I know the stock is not as smooth as IOS but what about hardware accelerated browsers like dolphin and opera? Is it silky smooth like the ipad?
Mine stock seems pretty damned smooth. It renders text quickly and once everything is up it scrolls with no hesitation. Of course I have plug-ins set to "on demand" so normally its like the ipad, no flash.
Even with activated flash it's smooth.
As an owner of both an iPad (1st gen) and a TF (Stock and Dolphin) my experiences are:
Websites optimised for tablet/mobile - No difference worth noting
Full desktop websites with lots of pictures - TF faster to render, Ipad a little smoother to scroll
Websites with flash and lots of dynamic content - TF wins hands down.
At the end of the day both of these devices look awful next to Chrome on win64 but they are starting to feel like decent browsers.
Completely subjective: All in all the iPad always "feels" a little smoother to me at everything. Web, just using the OS and everything. But it's a funny comparison - It's quite clearly not as good at any of the individual tasks and slower in general but somehow feels more graceful at the same time. I geuss that's the whole thing with apple though. Personally - I prefer the functionality of the TF.
With the latest update of opera I don't see how it can be smoother
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If you turn off the open GL rendering the browser is extremely fast. The rendering isn't even needed.
With the new Opera Mobile 11, I could finally go back to the 2010 mode instead of the classic mode on xda.....
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Oh, that reminds me, that I forgot to mention, that my stock browser is set to desktop instead of mobile ... the later makes no sense on a WiFi-only tablet in my opinion ... except when tethered to a cell phone maybe.
Also worth mentioning is, that the stock browser doesn't render some bad designed sites correctly ... e.g. golem.de
As a good alternative for such cases I use the tablet version of Maxthon, which is realy great, but also has two downsides ... it doesn't have a fast scroll button and it has problems with popup content like the player of accujazz.com radio. The stock browser does a better job here though not perfect.
Maybe a third browser is needed
I didn't try Opera so far because it's said, that flash implementation is still Beta state.
Personally - I prefer the functionality of the TF.
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As all others here too
As long as you aren't a professional photographer, who needs the more accurate colours & higher colour depth (real 24 bit) and RAW image conversion iPad is the worse choice.
Hackers might be the second group of people who might prefer the iPad ... I noticed, that WiFi hacking tools e.g. are available there, but not on android ... astonishing fact, isn't it?
I find HC browsers faster than the iPad one (I only tested iPad 1) on most sites. On some with a lot of flash they can be slow. Smoother? Didn't notice, didn't care.
eli.kennedy describe the differences quite accurately to what I experienced.
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Mine appears smoother with it on.
The iPad2's browser is much faster and smoother than the iPad 1's. It renders about 4 times faster.
I find the ipad2 browser much smoother than anything on my transformer. If browsing is the reason to have a tablet, AND you do not care about flash, than the iPad2 is a great choice.
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The iPad2's browser is much faster and smoother than the iPad 1's. It renders about 4 times faster.
I find the ipad2 browser much smoother than anything on my transformer. If browsing is the reason to have a tablet, AND you do not care about flash, than the iPad2 is a great choice.
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Really, I can't understand why anyone smart enough to hangout on XDA would be recommending a locked-down, locked-in turd like the iPad2 (which is basically the default choice for people either too stupid, or too lazy to explore alternatives).
Sure there may currently be a lag problem with the Transformers browser when docked with the keyboard, but there are plenty of workarounds, like using the vastly superior Opera 11 browser, and it's doesn't affect page rendering speed, which blows the iPad2 out of the water.
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... lag problem with the Transformers browser when docked with the keyboard, but there are plenty of workarounds, like using the vastly superior Opera 11 browser...
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I didn't know this is a known problem. I just got my Eee and dock and have been trying to fix this lag on a browser issue, but no go.
I tried changing the browser (Dolphin HD), change the Keyboard (Uses Asus and Android).
What is the workaround?
Heavily embedded java severely slows down the browser which is not an issue on other HC devices, or in fact, on the TF with Opera 11 so it should, and will get fixed.
Other than that, the browser is really zippy. As zippy as the Ipad 2. When your on par with speed, plus chrome bookmark syncing, tabbed browsing and flash, its no contest whose the winner.
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Heavily embedded java severely slows down the browser which is not an issue on other HC devices, or in fact, on the TF with Opera 11 so it should, and will get fixed.
Other than that, the browser is really zippy. As zippy as the Ipad 2. When your on par with speed, plus chrome bookmark syncing, tabbed browsing and flash, its no contest whose the winner.
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I have tried accessing website with little Javascript embedded and still see the lag in both stock browser and Dolphin HD. So are you saying, currently, ONLY Opera 11 does NOT exhibit this problem?
Opera 11.1 seems to be the best, smoothest, most fluid browser yet. I prefer it over the stock, firefox, dolphin, etc. It just is so damn near-perfect.
What we'd like I'm sure is a full desktop port of Firefox and Chrome so we all have access to those delicious addons and extensions.
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I have tried accessing website with little Javascript embedded and still see the lag in both stock browser and Dolphin HD. So are you saying, currently, ONLY Opera 11 does NOT exhibit this problem?
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For me at least.
This page here:
http://proximityone.com/demographics2020.htm
was lagging for me in the stock browser, and works perfectly in Opera. I also can type in XDA easily while in Opera but in stock I cannot. Goggle instant works well in Opera but in stock it does not. Google apps such as reader, gmail, etc.. within the browser works well in Opera while the stock does not. This is the pattern I am making an assumption on.
All of which are non-issues in the stock browser for the Xoom. So, something has to be up with the stock browser.
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This page here ... was lagging for me in the stock browser ...
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Strange, it works nice in my Stock Browser and scrolls pretty fast and smooth.
I also can type in XDA easily while in Opera but in stock I cannot.
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I currently write this answer in the stock browser without problems, except a slight keyboard lag. Btw ... the Android keyboard seems to work better in the stock browser than the Asus one.
Very strange, why do we have such different experiences? You Run Android 3.1, don't you?
Yes, I am running 3.1 in stock ROM, rooted. No any other customizations
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Yes, I am running 3.1 in stock ROM, rooted.
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Mine isn't rooted so far. Can the rooting play a roll?
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Stock browser just cannot compete.
should I even bother downloading firefox?
Not a huge fan of Firefox, not all that great and way to big of an app for a browser IMHO
It's a shame that if you should use something else besides the stock browser, you can't change out the stock browser icon in the dock. It feels like dead weight to just have it there. Given Google's propensity for open-ness and customization, not sure why Android stock doesn't let you change these dock icons. Unless I'm mistaken?
Firefox for mobile(aka Fennec) is really slow for me right now. It might be great eventually, but right now it's super slow and has alot of bugs.
Dolphin Browser HD, to me, is like Firefox. Alot of extension, alot of addons, alot of enhancements but still kinda slow. Dolphin Browser Mini is more like Chrome in that it has a few extensions/addons/enhancements but it's extremely quick.
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Firefox for mobile(aka Fennec) is really slow for me right now. It might be great eventually, but right now it's super slow and has alot of bugs.
Dolphin Browser HD, to me, is like Firefox. Alot of extension, alot of addons, alot of enhancements but still kinda slow. Dolphin Browser Mini is more like Chrome in that it has a few extensions/addons/enhancements but it's extremely quick.
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gotta remember it has a Beta tag for a reason
its come a long way, from when it was a 60 meg install
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gotta remember it has a Beta tag for a reason
its come a long way, from when it was a 60 meg install
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Yes, sorry! Meant to mention in my post that I have hopes it'll be something nice eventually hehe.
Try skyfire. feels like stock browser, is much smoother and faster and has way more options.
Is the Dolphin mini like Opera mini which uses an external server to render webpages?
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Is the Dolphin mini like Opera mini which uses an external server to render webpages?
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No, it renders on the device. The difference between Dolphin HD and Mini is that the first is based on the stock Eclair browser and the second on Donut.
for me the best one is the opera mini.
I use stock and xscope.
To me dolphin is extremely slow even when loading Google. I'm using the stock since it gives me what I need. When it comes to video I use dolphin
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It's like the stock browser on steroids. I gave up on this browser month's ago and never thought i'll go back affer the countless FCs and lag. What did they do differently this time?
I tried the HD a while back and then uninstalled it, after it kept FC'ing me in Google+ trying to read Yegges post. Has it improved that much?
Opera is still faster. I used to love dolphin HD, but one day I installed every browser I could find and ran some tests. The conclusion, opera was blazingly faster. I also downloaded this new Dolphin and still prefer Opera.
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Opera is still faster. I used to love dolphin HD, but one day I installed every browser I could find and ran some tests. The conclusion, opera was blazingly faster. I also downloaded this new Dolphin and still prefer Opera.
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Can't figure out how to force opera to display deskop settings.
Opera button-Settings-advanced-user agent
You better make sure you have the right opera also, because they have an ultra fast one that only displays in mobile views.
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The problem with opera is that the fonts are too small compared to stock
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The problem with opera is that the fonts are too small compared to stock
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So just change the settings
how do you do that? there is just zoom
and if you use zoom on websites with tables, the tables will also become bigger, requiring an excessive amount of horizontal scrolling. which makes it pointless
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how do you do that? there is just zoom
and if you use zoom on websites with tables, the tables will also become bigger, requiring an excessive amount of horizontal scrolling. which makes it pointless
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The stock browser fonts are bigger because it uses what it refers to as a "wide viewport." Basically it just enlarges the page to make the fonts and other UI elements match the rest of the Android OS, which are huge compared to the standard fonts and UI elements of desktop operating systems. For instance, the typical task bar on a desktop OS is 24 pixels tall, while Honeycomb's notification bar is 48 pixels tall. If the fonts appear small on your tablet screen, it's because the tablet screen has a much higher DPI than a typical desktop monitor, and current websites are not designed for such a high DPI. Opera is simply displaying the pages as they were originally intended to be displayed on devices of 1280x800 resolution. The problem is that 1280x800 screens used to be 14-15" instead of 10.1".
where have you found v7?? I only see dolphin HD v6.2, dolphin mini 2.2 and for pad v1.0 in the market...
It's not going to be stupid fast, it's going to be the same speed as the stock Android browser, BECAUSE DOLPHIN IS THE STOCK ANDROID BROWSER.
How hard is it to understand that DolphinHD is justa skin on the standard browser, using the same rendering, the same javascript engine, just with a different UI.
Opera Mobile will smoke dolphin, as it's the only mobile browser to use hardware acceleration (not even stock one does), and it very fast anyway.
Tried all browsers. I like Opera best because of the GUI and because it's the fastest IMHO.
Browser, browser, all I want is one with a good working ad blocker.
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Browser, browser, all I want is one with a good working ad blocker.
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Firefox + adblock plus works as good as the desktop version in terms of ad blocking. Sucks in all other terms though.
It can be downloaded from Android market? It seems I only get Dolphin HD 6.2 when I search browser.
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It's not going to be stupid fast, it's going to be the same speed as the stock Android browser, BECAUSE DOLPHIN IS THE STOCK ANDROID BROWSER.
How hard is it to understand that DolphinHD is justa skin on the standard browser, using the same rendering, the same javascript engine, just with a different UI.
Opera Mobile will smoke dolphin, as it's the only mobile browser to use hardware acceleration (not even stock one does), and it very fast anyway.
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Opera mobile does not use hardware acceleration hahaha. Scrolling websites on opera is like 15 frames per second while default browser scrolling is silky smooth like iPad.
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Opera mobile does not use hardware acceleration hahaha. Scrolling websites on opera is like 15 frames per second while default browser scrolling is silky smooth like iPad.
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Then there is something wrong with your opera. Scrolling in Opera is silky smooth on all but the most intensive web sites.
the only reason I keep Dolphin installed is because the Flash Hardware Acceleration fix does not work on Opera, when that is finally fixed, dolphin will be gone too.
3.2 was suppose to bring hardware acceleration for stock browser, but I don't think it did.
For those looking for an ad blocker... Search the market for AdFree....
Seems to work great for me....
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Then there is something wrong with your opera. Scrolling in Opera is silky smooth on all but the most intensive web sites.
the only reason I keep Dolphin installed is because the Flash Hardware Acceleration fix does not work on Opera, when that is finally fixed, dolphin will be gone too.
3.2 was suppose to bring hardware acceleration for stock browser, but I don't think it did.
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open gl rendering is built in to the browser since honeycomb was released, Opera mobile does not have open gl rendering, disable open gl rending in default browser and it will scroll just as bad as Opera.
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open gl rendering is built in to the browser since honeycomb was released, Opera mobile does not have open gl rendering, disable open gl rending in default browser and it will scroll just as bad as Opera.
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Opengl and other technical assertions aside.... You are in the absolute minority of users who actually has a better experience with the stock browser. In there lies the truth. If everyone was experiencing the same performance as you seem to be saying your getting, then threads like this and other browsers in fact would not exist! It's simple supply and demand.
Stock browser blows for the vast majority of users, whether on stock or custom roms /kernels.
I picked a new A500 yesterday and I like the way it feels and looks but I'm disappointed with the browser. Everything feels laggy, even as I type this post. I feel that my iPhone 3Gs performs better. It came with 3.1 out of the box. Any tips on how to resolve this lag and poor browser experience I'm going thru? Thanks
Stock browser is good for me. You could try Aurora (experimental version of Firefox) it works well on the A500.
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i seriously just switched a couple minutes ago but dolphin browser for pad is amazzziinnggggg. It bears but MacBook pro in speed and fluidity and no laggy text anymore and the bookmarks manager seams very nice, its a great alternative
cordell507 said:
i seriously just switched a couple minutes ago but dolphin browser for pad is amazzziinnggggg. It bears but MacBook pro in speed and fluidity and no laggy text anymore and the bookmarks manager seams very nice, its a great alternative
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Dolphin for pad was good for awhile, but it hasn't been updated since July, 2011.
Back to Dolphin HD I went. Still better than stock, and if you get the bookmarks plugin, you can backup and restore all your bookmarks at will.
where can I find these alternate browsers and I need to be rooted right?
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where can I find these alternate browsers and I need to be rooted right?
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No root required, and they're all in the marketplace
Opera mobile
Try opera mobile. It is real fast. A500 feels like a different device with opera.
I tried opera mobile, dolphin for pad, dolphin HD. dolphin for pad looks the best for tab dolphin HD is the best
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This is a little obscure but checkout maxthon browser for 10" tablet. I'm not a fan of maxthon for phones but its my browser of choice on my A500.
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This is a little obscure but checkout maxthon browser for 10" tablet. I'm not a fan of maxthon for phones but its my browser of choice on my A500.
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I think Maxthon 1.4 is better than 1.5
I like the previous version
+1 for Dolphin browser for pad. Although it's technically a beta release, I've been using it for about a month on stock 3.2 without any issues. It's very fast and the interface is a little cleaner than the stock browser. Bookmarks are only a swipe away, and other gestures also are supported---though maybe not obvious (touch the right-facing pointer icon located on the right end of the toolbar and enter your gesture anywhere in the shaded area). I've used Opera, Dolphin HD, etc. Like this browser the best so far.
best of them dolphin for pad , it runs very smooth when you are @ 1.4GHz
the neverending story... the browser! I tested all, and all in every new Version that came out, but so far... there is only one Browser i use, not cause its the best or the fastest...no:
Did anyone realize, that EVERY Browser, stock, Maxthon, Firefox, Dolphin etc. have all washed out colors, unsharp text, pictures and so on. The only one with really good looking sites, like on Desktop, is Opera. Try out yourself, open all Browser, look at google news page, then compare...
WHY IS THIS?
Opera has maaaany maaaany problems on Facebook, the Chatbars, Posts not posted etc., Youtube videos sometimes crashes, no adblock, but... fast and good looking!
Can anyone explain me this issue, or is it only my device? A500 Stock OTA update, not rooted...
none of these browsers will play facebook games such as ravenwood, too laggy. I posted a thread on this a month ago and someone said he got it working but the settings he came up with were NOWHERE , it was like he was just making up crap...something about flashmx offline settings.looks like I will have to wait until ICS comes out.
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I like the boat browser myself.
firefox 9 has a revamped ui, especially designed for tablets: it behaves differently in portrait. It's still based on xul I think, but I find the startup to be quite fast and of course with the gig of ram it should stay loaded. quite stable too, but still doesn't run flash.
I use Maxthon the majority of the time. Firefox just doesn't give me the browsing experience that I want but I think eventually it will be pretty good.
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Hey
I use Dolphin for Pad, but there is no more update on this app
However I feel that for a tablet, it is still better than Dolphin HD...
What do you think ? Which one is the best for a tablet ?
the better 1
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Hey
I use Dolphin for Pad, but there is no more update on this app
However I feel that for a tablet, it is still better than Dolphin HD...
What do you think ? Which one is the best for a tablet ?
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DolphinHD is a very good browser but its not really tablet orriented which is wht it is very uncomfortable to use where as Dolphin for pad is for Tablets but sadly they seem to have abondaned it and also it is quite unstable on my Samsung gt 10.1 running kang .........
I would recommend Google chrome if you are running ICS because its much better than Dolphin although it doesnot support Flash. To be truthful, if they had continued to support Dolphin for Pad it would have been an amazing browser to use but reality is CRUEL!
I sometimes use Dolphin for Tab on my device but it's very non stable. I wish they offered Chrome for honeycomb. Lately I have been using Maxthon a lot and I like it. It's not great but I feel it is pretty good.
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thanks for your answers.
For me, Dolphin for Pad is not crashing more often than the stock browser.
I gave up on Dolphin for Pad when I learned that there was no way to import bookmarks. What a shame.
I am really surprised that Google has not made a big push to make Chrome the browser of choice for Android devices. It seems like the perfect match. Maybe down the road.
Bob
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I gave up on Dolphin for Pad when I learned that there was no way to import bookmarks. What a shame.
I am really surprised that Google has not made a big push to make Chrome the browser of choice for Android devices. It seems like the perfect match. Maybe down the road.
Bob
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I agree with you...
i think firefox is the best for the tablet. opera is fine for the text reflow and the speed dials. both dolphins are not that good on the tab though when comparing both I prefer dolphin for pad as the hd version sometimes looks horrible on some web pages
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i think firefox is the best for the tablet. opera is fine for the text reflow and the speed dials. both dolphins are not that good on the tab though when comparing both I prefer dolphin for pad as the hd version sometimes looks horrible on some web pages
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Did you try Aurora ? (Firefox alpha) It's the fastest Firefox for Android
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i think firefox is the best for the tablet. opera is fine for the text reflow and the speed dials. both dolphins are not that good on the tab though when comparing both I prefer dolphin for pad as the hd version sometimes looks horrible on some web pages
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While there will be many legitimate debates about the merits of different browsers, Firefox does one thing that no other mobile browser does correctly. That one thing is to properly handle overflowed objects like DIV tags and IFRAMEs. What this means is if a webpage has say a DIV tag with scrollable content, Firefox will handle it in a way that will allow you to scroll that content around. All other browsers either deny any access to hidden content in the scrollable object or display the entire contents of the scrollable object that in turn breaks page layout.
I run and test Firefox Beta, Aurora & Nightly on my Tab and S2 on a regular basis. Firefox Beta is my default browser. For those who don't like living on the bleeding edge, Beta is a solid browser. If you don't mind a few bugs, Aurora is pretty stable. If you don't mind occasional blow ups and want to help find/report bugs taking Nightly out for an occasional spin can help improve future generations of Firefox.
In regards to Dolphin, it's a fine browser, but it is still KHTML based just like Safari and Android Browser, so in essence, it is just a Android Browser clone with a few extra bells and whistles.
As far as whether I'd use Dolphin for Pad or Dolphin HD, if D4 Pad is no longer being supported you should switch to HD to make sure you have the latest security fixes. Never stay with an unsupported browser.
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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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 .