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what web browser to use

what web browser is everyone using the stock one on the g2 has a problem that i just noticed if you clear the history you lose all your book marks or is there a way to stop that?

I just re-discover Dolphin HD browser. I bought it about a year ago then Opera came out and I switched to it. I tried Fennec, but it's very slow right now to me. I'm really liking Dolphin HD!

Xscope is a great alternative. Much faster than the default browser, and instant page back/forward (like opera)
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I really like the Dolphin HD browser. I like the tabbed browsing and the pulldown tabs when fullscreen. I also like the simple slide right for bookmarks and slide left for desktop/mobile view and fullscreen. I am just getting into the gestures.
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clamman said:
what web browser is everyone using the stock one on the g2 has a problem that i just noticed if you clear the history you lose all your book marks or is there a way to stop that?
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I use the stock browser and that has not happened to me when I've cleared history.
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I use the stock browser. Bookmarks are only erased when data is cleared via manage applications.
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I am stuck between skyfire and the dolphin browser hd. They both have really good features I like about them. I guess time will tell.
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I've been using the Dolphin HD browser. I like having tabbed browsing for my browsing experience.

I have tried basically every browser out there and always come back to stock.
Dolphin is too busy for me. I hate that I can't scroll all the way to the right or left without the stupid bars popping up. The add ons are kind of cool but nothing I can't live without.
Opera was great before my city got 3G but now its just kind of blah. I like pictures and it scales the pictures all weird.
Skyfire was great before we got flash. Its way too buggy and crashed too much for a daily driver.
Fenac (Mozilla) is a great concept but just sucks. Its slow, scales images like Opera but without the speed boost. I really hope they fix it because syncing my tabs with my home pc would be awesome.
And then there is stock. Its not flashy, doesn't try to do anything special, it just works.

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I have tried basically every browser out there and always come back to stock.
Dolphin is too busy for me. I hate that I can't scroll all the way to the right or left without the stupid bars popping up. The add ons are kind of cool but nothing I can't live without.
Opera was great before my city got 3G but now its just kind of blah. I like pictures and it scales the pictures all weird.
Skyfire was great before we got flash. Its way too buggy and crashed too much for a daily driver.
Fenac (Mozilla) is a great concept but just sucks. Its slow, scales images like Opera but without the speed boost. I really hope they fix it because syncing my tabs with my home pc would be awesome.
And then there is stock. Its not flashy, doesn't try to do anything special, it just works.
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Dolphin HD for me. After getting the hang of Gestures, I can't see myself using anything else.
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rudeguy said:
I have tried basically every browser out there and always come back to stock.
Dolphin is too busy for me. I hate that I can't scroll all the way to the right or left without the stupid bars popping up. The add ons are kind of cool but nothing I can't live without.
Opera was great before my city got 3G but now its just kind of blah. I like pictures and it scales the pictures all weird.
Skyfire was great before we got flash. Its way too buggy and crashed too much for a daily driver.
Fenac (Mozilla) is a great concept but just sucks. Its slow, scales images like Opera but without the speed boost. I really hope they fix it because syncing my tabs with my home pc would be awesome.
And then there is stock. Its not flashy, doesn't try to do anything special, it just works.
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I had exactly the same thought process. The stock browser really is the best option.

I normally use the stock browser but I use Dolphin HD on occassions where I want to render pages in desktop mode. As far as I know of the stock android browser does not offer this feature.

Akulamenuri said:
I normally use the stock browser but I use Dolphin HD on occassions where I want to render pages in desktop mode. As far as I know of the stock android browser does not offer this feature.
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If you type in about:info into the search bar then you can go into the settings and there is a way to select desktop mode.
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iI love dolphin browser hd with the full screen add-on it works great

Well I tried the HD and I think it really kicks back pocket. Only think is the flash content comes as arrow marked down and onces u click on it, the content starts. Any way to avoid that and render papges as is.
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kinacool said:
Well I tried the HD and I think it really kicks back pocket. Only think is the flash content comes as arrow marked down and onces u click on it, the content starts. Any way to avoid that and render papges as is.
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Possibly buy why would you want to? Flash will slow your browsing experience down and also drain your battery faster. All of us Android guys know about conserving battery wherever possible.
Or are you trying to watch a site with a ton of...well...videos on your phone? Some of them of an adult nature? If so, they just allow it under the website settings and share which page it is. Everyone I go to hijacks me to brazzermobile and sucks.
And yeah...after my rant in favor of stock browser, I downloaded Dolphin to give it another try. Its not that bad once you disable the stupid righ/left option windows.
I don't understand why Google can't make Chrome integrate with their stock browser better. Why Google...why????

Speaking of those site lol. Is their any way to view the actual desktop version of a website without viewing the mobile version. I went into the settings on the Dolphin Hd browser and set it up in desktop mode, but when I go to the site it takes me to the mobile version not the desktop version. I havent tried about:debug and adjust the settings on the stock browser yet, does anyone know if this works?

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Speaking of those site lol. Is their any way to view the actual desktop version of a website without viewing the mobile version. I went into the settings on the Dolphin Hd browser and set it up in desktop mode, but when I go to the site it takes me to the mobile version not the desktop version. I havent tried about:debug and adjust the settings on the stock browser yet, does anyone know if this works?
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The website knows that you are on an Android phone. With non-stock ROM's, you could have it spoof as something different. Stock we aren't that lucky.

Stock FTW. It is basically chrome-lite. Not flashy, doesn't do all kinds of crazy, but its fast and simply works. No need for another browser now that we have flash.
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[Q] Looking for a fast aftermarket browser for evo/flash...

Is there an aftermarket browser that works very well with the evo and flash?

not really, most have issues with macromedia, adobe shouldnt be a problem, I use firefox but it still has pinch to zoom issues, I keep it because no other downloads as well, I've lost signal for 10 minutes on a mediafire download and it resumed while others would have dropped it

I use miren browser

http://www.skyfire.com/
Best browser out there. It was the best on Windows Mobile...and when I got my Evo I tried all the others and ended up back on Skyfire.

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http://www.skyfire.com/
Best browser out there. It was the best on Windows Mobile...and when I got my Evo I tried all the others and ended up back on Skyfire.
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it just seems that the stock browser is slow. skyfire sucked on my hero and i didnt need or want all the social options integrated within it, in fact, the only browser that i ever used was opera mini. I dont NEED flash but its nice to have the option.
guess im just seeking something faster. thank you

perhaps a better question could be: which browsers actually support flash? thank you thank you

Dolphin is great in my opinion. Plus it gives you the option to run flash on the page instead of automatically running it. This saves on page load time.
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andresmalvarez said:
Dolphin is great in my opinion. Plus it gives you the option to run flash on the page instead of automatically running it. This saves on page load time.
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ill try dolphin again also. i just installed skyfire and am messing around with it. so far it seems pretty fast via wifi. i hate ads but i also hate paying for licenses...especially on browsers. thanks!

flash always works in miren for me when i set it to chrome desktop..

so far I have really like Opera Mobile - sometimes pages are a little off but I haven't had any major issues with it - I even like the way tabbed browsing works (I went to nVidia's site to be sure flash worked and it seemed fine to me)
I am an Opera fan though and use it on my desktops to
have read a lot of good things about Dolphin HD tho I have never tried it

MrDSL said:
I use miren browser
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I am using scope.
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thegh0st said:
so far I have really like Opera Mobile - sometimes pages are a little off but I haven't had any major issues with it - I even like the way tabbed browsing works (I went to nVidia's site to be sure flash worked and it seemed fine to me)
I am an Opera fan though and use it on my desktops to
have read a lot of good things about Dolphin HD tho I have never tried it
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I take it, then, that they've added Flash support to Opera for Android. When I first got my Evo (last fall) I tried it and it didn't work. I settled on Skyfire. One thing to understand about it is that it is not a raw browsing experience. The page is pulled through their proxy servers which "process" it and deliver the content to your phone. One of the cool options is to view in-page videos through the proxy which optimizes them on-the-fly for mobile devices. I've even watched streaming live sports that way and it works great.

MrDSL said:
I use miren browser
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+1 really liking it...used it since its release.
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postwick said:
I take it, then, that they've added Flash support to Opera for Android. When I first got my Evo (last fall) I tried it and it didn't work. I settled on Skyfire. One thing to understand about it is that it is not a raw browsing experience. The page is pulled through their proxy servers which "process" it and deliver the content to your phone. One of the cool options is to view in-page videos through the proxy which optimizes them on-the-fly for mobile devices. I've even watched streaming live sports that way and it works great.
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now this is something I do know about - that of which you speak is Opera Mini - that does proxy websites - I am not using that - I am using Opera Mobile (two different Opera's - they make 2 kinds of mobile browsers (mini has always been free - mobile used to cost but I didn't have to pay so it seems to be free now to)
Opera Mobile is a full browser and operates as the desktop version would with no proxy servers involved in reconfiguring the websites then forwarding them - it just pulls the data straight to the device

Best Mobile Browser

I had been using DolphinHD, but I was wondering about the other options. I switched to xScope browser yesterday which I am quite liking, and I personally preferred dolphin mini to dolphin HD when I used to use it.
Please post what browser you use and why you like it!!!

I've been using boat browser for a while, it's fast, and I like the ability to customize the tool bar.

I prefer Opera Mobile because it uses its own rendering engine. This means webpages look like their desktop counterparts. My biggest disappointment with Opera, though, is that I could never figure out how to get it to open a home page and not its Speed Dial page.
My second choice is Skyfire because of its simple interface, yet it still has a search box in the address bar.
I've tried Dolphin HD on my Incredible, but it just looked cramped and I got used to the other two browsers.
To each his own, though.

Opera Mobile for sure.
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Here's another vote for Opera Mobile! It seems to render just about everything as close to desktop as possible; it also has the best html5 compatibility, IIRC...

I'm using Dolphin as well. I never tried others yet but coming from the G2x, I like the Dolphin HD the most... But tonight I'll experiment with other browsers. The dolpin used to suck with so much lag on my SU640, you need to do the adjust resolution thingy for it to work smoothly.

Opera Mobile (not Opera Mini) and Maxthon

limpbisquit said:
you need to do the adjust resolution thingy for it to work smoothly.
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wats that?

Billy Madison said:
wats that?
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Go to settings, display and press screen optimization.

i use maxthon browser and i like it very much...am i the only one?

I am anxious to try the google chrome browser but I have to wait for LG to send my bricked phone back.

GordonOSU said:
I am anxious to try the google chrome browser but I have to wait for LG to send my bricked phone back.
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you also need ICS .

Opera Mobile for normal browsing, Dolphin HD for porn and pages Opera can't load, which happens occasionally.

I can't remember where I saw this, maybe it was the boat browser thread in the apps and games section of the forums, but dolphin had apparently been sending all of the information from your browser use to its websites. 34 sent from dolphin hd compared to 5 from boat browser.
I personally use boat after seeing that information. If i wasn't so paranoid about privacy (i really have nothing to hide) then i would keep using dolphin. It is quite impressive with how fast it is.

xScope used to be my favorite, but the Devs seem to have abandoned it long ago...Except for most recently, but even then I believe that was only to fix for Galaxy Nexus.
Currently I have Boat, DolphinHD and Opera Mobile all installed. I find I mostly use DolphinHD, then Opera for the occasional page that Dolphin can't handle/render properly. Boat is nice, but I'll likely be removing it soon as I just keep gravitating back to DolphinHD.
I just installed Firefox Beta (v11.0.0) and so far I'm quite impressed!

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I can't remember where I saw this, maybe it was the boat browser thread in the apps and games section of the forums, but dolphin had apparently been sending all of the information from your browser use to its websites.
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[PRIVACY] WARNING: Dolphin's collection of your browsing history
Namuna said:
I just installed Firefox Beta (v11.0.0) and so far I'm quite impressed!
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If you have large collection of saved forms, passwords, do not sync it with mobile FF it will take ages before it become responsive after opening...Other than that It's good, but not yet there compare to Opera and Maxthon.

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If you have large collection of saved forms, passwords, do not sync it with mobile FF it will take ages before it become responsive after opening...Other than that It's good, but not yet there compare to Opera and Maxthon.
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Yeah, and apparently the Flash support still isn't there yet either...So I'm back to liking Opera/Dolphin combo.

Try boat mini. It's lightweight and fast.
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browser woes

This phone is one of the best, but I need a browser which properly re-flows text.
The Sense browsers are awesome because when you pinch zoom, the text re-paginates so all the words are on the screen and you can read it! The GS3 (and most other) browsers does not - so the text flows off the screen when zoomed in, requiring a lot of back and forth scrolling to read an article.
Does anyone have a recommendation as to which browsers have the best text re-flow??
(I think I have tried 20 browsers now, and none are as good as the HTC Sense ones...thanks.)

Have you gone into the stock browser then settings>advanced> and checked the auto-fit pages box?
Edit: never mind, it's not working like it should for me either.
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smark72 said:
Have you gone into the stock browser then settings>advanced> and checked the auto-fit pages box?
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Yes I have, this does not work.

I just saw that there is a reader mode, which is a green icon in the url bar on some sites. When you click that it reloads the page and you can then reflow text. That's kind of a pain to always have to do though.
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Any more ideas about which browser works best for reflow?

When I had the epic, I would use dolphin browser mini and loved it for this feature. I have yet to use it on my sgs3 because I'm enjoying chrome. But I'd give dolphin browser mini a try.
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Try Opera.

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This phone is one of the best, but I need a browser which properly re-flows text.
The Sense browsers are awesome because when you pinch zoom, the text re-paginates so all the words are on the screen and you can read it! The GS3 (and most other) browsers does not - so the text flows off the screen when zoomed in, requiring a lot of back and forth scrolling to read an article.
Does anyone have a recommendation as to which browsers have the best text re-flow??
(I think I have tried 20 browsers now, and none are as good as the HTC Sense ones...thanks.)
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I've had problems with just about every browser I've tried on the GS3.
Stock, Firefox and Dolphin don't reflow properly NOR do they let me log into my bank's secure website.
Opera is the only one that reflows properly (although its a little slow to react and reflow) AND let's me log into secure websites.
And I'm not a browser snob... I used the stock browser on my GS2 for the entire year, and I was happy. I'm actually a little irritated I have to download a 3rd party browser to do simple things.

Best browser and why

Which browser you use and the reasons why. (Maybe compare features with other browsers) i used boat browser but after having problems viewing full site web i am indecided now between opera chrome or firefox...

I use stock browser... and chome... was using dolphin... but its just "TOO" much for me ... my only issue with chrome is lack of flash... but its hella fast... but stock browser seemms to be a happy medium in most cases for my usage

U should try dolphin browser beta. Fastest browser out it uses the new HTML5 . No flash but I have stock browser for that

Tried Chrome but caused massive battery drain. Uninstalled and great battery life returned. Currently use Dolphin browser and I like all the extras I never use.

I like Dolphin. Tried Firefox a few releases ago but found it very frustrating. Tried the stock browser after flashing my phone with a new ROM but ended up getting Dolphin anyways. Dolphin does have a ton of extras that I'll likely never use but I still find it fast enough and super intuitive to use.
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Always used stock not having any issues its stable and works just the way it should..
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JawjaBill said:
Tried Chrome but caused massive battery drain. Uninstalled and great battery life returned. Currently use Dolphin browser and I like all the extras I never use.
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I am also noticing chrome eats battery like crazy! Is fast though. Sucks that doesnt support flashplayer. And whoever mentions about what dolphin includes and blabla i think is just lies. Dolphin devs say they includ advanced stuff but truth is thwir browser is slower than chrome boat firefox and maybe opera.

Doesnt dolphin cause alot of battery drain as well? I switched to chrome because i always see tunny browser or something from using dolhin browser using up my battery a lot! Been using chrome for the past couple of months but I do miss the dolphin gestures!
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I use Chrome on the PC, so Chrome is the obvious choice, mostly because of the automated bookmark sync (I have loads of them). I like using the AOSP browser + CMarks, but it doesn't display the xda page properly after I log in (all text is gray and hard to read). Dolphin does the same thing. Only after I log in.
Not trying Firefox because the desktop version is a joke, why would the mobile version be different? And Opera hasn't been relevant for years.

sarni84 said:
U should try dolphin browser beta. Fastest browser out it uses the new HTML5 . No flash but I have stock browser for that
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Touchwiz browser.

BrownDevil said:
I like Dolphin. Tried Firefox a few releases ago but found it very frustrating. Tried the stock browser after flashing my phone with a new ROM but ended up getting Dolphin anyways. Dolphin does have a ton of extras that I'll likely never use but I still find it fast enough and super intuitive to use.
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I concur. I found Firefox 14 to be incredibly slow. I don't like chrome (personal choice). Dolphin beta crashed too much for me.
I am using Dolphin 9.0.0. It seems to be the most stable and fastest to me. I don't like the menus sliding in from the sides. They tend to come up when I am trying to scroll sideways and I haven't figured out how to turn them off
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I think im switching back to boat browser. I wish it had an appearance like chrome or firefox

I do recall switching from Boat to Dolphin for the extras I don't really use. Might switch back myself.
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Being able to swipe between tabs on chrome makes a big difference for me. It would have to be chrome in my book.

Chrome
I switched over completely to Chrome, I was using dolphin but I like the ability to switch between devices a lot easier.

Boat. Enough said.
They call me "Jelly" cuz jam don't shake like this!

Xscope Pro. It was the only browser I could find that would let me make an appt. for the DMV from work, I wanna say it was a java based website, but whatever it was, Xscope has been able to take anything I throw at it, and it's got a dark colored theme which is a plus for me because I hate looking at bright white light all the time. Also as a throwback, Steel was an amazing browser for it's time.

Try pushing menu => more => settings => lab => advanced swipe settings and choose disable
You may need to scroll down in settings to see the lab option.
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Aerowinder said:
I use Chrome on the PC, so Chrome is the obvious choice, mostly because of the automated bookmark sync (I have loads of them). I like using the AOSP browser + CMarks, but it doesn't display the xda page properly after I log in (all text is gray and hard to read). Dolphin does the same thing. Only after I log in.
Not trying Firefox because the desktop version is a joke, why would the mobile version be different? And Opera hasn't been relevant for years.
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This must be the most stupid and ignorant post I ever read on Xda. Your comments about Firefox and Opera are ridiculous.
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