Dolphin browser was a great browser with super fast speeds. Comparing this to my phones normal search engine, it was about 2.5x's faster. Lately running bigger sites takes more processing power with greater speeds but no more! Puffin Browser is 6.3x's faster than Chrome, which is probably your current browser. This means that Puffin is more than 2x's faster than Dolphin Browser, even with the speed boost add-on. No needing to download adobe flash from their out-dated flashplayers for android. I ran happy wheels on my phone with 1gb of ram with Dolphin and Puffin. Not only did Puffin have max graphics set on it but it had it's own virtual emulator for the web so I could actually move, jump, and rocket boost crazy wheel chair man to his death. On Dolphin even on low graphics settings, it ran very slow and I couldn't move at all playing games because it lacked an emulator for flash games. There is no need in getting the Pro version either as most everything that comes with the app is with the free version! This is by far the best search engine for any phone or web browser on any device for that matter with speeds even better than this 8gb ram laptop I am writing this thread on. This is a must download for any mobile user.
Currently i'm using UC browser, and it is faster than chrome, but i never compare between dolphin or puffin with UC.
Gonna try it, i guess
Now browser all the way
If you ask me which is the fastest browser, I would gladly say its Now Browser. There is almost nil lag between clicking a link and opening the page.
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I prefer naked browser great features and speed and specializes in privacy which I love.
I use none of those you have mentioned...
I have been using UC browser & operamini. They both are quite fast when it comes to surfing & I have tried dolphin browser too but couldn't get a better experience than UC & opera.
When it comes to downloading as far as I have analysed, none can beat UC...
Considering your post...
I shall give a try to those again....
It's always nice to know something interesting.. :thumbup:
Wow I've been using dolphin for years thinking it was the fastest. Just tried puffin and the UI is strange but the loading time is ridiculously fast. Now I'm curious about UC.
For native flash support dolphin still seems to be the only browser. The puffin flash is a pay service via cloud streaming.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Puffin is a joke. It doesn't even load the entire page before it is done and its flash is laggy as hell. Dolphin is back to its old awesomeness after the Lollipop update and really the only choice for low end Android.
How about Opera
Puffin don't have wrap text.
Imagine a browser where you can't increase font with text wrap.
Today even 10 year old kids need glasses
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(12th May, Beijing) UCWeb announced that the latest version of its flagship product, the UC Browser 7.7 has been just released, with those new
features, UC Browser became the most competitive players in the mobile internet market, compare to operamini, boltbrowser & skyfire. The
highlights of the 7.7 version is more traffic saving to browse WWW site and WAP 2.0 optimization made the page rendering even better.To
download UC Browser 7.7, please go to www.ucweb.com by PC or wap.ucweb.com by handset.
The feature list is summarized below:
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More traffic saving for WWW Site
*Optimized the compression algorithm, compress the content in the server side.
*Duplicated and similar data will not be transmitted again.Save another 30% traffic compare to previous version of UC Browser when visit
*WWW site, especially for those site is full of words.
Better page rendering
*Support more WAP2.0 tag
*Upgrade the compatibility to WAP 2.0 page.
No more glary in night mode
*In the night mode, UC Browser doesn’t only process the text and background, but also process the image to lower the brightness, make the image
softer.
*Process to both static and dynamic images.
Dial+Number to get quick access to site in the start page
*Press “Dial+Number” can get quick access to the corresponding site in My Shortcuts in Symbian V1/V2/V3
Input directly in website
*UC optimized Java version in 7.7 version to bring the direct input feature in website.
Tips optimization
*Tips’ place, background color and font color optimized.
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(12th May, Beijing) UCWeb announced that the latest version of its flagship product, the UC Browser 7.7 has been just released, ...
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No 7.7 for winmo until now on www.ucweb.com ...
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No 7.7 for winmo until now on www.ucweb.com ...
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Download from here.
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-PPC2005-cab-download-23f3b85937.htm
For Other Versions
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-V...-1-88-JAVA-Signed-jad-download-24b9bc18dd.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-V...-1-88-JAVA-Signed-jar-download-1db6903a1b.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V3-download-257309674f.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V2-download-d3730241ab.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V5-download-776219e153.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-S60V1-download-b6621329d4.htm
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-JAVA-Unsigned-download-1794302578.htm
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Download from here.
http://www.plunder.com/c/Official-Version-UCBrowser-V7-7-1-88-PPC2005-cab-download-23f3b85937.htm
Which of those versions is for win mon 6.5?
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I downloaded and installed the first one, it works with win mob 6.5 on HD2.
First note: It does not give any flash support At least i Have not found any possibility to trigger flash ...
And be careful with rotating the screen in options to landscape - it works, but go back to normal before quitting the browser. Otherwise your homescreen is stuck in landscape what doesn´t work well in 6.5 ...
What's this browser's problem? I scroll down a large website like xda only to see the browser return to the top of the page so I have to scroll down again. Sorry but it's a complete waste of time why should anybody use this software instead of the well working opera browser? It's simply unusable.
Ok I realised that I installed 7.6 instead of 7.7. The current version is better but still suffers occasionally from the behaviour described in my previous post. But at least it is usable now.
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Just released today check it out
Get UC Browser 7.8 Official Android here
http://mobileplanet-waryam.blogspot.com/2011/07/uc-browser-78-official-android-s60v3.html
LibertyMonger said:
Get UC Browser here
If you find the default IE mobile web browser to be a little clunky then give UC Browser a try.
UC Browser is designed to make mobile Web access quicker and more convenient. It's a pretty lightweight application that manages to cram in a number of interesting features without slowing down your browsing experience too much.
Viewing WAP and web sites in UC Browser is a painless experience thanks to its multiple tabs, which allow you to have several pages loaded at once in much the same way as Firefox does. You can flick between the pages simply by tapping tabs, or by using the window icon at the bottom to pull up a pop-up screen listing the tabs you have open.
UC Browser gives you a lot of control over page layout, too. You can choose to view pages in full screen, tweak the font size, zoom images, and tweak image quality.
UC Browser has a number of interesting tools that you don't normally see in a mobile Web browser, such as an integrated download manager, built-in Clipboard for simple copy and paste, and a start page with a number of preset links to a range of categorized web sites. Of course, there's full support for bookmarks too.
There's a simple, yet effective Search tool within UC Browser that facilitates quick searching through Google, Bing or Yahoo!, allowing you to choose which search engine the browser uses. The inclusion of the 'Home' screen makes it easier to get started, because it houses shortcuts to all of your most viewed web pages.
UC Browser is a proxy-based browser, which re-renders and compresses page data on a server before sending it to the client (in much the same as Opera Mini and Skyfire do). This makes it exceptionally quick at loading pages. Unfortunately, it seems that image rendering is sacrificed somewhat in this process, and often you'll find that images won't display properly, which can get annoying.
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How does it compare to Opera?
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How does it compare to Opera?
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i haven't used either much but whats nice about this is you pick your make and model of your phone and it customizes the fit and etc. to suit your phone. It's pretty sweet. The pages fit perfect to read them easier without always having to zoom in and scroll around
A ok browser but no flash not a good browser for a droid
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A ok browser but no flash not a good browser for a droid
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Just released today UC Browser 7.8 Official Android
I ditched my iPad for my Transformer Prime and I couldn't be happier that I did but there's one specific feature on the iPad's Safari browser that I miss dearly, and it might seem negligible to some but I used it daily on my iPad.
When viewing a page in Safari that included text, Safari gave you a "Reader" button on the address bar and if you tapped that button, Safari transformed the page into a more readable format... like a book. Here's how it looked:
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The stock browser on our Primes doesn't have a feature like this and I've tried many many many browsers from the market (Dolphin, Firefox, Skyfire, Xscope, etc) and haven't found one yet that has this feature (Dolphin Browser has a plug-in to do just this but the plug-in doesn't work and it hasn't been updated in quite a while, and Firefox has a "Readability" plug-in as well but that one doesn't work very well either).
My question is, do you guys know of a browser on Android ICS that does this? I'll bake you a cookie if you do, I promise!
Installing Firefox and get Readability extension?
This is a very cool feature!
Currently, I just use ReadItLater. But, it's not instant within the browser like the feature you describe.
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Installing Firefox and get Readability extension?
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I forgot to include it in the OP that I tried that as well and Firefox's Readability doesn't seem to work very well either. Have a look at what it did to this Engadget page:
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This is a very cool feature!
Currently, I just use ReadItLater. But, it's not instant within the browser like the feature you describe.
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I use ReadItLater as well and love it but like you said, it's not instant, and the bigger issue I have with it is that it doesn't seem to play nice with the LiveJournal blogs I read. For example: I'll add a page from a LiveJournal blog to my ReadItLater list and ReadItLater will instead capture the login screen or the "mature content" screen and there doesn't seem to be a way to get past that. It's infuriating.
First, I'm well aware that there are similar threads around the forums, but my question is somewhat different.
With that out of the way: Well, I've been testing a whole mess of different browsers, and so far, I've only found three that have dynamic text reflow (by which I mean the text resizes to whatever zoom level you choose): Opera Mobile, Opera Mini and UC Browser, and UC Browser's text reflow is somewhat glitchy and unreliable. Not even Opera Beta has the text reflow.
I'm also aware some browsers have the double-tap after zoom to reflow the text, but I find that generally rather unreliable, too; it sometimes zooms out instead of reflowing.
Why is this? Is there a technical limitation with doing this in Webkit, that Presto made easy or something? Am I wasting my time trying to hunt down a new browser with dynamic text reflow? (Opera Mobile is starting to drag a bit.)
Opera beta text reflow works perfect for me with pinch to zoom. What device and what Android version are you using?
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That's two screenshots of the same site, I just pinched to zoom way in on the second screenshot. Are you sure its not the site? Some sites with mobile skins have special features like adjustable font size built in that disables the pinch to zoom feature. But any desktop version or regular mobile site skin should work ok.
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The latest Firefox has dynamic text reflow as well, you just got to turn it on in the settings.
As to the why so few browsers have it, I have no idea.
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I'm using Jelly Bean on a Galaxy Nexus, currently hopping between ROMs. (This whole thing started when LiquidSmooth, for some reason, causes Opera Mobile to crash on me.)
And that might be the problem; I typically doubletap to zoom as opposed to pinching. Hm.
EDIT: Weird. Tried Opera Beta again, now it text reflows. Gah.
Opera beta 16.0.1212.67320 does the trick, although somewhat sluggish on my Galaxy S i9000 running Mackay 4.1.0.
Can't get it to work on latest versions of:
Chrome
Chrome Beta
Firefox
Firefox Beta
Dolphin (chrome based)
Next Browser (chrome based?)
Boat browser mini (although there is an option for it, it doesn't work)
KitKat AOSP browser
still waiting for reflow on firefox android , I use firefox because of extensions/addons I need/like but now they even removed the toolbar making those addons hard to work with without a button , having to dig into menus to add a rule in uBO to block something, hides half the page you are trying to customize, so now I am switching for some sites between chrome or mi browser and firefox, I think now I use it only because I am used to, but I believe I will just drop it and use something else, dont want to use chrome tho
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still waiting for reflow on firefox android , I use firefox because of extensions/addons I need/like but now they even removed the toolbar making those addons hard to work with without a button , having to dig into menus to add a rule in uBO to block something, hides half the page you are trying to customize, so now I am switching for some sites between chrome or mi browser and firefox, I think now I use it only because I am used to, but I believe I will just drop it and use something else, dont want to use chrome tho
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Which browser do you think works best on nexus 9 with the least lag and heat? Chrome is not bad in using but gets really hot and super lag sometimes when returning to home screen (could take up to 3-4 seconds for browser to close, sometimes even close in slow motion. I will say this is the most embarrrasing trait on Nexus 9 that should not exist at all).
Most other apps that i use are ok so far, but broswer is like the most fundamental thing they should get it to work well.
I use chrome and javelin
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Chrome beta seems to be working fine.
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I use puffin (free), and it is the fastest browser. But for the least amount of heat, opera mini(I prefer beta version) is good, but doesn't have the option for Desktop user agent...
With opera mini:
Anyone have thoughts on whether there is less heat because it is a "mini" browser or is it because the browser does data/image compression (off-road mode)
Its my understanding that the actual reason for excessive heat is because the CPU ramps up to max clock speed everytime the screen is touched, and this happens constantly while browsing. The only current solution is using the tablet in power saving mode, or some modifications to the kernel..
Firefox
I use Firefox with adblock edge.
Less heat, slightly better battery life, and best of all (for me) is that it keeps playing videos in the background when I switch tabs, switch apps, or even lock the screen.
The best advice though for battery/heat issues is using elemantalx kernel and capping CPU/GPU frequencies while browsing.
Hope google fixes that governor quickly (and the memory management issues).
Go back and forth between Ghostery and Atlas. Would love to use chrome but I need an adblocker extension (not supported) and man has it gotten laggy recently.
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I use Firefox with adblock edge.
Less heat, slightly better battery life, and best of all (for me) is that it keeps playing videos in the background when I switch tabs, switch apps, or even lock the screen.
The best advice though for battery/heat issues is using elemantalx kernel and capping CPU/GPU frequencies while browsing.
Hope google fixes that governor quickly (and the memory management issues).
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Firefox really a nice and polished browser, now my default. Only complaint is multiple windows dun appear as individual tabs on tablet.
The regular Opera seems to be working great for me. Great battery life, 6+ hours, where with chrome i was looking at like 4 hours SOT. Also loads fast, and doesnt keep reloading pages constantly like chrome does. Ive tried puffin, uc, firefox, dolphin, a bunch of different betas, and opera seems by far the best. Too bad they dont have a better looking icon, lol. Im running mine bone stock.
Dolphin is always my first choice
No lags no overheating and it supports flash.
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Which browser do you think works best on nexus 9 with the least lag and heat? Chrome is not bad in using but gets really hot and super lag sometimes when returning to home screen (could take up to 3-4 seconds for browser to close, sometimes even close in slow motion. I will say this is the most embarrrasing trait on Nexus 9 that should not exist at all).
Most other apps that i use are ok so far, but broswer is like the most fundamental thing they should get it to work well.
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Try Habit browser. I was ready to smash the tablet due to constant tab reloading in chrome beta.
You need to spend at least 30 minutes going through the options (there are hundreds) and you can configure it to look and behave exactly that way you want.
I also find battery life is slightly improved over chrome, i can get 8 hours of screen on time, most of that browsing.
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Hmmm. I always use Chrome. Not sure what else is out there.
Dolphin Here For Flash Support
Been using Dolphin for flash support for a long time. Used to be you needed to load a modified flash apk in Dolphin to get it to work but now i think it's included by default, at least I know for sure if you sign up for the Dolphin beta it is. Might be though it's included in the non-beta as well now.
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Try Habit browser. I was ready to smash the tablet due to constant tab reloading in chrome beta.
You need to spend at least 30 minutes going through the options (there are hundreds) and you can configure it to look and behave exactly that way you want.
I also find battery life is slightly improved over chrome, i can get 8 hours of screen on time, most of that browsing.
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That Habit broswer is wicked. It's as if the tablet is idling. Thanks for the tip and screenshots
Yandex browser seems better than Firefox/Chrome in my experience. Worth a try.
Yes it's all about the habit browser.
No tabs reloading, so fast at loading. Night and day better performance. :highfive:
Feels like surfing on a PC once configured. :angel: