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Guest Frankish
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Just wondering if anyone has an opinion on what the best fastest web browser is for Android. I've finally ventured away from the stock browser to try other things.

First I tried Opera and it seemed a bit sluggish. Trying Opera Mini now and it seems quite quick! However I'm still open to trying others. Thanks guys.

Guest Ron=)
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Just wondering if anyone has an opinion on what the best fastest web browser is for Android. I've finally ventured away from the stock browser to try other things.

First I tried Opera and it seemed a bit sluggish. Trying Opera Mini now and it seems quite quick! However I'm still open to trying others. Thanks guys.

Personally I use Oppera Mobile with turbo mode on (As fast as mini!)

Dolphin is pretty awesome too!

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-co...you-use--940899

Check out that link!

Guest ColdEmbrace
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Personally I use Oppera Mobile with turbo mode on (As fast as mini!)

Dolphin is pretty awesome too!

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-co...you-use--940899

Check out that link!

I use dolphin but idk i find it quite slow even on my wifi, i'd love a reccomendation for a faster browser, it doesn't need to be full of features after all i have my laptop for most web browsing

Guest Frankish
Posted

Seems Opera Mini is best for me then. Never tried Skyfire though for viewing flash content!

Guest ColdEmbrace
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Seems Opera Mini is best for me then. Never tried Skyfire though for viewing flash content!

Have you thought about firefox 4 mobile, I know its only like 2.5stars in the market at last check but mozilla reckons its improved a lot. Should test it out myself really.

Guest ZEbbEDY
Posted

I used xscope till a few weeks ago and like the instant back/forward through the history but am using opera mobile now its just better imo, i use opera on my pc but the previous opera browsers didnt cut it imo but these new opera mobile are immense

Guest ricer
Posted

Skyfire is slow as hell on my Blade. I recommend Opera Mobile, has faired me very well indeed

Guest Azurren
Posted (edited)

I have test almost every browser available and here is my rundown:

Day to day: Opera mobile (No contest here)

"Flash" videos: Skyfire (Slow and laggy but is the only choice)

Anything important: Stock (Order forms etc. You want it to just "work" and not randomly get stuck on some complex javascript elements)

So.. Opera mobile all the way :)

Oh and FireFox isn't compatible with the blade.. Neither is the experimental ARM 6 version

Edited by Azurren
Guest Fou-lu
Posted (edited)

Opera mini+dolphin HD are best, opera for pure speed, dolphin for features, stock 2.3 is same speed as dolphin really, skyfire is shockingly slow, to much bloatware on it's UI, 60% of the flash vidz work too.

Edited by Fou-lu
Guest Daimaah
Posted

I've tried a number of browsers yet I've always come back to Miren, it just... works.

Guest Steep
Posted

Opera mobile now that it has flash support, nothing beats it.

Guest Michealtbh
Posted

Check out Miren. I keep Skyfire around too for flash content. I tried Opera for a while but its just plain annoying

Guest mickey megabyte
Posted

+1 for miren

lite, simple. effective

Guest Frankish
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Opera mobile now that it has flash support, nothing beats it.

Not for those of use with arm6 cpu's like the Blade still.

In the end i kept Opera Mini, miles faster than Opera Mobile and just seems smoother to scroll etc. Also set up skyfire for erm...adult content :)

Guest Denzo
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Not for those of use with arm6 cpu's like the Blade still.

In the end i kept Opera Mini, miles faster than Opera Mobile and just seems smoother to scroll etc. Also set up skyfire for erm...adult content :)

I thought Opera mobile and mini are equally fast if you turn on the Turbo mode in Opera mobile, while in Opera mini, turbo mode is on by default and can't be turned off. Maybe I missed something and Opera mini is still faster than Opera mobile with turbo on, though as far as my experience goes, there doesn't seem to be any difference in speed.

Also what about Dolphin mini there seemed to be a lot of talk about it. I used it for a while and it was quite fast, I liked the whole interface and it looked good in general, Opera has that giant red "O" and it's just repulsive to the eye, but of course thats not important compared to functionality, tho I wish I could skin it :)

Guest Frankish
Posted
I thought Opera mobile and mini are equally fast if you turn on the Turbo mode in Opera mobile, while in Opera mini, turbo mode is on by default and can't be turned off. Maybe I missed something and Opera mini is still faster than Opera mobile with turbo on, though as far as my experience goes, there doesn't seem to be any difference in speed.

Also what about Dolphin mini there seemed to be a lot of talk about it. I used it for a while and it was quite fast, I liked the whole interface and it looked good in general, Opera has that giant red "O" and it's just repulsive to the eye, but of course thats not important compared to functionality, tho I wish I could skin it :)

I used the turbo option in full Opera and mini still seems better to me. Plus size difference is something like 19mb :)

You could always pull the images from the Opera .apk and edit them that's easy enough :)

Guest hc_1540
Posted

My personal favourite is Dolphin. Really love the gesture controls especially the way you can go to the top of a page. In a way this emulates one of my most missed tools from the iPhone i.e. touch the top of the screen and it takes you to the top of the web page

Guest targetbsp
Posted

Miren. It's just the best at formatting things to your screen size (in landscape)

I've tried all the others, Skyfire, both versions of Opera, all the Dolphins but Miren wins it with XScope a close second.

Posted

Opera mini is easily the fastest, especially when on a 2G or slow 3G network.

I only use Skyfire for videos because its just slow, the best i've found is Dolphin Mini - it scrolls relatively smoothly and is nicely laid out

Guest ZEbbEDY
Posted

Will there really not be any flash on the blade? Ive got a zt180 tablet which is 1ghz arm 11 and the devs got flash working on it and the blade seems a lot quicker than my tablet but i was resigned to the fact that no flash till adobe does it but then they released it

Guest targetbsp
Posted
Will there really not be any flash on the blade? Ive got a zt180 tablet which is 1ghz arm 11 and the devs got flash working on it and the blade seems a lot quicker than my tablet but i was resigned to the fact that no flash till adobe does it but then they released it

Was it Flash Light? My understanding is that that is both crap and not compatible with Froyo and above.

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