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Firefox 4 was released for desktop and a mobile update was released today. I'm still messing around with it, but really liking the mobile stuff so far. I think I prefer chrome for desktop use, but may convert to firefox just for the mobile stuff.
You can set up a sync between the desktop and your phone so that you can immediately view tabs that are open on the desktop version. It's a lot like chrome to phone, but MUCH smoother/quicker in my experience. Chrome to phone always seemed to have a bit of a lag that made it annoying at times, so I'm definitely liking this so far.
At the very least, it's worth a try, even if you've used previous versions.
I like it, but still no flash support
Agreed, its double tap zooming is better than any other browser I've tried on Android.
dLo GSR said:
I like it, but still no flash support
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No flash support in firefox? I thought there was....
jiggytom said:
No flash support in firefox? I thought there was....
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Nope, just tried youtube it's a no go.
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They have also said they don't have a time frame of when/if they will add flash support...
Seems very odd to me. I like the fact I can sync the browser with my desktop but without flash support its almost useless.
Thats funny, I use optionshouse.com which is a flash based trading website (account needed) and it doesn't work in any browser but firefox...
Yeah, I just uninstalled it... feel let down, b/c Firefox is my go to on my pc. Mobile version bites though. After syncing all my bookmarks to DolphinHD & flash mod, I'll be sticking with that.
I'm a LastPass user, so Dolphin has been my only option, but I just saw they released an add-on for Firefox so I downloaded it to give it a try. I found Firefox supper buggy. It was laggy navigating menus and settings, and jittery when inputting text, (though seemed snappy enough loading web pages) and I had 2 FCs inside of 20 minutes... Is anyone else having similar problems? I'm running CM7 PB2.
Whats the best web browser out there at the moment? Using Chrome which seems to be ok but i was just wondering what everyones thoughts are.
symbolicdeathwish said:
Whats the best web browser out there at the moment? Using Chrome which seems to be ok but i was just wondering what everyones thoughts are.
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My personal preference
1. Boat Browser
2. Opera Mini
3. QQ Browser
Pick which suits your needs
It depends...
symbolicdeathwish said:
Whats the best web browser out there at the moment? Using Chrome which seems to be ok but i was just wondering what everyones thoughts are.
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It entirely depends on what phone you're using, what you want to use it for and what you think is most important, e.g. speed, feature rich, etc.
IMO Opera Mini is the best, but that's cause I'm using a G1 and it's the only decent viable option.
I don't know about many others therefore, but for HTML5 Chrome tops it, for speed I don't see why Opera Mini shouldn't beat everything (it uses compression). If you have a decent phone with ICS+ I reckon Chrome's probably the best.
Day use: Naked Browser
Night use: xScope Pro (best inverted browsing mode I've ever used)
Listy2021 said:
Naked Browser
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...that is all
Naked for daily 3g, Tint for js flash
Opera mobile is my personal favourite.
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Quick ICS browser for me. Lot of features and smooth (but some fc sometimes)
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dashingdon said:
My personal preference
1. Boat Browser
2. Opera Mini
3. QQ Browser
Pick which suits your needs
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Be careful. Check out this thread for how browsers track you. It's an invasion of privacy and it wastes bandwidth, battery power, and CPU cycles. I know Boat Browser is specifically mentioned in that thread and I'd stay away from it. Opera Mini does have the option to send all of your data through Opera's servers so be aware of that. QQ Browser looks to have some intrusive permissions so I wouldn't trust it either.
I made Naked Browser in response to all of the privacy shenanigans of most of the browsers out there. It's free in the Google Play Store, is tiny and quick yet with lots of features, and does not and will never spy or monitor in any way. No ads either!
naked browser for me.
Opera Mini
The full Opera for me, followed by Naked Browser.
Naked browser.
I'm between Chrome and Firefox beta.
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Which browser (other than chrome) can sync with chrome bookmarks in chrome desktop
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aminaked said:
Be careful. Check out this thread for how browsers track you. It's an invasion of privacy and it wastes bandwidth, battery power, and CPU cycles. I know Boat Browser is specifically mentioned in that thread and I'd stay away from it. Opera Mini does have the option to send all of your data through Opera's servers so be aware of that. QQ Browser looks to have some intrusive permissions so I wouldn't trust it either.
I made Naked Browser in response to all of the privacy shenanigans of most of the browsers out there. It's free in the Google Play Store, is tiny and quick yet with lots of features, and does not and will never spy or monitor in any way. No ads either!
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hmmm ... I was not aware of this ..
Going to check Nakedbrowser...thanks.
-Dash
For me Opera mini is the best but it cant load dynamic web pages. That is it wont do bigger countdowns like of 60 seconds etc. But else its awesome and runs fast.
Hope i helped .
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Just curious to see what browsers people are using on their Manta. Do you go for fast and stable browsers or ones that are feature rich?
I use UC Browser for Tablets myself I feel it has a good balance of speed and features.
I used chrome for a while but then I stitched to aosp browser and its a lot better. Faster smoother and it shows downloads whole chrome sometimes didn't.
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Dolphin... Even got flash working on it...
the_boo said:
Dolphin... Even got flash working on it...
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Cool how'd you manage that I downloaded adobe and it still didn't work for me
rlattin24 said:
Cool how'd you manage that I downloaded adobe and it still didn't work for me
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I think dolphin had an add on for flash
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Must be rooted... Go to /data/data/mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser/shared_prefs
Delete the file mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser_preferences.xml
You won't lose any features, and you also won't be able to turn off flash... You could just rename the file to .xml1 or something so it can't read it
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I think dolphin had an add on for flash
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They did but they turned it off when adobe stopped supporting new devices... It won't let you turn it on... Deleting the file above turns it on, I couldn't figure out what it is in the file that turns it off, so I just deleted the whole thing and it worked...
I use Firefox beta. Fast, reliable, synced with my desktop and my nexus 4 and, of course, with flash support :thumbup:
Boat Browser (paid version). I'm using it for ages on my Galaxy Note and now I'm using it on the Nexus 10 as well.
I'd like to switch to Firefox, but it is heavily lagging when scrolling slightly complex webpages (e. g. www.spiegel.de). So I'll wait for this to be fixed.
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Boat Browser (paid version). I'm using it for ages on my Galaxy Note and now I'm using it on the Nexus 10 as well.
I'd like to switch to Firefox, but it is heavily lagging when scrolling slightly complex webpages (e. g. www.spiegel.de). So I'll wait for this to be fixed.
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Same here as well. Using paid boat browser on my nexus 10 and S3 but would love to switch to Firefox but its so laggy on some heavy pages compare to boat thats so smooth.
Haven't tried Firefox beta yet though. But to be honest I dont think firefox even the beta version will come close to boat browser in terms of performance but UI wise I prefer Firefox because its very neat and clean.
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Boat, because it has flash non rooted, and because it does "mouse over" well.
Xscope. But the only good thing about it is that I can swipe to go back and forth. It can do flash as well and rendering is not bad
i use aosp browser but i think and i use to lightning browser is faster
I am still not decided which browser to use on N10. I like bookmarks sync of Chrome but I do not like that it is not hiding tabs and address bar so it has not so much space to show web page contents. I like the way of automatic hiding of address bar of Boat browser but it does not work in full screen mode for some reason. On top of that there is no sync with Chrome bookmars. And last that I was trying is Dolphin with Jetpack. It can hide notification bar on top, it can somehow show and hide tab and address bar infull screen mode but it it not as userfriendly as Boat. It can also somehow sync with Chrome bookmarks. At the moment I tend to use Dolphin but still not fully satisfied with interface in fullscreen.
These are features that good browser should have in my opinion:
* two-way sync with chrome bookmarks
* possibility to hide top notification bar to optimize screen usage (fullscreen) - ideally also bottom bar
* easy usage of tab and address bar in full screen - some automatic showing/hiding as Boat can do in normal mode
* reasonable speed
I am affraid there is no browser with all those features
Oh, also Boat has Google Cloud Print add on FTW
I like bookmarks sync of Chrome but I do not like that it is not hiding tabs and address bar so it has not so much space to show web page contents
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Use Chrome Beta. It has a very smooth implementation of this feature as of about a week ago - you can't actually find it on the Play Store search, though. You have to use a link; there's one here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.beta&hl=en
Also, I find Dolphin is the smoothest scrolling and panning of them all - also one of the fastest to load. But does anyone else find it inconsistent? I was using it on my Galaxy Nexus today, and the auto-fullscreen was glitching out when I panned horizontally. The page caching seems a bit odd, SOMETIMES clearing all my tabs and sometimes not (not like Chrome closes almost all of them - sometimes they save for a while sometimes not). Its a solid performer when it DOES perform, the best. But Chrome Beta, even though its a bit slower and doesn't scroll or pan NEARLY as fast, is quite consistent overall.
You just nailed it on why I finally stopped using Dolphin. That, and... Chrome BOokmark sync. My phone, laptop, desktop, tablet, work laptop, and work desktop (yes, I utilize all of the above :S) all have Chrome with my bookmarks on them. I use Chrome on all my devices now.
Also, Dolphin does weird things with Lotus Notes at work and I can't access it, even in Dolphin Mini
I use Chrome simply because being able to sync across many devices is awesome that alone is worth dealing with the crashing and other problems.
My biggest pet peeve.... despite so many people requesting it Google continues to remain thick headed about allowing us to enable Desktop Website by DEFAULT.
I hate having to check that box every time I open a new tab or click a link on one page that opens another window with the mobile version.
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Use Chrome Beta. It has a very smooth implementation of this feature as of about a week ago - you can't actually find it on the Play Store search, though. You have to use a link; there's one here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.beta&hl=en
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Thanks for your information. I have installed it but I haven't found any way to enable fullscreen. I was googling it and I have only found that this feature is for phones only. How did you activate it for tablet?
Dolphin is great but I since Swype doesn't want to auto space in URLs I had to switch away from it. Haven't really tried boat yet.
+1 for Dolphin. Love swiping the left to get bookmarks and right to get full screen. Great browser!
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I noticed that Default browser eats up a lot more data than I'd like it to, so I switched to Opera Mini, which is absolutely amazing in how it takes up next to no data..however Opera Mini is pretty terrible. Is there some in between ground with Chrome?
Chrome beta with data compression then...
yep, Chrome do eats a lot of data like any other standard browser. Like Lim suggest, try Chrome Beta with data compression and see how its goes.
zabrak999 said:
I noticed that Default browser eats up a lot more data than I'd like it to, so I switched to Opera Mini, which is absolutely amazing in how it takes up next to no data..however Opera Mini is pretty terrible. Is there some in between ground with Chrome?
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I use Opera and it is certainly terrible, check out this comparison and you decide: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Browser-Wars-the-best-10-Android-browsers-go-toe-to-toe_id48166
See photo to see how much power it is using up. Anyone else? Is this normal?
Can anyone recommend a browser with low power usage and supports website notifications?
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See photo to see how much power it is using up. Anyone else? Is this normal?
Can anyone recommend a browser with low power usage and supports website notifications?
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Had same problem. Crazy drain with chrome.
Wondering if it's not because I have a lot of favorite and data..
I disabled chrome and installed Samsung browser.. Very good browser and battery friendly. I'm trying also via browser. Nice one too...
If you want to stay on chrome you can also delete cache and data and watch if battery consumption is better.
At the end of the day Chrome is a bulky browser
I'd use Via browser. Its plenty fast and has it's own built in Ad blocker, plus you get access to some customization of the homepage
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I'd use Via browser. Its plenty fast and has it's own built in Ad blocker, plus you get access to some customization of the homepage
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Totally agree ?
tboy2000 said:
See photo to see how much power it is using up. Anyone else? Is this normal?
Can anyone recommend a browser with low power usage and supports website notifications?
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Chrome app on Android is using up over 20% battery without using. Have tried Force Stop but it keeps starting up anyway. Would like to DISABLE because it will not uninstall, but it says on Android Web View that it is Chrome-based. Will everything work OK if I Disable Chrome only on my Android?
Disabled chrome, went to kiwi browser.
leo72793 said:
Disabled chrome, went to kiwi browser.
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kiwi is chrome lol. It is based on chrome and slightly modified. I used it for a few weeks and the drain is the same.
I used to access instagram via chrome it used to suck 1100mah/h. now i use the app again and chrome only for normal browsing. It is about 700mah/h.
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kiwi is chrome lol. It is based on chrome and slightly modified. I used it for a few weeks and the drain is the same.
I used to access instagram via chrome it used to suck 1100mah/h. now i use the app again and chrome only for normal browsing. It is about 700mah/h.
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Not sure why you have such high drain. Kiwi never uses that much for me.
I use brave browser, no battery drain that I can tell, well outside of my actively using it. I don't know if it is higher than if I used another browser though
I turned off the background running setting on it, via the launcher setting in the battery settings and turning it to manual and disable running in background/auto launch/etc
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Not sure why you have such high drain. Kiwi never uses that much for me.
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how much does it use per hour? It highly depends on what websites you visit though. as i said, i used to brows instagram on chrome including watching stories etc. Nowadays its mostly news, xda and an imageboard with pics and videos. thats probably why my chrome drain per hour is above average.
Firefox works perfect for me, never uses more than 400 mAh. I enabled only auto-launch while secondary launch and run in background are disabled. With this combination auto-sync and opening links from other apps work fine.
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how much does it use per hour? It highly depends on what websites you visit though. as i said, i used to brows instagram on chrome including watching stories etc. Nowadays its mostly news, xda and an imageboard with pics and videos. thats probably why my chrome drain per hour is above average.
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Maybe 250ma. I use it when browsing the Google app for links.
Try oh browser.
Very light powerful and battery friendly.
Found it on xda and it's on playstore
I use Microsoft edge. Has built in ad blocker too and send page to pc, direct in the nav bar. Perfect!