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what browser is your choice.. me im using the native only because i just flashed..
but i like dolphin hd and opera mini(when it wants to work)
there are others out there i know and the firefox beta (forget the name)
so let me know ? im always looking for new useful stuff.

Native: comes with the OS, does everything except flash just fine.

I use skyfire! Because I want to be able to watch flash videos!

I use Opera Mini becouse is faster than others. I also have tried Skyfire for the flash support, but was so sloow in 3G mode.....
Sorry for my English, I'm Italian

Stock Browser because it does everything fine and i don't need flash.

There are other good browsers like dolphin, opera mobile, skyfire, MIUI and xScope. But I still prefer the stock one. Well maybe Opera mobile as well.

I have tried them all and the native brower seems to work the best.

Dolphin HD with add-ons + Fennec beta with sync from my desktop/laptop.

Stock one when I'm using a wi-fi connection
Opera Mobile when I'm using a HSDPA connection (faster, low data transfer)

****full said:
Dolphin HD with add-ons + Fennec beta with sync from my desktop/laptop.
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How can you use fennec? I tried installing but it gave an error of incompatible hardware or something.
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Master619 said:
How can you use fennec? I tried installing but it gave an error of incompatible hardware or something.
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Same here.

I prefer Miren Browser!
Easy and very fast!

I use stocked browser for wap, skyfire for wifi and opera mini " FAST" for mobile data.

Opera Mini here

Stock browser for JavaScript heavy sites, and Opera Mini for everything else. I just love how the burden of processing pages are done by the servers

Opera and Skyfire. I only use Skyfire when i need to see flash videos. I'm not a fan of the phone's browser.
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Tried Dolphin browser, but I still prefer the stock one. It's light, and does pretty much everything quite well.

I use Dolphin HD... It's perfect. sometimes I use Opera mini too.

I use Dolphin Mini 2.0, it's the best when you consider all pros and cons, and I tested others as well (miren, dolphin hd, opera, xScope).

Can someone send me file original host of LGP500?
Thanks

Dolphin HD constant crashes

I want to use dolphin. Totally stock zoom. Crashes almost eveytime I open it, secound time I open it it works. Uninstalled it an reinstalled. Same symptoms. Anyone else experience this?
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kjdocs said:
I want to use dolphin. Totally stock zoom. Crashes almost eveytime I open it, secound time I open it it works. Uninstalled it an reinstalled. Same symptoms. Anyone else experience this?
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I tried it once a few days ago... same thing. Crashed on open. After 3 tries, I uninstalled it.

Already posted this.. same issue. Lots of other people too.

kjdocs said:
I want to use dolphin. Totally stock zoom. Crashes almost eveytime I open it, secound time I open it it works. Uninstalled it an reinstalled. Same symptoms. Anyone else experience this?
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This sux are using dolphin HD? I have used this since day one because of the fc after fc I had on the stock browser. I have yet to have a crash on it.
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I checked their blog.. there is a beta that you can still download the apk for.. seems to work better. It said that it has no hardware acceleration but it works better. The flash on demand is my reason for using it

I left dolphin HD a while back cause I hate how the tabs disappear when you scroll down. Dolphin mini is actually superior in my opinion. Epecially the way it copies and pastes. Similar to xoom's native. I use it on my Droid X. I have found that the best browser for xoom is stock. Just a pain in the ass that you have to "debug" each startup. It seems to be most reliable but be careful about tab browsing with more than 5 tabs. You'll lock up and FC. Other browser I sort of liked is miren but it's not optimized and the start up logo is stretched and that's a no no for me. You may also wanna check out skyfire they're were the first browser to play flash when android couldn't. I don't really like the flow of it but some do. So saying all that I will stick with debuging stock browser
If you don't know what debug browser means. Type- about:debug into your bowser then hit enter. Go to menu. Settings. Debug. Change UAString to desktop or ipad. Each time I start up browser just do the about:debug enter and you're good to go. The reason being is the browser like to return from default. A quick check to see if debug mode is on is click the top right menu and more options are available such as Dump V8.

same problem I hope they fix it soon cause I love the last pass integration

So while I think Dolphin HD is necessary on the Galaxy Tab where the stock browser was ****, I think for the Xoom, the stock browser is the best mobile browser I have seen...
Its not as silky smooth as the ipad 2, but man the tab browsing is phenomenal and its smooth enough where syncing with Chrome and the tabs make up for it

Dolphon was working fine for me until the 3.0.1 update. Since then I've gotten FC after every session. Alternatively, the native browser has also gotten worse too.

Dolphin HD works good for me. I watch flash videos on it all the time. I like the stock browser too but I'm tired of about:debug every so often.

Droid4All said:
Dolphin HD works good for me. I watch flash videos on it all the time. I like the stock browser too but I'm tired of about:debug every so often.
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Agree with this... haven't used Dolphin before and it seems to work quite well.
Two questions:
1) Can you configure to have Dolphin close when closing out all tabs? Right now it seems to want to default to a recently closed tabs page.
2) I have the LPP bookmark widget on my home screen and it is not updating my most visited websites like it was for the stock browser. Any fixes?
So far so good with Dolphin... not having to reset the user agent all of the time is worth it enough.

A quick way to exit Dolphin is to long press the 'back' soft touch button. This brings up an exit menu, whch also lets you clear cache.

Droid4All said:
Dolphin HD works good for me. I watch flash videos on it all the time. I like the stock browser too but I'm tired of about:debug every so often.
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Ditto. I mainly use stock browser but find myself going to dolphin HD when i need to
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Dolphin crashes for me as well, but the lastpass integration is needed. The browser in android is a senior browser, but it is not Chrome browser (google the has chrome browser). So we do not have extensions.... yet
I do not have to reset lasting in stock browser session the setting stays
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nbajwill55 said:
Dolphon was working fine for me until the 3.0.1 update. Since then I've gotten FC after every session. Alternatively, the native browser has also gotten worse too.
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Dolphin HD uses the same webview as the stock browser, which is why it's page performance and stability is identical to the stock browser. The only difference is the GUI.
Droid4All said:
Dolphin HD works good for me. I watch flash videos on it all the time. I like the stock browser too but I'm tired of about:debug every so often.
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You guys know you can bookmark about:debug, right? Also, the user agent setting persists if you turn debug back off (not across browser restarts, of course), so put a shortcut to about:debug on your home screen and use that to launch browser.

With 3.0.1 and flash Dolphin worked ok for me and seemed to become unstable after opening multiple tabs. I ditched it for the new firefox build that was released today. I know it doesnt have flash but I am really impressed with its speed and usability. I did change the User Agent to ipad however

I have about:debug bookmarked but I don't have to in Dolphin. Its a no brainer. Stock browser is alot better than previous Android versions but I still prefer Dolphin.

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I do not have to reset lasting in stock browser session the setting stays
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The "setting" stays the same in the menu, but without about:debug being active, the browser sends the android header regardless of the setting. Check it @ http://my-addr.com/ua

Scrolling in box on browser

Hi,
I have problem with scrolling in the browser, whether it is stock or dolphin browser.
If you look at the link below there is a list of players, in this case the goalkeepers to choose from in fantasy league, I am unable to scroll down on a box such as this. This is just one example of the issue :
http://fantasyfootball.telegraph.co.uk/select-team/
Does anyone have a solution? I know on iphone you can use two finger scrolling.

daz_2000 said:
Hi,
I have problem with scrolling in the browser, whether it is stock or dolphin browser.
If you look at the link below there is a list of players, in this case the goalkeepers to choose from in fantasy league, I am unable to scroll down on a box such as this. This is just one example of the issue :
Does anyone have a solution? I know on iphone you can use two finger scrolling.
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Use another browser like Opera Mobile or Firefox Beta 6.0

Do you have updated Adobe Flash Player?
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Got no updates showing on market for flash and always update when available. So should have latest version.
I've tried opera and switched to desktop mode and still not working.
There has to be a solution!
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daz_2000 said:
Got no updates showing on market for flash and always update when available. So should have latest version.
I've tried opera and switched to desktop mode and still not working.
There has to be a solution!
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Anyone got a solution to this?

Can't get it to work as well... Kind of frustrating...

Firefox beta works fine, wish dolphin could do it though.

If you haven't installed flash 10.3 then there might be an update available.
When I got my SGS 2 and when I factory reset it, no updates show for flash or gmail, but when I search for flash and gmail in the market, and click on them, it has the option to "update" rather than install.
Dont know if you know what I mean, but search for flash 10.3 and it should allow you to update it.

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If you haven't installed flash 10.3 then there might be an update available.
When I got my SGS 2 and when I factory reset it, no updates show for flash or gmail, but when I search for flash and gmail in the market, and click on them, it has the option to "update" rather than install.
Dont know if you know what I mean, but search for flash 10.3 and it should allow you to update it.
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Basically, make sure you've got the latest version, as per this page...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer

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If you haven't installed flash 10.3 then there might be an update available.
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The part of the webpage that the OP is having problems with does not use flash, it's a table.
I tried the site myself in several browsers, and can confirm the only ones I could get the list to be scrollable in were Firefox and Firefox Beta. Even then they don't have a scrollbar, you have to swipe within the table area. I presume this is by design.

oinkylicious said:
The part of the webpage that the OP is having problems with does not use flash, it's a table.
I tried the site myself in several browsers, and can confirm the only one I could get the list to be scrollable in was the Firefox Beta. Even then it didn't have a scrollbar, you have to swipe within the table area.
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Good point. I just checked and it's just a div with overflow set to auto (show scrollbars if required). This is old CSS and really should show in all browsers. Some investigation is required.

Thanks guys, will give firefox a whirl.

[Q] Downloaded pictures won't show up in gallery.

When I download a picture with Chrome browser of the default "Internet" browser it won't show up in Gallery but when i download a picture using Opera Mini web browser it shows up in gallery.
In ES File Explorer and in the "My Files" application i can view the picture though.
How can i fix this?

Oh and this started happening today after an OTA update. Kies notified me now when i connected my phone on the computer for an update again, i hope this will fix my problem.
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andys93 said:
When I download a picture with Chrome browser of the default "Internet" browser it won't show up in Gallery but when i download a picture using Opera Mini web browser it shows up in gallery.
In ES File Explorer and in the "My Files" application i can view the picture though.
How can i fix this?
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Well hope you've already fixed your issue with the update....if not try moving your pics to a different folder and rebooting...sometimes the media scanner misses folders...also try to clear your thumbnail data use clean master...its pretty good
Good luck...hope this helped

sadeshmagic said:
Well hope you've already fixed your issue with the update....if not try moving your pics to a different folder and rebooting...sometimes the media scanner misses folders...also try to clear your thumbnail data use clean master...its pretty good
Good luck...hope this helped
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the issue is not fixed ;/ when i download images with chrome and internet browser they won't show up in the gallery folder. i don't know what is wrong.. when i reboot the phone the pictures show up normally though. is there any way to fix this?

andys93 said:
the issue is not fixed ;/ when i download images with chrome and internet browser they won't show up in the gallery folder. i don't know what is wrong.. when i reboot the phone the pictures show up normally though. is there any way to fix this?
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It seems like your media scanner isn't picking up the new files....hmmmm try a factory reset or clear data ofthe app called media storage...hope it works

I have uninstalled the updates of chrome browser and it works perfectly now..dafuq is happening im so confused...
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andys93 said:
I have uninstalled the updates of chrome browser and it works perfectly now..dafuq is happening im so confused...
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That I have no idea....probably some bug in the update...anyway glad its working now

Hahaha i dont really know what to think seriously its a bit funny i guess..maybe the chrome update wont trigger the media scanner automatically. Hope this will be fixed, im using firefox at the moment which feels more stable and solid
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Video stutter?

Anyone else experiencing video stutter while trying to stream inside a browser? I've tried chrome, chrome beta, Firefox, and built in browser. Its especially worst for HD video.
It'll also happen in YouTube app on 1080p videos although to a less noticeable degree.
Netflix and play movies seem to perform normal.
Thinking there needs to be some software optimization done in a future patch to address this.
Can anyone else replicate this issue inside a browser ?
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lazaro17 said:
Anyone else experiencing video stutter while trying to stream inside a browser? I've tried chrome, chrome beta, Firefox, and built in browser. Its especially worst for HD video.
It'll also happen in YouTube app on 1080p videos although to a less noticeable degree.
Netflix and play movies seem to perform normal.
Thinking there needs to be some software optimization done in a future patch to address this.
Can anyone else replicate this issue inside a browser ?
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Had this issue after rooting my device. I went into both my installed browsers and cleared all cookies, cache and history. Once completed, I did a reset on my device and voila, it's all working fine now. Sometimes I notice a bit of lag but this is when I'm connected via WiFi and I have about 10 other devices connected hence some lag.

cellrama said:
Had this issue after rooting my device. I went into both my installed browsers and cleared all cookies, cache and history. Once completed, I did a reset on my device and voila, it's all working fine now. Sometimes I notice a bit of lag but this is when I'm connected via WiFi and I have about 10 other devices connected hence some lag.
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Are you on stock ROM by any chance?
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lazaro17 said:
Are you on stock ROM by any chance?
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No, I bought the phone from a local carrier in Canada called WIND Mobile. They do not support LTE data but a slower 4G speed. I had to ROOT and install a custom Telus ROM then change the regional carrier settings to recognize the Telus ROM. I have not had any issue though and whether a stock ROM or not, I think it's more to do with the application (browser) and how it renders the video playback.
Hope this helps!