Hi, Have probably missed it, but have not seen any mention of Skyfire on these forums. I came across it by accident and it is brilliant!!!
Have been very dissapointed with the lack of real web experience with IE & Opera due their lack of support with Flash etc - well Skyfire delivers on all counts....from BBC iplayer to adult webcams, it does the lot lol.
Its free and you can get it here http://www.skyfire.com/
By the way, Im nothing to do with them, just a new and very happy user wanting to share.
LIAR! STOP TRYIN TO GET US TO BUY UR LOWSY PRODUCT...
i tried it, wasn't it impressed tho. i'll stick with opera for now. thx for the share tho
A must have is Opera Mini 5.
Skyfire sucks compared, maybe I'm wrong but I don't really care:
Opera are the kings and even if some browsers are still beta, they beat everything.
Sorry...
I have beem using it since its earliest alfa and most of the users here have it installed. It has nice capabilities, but extremely frustrating interface and behaviour. The sharpness of the displayed items leaves a lot to be desired as well.
I use it primarily to watch youtube videos when I don't want to turn CorePlayer on and for checking out trailers.
Opera is still better overall.
P.S. Opera Mini = worst browser ever, even worse than IE.
orelsi said:
P.S. Opera Mini = worst browser ever, even worse than IE.
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Hahahaha!
That's hilarious!
doministry said:
Hahahaha!
That's hilarious!
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!suoiralih s'thaT
!ahahahaH
Opera Mini 5 kicks ass.
The only advantage of Skyfire is it's flash capabilities, the rest is deep crap.
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!suoiralih s'thaT
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Don't eat yellow snow.
Maybe opera lacks of flash capabilities but is there someone who can gave me a link which does not work properly in opera because of flash?
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Don't eat yellow snow.
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Skyfire renders all on server and sends only picture of the result. That's why it uses low resolution only. In high res the amount of data transferred would be bigger than anything else, and speed would go down too. So skyfire does not have a bright future ahead I'm afraid, as resolution of devices goes up.
I use Opera mini too. It's not great, but it works, and I don't have full data plan.
Opera Turbo in Opera mobile looks promising too.
Skyfire is great for flash and plugins, but qualitity of rendered pages is awful. I rather use opera mobile and youtube app for youtube.
Opera mini is also great browser. I use it when im on data plan due to its very small data consumption.
Opera mini 5 looks great but it kinda lost feel of light browser.
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Skyfire is great for flash and plugins, but qualitity of rendered pages is awful. I rather use opera mobile and youtube app for youtube.
Opera mini is also great browser. I use it when im on data plan due to its very small data consumption.
Opera mini 5 looks great but it kinda lost feel of light browser.
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But it's amazing.
The speed it blazing fast. The look is high tech.
Skyfire looks like garbage on high res devices (it is only optimized for QVGA). Even worse than Opera Mini. If you want flash get opera mobile and flash addon.
If you want fast browser upgrade it to 9.7 w/ turbo or use opera mini. I think skyfire is a total waste of memory.
They says "It renders server side" like I care. I care that it is faster, but it is not faster than Opera Mini or 9.7 (both of which compress via their servers) and Skyfire looks and feels terrible to use.
I want someone to tell me why these threads keep popping up about an old browser that everyone knows about. I mean there isn't a new version that makes this somehow relevant.
I have a browser I want everyone to try, its PIE. It's also old and irrelevant and a total waste of time.
I use CorePlayer for YouTube videos. The quality is superb and the playback is flawless.
The best browser hands down was Mach 5. It's unfortunate it was just a demo and only runs on a Japanese server
The problem with Skyfire is that it isn't really "great" at anything...
-General navigation speed, Opera Mini is far faster as far as server-side rendering browsers go.
-Video/image quality is quite bad compared to youtube app, etc.
-A lot of "can't connect to server" errors if you are in low signal areas, which interrupt your browsing experience a lot.
-Selecting items and fields seems slower than most other browsers.
So let me get this right.....
When i posted this thread it was to make people like me aware of Skyfire because I have only seen one passing mention of it on this site.
I wasnt suggesting for a moment that people ditch all other browsers in favour of Skyfire....just that they add it to their armoury.
The main reason I am delighted with it was its ability to play full flash content such as the full BBC iplayer site, not the poor relation, the mobile iplayer site.
I will freely admit that I am not that experienced in the world of mobile apps etc so I may well be overlooking the obvious - are people here telling me there are other browsers like Opera capable of this? If so, I would ditch Skyfire straight away!!
Help would be appreciated.
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is html5 preferable over flash and if so how?
I remember when October of 2009 was going to be the latest arrival of flash, I can't remember farther so maybe it was even earlier. Anyway, after all of the BS by Adobe and all the anticipation by consumers, has flash taken so long that the competition has caught up? After all the crap Adobe has put android users through, are we actually going to feel "stuck" with flash? Or is html5 not that big a deal? I read somewhere that its smoother and takes less power, which, in the mobile world, would skyrocket its popularity passed that of flash (as long as I've been waiting for it , and as long and callously as Adobe has strung me along, I think I'm already getting tired of flash)
What's your FPS on these two sites?
http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/html
http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/flash
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Flash is on the decline and HTML 5 is on the rise. There is still definitely a benefit to supporting flash for some time going forward however. The sheer quantity of flash content and developers means that, at least for the time being, supporting flash on a mobile device opens doors. It also opens into potential problems and unwanted advertising, but it can be controlled.
Eventually HTML 5, or some other technology, will overtake Flash but not for a while yet. The browser support and developer talent are not there yet. Even once the support and talent are available there will be a large biomass of consumers who simply do not upgrade quickly.
TLDR: Flash on mobile has some legs yet, but its dominance is waning.
Interesting benchmarks. On desktop Chrome at least html5 is 45fps here, and flash is 35fps average. Can't try on the Nexus yet, but maybe in a month
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Interesting benchmarks. On desktop Chrome at least html5 is 45fps here, and flash is 35fps average. Can't try on the Nexus yet, but maybe in a month
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hmm. On Firefox, 64bit Linux HTML 5 was 11fps, flash 118fps.
EDIT: odd ran the tests a second time and HTML 5 pulled up to 18fps. Flash stayed steady ~115fps
wow the first link will only animate when i move the mouse... and it settles at around 14 fps.
2nd link i get over 500 fps...
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What's your FPS on these two sites?
http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/html
http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/flash
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I better try as soon as I get home
I tried those test Paul on the King's Desire ROM, html5 was horribly laggy.. Flash was much more appealing.
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Html5 link working here on my N1. Getting 11Fps
http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/flash/?particles=5000
will android be able to support html5? i mean full support as apple is planning to get
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What's your FPS on these two sites?
http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/html
http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/flash
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That benchmark seems terribly biased : I get 11FPS on the html version and 1.2FPS on flash... But in my experience flash is usually faster than javascript animations.
Anyway, I don't think it's only a matter of performance, they have pretty much nothing in common : HTML5, javascript and SVG are web standards, which means you can create websites and "webapps" with these technologies.
Flash is just a program which allows you to do animations, and it happens to be able to be embedded in your browser. So it might allow you to do more things, be faster (in spite of my results on the strange benchmark), but if you decide to go that way, quake live is even better than flash ^^
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Html5 link working here on my N1. Getting 11Fps
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There we go, I'm getting 6. What causes the difference?
So if it turns out the only difference is that html is better for battery life, you think there will be a way to choose to use it on our phones once flash is implemented? Just curious, ill be happy with either one I'm sure
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So if it turns out the only difference is that html is better for battery life, you think there will be a way to choose to use it on our phones once flash is implemented? Just curious, ill be happy with either one I'm sure
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The battery life is an assumption but not an absolute fact. I think what flash is being used for and how good the AS/HTML5 programmer is would make a difference. Either way we won't know till Flash comes to the N1 and we do some tests.
Same answer on the ability to turn flash off. I am reasonably certain there will be a way to disable flash but we won't know for sure till it comes out. Switching between Flash and HTML 5 would be a site developer requirement though, nothing on the phone would enable that as a possibility.
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That benchmark seems terribly biased : I get 11FPS on the html version and 1.2FPS on flash... But in my experience flash is usually faster than javascript animations.
Anyway, I don't think it's only a matter of performance, they have pretty much nothing in common : HTML5, javascript and SVG are web standards, which means you can create websites and "webapps" with these technologies.
Flash is just a program which allows you to do animations, and it happens to be able to be embedded in your browser. So it might allow you to do more things, be faster (in spite of my results on the strange benchmark), but if you decide to go that way, quake live is even better than flash ^^
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The point here is that HTML5, no matter how much Steve Jobs wants it to take over, it's just not there yet.
It's still years off from being able to replace all of Flash's capabilities.
Here are my results using the Desire browser:
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I get the same ratio of results in Chrome on my PC.
Can you guess which one is which?
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Where did you read this?
Wow, it seems I'm the only one where HTML5 was faster. I'm running the latest development Chrome, and the latest Flash beta, so that could explain it.
Being Chrome's HTML5 keeps getting faster and faster and there may be a bug in the Flash beta. Not sure.
The thing about HTML5 that people miss is that once the specs are finalized it will be better than flash for a lot of things because it is a completely open specification that anyone can implement. There's no waiting on Adobe to get flash player ported to your platform or device. And no waiting on Adobe to improve the player on devices that it performs poorly on. The people making the device or platform have control over the way their HTML browser behaves and fits in to their system. With flash they do not.
WebKit compiles on almost every platform, while flash does not. Where is the 64-bit flash player for example?
Having to take a step back and program for every friggin browser and giving up some content control will keep HTML 5 at bay for awhile.
Only Mac users complain about Flash because Jobs refuses to give them access to hardware necessary.
HTML 5 already has fragmentation with browsers wanting to support different standard codecs. HTML has a long history of empty promises they need to make up for.
Mobile phone browsing is still secondary and will be for years. HTML 5 has to win on the desktop front first and it has some things going against it.
HTML5 - 10-12 fps on FF or Chrome
Flash 60-70 fps on FF or Chrome
I'm new to the tablet scene and I'm really starting to love this one alot, Although I never had anything to compare it with. One thing I am noticing though is the resolution seems a bit lacking. Is this a setting or some tweak i can fix this with or thats just how it is. I tried searching but searc is down right now. Any feedback would be great, Thanks!!
It's 1280x800, same as all the 10.1" tablets released recently. What do you feel is lacking about it?
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It's 1280x800, same as all the 10.1" tablets released recently. What do you feel is lacking about it?
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it just seems a slight pixelized, images that are super clea on my phone or pc arent as crisp on my tablet . ill try and see what comes up in a screenshot.
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it just seems a slight pixelized, images that are super clea on my phone or pc arent as crisp on my tablet . ill try and see what comes up in a screenshot.
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Are you seeing that on a phone app? If so, the tablet will often rescale such apps, which pixellates their graphics. Try on an app designed for tablets, or an image.
I think, maybe, the OP is referring to panels pixel density.
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I think, maybe, the OP is referring to panels pixel density.
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basically just photos and the net, or for example XDA on the net(not the app) the avatars are a little pixelated, just slightly nothing major, but im just wondering if thats how it is or should i try and exchange it?
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basically just photos and the net, or for example XDA on the net(not the app) the avatars are a little pixelated, just slightly nothing major, but im just wondering if thats how it is or should i try and exchange it?
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They look fine on mine, are you using the stock browser? If you're using Firefox, don't bother. Its renderer is garbage.
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They look fine on mine, are you using the stock browser? If you're using Firefox, don't bother. Its renderer is garbage.
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yep thats what im using, besides the stock browser is there anything you recommend?
Been real happy with Dolphin HD as a browser. I really love Firefox but what it does on the tablet to images just is no good.
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Been real happy with Dolphin HD as a browser. I really love Firefox but what it does on the tablet to images just is no good.
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Ill have to check out dolphin and see how that works out, i use firefox on everything,it is a shame what it does to images though. Im on the stock browser now and everything is much clearer.
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Ill have to check out dolphin and see how that works out, i use firefox on everything,it is a shame what it does to images though. Im on the stock browser now and everything is much clearer.
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I've tried them all, and to be completely honest, I always go back to the stock browser. Opera Mobile is quite good (not mini), but I don't like the way it does a few things.
Firefox is truly terrible on mobiles, they really managed to completely screw up image rendering on it.
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I've tried them all, and to be completely honest, I always go back to the stock browser. Opera Mobile is quite good (not mini), but I don't like the way it does a few things.
Firefox is truly terrible on mobiles, they really managed to completely screw up image rendering on it.
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Seconded - i have tried them all and I always return to the stock browser. Have yet to find a web page I frequent that stock browser does not work great for.
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I've tried them all, and to be completely honest, I always go back to the stock browser. Opera Mobile is quite good (not mini), but I don't like the way it does a few things.
Firefox is truly terrible on mobiles, they really managed to completely screw up image rendering on it.
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+1 here too: the stock browser simply seems to work the best out of all the various browsers available. I would like to use Firefox, but I seriously hate how it screws up images on a device designed with viewing images in mind!
Besides, I quite like the bookmarks widget on my desktop and Firefox doesn't offer such.
On stock browser here as well - I've never tried any other.
QuickPic has also been the ideal image viewer for me - the stock image viewer isn't all that hot and shows a lot of compression artifacts and pixelation.
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+1 here too: the stock browser simply seems to work the best out of all the various browsers available. I would like to use Firefox, but I seriously hate how it screws up images on a device designed with viewing images in mind!
Besides, I quite like the bookmarks widget on my desktop and Firefox doesn't offer such.
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Can't you set those bookmarks to open in Firefox or whatever browser you want?
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Can't you set those bookmarks to open in Firefox or whatever browser you want?
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Yes, but it would only open the bookmarks I've made in the stock browser, the widget wouldn't show any bookmarks I make in Firefox itself. That kind of defeats the whole idea.
I too agree after installing all browsers the stock browser is best overall.I like Oprah for its speed seems to load pages much faster but that tab in the top left corner is not so user friendly to get to things.well for me anyway. I have not tried any of them since 3.1 update.well other then stock
As far as resolution no issues here at all.most stuff on web and produced for web graphics.will not be without pixilation to some degree
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I like Oprah for its speed
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She's fast, true enough, but I wouldn't want her on MY tablet!
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She's fast, true enough, but I wouldn't want her on MY tablet!
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Lololol
My thoughts exactly!
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Lmao seconded.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/ex...lash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5-updated/19226
I don't know what this means for the future but one main advantage Android 2.2 & higher always had over IOS was full Adobe Flash player. Videos, games & more. Listening to the radio I always hear "you can listen to our station online by downloading our app from Itunes"...Or I can just use Android 2.2 or higher, go right to their website and stream it to my phone just as I would on my PC, no app needed.
Hopefully this means more sites will adopt HTML5 and Adobe Flash will go the way of Realplayer.
Oh well....flash never ran good on android phones. I have seen most gingerbread phones with dual core processors still struggling with heavy flash loaded web pages (galaxy S2 seems the only exception). My question is does android support HTML5, which seems to be the future?
guess Jobs was right. stupid dead bastard and his legion of super fans. ifanboys never gonna let anyone live this one down, ****
The stock browser is the problem, well at least in my experience.
When I need to use flash I just use the opera mobile which is the smoothest browser for Android.
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Oh well....flash never ran good on android phones. I have seen most gingerbread phones with dual core processors still struggling with heavy flash loaded web pages (galaxy S2 seems the only exception). My question is does android support HTML5, which seems to be the future?
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I agree it isn't PERFECT, but with the recent release of Flash 11 for Android I was hoping future Android phones would improve so that Flash ran as smoothly as on my PC. It was nice showing all the fangirls how I could listen to streaming radio stations and watch videos and sports highlights exactly as they appear on a PC. Meanwhile they are scratching their heads wondering how come all they ever get is mobile websites on their jesus phone. Guess they need an app for that.
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The stock browser is the problem, well at least in my experience.
When I need to use flash I just use the opera mobile which is the smoothest browser for Android.
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If by Flash you mean ads, yes, Flash ads work beautifully in Opera Mobile 11. Any other Flash content (videos, games, streaming) doesn't work in Opera. Stock browser in Froyo handles full Flash content the fastest.
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If by Flash you mean ads, yes, Flash ads work beautifully in Opera Mobile 11. Any other Flash content (videos, games, streaming) doesn't work in Opera. Stock browser in Froyo handles full Flash content the fastest.
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I'm not talking about ads. I'm talking about streaming videos, and it does work. I don't know about games, I think it will be hard playing flash based games on a mobile phone.
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iynfynity said:
The stock browser is the problem, well at least in my experience.
When I need to use flash I just use the opera mobile which is the smoothest browser for Android.
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+1 to that, but instead of OPERA, i prefer miui's stock browser or Dolphin HD.
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I agree it isn't PERFECT, but with the recent release of Flash 11 for Android I was hoping future Android phones would improve so that Flash ran as smoothly as on my PC. It was nice showing all the fangirls how I could listen to streaming radio stations and watch videos and sports highlights exactly as they appear on a PC. Meanwhile they are scratching their heads wondering how come all they ever get is mobile websites on their jesus phone. Guess they need an app for that.
If by Flash you mean ads, yes, Flash ads work beautifully in Opera Mobile 11. Any other Flash content (videos, games, streaming) doesn't work in Opera. Stock browser in Froyo handles full Flash content the fastest.
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Ads? what the hell? I block all the ads that I can, i haven't seen a single ad in about a year on my phone/computer.
Using MIUI browser/Dolphin, and as for the fact, opera, flash videos work without lag, perfectly. maybe its you doing something differently? Also for me, flash hasn't been dependent on which firmware i'm on, i've used 2.1,2.2, and currently on 2.3 and it's always been smooth.
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Also for me, flash hasn't been dependent on which firmware i'm on, i've used 2.1,2.2, and currently on 2.3 and it's always been smooth.
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guess Jobs was right. stupid dead bastard and his legion of super fans. ifanboys never gonna let anyone live this one down, ****
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No he wasn't IMO. Considering Flash was somewhat doomed anyway (not just on mobile devices), I blame Adobe for not having the balls to break backwards compatibility (i.e. (throwing a hail mary pass) with earlier flash versions. Had they done this and then turned on HW Acceleration by default in recent versions (instead of leaving it for developers to do - if they even knew it was available / posssible) Flash would likely performed much better across the board. The sites broken by the backward compatibility changes would either wither and die (good riddance) or be fixed thus improvement the state of Flash for all involved. At least, that's how I think it could have gone. Instead it would seem Flash will slip into further irrelevance (I don't expect it to die any time soon) due to Adobe's cowardice.
Flash has always been terrible on mobiles. Flash Lite was perfect. Full Flash is a travesty. Its novelty wore.off very fast for me. I'm just pissed that now I have to deal with no flash instead of gimped flash.
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apple iphone sucks and they ruin everything as always smdh, i rather have it but guess thats one less thing i can say my phone doesn't had
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Truthfully I don't think it's THAT big a deal. You can still access Web content with Android 2.2 or higher that Iphone users can't (I can go to FOX.COM and watch Family Guy, sorry Iphone, you can't do that). Adobe has stated that they will be focusing on games and Adobe AIR. Maybe more and more websites will stop using flash for streaming and use HTML5 instead eliminating the need for flash altogther.
As others have stated Flash for mobes is a resource hog and therefore it's not something I use extensively on my phone. I find myself browsing mobile versions of websites 90% of the time because they load much, much faster. I just like having the OPTION of switching from mobile to full desktop version because sometimes mobile websites are missing content that's available on desktop versions.
I also like not having to depend on proxy browsers such as Bolt or Skyfire which were unreliable when I had my Windows Mobile phone.
I guess the questions are:
1. Will future version of Android stop including Adobe Flash Player?
2. Will websites eventually start switching over to HTML5 and dump Flash? I think this is the likely scenario but it'll probably take years.
N8ter said:
Flash has always been terrible on mobiles. Flash Lite was perfect. Full Flash is a travesty. Its novelty wore.off very fast for me. I'm just pissed that now I have to deal with no flash instead of gimped flash.
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Flash lite is perfect...if you love viewing ads, that's all it's good for. You won't get videos or games to work. I had flash lite on Windows Mobile 6 and Android 2.1 so I know.
That was an old version of flash lite. It gets updated to support later versions of flash video. I could view a ron of videos on my vibrant before the Froyo update. Not only does flash hog resources and battery, it also destroys browser performance.
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I am the proud owner of a new Nexus 10, and I thought I would carry out some browser benchmarks to see which browser worked best as the earlier bechmarks using Chrome were a little dissapointing...
The bechmarks are lower is better with the exception of V8
Sunspider, V8(higher is better), Kraken
Chrome (stock) 1365ms, 3023, 11222
QQ Browser 881ms, 4032, 10087
Boat Browser 886ms, 3614, 10213
By comparison here are the Iphone 5 benchmarks
Safari 908ms, 1553, 19618
As you can see - this thing really flies and is the fastest android device i've ever used
What about dolphin browser with the jet pack addon, I'd imagine that would do quite well score wise.
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Wow those are really impressive ill test out dolphin now
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Dolphin Browser 1116ms, 3542, 9314ms
better than chrome
dolphin
Yeah, dolphin browser is quick but it doesn't support flash.. So IMHO boat browser is the fastest flash supporting browser for the nexus 10...
Shame boat doesn't have syncing with chrome
Yeah that is the only thing lacking, so i'm keeping chrome close to hand... But boat and QQ browsing really is so fast and a joy to use, seems as fast as my desktop... Hopefully google will optimize Chrome soon
Cant wait to see AOSP browser on this thing!
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Why no AOSP browser benchmarks?
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I haven't rooted the tablet so I can't install the AOSP browser
Philip or kamal,
would you mind posting test scores for Ocean Browser and Firefox? I'm waiting on my N10 to arrive and I'd read both of those ran well and support flash on the 10
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Philip or kamal,
would you mind posting test scores for Ocean Browser and Firefox? I'm waiting on my N10 to arrive and I'd read both of those ran well and support flash on the 10
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I've tested both Firefox and Ocean in Sun spider.
Ocean got 780ms and Firefox got just over 1000ms.
Ocean also is as smooth as the iPad in scrolling/zooming, while Firefox was a bit more studdery in my experience.
digitalrelic said:
I've tested both Firefox and Ocean in Sun spider.
Ocean got 780ms and Firefox got just over 1000ms.
Ocean also is as smooth as the iPad in scrolling/zooming, while Firefox was a bit more studdery in my experience.
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Thanks Relic!
I thought it would be quick. That's faster than I expected it to be compared to the others. Even if it is just fractions of a second.
Ocean browser. I promise you.
WackyClash said:
Ocean browser. I promise you.
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I believe you.
Can't wait to get my N10 and try it out with my own eyes. Friday or Monday. The anticipation is murder.
Someone in another thread posted a video of Boat running on their N10. Youtube is blocked by the firewall here so I'll be viewing that when I get home.
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Boat browser, stock.
tcb4 said:
Boat browser, stock.
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I used Boat quite a bit, and while it impresses in Sunspider I honestly don't think it can compare to Ocean (or even Dolphin + Jetpack) as far as smoothness of scrolling/zooming goes.
digitalrelic said:
I used Boat quite a bit, and while it impresses in Sunspider I honestly don't think it can compare to Ocean (or even Dolphin + Jetpack) as far as smoothness of scrolling/zooming goes.
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Well, I've tried them both out, and actually I've gone with the recent update to Dolphin Beta 1.2 for JB. It runs -Very- smoothly and much better than Chrome(which is pretty easy right now). It doesn't load pages quite as fast, but it's close.
I've never been a huge fan of Boat (I dislike the bottom navigation bar that you can't remove).
Ocean is very quick on not so media heavy sites, but I hate how much screen you lose to the address bar and tabs.
I also had a lot of screen tearing and rendering issues with Boat and Ocean.
I frequent Roosterteeth.com and both ocean and Boat would just bog down, give up and render nothing but a tiny sort of grid like static.
So for me my daily driver is going to be Dolphin Beta for now. If I need Flash, Firefox is my pick for that. It's a clunky interface and a little buggy but handles Flash nicely when it has the system resources the Nexus 10 can provide. I also didn't experience any of the rendering issues Boat and Ocean had while using Firefox.
So I've got to trade some performance for compatibility. That's my take anyway.
Also, the Nexus 10 is Awesome.
So, is jet-pack a plug in or stand alone browser? I've downloaded Dolphin, Dolphin beta, and Jet pack. They all show up separately in my apps.
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Ocean is very quick on not so media heavy sites, but I hate how much screen you lose to the address bar and tabs.
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If you enable the quick controls the interface disappears. It's very similar to the AOSP browser except a different layout on the controls.
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So, is jet-pack a plug in or stand alone browser? I've downloaded Dolphin, Dolphin beta, and Jet pack. They all show up separately in my apps.
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Jetpack is a custom back-end renderer for Dolphin as opposed to just being a shell interface for the stock renderer. You can think of it like a plug-in but it's more than that.
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If you enable the quick controls the interface disappears. It's very similar to the AOSP browser except a different layout on the controls.
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Ohhh thanks Fromako. I'll try that later
Web browsers are the most important part of any smartphone. A normal human with a smartphone spends most of time in the internet today than using the rest of the applications. Dolphin is highly rated and constantly in the top 3 of all review websites. Does this means Dolphin is the best Android has to offer? Which browser are you using? Which one is the fastest, the nicest UI, have the most features? Share with us your experience on..
The Battle Of The Web Browser!
Dolphin Browser
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Dolphin browser is one of the minimal theme browser which has become a favorite. Its gesture based web surfing makes browsing fast and easy. Make gestures and the browser understands which page to render. It also has voice based web searching feature. Some of the important features which makes this browser different from the rest are: Webzine (Fast Web page loading, with no ads), Speed dial, sidebars and interesting add-ons.
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-----------Google Chrome---------------------------Opera Mobile--------------------------------Maxthon ----------------------------------UC Browser----------------------
This is a list of 5 of the best Android web browsers of 2013. If you think there are some best browsers which should have been listed in this list then feel free to leave your suggestions below.
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Battle of the Music Players - Neutron Vs The Others
Battle of the Launchers. Is Nova Prime still King?
Pictures and original article from Fazle Rahman • January 11, 2013 http://gadgeticworld.com/2013/01/11/5-best-android-web-browsers-of-2013/
OH LOOK! Another unrelated repeated thread!
NightHawkUndead said:
OH LOOK! Another unrelated repeated thread!
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It's the Battle series bro, don't denigrate, participate
boat browser for me
These threads feel like it's a question in disguise so the OP can find out which is the best without getting flamed. Same with the Launcher thread and the Rom thread.
We've just had a huge browser discussion, I suggest you look in there for your answers. I believe it was the stock browser that won.
omnia1994 said:
boat browser for me
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Good call, Thats a good one.:good:
I personally like Sleipnir.
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These threads feel like it's a question in disguise so the OP can find out which is the best without getting flamed. Same with the Launcher thread and the Rom thread.
We've just had a huge browser discussion, I suggest you look in there for your answers. I believe it was the stock browser that won.
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Yes because I really need to find out which one is best. It never occur to you that XDA is a forum and a forum is there to share information and discuss. If you don't want to participate don't, But be careful, if you do, you might learn something.
Yes, Dolphin is over rated but good. I use it usually.
Maxthon Browser
Opera Mini Browser
Boat Browser
Those comes next for my ranking.
I use dolphin and lighting browser.
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You guys should try Firefox beta, seriously.
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Boat Browser is the best but I personally prefer and use the stock browser for surfing the Web and Opera Mobile to download things that the other browsers refuse to.
Maxthon so far
I had used dolfin boat firefox maxthon every browser is in play store, i think default samsung is the best for note 2, is faster than anyone other and don't spies u.
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Chrome because of sliding from the edge of the screen to change tabs.
Long time dolphin user but switched easily to stock browser and never looked back since I got the Note 2.
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Stock Browser Simply awesome....support Adobe Flash app tooo
How do you switch tabs quickly on stock? The Safari like tabs suck, absolutely hate it. And no gestures either. Fine for stock, but still not good enough.
Naked browser is the fastest I have found
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Dolphin use to be good, now its bloated.
Boat and Chrome are the best browsers ive used after that