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[Q] dolphin hd the best browser?

Stock browser just cannot compete.
should I even bother downloading firefox?

Not a huge fan of Firefox, not all that great and way to big of an app for a browser IMHO

It's a shame that if you should use something else besides the stock browser, you can't change out the stock browser icon in the dock. It feels like dead weight to just have it there. Given Google's propensity for open-ness and customization, not sure why Android stock doesn't let you change these dock icons. Unless I'm mistaken?

Firefox for mobile(aka Fennec) is really slow for me right now. It might be great eventually, but right now it's super slow and has alot of bugs.
Dolphin Browser HD, to me, is like Firefox. Alot of extension, alot of addons, alot of enhancements but still kinda slow. Dolphin Browser Mini is more like Chrome in that it has a few extensions/addons/enhancements but it's extremely quick.

unremarked said:
Firefox for mobile(aka Fennec) is really slow for me right now. It might be great eventually, but right now it's super slow and has alot of bugs.
Dolphin Browser HD, to me, is like Firefox. Alot of extension, alot of addons, alot of enhancements but still kinda slow. Dolphin Browser Mini is more like Chrome in that it has a few extensions/addons/enhancements but it's extremely quick.
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gotta remember it has a Beta tag for a reason
its come a long way, from when it was a 60 meg install

slowz3r said:
gotta remember it has a Beta tag for a reason
its come a long way, from when it was a 60 meg install
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Yes, sorry! Meant to mention in my post that I have hopes it'll be something nice eventually hehe.

Try skyfire. feels like stock browser, is much smoother and faster and has way more options.

Is the Dolphin mini like Opera mini which uses an external server to render webpages?

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Is the Dolphin mini like Opera mini which uses an external server to render webpages?
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No, it renders on the device. The difference between Dolphin HD and Mini is that the first is based on the stock Eclair browser and the second on Donut.

for me the best one is the opera mini.

I use stock and xscope.

To me dolphin is extremely slow even when loading Google. I'm using the stock since it gives me what I need. When it comes to video I use dolphin
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[Q] What's the best browser on the tab?

I know most of you tab owners have probably installed a third-party web browser. Which one is your favorite and why?
I'm tired of the default browser that came with my Tab. It gets stuck too many times and crashes (signal 11 seg fault)
-dan

Dolphin Browser HD is what I use on all my mobile devices. You really can't go wrong with it.

Haven't found anything better than Miren Browser

dolhpin browser HD for me. nice sidebars, plugins and gesture commands. not as fast in loading pages as opera, but faster than stock browser,and renders page layouts properly. plus it has a plugin for switching from mobile view to standard in one touch.
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Personally I use Dolphin HD. It lets me set the useragent as iPad, so you get a lot of pages in standard view. Plus it has great addons and the sidebars are amazing.
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I use Miren browser and think its great.
However for flash I use stock browser as it seems to run smoother to me.
Last dolphin HD I used seemed to have ads and bloat?
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What other browsers can I try?
Firefox is so far the ONLY browser that has openned ALL of my required sites.
Opera Mobile nearly gets there but:-
Stock browser - no good
Opera Mini - no good
Skyfire - no good
Miren - no good
Dolphin HD - no good
Dolphin Mini - no good
xScope - no good
If you can suggest any others that I can try then it would be much appreciated.

Miren user here. I haven't tried firefox for the SGT yet. I'll go check it out.
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Fire fox support flash?
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Firefox is so far the ONLY browser that has openned ALL of my required sites.
Opera Mobile nearly gets there but:-
Stock browser - no good
Opera Mini - no good
Skyfire - no good
Miren - no good
Dolphin HD - no good
xScope - no good
If you can suggest any others that I can try then it would be much appreciated.
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Dolphin HD is the best for me.
I tried firefox but not flash support =nogo

Dolphin Mini. I think this is better than Dolphin HD. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Dolphin mini is definitely my favorite browser at the moment. Consumes very little, does anything I need from a browser and it does look amazing too.
Swyped from my sexy galaxy tab

Lag time during scrolling/pinching is my biggest gripe with all Android browsers. I haven't found one that equals the iPad in this regard. FireFox responds the best but I'm not crazy about the UI, I like the tab interface on Dolphin better. I hope that Honeycomb's browser is better especially with the new dual core processors.

Wow. I didnt expect such great responses. Thanks to everyone who replied.
I plan to try Dolphin HD and, if it doesnt work well, I will try Miren.
-dan

I use Dolphin Mini, it's very fast and great with flash content. Much better than iPad's safari IMO.

didn't know dolphin had a mini version. will try that out.
i still find that keyboard lag is an issue with browsers

While I was going to say Dolphin HD, I installed Dolphin Mini last night based on what people said in this thread, and a big +1 to the Mini! I like the clean interface better than HDs, and seems a little faster too.

I have a simple method of deciding on the browser. I have installed most popular browsers. Now, first I open the stock browser and open this forum site, then I copy the address to the clipboard. Next, I open let's say Miren, paste the address and hit enter, I count 1001, 1002, 1003.....and mark the number for COMPLETE opening. Do the same with other browsers. So far (for me) Miren is the winner (1016) followed by Dolphin mini (1024).

I've got miren, opera and firefox installed.
Miren is the one I use all the time, it seems the most "balanced" for me, its nicely laid out and is pretty fast (faster than the other two for me at least). Prob is it had an issue with large downloads, it would just load like a few kb and say its done. new update seems to have fixed that though
Opera was second best IMO. Firefox was slowest to load and slow to load pages. But both work more like desktop browsers.
I think I might try out dolphin mini

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Dolphin Mini. I think this is better than Dolphin HD. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
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No sorry but Dolphin Mini was rubbish - it did not open some of my required sites - just gives usual message of "Server Failed to Communicate"
therefore
Firefox so far remains the ONLY browser that will open ALL of my required sites.

Coolsaber57 said:
Haven't found anything better than Miren Browser
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I have to agree

[Q] What's the best web browser for NC?

What is the best web browser for the NOOK Color? I've always been happy with the default Android web browser for my G2 phone, but it seems slow & clunky on the NC running CM7. Curious to hear what other people enjoy using.

I voted first! Anyway, I say Dolphin HD is the best as it is optimized for tablets (thus HD) and has actual tabs. And it's free. Get the Dolphin Browser HD 6.0.0 Beta.

Opera mobile is my favorite as it supports hardware accelerated rendering making scrolling smooth.

I can't use anything except Opera Mobile on the Nook. Everything else that doesn't use GPU rendering is too slow for me.

I think stock is best.
Still rocking the Incredible with the XDA Premium App.

Miren is worth a look; its different.

Ive tried them all and i liked dolphin hd but bookmarks are a downright chore to use on it, so i went back to stock browser. Opera felt clunky and slow to me, and i tried both versions of it.

quepaso said:
Opera felt clunky and slow to me
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This is exactly how I feel about Opera. To me, it's never been this amazing browsing experience people claim it to be.

Boat browser mini has been my favorite browser so far.

For me, Opera Mobile (not Mini). Its the ONLY browser that has smooth zooming and scrolling. Everything else is too chopy for me. There are some incompatibilities (some chat systems like the one used on Engadget don't work) but its well worth the smoothness.

Maxthon for tablet gets my vote.

Opera Mobile is fast but Dolphin HD does better webpage rendering and has support for Lastpass and ReadItLater as well as ad blocking. The ad blocking isn't great but it's better than nothing. Lastpass support is the killer feature for me. Dolphin HD also handles flash better than Opera Mobile in my experience. Opera won't even open Weatherspark, for instance. Dolphin may be slow but at least it will load the page.

reaper12 said:
Boat browser mini has been my favorite browser so far.
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How did you install Boat? I'm using Miren now, but would like to use Boat instead. Problem is that it doesn't appear in the Market at all for me. I could pull the apk from my phone and toss it into the system directory, but would rather install it correctly.
(My NC is running rooted only. No ROMs have been installed.)

How smooth is the browser?

I know the stock is not as smooth as IOS but what about hardware accelerated browsers like dolphin and opera? Is it silky smooth like the ipad?

Mine stock seems pretty damned smooth. It renders text quickly and once everything is up it scrolls with no hesitation. Of course I have plug-ins set to "on demand" so normally its like the ipad, no flash.

Even with activated flash it's smooth.

As an owner of both an iPad (1st gen) and a TF (Stock and Dolphin) my experiences are:
Websites optimised for tablet/mobile - No difference worth noting
Full desktop websites with lots of pictures - TF faster to render, Ipad a little smoother to scroll
Websites with flash and lots of dynamic content - TF wins hands down.
At the end of the day both of these devices look awful next to Chrome on win64 but they are starting to feel like decent browsers.
Completely subjective: All in all the iPad always "feels" a little smoother to me at everything. Web, just using the OS and everything. But it's a funny comparison - It's quite clearly not as good at any of the individual tasks and slower in general but somehow feels more graceful at the same time. I geuss that's the whole thing with apple though. Personally - I prefer the functionality of the TF.

With the latest update of opera I don't see how it can be smoother
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If you turn off the open GL rendering the browser is extremely fast. The rendering isn't even needed.

With the new Opera Mobile 11, I could finally go back to the 2010 mode instead of the classic mode on xda.....

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Websites optimised for tablet/mobile ...
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Oh, that reminds me, that I forgot to mention, that my stock browser is set to desktop instead of mobile ... the later makes no sense on a WiFi-only tablet in my opinion ... except when tethered to a cell phone maybe.
Also worth mentioning is, that the stock browser doesn't render some bad designed sites correctly ... e.g. golem.de
As a good alternative for such cases I use the tablet version of Maxthon, which is realy great, but also has two downsides ... it doesn't have a fast scroll button and it has problems with popup content like the player of accujazz.com radio. The stock browser does a better job here though not perfect.
Maybe a third browser is needed
I didn't try Opera so far because it's said, that flash implementation is still Beta state.
Personally - I prefer the functionality of the TF.
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As all others here too
As long as you aren't a professional photographer, who needs the more accurate colours & higher colour depth (real 24 bit) and RAW image conversion iPad is the worse choice.
Hackers might be the second group of people who might prefer the iPad ... I noticed, that WiFi hacking tools e.g. are available there, but not on android ... astonishing fact, isn't it?

I find HC browsers faster than the iPad one (I only tested iPad 1) on most sites. On some with a lot of flash they can be slow. Smoother? Didn't notice, didn't care.
eli.kennedy describe the differences quite accurately to what I experienced.

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If you turn off the open GL rendering the browser is extremely fast. The rendering isn't even needed.
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Mine appears smoother with it on.

The iPad2's browser is much faster and smoother than the iPad 1's. It renders about 4 times faster.
I find the ipad2 browser much smoother than anything on my transformer. If browsing is the reason to have a tablet, AND you do not care about flash, than the iPad2 is a great choice.

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The iPad2's browser is much faster and smoother than the iPad 1's. It renders about 4 times faster.
I find the ipad2 browser much smoother than anything on my transformer. If browsing is the reason to have a tablet, AND you do not care about flash, than the iPad2 is a great choice.
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Really, I can't understand why anyone smart enough to hangout on XDA would be recommending a locked-down, locked-in turd like the iPad2 (which is basically the default choice for people either too stupid, or too lazy to explore alternatives).
Sure there may currently be a lag problem with the Transformers browser when docked with the keyboard, but there are plenty of workarounds, like using the vastly superior Opera 11 browser, and it's doesn't affect page rendering speed, which blows the iPad2 out of the water.

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... lag problem with the Transformers browser when docked with the keyboard, but there are plenty of workarounds, like using the vastly superior Opera 11 browser...
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I didn't know this is a known problem. I just got my Eee and dock and have been trying to fix this lag on a browser issue, but no go.
I tried changing the browser (Dolphin HD), change the Keyboard (Uses Asus and Android).
What is the workaround?

Heavily embedded java severely slows down the browser which is not an issue on other HC devices, or in fact, on the TF with Opera 11 so it should, and will get fixed.
Other than that, the browser is really zippy. As zippy as the Ipad 2. When your on par with speed, plus chrome bookmark syncing, tabbed browsing and flash, its no contest whose the winner.

zillah1985 said:
Heavily embedded java severely slows down the browser which is not an issue on other HC devices, or in fact, on the TF with Opera 11 so it should, and will get fixed.
Other than that, the browser is really zippy. As zippy as the Ipad 2. When your on par with speed, plus chrome bookmark syncing, tabbed browsing and flash, its no contest whose the winner.
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I have tried accessing website with little Javascript embedded and still see the lag in both stock browser and Dolphin HD. So are you saying, currently, ONLY Opera 11 does NOT exhibit this problem?

Opera 11.1 seems to be the best, smoothest, most fluid browser yet. I prefer it over the stock, firefox, dolphin, etc. It just is so damn near-perfect.
What we'd like I'm sure is a full desktop port of Firefox and Chrome so we all have access to those delicious addons and extensions.

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I have tried accessing website with little Javascript embedded and still see the lag in both stock browser and Dolphin HD. So are you saying, currently, ONLY Opera 11 does NOT exhibit this problem?
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For me at least.
This page here:
http://proximityone.com/demographics2020.htm
was lagging for me in the stock browser, and works perfectly in Opera. I also can type in XDA easily while in Opera but in stock I cannot. Goggle instant works well in Opera but in stock it does not. Google apps such as reader, gmail, etc.. within the browser works well in Opera while the stock does not. This is the pattern I am making an assumption on.
All of which are non-issues in the stock browser for the Xoom. So, something has to be up with the stock browser.

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This page here ... was lagging for me in the stock browser ...
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Strange, it works nice in my Stock Browser and scrolls pretty fast and smooth.
I also can type in XDA easily while in Opera but in stock I cannot.
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I currently write this answer in the stock browser without problems, except a slight keyboard lag. Btw ... the Android keyboard seems to work better in the stock browser than the Asus one.
Very strange, why do we have such different experiences? You Run Android 3.1, don't you?

Yes, I am running 3.1 in stock ROM, rooted. No any other customizations

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Yes, I am running 3.1 in stock ROM, rooted.
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Mine isn't rooted so far. Can the rooting play a roll?

Dolphin for Pad vs Dolphin HD

Hey
I use Dolphin for Pad, but there is no more update on this app
However I feel that for a tablet, it is still better than Dolphin HD...
What do you think ? Which one is the best for a tablet ?

the better 1
Matrix_19 said:
Hey
I use Dolphin for Pad, but there is no more update on this app
However I feel that for a tablet, it is still better than Dolphin HD...
What do you think ? Which one is the best for a tablet ?
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DolphinHD is a very good browser but its not really tablet orriented which is wht it is very uncomfortable to use where as Dolphin for pad is for Tablets but sadly they seem to have abondaned it and also it is quite unstable on my Samsung gt 10.1 running kang .........
I would recommend Google chrome if you are running ICS because its much better than Dolphin although it doesnot support Flash. To be truthful, if they had continued to support Dolphin for Pad it would have been an amazing browser to use but reality is CRUEL!

I sometimes use Dolphin for Tab on my device but it's very non stable. I wish they offered Chrome for honeycomb. Lately I have been using Maxthon a lot and I like it. It's not great but I feel it is pretty good.
Sent via Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 & Honeycomb

thanks for your answers.
For me, Dolphin for Pad is not crashing more often than the stock browser.

I gave up on Dolphin for Pad when I learned that there was no way to import bookmarks. What a shame.
I am really surprised that Google has not made a big push to make Chrome the browser of choice for Android devices. It seems like the perfect match. Maybe down the road.
Bob

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I gave up on Dolphin for Pad when I learned that there was no way to import bookmarks. What a shame.
I am really surprised that Google has not made a big push to make Chrome the browser of choice for Android devices. It seems like the perfect match. Maybe down the road.
Bob
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I agree with you...

i think firefox is the best for the tablet. opera is fine for the text reflow and the speed dials. both dolphins are not that good on the tab though when comparing both I prefer dolphin for pad as the hd version sometimes looks horrible on some web pages

aamaaeg said:
i think firefox is the best for the tablet. opera is fine for the text reflow and the speed dials. both dolphins are not that good on the tab though when comparing both I prefer dolphin for pad as the hd version sometimes looks horrible on some web pages
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Did you try Aurora ? (Firefox alpha) It's the fastest Firefox for Android

aamaaeg said:
i think firefox is the best for the tablet. opera is fine for the text reflow and the speed dials. both dolphins are not that good on the tab though when comparing both I prefer dolphin for pad as the hd version sometimes looks horrible on some web pages
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While there will be many legitimate debates about the merits of different browsers, Firefox does one thing that no other mobile browser does correctly. That one thing is to properly handle overflowed objects like DIV tags and IFRAMEs. What this means is if a webpage has say a DIV tag with scrollable content, Firefox will handle it in a way that will allow you to scroll that content around. All other browsers either deny any access to hidden content in the scrollable object or display the entire contents of the scrollable object that in turn breaks page layout.
I run and test Firefox Beta, Aurora & Nightly on my Tab and S2 on a regular basis. Firefox Beta is my default browser. For those who don't like living on the bleeding edge, Beta is a solid browser. If you don't mind a few bugs, Aurora is pretty stable. If you don't mind occasional blow ups and want to help find/report bugs taking Nightly out for an occasional spin can help improve future generations of Firefox.
In regards to Dolphin, it's a fine browser, but it is still KHTML based just like Safari and Android Browser, so in essence, it is just a Android Browser clone with a few extra bells and whistles.
As far as whether I'd use Dolphin for Pad or Dolphin HD, if D4 Pad is no longer being supported you should switch to HD to make sure you have the latest security fixes. Never stay with an unsupported browser.