I have the Gingerbread VEGAn-TAB RC1 on my G-tab, and am not liking the browser that comes with it.
Can I download Google Chrome browser, or are there other options for browsers?
I dislike the lack of any navigation buttons or easy way to get to home page, etc. Maybe I am missing something in the configuration of this browser? It id's as Firefox, right?
Thanks!
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Try dolphin Hd.
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thanks, I'll check Dolphin.
Since Android is Google, why isn't there a Chrome for Android?
Miren is another good alternative browser.
Firefox is nice, but no flash.
I really liked Dolphin HD, but it seemed to slow down after a while. Maybe my phone, idk.
Started using Miren browser included in Steve's roms and really like it.
Miren is nice but I've since switched to Maxthon Browser.
Dolphin HD is good so as long as you don't get carried away with add-ons.
I never understand that
lancorp said:
thanks, I'll check Dolphin.
Since Android is Google, why isn't there a Chrome for Android?
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I just dont understand how there is still a google chrome browser
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My biggest complaint was the Opera browsers 9 and 10 on the HD2. Constant timing out and forever loading. I like skyfire but without 3g, its worthless.
What are the best browsers for the Vibrant and can I run Skyfire and Opera
BTW: My Vibrant is still on the way. Havent checked it out yet
Stock browser works fine for me (will work even better when we get 2.2 for Chrome to Phone) or Firefox for Android (Fennec). Dolphin Browser and Skyfire are pretty good alternatives.
Yes there are plenty of browsers available in the Market. Skyfire and Opera are among them, but my favorite is Dolphin HD. You can theme it (though there arent many to choose from), and add extensions.
You can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg1tfMSBYEI
Mozilla also has an alpha available for Fennec (mobile version of Firefox).
I've tried Dolphin HD, Fennec, and Opera. Of the three, I ended up keeping Opera and am pretty happy with it. Fennec showed promise though, I'm waiting until Mozilla polishes it up some more until I try it out again.
I use dolphin hd works great and has plenty of customizable options... Didn't know mozilla had a mobile browser going to check that out myself now
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My vibrant is coming in a few days, have any of y'all tried xscope browser? That was my favorite on current phone
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I've tried Dolphin, Skyfire and even the beta Fennec (Firefox mobile) but I will always go back to stock coz it's fast, simple and clean.
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I've tried Dolphin, Skyfire and even the beta Fennec (Firefox mobile) but I will always go back to stock coz it's fast, simple and clean.
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Fennec isnt Beta... you meant Alpha, I'll definitely give it another try when a stable final version becomes available.
I know about sky fire, fire fox, dolphin. But honestly it doesn't seem like any of these are a better alternative to the stock web browser. Dolphins ability to view desktop pages is cool though. Can anyone recommend a browser that is actually all around better than stock or does such a thing exist?
XScope is not bad. I use DolphinHD myself.
http://androidandme.com/2010/04/app...-the-fastest-alternative-browser-for-android/
I like Miren Browser the best out of all I have tried. It's a very simple UI with tabbed browsing, and I find it to be the fastest of the browsers I have used (I'm sure many people would disagree with this, but on my phone this is what I've found). Hope this helps!
xscope and miren are the best. xscope is due for another major update.....cant wait.
My vote is going to have to go with Miren as well. I have been using it for the past week and a half and i have to say, it's slightly faster, and it fits well with my blue theme. Simple UI, advanced features when I need it, all around solid browser. Dolphin HD seemed a little slow for me all the time, but then again, other people may have diff experiences.
To me it's a toss-up between Dolphin HD 4 and Miren. Both are fast and feature packed. Dolphin mini was ok but lacked add-ons that I use with HD.
Opera Mobile 10 seems to work best for download sites such as filesonic, etc. but is a little slower and usually re-directs you to mobile websites even when setting the 'Mobile View' option off.
Xscope 6.x seemed to be the most feature-packed and perhaps the most bloated. It was considerably slower in loading AND rendering pages than all the other I've used.
Don't even waste your time with Firefox - it's the slowest of them all and has a lot more development to go before it can be a usable browser on android.
Skyfire is different than the above because it uses proxy servers to render content so it appears faster because of this and also has video capabilities. Since it doesn't connect to websites directly and instead uses proxies you may experience slow connections or no connections (happened to me a few times). The main advantage is you can view flash video content from sites like CNN.COM and ESPN.COM. If you are running Android 2.2 or higher you can view flash content directly and therefore Skyfire it not really needed.
Opera Mini works similar to Skyfire in that it uses proxy servers to view websites but doesn't have video capabilities (last time I checked).
I don't really like browsers that use proxies (UCWEB is another), I want a direct connection to websites just like on my PC.
I haven't really found the 'perfect android browser' since I sometimes I find a site that works better with one browser than the other which is why I keep Dolphin HD, Miren and Opera Mobile. I guess my main browser would have to be Dolphin HD.
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I know about sky fire, fire fox, dolphin. But honestly it doesn't seem like any of these are a better alternative to the stock web browser. Dolphins ability to view desktop pages is cool though. Can anyone recommend a browser that is actually all around better than stock or does such a thing exist?
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Dolphin mini is my favorite. its about the same speed for me on the vibrant but on my girls mt3g slide it is super fast. dolphin mini not dolphin hd
Opera mobile is my fav. Reminds me of Firefox for desktop.
My second is Firefox mobile.it jusy doesn't seem as fast as Opera IMO.
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I have a little problem. I love the opera mobile browser....but each time when I am browsing and decided to switch to another application on my vibrant, for e.g messages, yahoo messenger e.t.c. when I try returning back to opera mobile to continue from where I stopped using the task manager it just open opera mobile afresh with all the tabs I was reading gone. does any one know the solution to this?
xScope is fast but the UI is hideous. (no offence but I really hate the UI).
I was using Dolphin Mini for a very long time, it's lighter and faster than HD. I've just switched to Opera Web recently but I haven't decided if I want to keep it yet.
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I have a little problem. I love the opera mobile browser....but each time when I am browsing and decided to switch to another application on my vibrant, for e.g messages, yahoo messenger e.t.c. when I try returning back to opera mobile to continue from where I stopped using the task manager it just open opera mobile afresh with all the tabs I was reading gone. does any one know the solution to this?
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Are you using any task killer? If you are, stop using it.
If programs still get killed too fast, get minfree memory manager, set it to a value that gives you more room for apps running at the same time.
Maxthon was posted in the main android dev forum on here a couple weeks ago. I have been using it some and like it so far.
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I use Dolphin HD and love it. As a LastPass user, it has the built in browser plugin that is essential for me.
Try the Miren browser, it's nice, can do flash just like the stock google browser, and home pages when opened up.
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Anyone have a link to the new Firefox 9 apk as it is no longer compatible with the nook tablet via the android market like the old one use to be.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/9.0b6/android/en-US/
Thanks for that link
And that is the beta version of firefox
Go up a few directories: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/
It should be pointed out: neither release or beta builds update themselves. You will need to do so manually.
Maybe check out Firefox's Aurora channel? It can update itself.
This is a better link:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/latest/android/en-US/
Seems to be nearly unusable on my NT unfortunately...
Use Dolphin Browser HD it's the best browser in market, has very useful setting like touch gestures and other stuff, try it out it is good.
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Use Dolphin Browser HD it's the best browser in market
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I agree completely. I am a die-hard Firefox fan; been using it since it was Firebird. But the mobile version is crap It's slow and half the pages didn't load for me. I switched to Dolphin HD and it was much better than Firefox or Opera Mini. And I was still able to load all my Firefox bookmarks using the Xmarks addon for Dolphin.
yea i agree with the previous two people. I tried aurora but it just doesnt run fast as dolphin...at all
I already use dolphin HD on all my android devices but i wanted to be able to use my bookmarks from my desktop firefox and be able to blobk ads like i can with firefox desktop and firefox mobile. I can not find anything simalir for dolphin hd which sucks as when i play flash based vides they get slowed down if there are flash based ads on the screen and i cant just click ont he single element i wanna run it has to run all the flash elements on the page instead of just the one i want. That is why i was looking to use firefox over dolphin because the mobile version has ad block plus and i just wish i could get the same for dolphin hd but i ahvent found any way to do the same thing.
hey guys
what's the fastest and powerful internet explorer for android?
what you think? let me know and ttyl.
PS : I used to use Dolphin until reports that dolphin has been anonymously collecting user's data then i stopped it.
opera for sure..
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Stock browser for me.
Firefox. Easy to sync with PC (bookmarks, etc. Opera is fiddly), plenty of add ons....Just plain works.
stock browser for me but when i try to download something from zippyshare or others sites i use opera because stock doesnt download it,dunno why...
I personally prefer the stock browser, but have had good experiences with Dolphin HD (didn't know about the data collection concerns). I'm also currently using the new Chrome beta, and yeah it has some issues that need ironing out, but it's VERY nice. I'm a desktop Chrome user and sync bookmarks between PCs, so it's great that I can finally do that in my mobile browser as well. (Firefox also offers this functionality, but I don't like Firefox.)
I already used the stock, dolphin, opera and they are ok, but the miui's stock browser is the best one... and there's the google chrome browser now that i think that may be good...
I use Dolphin HD for my main browsing (only because it's the first one I used and has been pretty stable). I've tried Opera, Firefox, and even Chrome. But for just speed, I find Dolphin Mini to be best. Apparently it uses similar tech to Opera with regards to caching/compressing.
I'm using Dolphin HD with Ribbon's CM9 and it sometimes make things too blurry to see. I don't know if its the browser or the ROM though. Anybody else having issues like this?
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I'm using Dolphin HD with Ribbon's CM9 and it sometimes make things too blurry to see. I don't know if its the browser or the ROM though. Anybody else having issues like this?
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I use Maxthon Browser because it has a really good Advanced Gesture add-on that allows you to draw symbols on the webpage to navigate (back, forward, home, history, close tab, etc.)
Stock ICS.
Chrome Beta at times, mostly stock ICS.
I seem to be having the same issue with whatever browser I use. Must be the ROM i guess?
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I use Maxthon Browser because it has a really good Advanced Gesture add-on that allows you to draw symbols on the webpage to navigate (back, forward, home, history, close tab, etc.)
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Dolphin also has this feature.
Last time I checked, Dolphin made you hit the hand button before a gesture would be a recognized. Maxthon seemed quicker and more accurate.
Dolphin Mini - Because I drive a Mini.
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I use Dolphin HD. I like the ability to sync bookmarks between my Android devices.
Just downloaded Firefox beta seems to be fast. Was using dolphin, But I did not like how some of the pages were jumbled up.
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I use Opera Mobile to sync across all my devices. That, and it is pretty fast too.
Opera, tried them all and it's the only one I can ever get comfortable with.
Was using Dolphin and Opera for a while, but both started hanging up on me. I'd have to force close and restart a lot (more so with Dolphin than with Opera). Now I'm using Maxthon and it works well.
My browser has to have incognito mode. If you know what I mean.
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currently using the latest version of Firefox from the Play store on the latest build of CM9. Little jagged on the scrolling, as expected from the notes on CM9, but very usable otherwise
I use xscope browser. It may not be the most polished, but I am visually impaired, so I need to be able to zoom in on mobile sites, and most of the popular browsers won't allow that. I can put up with a few annoyances in order to be able to read the text on the screen. Xscope is especially helpful on my rooted evo 4g.
I'm using the stock only because I don't have it rooted. Haven't decided if I'm going to yet or not.
I didn't care for Dolphin HD and a dude from BN recommended Penguin, but that was terrible. I wish they would just update the stock. I hate that some pages are not compatible with it.
I've started using Boat browser for just about everything, and I really enjoy it. It has everything I liked about Dolphin, without all the extra stuff I didn't care about. I think I'll also give Chrome a shot, but Boat has been good.
was using dolphin HD but some times was not loading pages so moved to dolphin hd mini