Browser Microstuttering on Scroll - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has anyone noticed that the browser stutters a bit on scroll? All the browsers I've tried seem to do it. Some worse than others but it's present in all of them. This is pretty annoying and is something i really shouldn't have to deal with considering the money shelled out for this device. The Note 2 didn't do this though I've been on Cleanrom so long I don't know if stock would have done it too.

Even im experiencing lag in the browser...for me in google search also its happening and its crazy on the xda website...need help to

XDA HellHound said:
Even im experiencing lag in the browser...for me in google search also its happening and its crazy on the xda website...need help to
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I can't understand why this is even happening. Is it the Att bloat? Is it Touchwiz? These mini consecutive stutters while scrolling at medium speed are just unacceptable.

or is it the new guy Knox?

real annoying problem for me with AT&T note 3, with stock browser or.chrome. load a page, xda for example, as.soon as I attempt to scroll or touch anywhere on the page it reloads, drives me crazy. using uc browser now

chrisrotolo said:
real annoying problem for me with AT&T note 3, with stock browser or.chrome. load a page, xda for example, as.soon as I attempt to scroll or touch anywhere on the page it reloads, drives me crazy. using uc browser now
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I had that problem with the Note 2 browsers too. Dolphin would reload it as well. And it still does with the Note 3. Though this problem seems to be limited to this site only.

Techweed said:
I had that problem with the Note 2 browsers too. Dolphin would reload it as well. And it still does with the Note 3. Though this problem seems to be limited to this site only.
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Yes, I have observed this same problem on XDA with the Note 8 (multiple browsers).

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Xoom and XDA

My xoom seems to struggle navigating through xda. It is very slow and laggy and very tough trying to navigate through the site. Anyone else suffer through this ?
Thanks for any feedback.
how long have you had it?
What browser are you using?
Mine was horribly laggy for a day or two after I got it. I couldnt believe this tegra 2 device couldnt hang with my evo??
After a few days it really smoothed out in several ways, especially browsing the web.
Now it owns my evo, as it should
Go to the bottom of any FDA page and set viewing to "xda classic". Fixes the laggy experience.
sddenizen said:
Go to the bottom of any FDA page and set viewing to "xda classic". Fixes the laggy experience.
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Yup! This will fix it.
opera browser works nice with XDA site.
Tapatalk really work good...
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jase33 said:
opera browser works nice with XDA site.
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Have to second that. opera works in web mode fine with all of the forums that I've tried..
Mine was slow as heck at first but after a day or two it started running great in stock browser, it coincided with my installing flash but I highly doubt it's related.
alias_neo said:
Mine was slow as heck at first but after a day or two it started running great in stock browser, it coincided with my installing flash but I highly doubt it's related.
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You can got to Settings ---> Applications ---> Browser ---> Clear cache. Did this couple of days ago and the browser seems scroll much smother.
You can also set Enable plug-ins in Browser advance settings to on demand. this will stop browser automatically loading flash contents.
Bigmille said:
You can got to Settings ---> Applications ---> Browser ---> Clear cache. Did this couple of days ago and the browser seems scroll much smother.
You can also set Enable plug-ins in Browser advance settings to on demand. this will stop browser automatically loading flash contents.
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Yeh, like I said though, mine started slow and got faster, I didnt clear cache and didn't turn anything off or chance any settings, all I did was install flash. Weird, but I'm happy with the performance so far.
nebenezer said:
how long have you had it?
What browser are you using?
Mine was horribly laggy for a day or two after I got it. I couldnt believe this tegra 2 device couldnt hang with my evo??
After a few days it really smoothed out in several ways, especially browsing the web.
Now it owns my evo, as it should
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NEBZ!!!!! Glad you came to the dark side
sddenizen said:
Go to the bottom of any FDA page and set viewing to "xda classic". Fixes the laggy experience.
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Astonishing how much this setting helps. I recently switched to that a few days ago and I can now enjoy XDA on my tablet.
(While I'm a huge proponent for using Opera Mobile on Android 2.x, I don't like it for Honeycomb because it doesn't follow the normal text selection conventions in the OS and it isn't (yet) HW accelerated to my knowledge. Barring XDA 2010 theme on the XDA site, I get much better performance from the HC stock browser than Opera Mobile when on my tablet.)
Likewise, thanks for the tip on changing it to xda classic. Scrolling is much smoother on the stock browser now.
Thanks for all the advise and help really do appreciate it. I changed setting to classic and WOW makes a huge difference. I've had my xoom few weeks since it came out and love it. This was one of my complains because my brother owns an ipad and he uses my xoom to navigate through xda and always complains, now that is fixed Once Again THANKS ALL
The xda donate version (I thinks its offically called the premium app) works well on xoom.
Sent from my Xoom the way it should be, rooted and with SD card.
i had the laggy xda site too after i installed flash. Once I set web pages to use plugins on demand, (settings -> advanced -> enable plugins -> on demand), thepages load much faster and scroll smoothly. I think it was all the flash-based ads that were making the browser slow down.
I've noticed this helped other sites as well, so if you are experiencing browser lag on other sites, try this method. Hope it helps!
I had a similar experience with my Acer A500. Thanks for the suggestion about using the classic theme. With the XDA 2010 theme even entering text was a laggy chore, and that is with plugins set to on-demand. Switching to the classic theme solved the lag, and has made posting much more pleasant. I will share this information over in our neck of the woods.
i've also noticed that portrait scrolls better than landscape.
Thanks for the "XDA Classic Theme" tip!

Sluggish Browser Response/Long Web Page Load times on Google IO 10.1 Ltmd?

I have the Google IO lmtd. 10.1 tab. I love the tablet except I am experiencing very sluggish response times when loading web pages. I have 50 MBPS data speeds over FTTH. Speedtest run on the tablet clocks at 26 MBPS DWN and 31 MBPS UP. However, it takes several seconds 10, 20, 30 to load even the most basic web pages. I can't figure out why? I've tried Firefox 5 and Dolphin but same result. I reset the Tablet to stock and didn't install a thing and I'm still getting poor browser performance. Coming from the iPad 2 which was almost instant load times, this is really disheartening.
I'm considering just holding off on calling support until the new honeycomb update comes out to see if that fixes the issue. Curious if I am the only one experiencing this or if maybe I have a defective tablet.
Seems OK to me, I've noticed that some pages are a bit slow, but generally seems OK. I'm not very familiar with browsing on the iPad though, so can't comment on that comparison.
The majority of pages load quickly for me but there are a few that are slow. It’s certainly no slower than the Tab. There are a few niggles with the browser but they will probably get sorted out with 3.1.
I find that scrolling is really, really bad in the browser(like.. worse than my old htc magic) but maybe that's just me.
Well I figured out what the issue is. The tab does not see wireless 'N' at all.
I have a dual band router and set up the tab on B/G and performance is now very good. However, I think the Tab is supposed to have 'N' functionality. Anyone else with the Google IO 10.1 confirm if they have 'N'? If you do, my tab is defective.
I use my landlord's wifi and she only has wireless g so I'm no help there..
but I'm pretty sure they opened up a 5ghz(wireless n) network at google i/o specifically for the tablets. the network was called "thecloud". Can anyone else confirm this? that's just what one of the other attendees told me.
Yes, I do remember that "thecloud" was N. In addition, I'm on N at home and the connection info says 65Mbps. Page load times are fine.
smaskell said:
I find that scrolling is really, really bad in the browser(like.. worse than my old htc magic) but maybe that's just me.
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This is a problem with 3.0.1 browser, 3.1 update will fix this.
On XDA, it helps do change the theme to XDA Classic
I also saw quite a few really weird rendering bugs. The strangest one was where a chunk from another page I had previously visited would pop up on a page. It was really weird; I'd see a 2" x 2" square on a page that was the content from something I was viewing before. If I scrolled up or down a little bit, it would go away for a moment, only to come right back.
There is no XDA App for the Honeycomb?
I would pay if exist.
poisike said:
This is a problem with 3.0.1 browser, 3.1 update will fix this.
On XDA, it helps do change the theme to XDA Classic
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gogol said:
There is no XDA App for the Honeycomb?
I would pay if exist.
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I think i did read in Xoom forum that the XDA app works on Xoom, but i haven't used it myself.
Unfortunately I see this on every honeycomb tab. If I try to load weather.com or something similar the tab locks up, I can exit the browser but I can scroll within the browser until I restart tab. I can continue to load websites, but I just can't scroll. I wish these updates were pushed a little faster, I want to drop the I pad entirely but for pure web browsing it seems to have a huge edge. Especially when, loading the sea website, butter on the ipad but on this tab it takes forever and then follows me to any page I go to.
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[Q] Fix for browser typing lag?

Is there a fix for this yet?
I can't type on forums or anything, even filling out forms is a general pain.
Luckily I have tapatalk but that still shouldn't mean I have to suffer in the browser department
It seems to happen sporadically with me. Really is annoying when it's happening though. Might be an issue with a background service taking priority.
Use swiftkey it's way better but still lags on forums
GeLopez said:
Use swiftkey it's way better but still lags on forums
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Swiftkey is out for 3.0? I've got it on my DHD (bought) but it doesn't show in the 3.0 market
It's not a Keyboard problem. Lags still remains using harware dock-keyboard too... Unfortunally it's the status now...
Hope this is solved asap.
theres swiftkey for tablets , on the VIP forum.
is this the same slow down that i get trying to load some pages? it gets stuck at say, 80% and nothing else happens. drives me crazy
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Swiftkey is out for 3.0? I've got it on my DHD (bought) but it doesn't show in the 3.0 market
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You can get it on their vip section
iam just using dolphin. No issues with that browser at least for me.
i found there was lag on all the browsers but i just tried opera mobile and seems good so far.
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i found there was lag on all the browsers but i just tried opera mobile and seems good so far.
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I can confirm this. It seems to be a problem with the way the stock browser is built. Some of the third party browsers borrow from Google's code, so they'll suffer from a lot of the same issues until Google resolves it. Browsers built on a completely different engine won't suffer from the same issues.
If anything I prefer Opera Mobile anyway for its ability to render pages faster.
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You can get it on their vip section
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You have to be invited to the VIP program. You can't register without a VIP code.
Can you post the apk?
does switching the user agent help any? .ie. mobile instead of tablet
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If anything I prefer Opera Mobile anyway for its ability to render pages faster.
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Same here but the default font size on opera mobile is way too small compare to dolphins and default. That is why I keep going back to default browser.
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does switching the user agent help any? .ie. mobile instead of tablet
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Nope does not help. The only reason why i have my agent on desktop instead of tablet is because some videos on youtube site will not play if you're browser is set to tablet.
the gl fix didn't really do anything for me.
I have owned every tablet and the asus so far stands a cut above the rest
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I've tried all the fixes...some are better than others...I've tried all the browsers...nothing put a real stop to it until I started using Firefox 5 beta.
No lag whatsoever. None. Not even a hint.
But give up flash. Tons of lag as itype this. Lol.
Same problem here.. I was showing off my TF to my Bro who has an Ipad2.. he was so impressed and I was so happy until the physical keyboard lagged as he typed on his facebook.
Any fix yet??

Slow Text Entry?

Is is just me, or is the text entry kind of pathetic on the browser of the tab
any desktop site, like.. Facebook , or XDA, typing lags always a second, so the words and letters typed will show up after you actually type, its not smooth at all...
*laughs hard*
I think there might have been a few discussions about this. Yeah, it's an issue. Dolphin or Opera Mini will work better.
So I think I may have a fix for this. I was digging around in the keyboard settings, and noticed that the Tab ships with "Samsung Keyboard" as the default. I switched mine back to the stock Android keyboard, and it's much better. Of course there are a bunch of replacement keyboards you can use as well, but the stock honeycomb keyboard seems much more responsive than the Samsung one.
So far the Android keyboard, Swiftkey, and Swype keyboards haven't made anything better for me.
I've seen some people say disabling OpenGL in the debug settings helps, but they also say it has some other performance side effects. So... I guess I'll be using Opera Mini for a while.
The Bookmarks widget though makes it real easy to use the stock browser bookmarks (synced from my desktop Chrome browser) real easy with Opera though, so I like that.
ya so far swype is tne worst. But problem ive been having is if i type too fast the keyboard suddenly closes and im constantly having to reopen it.... Its fuggin annoying.
I've been using thumb keyboard and no lag. Its able to keep up with me
i really don't think its keyboard related
I'm using stock hc keyboard
Divineblue try doing a quick reply here on ur tab and you'll see the lag
Its fine in Google search and mobile sites but just des on desktop sites like facebook etc
lag disappears in opera mini but its a slow loading browser and I can tell decreases page quality, also can't get facebook desktop to load, no user agent option
so the hc browser really sucks then and ia behind this text lag
Is this lag a general problem with HC? Do you guys think that it will be fixed?
I got this tab on friday I love it so far but this text entry lag is driving me insane.
Hawk777th said:
Is this lag a general problem with HC? Do you guys think that it will be fixed?
I got this tab on friday I love it so far but this text entry lag is driving me insane.
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It's HC. My Acer had they same issues.
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I use the thumb keyboard and stock browser. It lags like crazy, no different than using any other keyboard.
Has this been reported to Google?
Because of this issue alone, I postponed my purchase of any Android tablet
Web browsing accounts the most for my usage pattern. And I really hate any slow down for doing it.
See if this is fixed in the upcoming Android 3.2 (if it made to GTab) ... or hopefully ICS.
Is it at all lack of power from the Tegra or is it a glitch./-/
I bet on problem with Android Honeycomb.
It is really strange if Tegra does not have enough power on this!
We have a lot of Tegra phones and they don't have this issue. Sure, this is different OS, but that should show about "power".
Probably we need to wait for Android tablet Honeycomb that does not using Tegra.
And see if the problem still there.
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Is it at all lack of power from the Tegra or is it a glitch./-/
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lol its definitely not the tegra 2. Its honeycomb, this one is all google's fault. Kind of sad that google brags about their browser being the fastest than other browser and yet the honeycomb browser can't even handle text entry.
I get the same lag with the samsung keyboard attatchment i bought
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Google Issue 17353 seems its somthing to do with 3.1.
Here is the link:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17353
Please guys, chip in, report there and star it.
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Google Issue 17353 seems its somthing to do with 3.1.
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Yeah I see what you are talking about now
well done on the post above, i voted
I put my comments in that thread too..
The laggy text in the browser is total fail

Laggy browsers

I'm on stock jvs and the browser I'd really laggy when scrolling on some websites. it takes ages to respond. How do I fix it? I've tried stock browser and dolphin
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Have you tried wiping the cache and history... I've found formatting the internal sd after a while helps, obviously you will loose everything on it, but just back up what you need..
If that dont work try some of the tweaks in the stickes
What ROM are you using?
I really enjoy the layout of Opera Mobile, and I find it to have absolutely no lag whatsoever; even while pages are loading, I can freely scroll around as I please. Granted, I'm using CM7 and have a highly tweaked phone. In general, my phone doesn't really lag at all.
seeraj15 said:
I'm on stock jvs and the browser I'd really laggy when scrolling on some websites. it takes ages to respond. How do I fix it? I've tried stock browser and dolphin
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What websites?
The truth is that every browser lags once a while, we cant help it. Dolphin hd is the best browser without a doubt but it also lags a bit sometimes.
hit thankxx if i helped. sent from my mind through telepathy (ya its possible)!
Browser is laggy when your page is loading, try to wait when it is loaded at full, also when browser loading it is killing apps in background deppending on your page size. Also it is normal that browser laggs with "heavy" pages, there you can do nothing, it will lagg with every browser in this situation.
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Websites such as sky sports and fantasy premier league take ages to respond when I'm trying to scroll.
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seeraj15 said:
Websites such as sky sports and fantasy premier league take ages to respond when I'm trying to scroll.
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Well you can do one thing, use dolphin browser hd its the best and it has kill ad in which can be downloaded from market and then on the side bar of dolphin browser their is a 1 click option to kill background apps which browsing faster.
hit thankxx if i helped. sent from my mind through telepathy (ya its possible)!
No problems with semaphore kern
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seeraj15 said:
Websites such as sky sports and fantasy premier league take ages to respond when I'm trying to scroll.
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Both sites work perfectly fine on my phone. I have the complete ability to scroll, zoom in, etc. while the site is loading. No lag whatsoever.
upichie said:
Both sites work perfectly fine on my phone. I have the complete ability to scroll, zoom in, etc. while the site is loading. No lag whatsoever.
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Pretty much true.
The only exception, and I've seen this on other sites, are the pages that have large rotating images (JavaScript, not Flash) that fade in and out.
Those pages sometimes experience slowdowns... other than that, both sites are completely smooth for me. (Odexed JVR)
seeraj15 said:
I'm on stock jvs and the browser I'd really laggy when scrolling on some websites. it takes ages to respond. How do I fix it? I've tried stock browser and dolphin
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Perhaps your rom is deodexed. Most deodexed browsers lag. Try using dolphinn browser or opera mobile. Opera isn't as good as dolphin, but it allows you to download from sites like filesonic.
mate i've been over different roms, and different kernels, overclocking etc. There's just some pages where it has always lagged for me. Most seem to be ok, but some are just impossible.. Usually use stock browser, have tried others but for some sites dont think it really matters, it's going to lag either way.
There's an australian footy site over here which has a bit of flash content etc and it takes ages to load even on wifi and can lag bigtime at times. Would be extremely impressed (and jealous) if anyone doesn't have lag on their phones on it.
www.afl.com.au
Yeah some pages the phone with stock browser (or dolphin hd) just can't handle smoothly. Too much going on, need more power like in the SGS2 to really handle it (opera might be better than stock or dolphin hd but I didn't like the interface when I tried it). IIRC the SGS2 has enough juice to play embedded 720p flash video, where 320p is a stretch for the SGS.
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mate i've been over different roms, and different kernels, overclocking etc. There's just some pages where it has always lagged for me. Most seem to be ok, but some are just impossible.. Usually use stock browser, have tried others but for some sites dont think it really matters, it's going to lag either way.
There's an australian footy site over here which has a bit of flash content etc and it takes ages to load even on wifi and can lag bigtime at times. Would be extremely impressed (and jealous) if anyone doesn't have lag on their phones on it.
www.afl.com.au
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Definitely a lot going on at that page. It probably took a solid 10 seconds to fully load it on Wifi, haha. Surprisingly, there were a couple hiccups while it was loading on my phone—but only three very minor hesitations in scrolling in the entire 10 seconds of load time.
Sounds like you guys just need to tweak your phones a little.
With my SGS I get lag in the stock browser, where my Atrix is fine (which I'm guessing has to do with the extra ram).
For any sites on my SGS that lag, (which does include XDA at times) I try to go Opera Mobile whenever possible and that usually is enough for me...
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The browser lags on aforementioned websites. I also experience lag on phonearena.com, pocketnow.com and rebtel.com. This might be related to the ram problem.
The sites don't lag on my zte blade which has 512 MB too. But maybe that has more free ram.
Wonder if galaxy S plus suffers from the same problem. Anyone have experience with SGS Plus or have heard anything about this?
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Definitely a lot going on at that page. It probably took a solid 10 seconds to fully load it on Wifi, haha. Surprisingly, there were a couple hiccups while it was loading on my phone—but only three very minor hesitations in scrolling in the entire 10 seconds of load time.
Sounds like you guys just need to tweak your phones a little.
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yeh it's a heavy site, thought there would of been some problems. but seems yours performed still a bit better than mine. hopefully will get it worked out sometime.
Nothing wrong with your phones dudes, more that enough firepower to browse smoothly.
Just poorly optimized coding imo. To prove this you need to try Opera Mobile.
Same phone, same websites, different browser, NO LAG WHATSOEVER.
- no lag scrolling even while loading
- no lag zooming even while loading
- no lag whatsoever anywhere including that site www.afl.com.au (it just takes a while to load cos its huge, but no lag still)
- flash works great (this MAY lag a bit but that's flash for you on this phone, not opera's fault)
Doesn't matter what android version/kernel you're running either. I tried almost every rom/kernel combo out there (2.2.x, 2.3.x, custom, stock, semaphore, darky, talon, etc), makes no difference for this, really.
That said, other developers need to work better on their software. Opera has just proven it's perfectly possible to browse lag-free and it's not the hardware that's lacking. Although, to be fair, i'm not sure what more could i ask from a browser that opera doesn't provide already.
Interesting one of the sites that lagged really bad in dolphin hd, canadacomputers.com, was much smoother in the stock browser. Odd I though they were pretty the same, although I do notice that stock browser does the white/grey checkerboard thing (also the thing where zooming in blurs until it 're-renders') while dolphin does not. I hate how 'tabs' work in the stock browser though, maybe I'll give opera another shot.

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