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How is browser stability with 3.1? I would say this is the biggest issue I have with 3.01 version of the xoom. the browser either gets slow loading pages or completely closes with a crash.
I would like to know what people with the update think.
ethion said:
How is browser stability with 3.1? I would say this is the biggest issue I have with 3.01 version of the xoom. the browser either gets slow loading pages or completely closes with a crash.
I would like to know what people with the update think.
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Used to crash a lot
Not once After update
flash video is also faster
Browser works great in 3.1, haven't had a crash yet. Doest lag when scrolling on XDA 2010 theme.
With the update and the new quick controls I'm back to using stock browser full time A++ would browse again
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Yea the browser seems a lot more stable so far, that's for sure. The quick controls are cool too.
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Browser is snappier. Quick controls are improved. Ability to scroll is greatly improved and I prefer the method (hide images until you stop scrolling).
The browser works noticeably better in 3.1. Scrolling is definitely smoother than before on sites like Engadget, CNN and XDA. Flash video does still impact performance though IMO, which is why I set plugins to "on demand".
While scrolling is smoother, I've noticed that the tradeoff seems to be fillrate. If one scrolls too quickly, you can actually see that page filling in rather annoyingly at the bottom of the page. I wonder if it would be a good idea for Google to limit the scrolling velocity (much like the iPad) to reduce that jarring effect.
Lastly, not a single crash for me... yet.
browser is MUCH improved. With the exception of flash, I compare all mobile browsers to IOS. With the quick controls and smoothness of scolling, I think this browser kills IOS now!
Thanks for the response. I love the stock browser but the bugs were killing it for me. now I gotta wait till my xoom updates!
Bolt beta browser for fast browsing not available in market
http://db.tt/c6IWJch
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I like pics and hyperlinks.
http://www.androidguys.com/2011/06/21/beta-test-bolt-browser/
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:0&biw=1123&bih=798
apk in zip is legit, testing browser now.
EDIT: Tested... here is the low and short. Slow loading browser with a horrible eye rending font. Reduces image quality too much for how slow it is loading pages. There are options to change the quality, but it does not improve much. Offers no additional functionality so far compared to say Dolphin or Opera. Do no really see a compelling reason to even keep it on my phone, there are better options for choice in browsers.
Seems nice. I'll give it a try.
Is it just me or is chrome a fairly laggy experience with browsing? I mean I love everything abut it except that its very laggy with scrolling and loading on the nexus 7 . My evo 3d is smoother when browsing and its not even comparable with the new ipad. And i cant compare chrome on my 3d because I get tons of graphical glitches. I just feel that for being the standard browser on this device it should perform better. The aosp browser that comes with cm seems much faster and smoother but I get a lot of "this page is not responding" errors with it.
Chrome Lagging & Other Disappointments
ncfastls1 said:
Is it just me or is chrome a fairly laggy experience with browsing? I mean I love everything abut it except that its very laggy with scrolling and loading on the nexus 7 . My evo 3d is smoother when browsing and its not even comparable with the new ipad. And i cant compare chrome on my 3d because I get tons of graphical glitches. I just feel that for being the standard browser on this device it should perform better. The aosp browser that comes with cm seems much faster and smoother but I get a lot of "this page is not responding" errors with it.
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No, it's not just you. I have the same problems on my 12-day old Nexus 7. This is my first tablet and the whole experience has been disappointing. I will be returning it and begin a whole new search . I have never and do not own an Apple anything but more and more it seems I may end up with an iPad. But I'm not willing to give in just yet. The touch screen is a disaster. Although there may be a fix in these forums, I guess my thought process is, "why am I fixing a brand new tablet?" I didn't expect perfection with this first release but the basics like touchscreen, Chrome & speakers should not be problematic.
Try a different browser, Dolphin is really good, Firefox is good, Xscope (I think it's ugly) I hear works well, Tint, Boat (iOS Safari like), etc.
I've noticed that some web pages just don't work well on mobile, the newer XDA themes (the current one and the previous) have been laggy on every Android device I've read it on. The old yellow theme is perfectly smooth. Android Central can get laggy too, but there are tons of other pages with lots of content that are like butter. I dunno.
Chrome is pretty laggy in my experience. I just found out that the AOSP browser is actually better than Chrome in terms of speed and consistency. It even supports Flash!
Erm... Works fine imo? Switching tabs can have me waiting seconds fora page to render but besides that everything seems pretty close to optimal.
Imho Chrome isn't ready for daily use. Just installed dolphin, very fast, my browsing experience improved a lot.
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I use Chrome on my Nexus and it's smoother than the stock browser,IMO. No lag or other issues at all. Very quick and snappy.
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It lags for me when I open 9 tabs.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
I get some severe hitching sometimes where a page will start to load then I attempt to scroll and the UI doesn't respond for seconds. I kind of get that sometimes in other programs but Firefox or Dolphin seem much better about never freezing up for long periods and you can actually scroll when the page is still rendering. I use Chrome mainly because it has excellent integration with the desktop version which actually might be contributing to that problem. I was thinking about turning off the sync of things like omnibox history to see if it would make it get stuck less doing whatever it's doing. More likely though it's a problem with how it's rendering the pages and fitting them for the tablet but I can't do anything about that so I try to change little settings.
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Chrome is pretty laggy in my experience. I just found out that the AOSP browser is actually better than Chrome in terms of speed and consistency. It even supports Flash!
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I agree 100%. After playing with everything on the market I have not found anything that handles flash as well as the older browser.I miss the full screen mode in firefox but being able to have flash work correctly is more important to me than full screen browsing or syc. Google should have left Crome as an add-on and used the regular browser on the N7.
Try firefox , it's awesome. Despite all good things about Firefox on android I still hate their UI .
I'm just looking for a good browser to use on a regular basis while Google gets their act together and fixes the freezing and crashing issues that exist with Chrome and the N10. What have you found works best with the N10? I'm using Firefox right now, which is fine but I would like to use something that handles tabs better.
Thanks.
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If you like the feel of the normal stock browser on the phones I would suggest giving ocean browser a go. Personally I use that and chrome. Ocean is noticeably faster but some pages it looks a bit strange, like the screen ratio is a bit off. Hard to explain but other than that it's great. I'm hoping chrome will become decent with a few updates
If you are rooted you can download and copy the good old stock android browser into /system/app. Its extremly fast and fluid.
I highly recommend Scope Browser. I thought is was my Tablet causing crime to crash and lag. Been using it with no complaints. Its a paid app, but the dev keeps it updated
I really enjoy using the boat browser.....best one I have tried so far.
i agree with boat browser
i agree w/ dolphin and boat
they give the best desktop-like experience so far
You can't really go wrong with the ocean browser. Its the fastest browser experience on any android tablet IMO. Almost on par with the iPad
I've settled on the Boat browser after Dolphin and Opera abandoned Flash for I want a desktop experience similar to using Windows on my laptop without needing to install loads of apps to use some sites like Apple.
I tried the Ocean browser but gave up after it crashed when selecting full screen mode and there was no option to have desktop mode on all the time and got fed up re-selecting desktop mode every time a site changed it.
I paricularly like the Boat speed dialer implimentation and I use it for all of my book marks. It does mean that I need to return to the speed dial page for my bookmarks but because I have set that as the Boat home page then that is easy and quick to do.
It means my book marks are all stored within the browser and are not taking up space on the Android home screen which I can fill with app short cuts.
It also means there is no need for multiple tabs to be open at once for the Boat speed dialer page becomes the multiple tabs.
The bookmarks can still be saved as they are seperate from those on the speed dialer page.
AOSP Browser for me. There's something about the AOSP browser that I just love. dunno what it is though!
I love the layout of ocean, but for me, its not any faster than chrome on 4.2.1
for me its ASOP or Ocean they seem to be smoothest
I like chrome's layout, where it has the back and forward button built into the address bar which is nice since the N10's centered buttons are not rhe best design choice. But its really glitchy sometimes. It will run fast and smooth on some websites, then just call it a day and slow way down on others.
Dolphin Browser Beta has great potential it's quick scrolling and zooming, almost never stuttering. But Is very much a Beta and likes to close itself when things don't go quite right.
Regular dolphin browser felt the slowest on my N10
Ocean is Very fast and I love running it in full screen. But I've had some issues with websites not loading correctly.(scored 1,037 on Peacekeeper)
Boat is good all around. Stable, decent interface. it just seems to be a bit more sluggish than ocean and Dolphin Beta.
I did find another Post where someone figured out how to fix the Opera 12 User interface so it's not tiny. I'm giving that a shot for sure. Opera runs great on my O-Gnote.
I think any of these four is a Good choice depending on who you are and what you like.
I want to root and put the AOSP browser on there to try it, I'm just really gun shy with rooting.
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I like chrome's layout, where it has the back and forward button built into the address bar which is nice since the N10's centered buttons are not rhe best design choice. But its really glitchy sometimes. It will run fast and smooth on some websites, then just call it a day and slow way down on others.
Dolphin Browser Beta has great potential it's quick scrolling and zooming, almost never stuttering. But Is very much a Beta and likes to close itself when things don't go quite right.
Regular dolphin browser felt the slowest on my N10
Ocean is Very fast and I love running it in full screen. But I've had some issues with websites not loading correctly.(scored 1,037 on Peacekeeper)
Boat is good all around. Stable, decent interface. it just seems to be a bit more sluggish than ocean and Dolphin Beta.
I did find another Post where someone figured out how to fix the Opera 12 User interface so it's not tiny. I'm giving that a shot for sure. Opera runs great on my O-Gnote.
I think any of these four is a Good choice depending on who you are and what you like.
I want to root and put the AOSP browser on there to try it, I'm just really gun shy with rooting.
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Boat is the only one which provides a Flash player desktop experience off the shelf.
I've only tried Chrome and Dolphin so far. Dolphin was much faster.
do any other the browser do Tabbed browsing?
I used AOSP or ocean, ocean is really good for stock
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Boat is the only one which provides a Flash player desktop experience off the shelf.
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That's true, ocean does default to the android agent.
I don't mind Boat at all. It's very good and is still installed on my N10 so I can bounce back and forth. I just find myself going back to Ocean more often because I like the popup controls. You mentioned before it was crashing on you, I haven't had that issue so far.
I do agree with your earlier post, being able to set the user agent to desktop by default would be a nice option to have in ocean instead of having to hit request desktop site everytime.
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ady702 said:
do any other the browser do Tabbed browsing?
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The best options for Tabbed browsing (in my opinion) are Boat Browser and Dolphin Browser/Beta
I am on a quest to find good internet browser for my Nexus 4 running KitKat. It turns out this is a hard one.
Chrome and Chrome Beta are fast in loading pages but laggy otherwise (recent apps lag, tabs view lag, scrolling lag sometimes).
Firefox Beta and Aurora are fast as well and less laggy but when you use it your device resolution is recognized as 594x362 so you often end up with low res pictures and so on. Those tend to be buggy when it comes to scrolling - sometimes it's very smooth, sometimes extremely choppy (e.g. when sth is being downloaded)
Dolphin without jetpack is stable but kinda slow.
Dolphin with jetpack seams perfect at the begining (blazing fast and no lag) but then you notice that it is buggy. Some pages would stop loading and from time to time screen blinks when you start to scroll through the page.
Next Browser looks nice and this seems to be the only advantage of this one. (Pixelization visible when switching tabs spoils even this one)
Operas (Beta, Classic, Mobile...) - biggest disappointment (laggy, wrong resolution).
I've even tried Baidu, UC and some more (I don't remember names) but all lack something.
Do you have any advice? Am I missing something? Are there any tweaks to make one of those really satisfying?
I migrated from iOS and the only thing I really miss is Safari...
Technically Puffin Web Browser Free outperforms all of those Browsers you mentioned, but I wasn't fond of its UI and at times loading was slow. Boat Browser is also an honorable mention.
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