says, I miss my SK (it did have it's issues with non-loading certain pages) but I'm starting to love this little device I've got my hands on now. I love it for its potential, I just hope that it lives up to it! The market is fantastic and when we get root (again, we are in Canada using Rogers branded htc devices) I'm sure I will be even happier.
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Right, I get what you mean. I came from various Windows Mobile devices and it took me a while to get used to Android. After I did though, I'd find myself using somebody elses non-Android phone and going "wait, it can't do that?? they still make phones like this??"
Awesome.
don't even get me started on winmo... I had a winmo phone for the interm between my sk decomission and the htc dream release in canada. It took me forever to get it setup in a way that I could live with it.
I love the ui of the dream/g1. Eveything is so intuitive. After only a few days of using my dream, I used a friends winmo device and I actually touched the screen because I had become so accustomed to doing so with my dream. I was all, "oh! that's right, i have to click with this button. how quaint!"
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Has anyone who has tried the Desire browser noticed that the loading speeds are much much much quicker than the stock Android?
I used KingK's Desire2Nexus for 1 day. Now I'm on CM 5.0.4 default. Loading up XDA on CM/default browser seems like there's a hang around the middle of the loading, and also 3/4 of the way there. On KingK, the loading speed was blazing going page to page. There was absolutely no hang at all.
Anyone else notice this?
Is it possible to use this browser without rooting?
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Is it possible to use this browser without rooting?
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Nope...it's tied into the HTC framework. For what it's worth, the stock browser has improved quite a bit from Android 1.5 even... the Hero browser was way nicer at that time. The difference now is negligible to be honest.
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Has anyone who has tried the Desire browser noticed that the loading speeds are much much much quicker than the stock Android?
I used KingK's Desire2Nexus for 1 day. Now I'm on CM 5.0.4 default. Loading up XDA on CM/default browser seems like there's a hang around the middle of the loading, and also 3/4 of the way there. On KingK, the loading speed was blazing going page to page. There was absolutely no hang at all.
Anyone else notice this?
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I had the exact opposite experience, lol.
I too noticed a big boost in speed with the Desire browsr.
Maybe some of you rooted peeps can post a comparison on Youtube. Just make sure to clear the cache before recording, lol... Don't need another Engadget-type video.
To me it seems faster, also has more features like the long press on any word and it will give u options for copy, translate, Wikipedia, and dictionary.
Can't say I have felt a noticeable difference in speed, though I enjoy the extra features of the HTC browser. Worth noting, though, that it doesn't let you open as many windows as the stock one.
No No No No Noooo LOL
The Desire browser sucks in my testing
Multi touch pinch and zoom is a big let down, it jumps around the screen and is just terrible
Also most pages i normally visit on a day to day basis just stop loading at the http part of the bar :|
Also in my experience is closed itself all the time, just like ended :|
But hey thats just in my experience lol
It doesn't "jump around the screen" as such. The text just gets readjusted to fit into your screen properly the way it does on the stock browser when you double-tap.
I've noticed that I'm less accurate in choosing links on the Desire browser. But it's an alpha, so not that surprising.
My biggest issue with the N1 in general is touchscreen accuracy; I really hope it's gradually fixed in software.
ive noticed it too! Actually ive noticed almost everything to be faster on the desire rom..(im using kings)..and the flash player is awsome..it works for everything but hulu for me..and the pinch zoom works perfect for me too..i remember their use to be a stutter compared to the iphone, but then i went to the apple store yesterday and compared my nexus running on desire rom with the 3gs and the nexus seemed much more fluid
i just got my tmobile g2 and after putting my email in and unlocking it for my att sim, i feel like is a little bit choppy. the scrolling in the web browser (i dint even install flash) and the responsiveness of the buttons, it doesn't feel as snappy as the the iphone 4. i remember when i was using the n1 with 2.2 a while back is a bit smoother. is it because i been using the iphone for too long? or is it because its preloaded with too much app? i don't think thats the case since the android rom it self is stock. will the smoothness of the ui improves when you put in a different rom when permit root is possible in the future?
one more thing, is it possible to add touch focus to the camera and video recording?
I don't know what you did but the G2 is incrediblly snappy for me. No lags at all. I'm even playing some heavy duty games, like Asphalt (racing game) and I do not notice any lags at all.
thats what i was expecting too, i dint do anything to my g2 is out of the back from the store
flash comes pre-installed.
Have you tried rebooting?
What are your linpack scores?
I too find G2 a bit choppy (after playing with my friend's iPhone4) but I think that's just the way Android is. It can do so much more but we have to sacrifice some smoothness in return. Seems to lag a bit more on home screens. Browser, maps, other apps are just fine.
Also, with Android 2.2, you have to use a phone for a while for it to achieve it's full potential. Something about JIT getting better over the time.
I had the same thing happen to me after i put my work email through microsoft exchange active sync. i ended up putting the check email frequency to never cause i always check it every morning and night to reply and that seemed to clear up that issue. it might be a bug with microsoft exchange active sync or the email app itself. hope that helps.
Honestly after the G1 I didn't believe android could run without lag, but my G2 never lags at all. Well maybe twice I've noticed a tiny second of lag coming back to the home screen but that's it. That being said, one of my friends got a g2 too and his is a little laggy here and there... gotta be particular apps/widgets causing issues in my opinion... with him in particular I think its the anyRSS widget, but I could be wrong of course. I love this phone
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i just got my tmobile g2 and after putting my email in and unlocking it for my att sim, i feel like is a little bit choppy. the scrolling in the web browser (i dint even install flash) and the responsiveness of the buttons, it doesn't feel as snappy as the the iphone 4. i remember when i was using the n1 with 2.2 a while back is a bit smoother. is it because i been using the iphone for too long? or is it because its preloaded with too much app? i don't think thats the case since the android rom it self is stock. will the smoothness of the ui improves when you put in a different rom when permit root is possible in the future?
one more thing, is it possible to add touch focus to the camera and video recording?
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Laggy? No, not at all. Not even a little bit. Nope. Whoosh, eat my dust iPhone. Uh, you don't have to install flash, it is preloaded...you could turn it off. Must be something wrong with your trying to run on ATT.
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My g1 and my g2 BOTH lag blatantly when connected to cheap third party power cords fyi. They work fine on decent power cords, but glitch on the made-in-china, 3 chargers for 99 cents adapter cords.
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The g2 certainly lags in the browser. On more complex webpages the scrolling is not very smooth at all. Load up a flash heavy site and its really bad. I find It really hard to control flash players and stuff. You have to zoom way in to get any buttons to register like on myspace music.
Set flash to "on demand."
Overall I have no lag. when i first got mine (oct 6) there was a delay when i tried to scroll the app drawer. The issues has a since disappear. This thing is snappy and blazing fast.
I think he might be referring to the "smoothness". Unfortunately all android phones have a tendency to stutter when scrolling.
There is no 2D graphics acceleration in the UI, as google did not want to have issues with the older 528mhz phones. Hopefully this will be resolved in 3.0.
The newer faster phones (Like the G2) can hide this with their raw CPU performance, but occasionally if its multitasking or doing something else it will stutter/lag. For now, Windows Phone 7, and iPhone's will always be "smoother". Until we get some decent UI acceleration .
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The g2 certainly lags in the browser. On more complex webpages the scrolling is not very smooth at all. Load up a flash heavy site and its really bad. I find It really hard to control flash players and stuff. You have to zoom way in to get any buttons to register like on myspace music.
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do you have adobe flash 10.1 installed? Keep it on your phone internal memory not sdcard. If you are running stock browser or Xscope or skyfire (or even fennec) just clear the caches regularly. Otherwise there is no reason why the phone should be lagging. Also in settings, set flash player to "on demand" not "always"
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do you have adobe flash 10.1 installed? Keep it on your phone internal memory not sdcard. If you are running stock browser or Xscope or skyfire (or even fennec) just clear the caches regularly. Otherwise there is no reason why the phone should be lagging. Also in settings, set flash player to "on demand" not "always"
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I'm actually talking with flash off though and comparing the g2 side by side a captivate. So android's ui is not hardware accelerated but the galaxy s phones are able to totally mask that. Its not a big difference but a shame that the g2 processor doesn't keep up with the hummingbird. Now someone could explain to me that its because we are running 2.2 but I thought it was actually supposed to be faster than 2.1.
my phone is fast. there is a difference between lag and choppiness. lag is when there is a delay between when you tell the phone to do something and when it does it. choppiness is a lack of smoothness in scrolling. some apps are more choppy than than others. like the stock music app is way too choppy when scrolling lists. the browser is choppy. the contacts list is pretty smooth. but in terms of lag, I don't have any lag.
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my phone is fast. there is a difference between lag and choppiness. lag is when there is a delay between when you tell the phone to do something and when it does it. choppiness is a lack of smoothness in scrolling. some apps are more choppy than than others. like the stock music app is way too choppy when scrolling lists. the browser is choppy. the contacts list is pretty smooth. but in terms of lag, I don't have any lag.
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Yeah that makes sense. My captivate is not choppy in the browser at all and my g2 is slightly choppy. It seriously makes me sad.
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i just got my tmobile g2 and after putting my email in and unlocking it for my att sim, i feel like is a little bit choppy. the scrolling in the web browser (i dint even install flash) and the responsiveness of the buttons, it doesn't feel as snappy as the the iphone 4. i remember when i was using the n1 with 2.2 a while back is a bit smoother. is it because i been using the iphone for too long? or is it because its preloaded with too much app? i don't think thats the case since the android rom it self is stock. will the smoothness of the ui improves when you put in a different rom when permit root is possible in the future?
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I think most of the Web browser choppiness is due to the fact your use At&t network for browsing on the G2 which will only get you slow speeds since it can't use At&t's 3G. This would be expected. Try wifi and see if you still have the choppiness. I don't know about your button issue though.
So I was really looking forward to getting a galaxy tab, primarily for web browsing. Then I saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvCXMARtl0
What is the deal with the stuttering jaggy web browsing experience? Can someone that has a tab let me know if a third party browser can make browsing a little less, bleh?
The Galaxy Tab has Flash running in on the webpage.
Look at 0:08 on the video, you can see on the iPad that there are two bars marked "FLASH" disabled. It's suppose to have the banner for "HTC" on it.
Yeah, flash is SERIOUSLY CPU heavy. In fact that's how apple justifies not using it on any of its mobile devices. On closer inspection, there's more than just two 'FLASH' bars on the iPad, I count at least 4.
If you want it to good THAT fast then turn flash off.
On the other hand, do you look at websites by pinging back and forth on them so fast you can't read the text ? Personally, I scroll slowly down, and only move quickly infrequently when I want to 'go to top' or 'go to bottom'. If you actually read websites, the video doesn't really show off a whole lot. Its not comparing like with like, and its not comparing a real life situation, so it doesn't matter.
I have the tab. Some sites with flash will run just fine.
Others will simply cause the browser to be unusable. I have no explanation to this.
I compare a site that is unusable on the tab with my Droid x and on the droidx the site runs just fine with flash enabled.
Maybe. This is a software issue which is unrelated to flash and can be fixed in a future firmware update.
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I have the tab. Some sites with flash will run just fine.
Others will simply cause the browser to be unusable. I have no explanation to this.
I compare a site that is unusable on the tab with my Droid x and on the droidx the site runs just fine with flash enabled.
Maybe. This is a software issue which is unrelated to flash and can be fixed in a future firmware update.
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Quote possibly. Samsung have been slow to release Froyo for the galaxy, so maybe the flash thing isn't just the Tab, its the architecture. Maybe they can't get the hummingbird GFX to accelerate properly.
I have a Tab since 1 week and yes...the browsing experience is really awful. it's a pain...it's slow in loading pages and VERY jaggy in scrolling.
If I think that it should be one of the best features on the Tab I'm very sad and I really hope that it will be fixed (ad least improved) soon in future releases!
By now I just can't leave my ipad for internet browsing.
It looks like both the SGS and the Tab are suffering from the same issue with the browser.
Samsung will have no choice but to fix this.
Dolphin and Opera
Yes browsing with stock browser is really slow and jaggy. I've installed Opera mini and Dolphin. I use Opera for casual browsing (ie xda) and it's really smooth. When I need flash, or for "difficult sites" or if I have to download with rapidhare etc I use Dolphin (which is almost smooth).
Thank you all for your honest opinions.
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Yes browsing with stock browser is really slow and jaggy. I've installed Opera mini and Dolphin. I use Opera for casual browsing (ie xda) and it's really smooth. When I need flash, or for "difficult sites" or if I have to download with rapidhare etc I use Dolphin (which is almost smooth).
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Dolphin uses the same core lib as the stock browser so it should run the same as stock in terms of speed.
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Dolphin uses the same core lib as the stock browser so it should run the same as stock in terms of speed.
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Didnt know. In practice it's really smoother though!
The webkit browser has a really annoying renderer in general. I dont understand why it needs to lower picture quality whenever you move the image around.
Just look at the way opera mini does it - much faster and better looking! Sadly its buggy and lacking in features, which is why im still using webkit.
Dolphin HD is slightly better (if only because it semi-blocks flash content by default), but it has some annoying ui elements like the giant tab bar, which can be removed but at the cost of being able to click on objects along the top edge of the display.
Ive also tried the ARM7 version of the mozilla fennec nighly builds. It just force closed on me, not even a little looksee
For me Dolphin HD is much smoother beside the fact it doesn't show flash banners where stock one does.
Both of them have been a disappointment WRT flash support.
It isn't that great for sites i visit.
If I open a new tap, I need to zoom in and out to get a picture
is this normal?
No, mine loads fine immediatley.
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No, mine loads fine immediatley.
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strange maybe this evening I'll do a HR
by the way I open the tabs not in front but in background. If I open it in front it will load
I'm pretty pleased with the froyo browser, but I hear others are faster. I tried Mirui browser but was unimpressed. Anything I'm over looking that is faster than the stock browser? Thanks.
I use both dolphin and xscope, both are better than stock imo
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install a few and test
Yeah best to test.
I prefer Dolphin but sine claim its slow ... which is funny because I've tried em all and Dolphin is peferable for me. Stock browser sucks IMO
Clearly is a user thing. Dolphin gets my vote.
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xscope and miren work well for me, if you use facebook and stuff like that skyfire is pretty good to.
Try Miren Browser as well. Worth it for the cost of free.
Miren just plain sucks. Wouldn't load certain pages properly, and was slower than any other browser I've ever used.
It's almost like it doesn't load pages sequentially as they're downloaded, but waits (on a white screen) till it has everything then shows up. Pretty bad technique on a severely bandwidth limited device like a phone, but maybe that could be fixed soon?
What exactly are you guys doing on your browsers to make you think the stock browser is slow? I see no difference between any of them and I've tried them all. For me it depends on the signal strength myphone or WiFi.
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Browser speed have almost no difference. Your internet connection speed is much more different.
Sure speed is involved, but stock browser handling multiple windows is so damn slow when compared to dealing with Dolphin and the tabs. Just the overall handling is smoother. I might consider launching stock browser for a single page .. God forbid I start clicking around and want to pop some tabs / windows. I've tried em all .. Miren seemed decent.l ... simplistic UI but some claimed it faster. Perfect example of connection speed and or outside factors .. it was nit faster than any other browser. It was dragging. I'm used to dealing with multiple tabs so I need to jump and jump between effectively. Quickly. Dolphin does the job ... everything else seems just awkward and or just bad.
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creyc said:
Miren just plain sucks. Wouldn't load certain pages properly, and was slower than any other browser I've ever used.
It's almost like it doesn't load pages sequentially as they're downloaded, but waits (on a white screen) till it has everything then shows up. Pretty bad technique on a severely bandwidth limited device like a phone, but maybe that could be fixed soon?
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I've never had a problem with Miren not loading pages. As far as not showing pages until they're fully downlaoded, I don't see why you think it's bad for "bandwidth limited" device. It loads the page the same speed as the others. It just doesn't display the page until it's ready. Isn't that what opera mini does, too? (That's an actual question. I haven't used it in a long time and don't remember.)
I tried Dolphin for a while, but really wasn't impressed. I don't like all the toolbars or big icons. There's probably a way around that, but I didn't notice a performance difference, and frankly, the stock browser worked fine for me.
But as someone else stated, it's more of a personal preference.
I'd go with dolphin... although i've heard good things about Opera Mini
OneEyedWilly said:
I'm pretty pleased with the froyo browser, but I hear others are faster. I tried Mirui browser but was unimpressed. Anything I'm over looking that is faster than the stock browser? Thanks.
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Unrooted Evo thats like peanut butter no jelly or the beach without water.
I've been using Miren for days now and I love it. It really is smooth too once the page fully loads. And with wifi and 4g everywhere that's never a problem
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Hey guys,
I have tried MANY browsers, and I have to say that the stock browser is the most reliable and stable on the fascinate.
Here's what I've experienced from other browsers:
Firefox: choppy scrolling, poor image loading
Opera: loads all pages in mobile view, cuts out certain page aspects.
Dolphin: takes very long on 3G
xScope: also takes very long on 3G
Miren: lacks copying capability
Skyfire: interface is too crowded.
Netfront: yahoo is only search engine, WTF.
Maxthon: very buggy at the moment
I run the stock browser from the community rom. It works great, loading pages in a timely fashion with all of the proper features on the page.
So is it just me or does this thing rock? Discuss.
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I've always felt the stock browser is the best. Only reason I have Dolphin HD installed, is when I need to force the page to be desktop view as I have that set to be that view 100% of time.
I agree. I've tried several different browsers and the stock browser has given me the least amount of problems.
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i always seem to fall back on the stock browser.
i used Dolphin for a bit and it wasn't terrible but it wasn't quite as fast to just look up a random question and be done in 45 seconds either. i tried Skyfire a few days ago and it wasn't for me. Firefox was disappointing overall.
i have been thinking about trying out some different browsers lately but i cant complain about the stock browser at the same time.
That makes me wonder though... what is with all this hype about the other browsers? Does anyone notice that maybe our stock browser is much better than the stock browser of other phones? That seems to me like it's the only explanation..
Well, if you examine it from the desktop side, Chrome is faster and cleaner than any other browsers I've tried. Stands to reason the android browser would be same, as its likely built on much of the same code.
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agsded said:
Well, if you examine it from the desktop side, Chrome is faster and cleaner than any other browsers I've tried. Stands to reason the android browser would be same, as its likely built on much of the same code.
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Other than both being based on WebKit (Opera and Firefox being the only two for Android that /aren't/ using WebKit, AFAIK), there isn't a whole lot of similarity between the two.
I would use it if it would let me not have a default browser. When clicking on some links I like to use different browsers for different things, so I don't have a default. That way it will let me choose every time. The stock browser forces me to choose every time it loads a page, usually multiple times per page because it will redirect and things. Like instead of just loading the page it brings up the choose browser popup, and if I tell it to be default it makes itself the default browser for everything, disabling my ability to choose other browsers. So yeah.
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If your only beef with Opera is it loads everthing in Mobile veiw, a quick Google search will tell you how to fix that problem.
Go to "opera:config" in the address bar. go to user agent. Put "Opera/9.80 (linux;en) Prest/2.7.8.1 Version/ 11.00" Or any other user agent you would like.
The stock browser is really nice, but I don't like how it always runs in the background taking up 30 mb of memory since there is no feature, that I know of, to close it within the browser (unless you press the back button 100 times). Dolphin HD has an option to close the browser after using it. If the stock browser had this option it would be the #1 browser for sure.
Just my 2 cents.
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The stock browser is really nice, but I don't like how it always runs in the background taking up 30 mb of memory since there is no feature, that I know of, to close it within the browser (unless you press the back button 100 times). Dolphin HD has an option to close the browser after using it. If the stock browser had this option it would be the #1 browser for sure.
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That's not really a problem, since Android will automatically close it when it needs that space for another app (that's one of the fundamental components of an app's life cycle on Android). If the phone doesn't need that extra space for another application (say, you shut the screen down and it's sleeping), it won't impact battery life.
I've heard some people claim that empty RAM will be 'powered down'... but in practice I doubt that'll happen even if true: your phone's physical memory will become fragmented over time, resulting in usage spread across physical RAM (both from apps and from the Linux kernel). And it's not like RAM uses all that much energy anyways- if you're looking to optimize battery life and you're looking at RAM, you might wanna rethink your strategy...
Opera mobile with a desktop useragent is the best I've used yet.
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Opera mobile with a desktop useragent is the best I've used yet.
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Dolphin HD is by far the best I have used. With that being said, the stock browser is the second best.
I use both the stock and Dolphin HD extensively. I like Opera, Skyfire, and Firefox, but after having used them for a while I still go back to Dolphin HD and Stock.
Stock is the only one with GPU acceleration, hence the speed.
Unfortunately, its handling of tabs, zooming, etc. leaves much to be desired. Dolphin HD is fast enough.
s44 said:
Stock is the only one with GPU acceleration, hence the speed.
Unfortunately, its handling of tabs, zooming, etc. leaves much to be desired. Dolphin HD is fast enough.
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Do you guys have smooth scrolling with stock browser on 2.2 ROMS? I see a big step backwards from 2.1, and assume its from loss of GPU acceleration.
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Do you guys have smooth scrolling with stock browser on 2.2 ROMS? I see a big step backwards from 2.1, and assume its from loss of GPU acceleration.
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It's usually pretty smooth. However, there are times when it can get very choppy; usually when loading pages with lots of images and such. Come to think of it, 2.2 itself can become very choppy at times: something I never noticed on stock 2.1.
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It's usually pretty smooth. However, there are times when it can get very choppy; usually when loading pages with lots of images and such. Come to think of it, 2.2 itself can become very choppy at times: something I never noticed on stock 2.1.
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I find 2.2 browser scrolling choppy even on simple mobile pages. Good example is mobile ver of news.Google.com. When I test same site on my friends Vibrant or Captivate with 2.2, its silky smooth. Somehow Fascinate code branch lost some goodness, perhaps GPU acceleration. I blame the unholy MS Bing integration keeping Fascinate separate.
Actually, it may have been 2.2->2.2.1. I remember one of those had GPU acceleration on Samsung and the other didn't. Since the Vibrant and Captivate are still (officially) on 2.2, I guess it's the former.
Wonder if you could swap the apks.
I always come back to stock because I use apps for almost everything. XDA Premium and Tapatalk for forums. Wapedia for wikipedia. News apps for news, my banks own App, etc.
On the phone I'm doing simple web searches. Real research needing multiple tabs, extensions, etc happen on the computer.
Of the 'other' browsers I have spent the most time with Dolphin Mini and I don't see any speed improvement, if anything my impression is that stock is slightly faster.
Simple needs = simple browser.