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Hey guys, I use Opera mobile web browser and I love how simple it is and how it looks. However, I noticed how several websites are cramped to only one side making it almost impossible to browse normally.
I have tried Dolphine browser but there is just too much in and and when I swipe side to side instead of the page, the side bars pop up. It gets really annoying.
I wanted to see what you guys general use for web browsing.
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Stock browser is perfect for me. Nice and simple. I love it.
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I use Dolphin Browser, though I know what you mean about the sidebar. I've found that if you scroll up/down first, then to the side, the sidebar doesn't show up as often.
I was using firefox but I switched back to the stock browser.the stock one runs much smoother.
Used Dolphin for the longest but just went back to stock. Like the simple clean interface and the side to side scrolling on dolphin just started to drive me nuts.
Stock. Tried Opera and Dolphin but went back to stock.
DynamicXL said:
Hey guys, I use Oprah mobile web browser and I love how simple it is and how it looks. However, I noticed how several websites are cramped to only one side making it almost impossible to browse normally.
I have tried Dolphine browser but there is just too much in and and when I swipe side to side instead of the page, the side bars pop up. It gets really annoying.
I wanted to see what you guys general use for web browsing.
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If you never use the side bars in Dolphin, you can disable the swiping side to side action in the settings. It helps make Dolphin more usable.
I'm using Dolphin HD, although I do find navigating around a page to be buggy sometimes.
gilbar said:
If you never use the side bars in Dolphin, you can disable the swiping side to side action in the settings. It helps make Dolphin more usable.
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+1 for Dolphin Browser HD with disabled side-swiping
DynamicXL said:
Hey guys, I use Oprah mobile web browser and I love how simple it is and how it looks. However, I noticed how several websites are cramped to only one side making it almost impossible to browse normally.
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-1 for "Oprah", its Opera hahaha....imagine an Oprah Winfrey browser, gross
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-1 for "Oprah", its Opera hahaha....imagine an Oprah Winfrey browser, gross
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Using Oprah mobile, You have a chance to receive free gifts, Oprah just gave out xbox kinet to her viewers.
Haha, didn't even see that spelling mistake! Silly me.
Funny thing, I never truely used the stock web browser. And the dolphin sidebars are the biggest pain in the butt!
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I also use dolphin and have disabled the side bars because they drive me nuts. I'm a fan of the tabs which I find a great feature that isn't on stock.
Yeah, I love the tabs but I prefer the way it is on opera mini, plus opera is really nice and simple.
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Dont any of you guys use skyfire. Its the fastest one.
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Still use Steel. It's the most clean and intuitive for me,can swipe tabs.Skyfire for pornography needs...
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Stock because it supports flash
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Stock browser until fennec rolls stable out the door.
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hitman818 said:
Dont any of you guys use skyfire. Its the fastest one.
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i do. skyfire rocks, and can watch most flash content with it.
Skyfire. So far it's my favorite but I'll be interested in trying firefox once it's a bit further along.
I have tried out several with the notification bar hide feature because of the screen burn in issues. For me dolphin hd can be really slow. Anybody that's using it without issues change any of the settings to get it to run properly?
Hi aside from maildroid anyone gpt suggestions of any mail apps.. im missing my sense one to be fair... maildroids ok but white as you like!
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It depends what functions you want I use gmail and always have even when i had sense. The only thing gmail doesn't let you do is create a new label
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snowpatrol1702 said:
Hi aside from maildroid anyone gpt suggestions of any mail apps.. im missing my sense one to be fair... maildroids ok but white as you like!
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try to uninstall and reinstall new version.
Gmail is only good for basic text mail, as it doesn't have pinch to zoom. You can't read html mail with images comfortably with this. Until they fix this it's totally rubbish on a smartphone if you ask me. It's time google wakes up; how many years will this take? The issue was reported 2 years ago on the tracker with countless users complaining... but google doesn't listen to users.
The funny thing is that on the iphone it does have pinch to zoom, so we have the lesser google app on android
K9-Mail is better. Due to its many options it takes a little time to configure right if you are using gmail with several labels etc..., but it does support gmail with multi label and push notification for all of the labels. It has pinch to zoom, email encryption with gpg,...
No pinch to zoom?
Are you sure?
Because I'm using gmail since November 2010 and I never noticed such issue, and I do receive some html-mails
Hasimir said:
No pinch to zoom?
Are you sure?
Because I'm using gmail since November 2010 and I never noticed such issue, and I do receive some html-mails
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Yes I'm sure. Tried it yesterday again. Still not fixed.
Here:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15745
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18418
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10959
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18181
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20796
There's many more.
I use K9 Mail. Am really satisfied with it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox
Past Firefox has sucked hardcore, but now, wow. Its smooth, no chopping zooming out either, it reminds me of the stock galaxy s2 with the bounce effect.
Try it out. Tell me I am wrong
What browser is smoother in your opinion
I'll give it a try, thanks
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using FF brower since 4-6 weeks, in my eyes one of the best.
at my pc i am usig FF to, no sync feature as well.
Seems very slow at loading pages and text is shown very blurry. I've yet to find a better browser than SGS3 stock browser.
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Happy with the new dolphin browse
The download manager is awesome resume supported too....
Hit THANKS is u agree with me.
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Downloading
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I think it's amazing except for one major flaw which causes me not to use it.
The address bar doesn't scroll away when your scroll down webpages, it takes up too much of the screen real-estate.
debanikonline said:
Happy with the new dolphin browse
The download manager is awesome resume supported too....
Hit THANKS is u agree with me.
~RR
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lol hit THANKS if you're against puppy abuse
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CuBz90 said:
Seems very slow at loading pages and text is shown very blurry. I've yet to find a better browser than SGS3 stock browser.
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Try ics+ browser then. Stock browser but the quick controls are fantastic.
debanikonline said:
Happy with the new dolphin browse
The download manager is awesome resume supported too....
Hit THANKS is u agree with me.
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Dolphin is good in writing, but too unreliable. Tabs didn't load a lot of the time it didn't even show up at all. Had to keep changing the current from desktop to phone just so i could post messages on different sites....the list goes on.
Any way to back up the bookmarks like Dolphin? I installed it when the stock browser was fc-ing on bookmarks and found the import/export feature makes life easier.
People should really give boat browser a chance. Very good speedy browser! :good:
completely agree with boat browser. I don't understand, why is it so low profile, I have tried other popular ones like Opera, Dolphin (& mini), stock, etc, but Boat seems to be the best of the lot
I think dolphin browser hd is really good along with stock s3 browser.
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Chrome browser all the way. Faster than dolphin, opera and stock.
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I use chrome because I am all Google and signing in allows me to save bookmarks easier. I might try this and see how well it mashes with flash. I can not stand the stock browser for some reason.
Anyways the only thanks I am giving is to the one who presented us with the new version being out. Thanks OP!
By the way flash is still available for us
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30824028
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mikemikemikexxx said:
Chrome browser all the way. Faster than dolphin, opera and stock.
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For Firefox and Chrome, try loading engadget's desktop site. While loading, try scrolling down. You will see a lot blank white and takes sometime for it to load. Stock loads much faster.
Firefox has a great interface
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mikemikemikexxx said:
Chrome browser all the way. Faster than dolphin, opera and stock.
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it renders slowly and is not full screen. And it's pretty ugly
SiggiJarl said:
I think it's amazing except for one major flaw which causes me not to use it.
The address bar doesn't scroll away when your scroll down webpages, it takes up too much of the screen real-estate.
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THIS!
Maxthon is the best browser for Android:good:
And switched back to the native browser.
Got extremely sick of abysmal scrolling performance (made me feel like I was using my Touch Pro) and after switching back to stock I now realize how slowly Chrome was loading pages. And a recent bug that resulted in Chrome saving any MP3 with an MPGA extension and stripped ID3 tags for no damn reason.
The only feature I can say I miss is the sharing of open tabs and bookmarks across devices
Can any other browsers sync with desktop Chrome, well, without being Chrome?
I wish I could do that, loved the browser on my galaxy nexus, but chrome sucks
I would get the original browser but idk how to root
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Chrome drain juice so fast
Congrats
IB4L :stirthepot:
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I don't think so, but look into dolphin beta. It has been the best browser experience Imo
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Try "Chrome Beta". Works much better for me.
sheik124 said:
And switched back to the native browser.
Got extremely sick of abysmal scrolling performance (made me feel like I was using my Touch Pro) and after switching back to stock I now realize how slowly Chrome was loading pages. And a recent bug that resulted in Chrome saving any MP3 with an MPGA extension and stripped ID3 tags for no damn reason.
The only feature I can say I miss is the sharing of open tabs and bookmarks across devices
Can any other browsers sync with desktop Chrome, well, without being Chrome?
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aritra.r9 said:
Try "Chrome Beta". Works much better for me.
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as much as i want to be on the bleeding edge, i de-installed that one. using pages like xda and responding got so bad it was basically useless. i dunno what google is doing there. writing a browser is probably harder than writing an OS, but still, the others can do it to some extend, why not el goog.
I use Opera Mobile, works perfectly and syncs with Google (Chrome favourites on the phone). Loads much quicker as downloaded data is beeing compressed and unpacked.
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I wish I could do that, loved the browser on my galaxy nexus, but chrome sucks
I would get the original browser but idk how to root
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You don't know how to root your NEXUS 4? Wow, absolutely no excuses, go download the toolkit and let it do it all for you then.
3dawg said:
You don't know how to root your NEXUS 4? Wow, absolutely no excuses, go download the toolkit and let it do it all for you then.
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Or better yet use ADB and fastboot instead of a toolkit and learn something about your phones
for me dolphin has been the best browser by far, it's fast and smooth and doesn't lag like the chrome browser.
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Or better yet use ADB and fastboot instead of a toolkit and learn something about your phones
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Oh no... You don't mean... Through command line.. Dun dun duuuuun
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Don't think this has been made yet... Hope it's okay!
Which browser? Why?
I use AOSP right now because it feels quicker than Chrome, but I miss my bookmarks.
Boat browser, because it has flash support!
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Next browser. It feels a tiny bit faster than the Chrome browser + I like it's Icon
Chrome Beta because it's gestures to change tabs is good and sync to chrome on desktop function is useful!
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I use chrome as my main browser. However I find myself also using the stock android browser as its pretty nice too.
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Dolphin
I recently read that in the AOSP browser, all the saved data is in plaintext. Switched to chrome after that.
Maybe im a bit paranoid, but thats ok
A. Chrome because of the syncing.
B. Can I install the old stock browser on unrooted android? I don't use it much but Id like it back for the, even if limited, flash support.
noobdroid_90 said:
I recently read that in the AOSP browser, all the saved data is in plaintext. Switched to chrome after that.
Maybe im a bit paranoid, but thats ok
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Wow that sound serious, I use aosp. Would of thought people would be shouting from the roof tops about this?
Source?
meangreenie said:
Wow that sound serious, I use aosp. Would of thought people would be shouting from the roof tops about this?
Source?
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Source: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/39576-major-security-hole-in-aosp-web-browser/
Using uc browser.... but heard dolphin is a godd one...
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Until now I still satisfy with Chrome and didn't install other browsers.
-- Stock ROM.
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Habit Browser. It has a lot of features. (e.g. changing tabs with gesture, quick menues, flash support etc.)
I have chrome of course, opera, Firefox, and Dolphin. I like to use all of them. I have to say I really like the gesture bookmarks in Dolphin. That one may be the one I use most currently. But I am testing a lot of them.
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AOSP with Adobe Flash works for me.
noobdroid_90 said:
I recently read that in the AOSP browser, all the saved data is in plaintext. Switched to chrome after that.
Maybe im a bit paranoid, but thats ok
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I don't follow what you are saying. Any app that stores passwords locally even encrypted with a key is not secure on rooted devices since all they need is the encryption key. My guess is Google does this on purpose since obfuscation would just make people think it is secure without it actually being secure.
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I don't follow what you are saying. Any app that stores passwords locally even encrypted with a key is not secure on rooted devices since all they need is the encryption key. My guess is Google does this on purpose since obfuscation would just make people think it is secure without it actually being secure.
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(logic dictates that) An app that stores passwords with an encryption key would not make that key easily available to other apps. Maybe im wrong and even encryption stored passwords are easily accessed. Makes me all the more thankful for PDroid.
Chrome of course! Simple and fast. I like stock browser too. Tried next browser and I really liked it. For simplicity, speed, and just everyday surfing chrome for me hands down!
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Browser and chrome as second choice. Firefox if all else fails.
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Google Chrome!
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