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Boat Browser (Better than the rest?)

http://www.appbrain.com/app/boat-browser/com.boatgo.browser
Just ran across this browser and its handling pretty well. Streaming videos work pretty well too. Its like a blend of safari, miren, and dolphin! Try and post feedback!!
**Here is a test an evo member did (not sure if he used the latest version)**
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092139

thanks, will do.

Ill try it, but Xscope is blazing fast and is my default. Edit: I just tried it and its nice, but Xscope just blows the doors off it. Its speed imo, is unmatched for a non rooted browser.

I just tried both xscope and boat browser.
Both are extremely fast.
Boat browser wins imo. The ui is alot simpler than xscope. Less clutter is superior.
Both are awesome though

Someone should really do a comparison between all of the browsers and post a handy chart or something. Might do this later today with a dozen or so of the best known browsers.

muyoso said:
Someone should really do a comparison between all of the browsers and post a handy chart or something. Might do this later today with a dozen or so of the best known browsers.
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I am confident xscope and boats will come top. With personal preference only going to which ui someone prefers.
Don't forget to test for flash and html5 comoatibility. Opera mini mobile can't do flash.

dsswoosh said:
I am confident xscope and boats will come top. With personal preference only going to which ui someone prefers.
Don't forget to test for flash and html5 comoatibility. Opera mini mobile can't do flash.
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Agreed. I think Boat just rocked the boat. Been XScope user for long time. Way cleaner UI. Just can't figure out how to sort bookmarks.. or a way to save them for the next flash? Guess it just uses stock bookmarks whereas xscope uses it's own, with a save to sd option.
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Can't figure out bookmarks...not just synched with stock. Can't figure out how to sort stock either?
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Thanks for this browser. I was using dolphin hd but I love this browser. Very fast.
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muyoso said:
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I would love to see that. I'm using Opera Mini now but was using Dolphin and tried several others. A chart with positive and negatives of all would be a great help.

splashmktg said:
I would love to see that. I'm using Opera Mini now but was using Dolphin and tried several others. A chart with positive and negatives of all would be a great help.
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Gonna do it tonight after I finish dinner most likely. Going to test as many as I can with load times of web pages, flash smoothness (subjective), a bunch of browser tests like acid3/html5/browsermark, features and available screen real-estate. Hopefully it wont take too long, but it probably will as I will restart the phone between each browsers test to give a level playing field.

muyoso said:
Gonna do it tonight after I finish dinner most likely. Going to test as many as I can with load times of web pages, flash smoothness (subjective), a bunch of browser tests like acid3/html5/browsermark, features and available screen real-estate. Hopefully it wont take too long, but it probably will as I will restart the phone between each browsers test to give a level playing field.
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that would be awesome!

Yep, please test.
It would indeed be a sauce of awesomeness.

It's definitely faster and nicely simple. If I can just go without the extras, I may wean myself off Dolphin HD for it.

DroidApprentice said:
It's definitely faster and nicely simple. If I can just go without the extras, I may wean myself off Dolphin HD for it.
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Yes... but how do the bookmarks work? Mine are all deleted now. I cleared stock and then used xscope to send all my saved bookmarks to stock... but they don't go to boat B! If there's no way to save/sync bm...then it's a no go.
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I just use Opera Mobile. Renders well and is sickeningly fast. Works with Flash too.

I really like the "exit and clear records" option. The one thing I hate about the stock browser is that it runs indefinitely and keeps windows open etc.

I like it. Its a little iphone-ish lol but it looks good. I usually use dolphin HD but I'm going to run this for a while to test it out
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I dunno, the new Dolphin HD 5 beta 2 is pretty damn quick...

varelawarfare said:
I dunno, the new Dolphin HD 5 beta 2 is pretty damn quick...
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Ahh, I love competition. ^_^ Kinda reminds me of how Firefox 4 got me much more loyal to Mozilla again.

Chrome for ICS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lVjw7n_U37A
Hope they port it to gingerbread . I want!
Edit: Apparently they can't port it .
"The launch is only available on Android 4.0 because there are platform features Chrome for Android depends on that were not available in previous versions of Android." - JackyH
Google Employee
2/8/12

YEsssssssssssssssssssss i want it tooooooooo

donmarquis said:
YEsssssssssssssssssssss i want it tooooooooo
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Can I ask. Why?
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I tried this browser and its worser than firefox and doesn't support flash
Google mainly tested it on xoom and gnex
It fc's sometimes...
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sahibunlimited said:
I tried this browser and its worser than firefox and doesn't support flash
Google mainly tested it on xoom and gnex
It fc's sometimes...
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aw but the video makes it look so cool XD.

bouncynemoss said:
aw but the video makes it look so cool XD.
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Tried it on my xoom, it's even worse than the original...
No desktop view and no flash support...

Adobe said no flash for chrome
But the browser itself is beta now so it will be improved
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sahibunlimited said:
Adobe said no flash for chrome
But the browser itself is beta now so it will be improved
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For me, Opera is the best mobile browser.
This is still in beta, so we will see how will they fix the flash problem.

iMatth3w said:
For me, Opera is the best mobile browser.
This is still in beta, so we will see how will they fix the flash problem.
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Hmm, I had to stop using opera because the flash on it kept bugging out and pausing videos. Is it fixed? (I loved its speed though)

bouncynemoss said:
Hmm, I had to stop using opera because the flash on it kept bugging out and pausing videos. Is it fixed? (I loved its speed though)
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No problem with opera and flash at all!
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Opera is working fine for me. I don't need chrome.
Regards.

Give it a month or so and hopefully the cm9 port will be ready.. I have been using it and its pretty much done... just camera, deep sleep and gsm/wcdma needs fixing..
I dont really use the browser any more, pull all my info via rss in to feedr

Browser Hang

I dont know why but what ever browser i use it eventually gets to the point where the browser just hangs not crash, it just wont load links i click on or refresh the page its almost like if the internet connection has gone, it is definatley not a connection issue as my pc, laptop and ps3 have no issues. Its getting really annoying now, i have used various roms from aokp, asus hydro, i am currently using aokp build 40. I have used every browser, stock, chrome maxthon, dolhin hd, xscope, it doesnt seem to do it on firefox beta but its horrible and until the firefox team try and make it even slighty resemble the desktop version im not using it.
Anyone had this issue?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1807662
Firefox beta is much better now btw. Try installing it. I haven't had the problem much with chrome
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stephenuk said:
I dont know why but what ever browser i use it eventually gets to the point where the browser just hangs not crash, it just wont load links i click on or refresh the page its almost like if the internet connection has gone, it is definatley not a connection issue as my pc, laptop and ps3 have no issues. Its getting really annoying now, i have used various roms from aokp, asus hydro, i am currently using aokp build 40. I have used every browser, stock, chrome maxthon, dolhin hd, xscope, it doesnt seem to do it on firefox beta but its horrible and until the firefox team try and make it even slighty resemble the desktop version im not using it.
Anyone had this issue?
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I've had this issue with chrome some times...not with stock. How long is it good for?

yeah its a chrome issue and its already ticketed by google hopefully they'll fix it soon
cheers

Try this (only stock browser and needs root)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25286407
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Raul69.atl said:
Try this (only stock browser and needs root)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25286407
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agreed. Browser2ram helped my browser hangs a TON...it was almost un-usable without it.

Raul69.atl said:
Try this (only stock browser and needs root)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25286407
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i was under the impression it helped for chrome too (ics browser+ for sure)

Psyloid said:
i was under the impression it helped for chrome too (ics browser+ for sure)
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Thanks guys ill give it a try

I uninstalled Chrome today

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.

subxero123 said:
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.

gee2012 said:
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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is the chrome browser really that bad?

[for non-rooted only]
it seems like alot of people have problems with chrome being slow and causing reboots, etc.
what other browsers are better? i heard chrome beta is good?

jamaaal said:
[for non-rooted only]
it seems like alot of people have problems with chrome being slow and causing reboots, etc.
what other browsers are better? i heard chrome beta is good?
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forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44477066#post44477066

anyone know other good browsers that they dont really have problems with?

jamaaal said:
anyone know other good browsers that they dont really have problems with?
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Pretty much anything that's not Chrome. I've always used AOSP on the N10, but I've used Dolphin and One Browser on my Photon. My Photon is also on Gingerbread though, so YMMV.
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Koopa777 said:
Pretty much anything that's not Chrome. I've always used AOSP on the N10, but I've used Dolphin and One Browser on my Photon. My Photon is also on Gingerbread though, so YMMV.
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ok. though im unrooted, stock only and cant use AOSP.
does anyone know if firefox is good? is there a risk of my n10 data being like..gone from some error by using chrome?

jamaaal said:
ok. though im unrooted, stock only and cant use AOSP.
does anyone know if firefox is good? is there a risk of my n10 data being like..gone from some error by using chrome?
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as a matter of fact you can use the AOSP browser without root, take a look at here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385933
I have been using it and it's way better than chrome at least in my N10, it seems to work better in my N4
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Mainly use Firefox myself because I like the sync with my desktop and support for browser add-ons.
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kblair210 said:
Mainly use Firefox myself because I like the sync with my desktop and support for browser add-ons.
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Same here and never like Firefox on my mobile devices before but seems much better on my nexus 10...
I've read where you can get flash to work with it also but so far no luck here getting it to work, after flash installs it never shows up as a add on? I haven't rooted my N10 and honestly not sure I'm going to...
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