Blade Browser Survey

[Guest Shahmatt]

Hi all. In the interests of better knowledge, I thought we might do a little survey on the internet browser preferences of Blade users.

So here are few questions I've worked out on the topic. Maybe we can all learn something from this exercise! :)

1. What ROM are you using?

2. What is your current max CPU frequency and governor?

3. What is your preferred browser for the phone?

4. What other browsers have you tried prior to this preference?

5. What are the pros and cons of your preferred browser over other options?

[Guest Shahmatt]

1. Swedish Snow RLS4

2. 670MHz using the Smartass V2 governor

3. xScope Pro

4. Stock Android, Dolphin HD

5. Pros: xScope seems to load much faster than the other options. Tab management is good but not excellent. Navigation is relatively easy to do.

Cons: Interface looks clunky and unrefined. The browser does not allow me to zoom into pages on a few rare sites. Typing in messages into text boxes is painfully slow.

[Guest Roph]

1. What ROM are you using?

Moldovan Mile High Mountain Pie

2. What is your current max CPU frequency and governor?

729 Mhz, SmartassV2

3. What is your preferred browser for the phone?

Opera Mini (For 99%)

Stock (If I need flash or proxied / javascript heavy content isn't acceptable)

4. What other browsers have you tried prior to this preference?

Dolphin, Miren, Opera Mobile

5. What are the pros and cons of your preferred browser over other options?

Opera mini is stupid fast. Both in transfer speeds since it's all optimized, and in rendering and so on. I sometimes use many tabs too, it still handles it ok.

Edited February 12, 2012 by Roph

[Guest Davidoff59]

1. Swedish Snow by KonstaT

2. 690 stable with Smartass V2

3. Opera Mini

4. Most off the market Inc Dolphin HD and Opera mobile

5. Pro's are fast, relatively stable, tabs, less data used, bypasses network adult lock for poker sites etc.

Con's are downloads don't always work so have to use stock browser to download files, tabs sometimes go blank, seems it doesn't release memory as its needed and just blanks every page so they must be reloaded. Rare cases where it just closes for no apparent reason, but it will reload everything you had open when it restarts.

Edited February 12, 2012 by Davidoff59

[Guest JudasLucifer]

1) Cyanogenmod 7 Jan26th Build

2) 122-672mHz Smartass v2

3) Stoc Cyanogenmod Browser/Opera Mini

4) Skyfire, Dolphin HD, Opera Mobile

5) For stock browser: It's stock, has a load of useful features in CM, like spoof user. Pinch to zoom, reflow text. Cons: No plugins

For opera mini: Very fast. More noticeable so with slower internet connections. Pages are easy to use, and can be viewed in mobile and desktop. Arguably a small amount of anonymity. Cons: No plugins or flash

[Guest targetbsp]

1. CM7

2. 729Mhz SmartAssv2

3. Angel

4. All of them I think!

5. Hitting back doesn't waste time reloading the previous page. Fits things to the screen better than any other browser. Xscope is the only other browser as good. but its UI bugs me - some part of it doesn't stay hidden when you reload it. I forget what.

Edited February 12, 2012 by targetbsp

[Guest weeo]

1 - CM9 ICS

2 - 710Mhz

3 - Stock

The stock ics browser looks amazing. A little laggy. But so is the rom! I always use stock browser. I don't know why

[Guest weeo]

*710 smartv2

[Guest De@n]

1. CM7

2. 604 with OnDemand

3. Opera Mini

4. Most of them

5. Fast

[Guest matt4321]

1) CyanogenMod 7 Jan26th Build

2) 604Mhz - SmartAssV2

3) Stock Browser

4) Tried most other browsers

5) Find the stock browser is just clean, simple and fast

[Guest Sulthekk]

1) CM 7 Jan31th Sej build with vanilla kernel

2) 691Mhz witb SmartassV2

3) Opera mobile for everyday use, Dolphin mini for private browsing/flash content.

4) Tried most other browsers

5)

pro:

Opera Mobile has the same Presto engine as the desktop version, and can run any complex web application, like the javascript virtual machine. It also contains the same proxying technology used in Opera mini (there called Opera Turbo) which can speed up browsing on slow network, but on fast networks like mine it's faster with disabled turbo, which can't be done with Opera Mini.

con:

I was actually able to enable flash on Opera, but I prefer using flash in Dolphin Mini as it has faster rendering. Opera also lacks support for private browsing.

[Guest bladebuddy]

Opera mini as I personally think it's one of the faster 2g browsers.

Running sweedish snow rls4 over clocked 672mhz min 200mhz gov smartass. For flash xscope with flash and air installed. And the stock browser that works better with the market application ' download all files ' as I have problems downloading on opera.

[Guest Shahmatt]

Interesting results so far. Opera Mini seems to be a popular choice. As expected Dolphin is a little too resource heavy to be used smoothly with the blade and does not seem to be preferred.

1. CM7

2. 729Mhz SmartAssv2

3. Angel

4. All of them I think!

5. Hitting back doesn't waste time reloading the previous page. Fits things to the screen better than any other browser. Xscope is the only other browser as good. but its UI bugs me - some part of it doesn't stay hidden when you reload it. I forget what.

I'd never heard of Angel until you brought it up. I installed it and it looks pretty good - a huge amount of features and seems to be very tweak-able.

I'm having some stability problems with it though. After a few runs the app just doesn't open up. Briefly flashes on screen and dies with no force-close prompt. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the same problem reappeared. I wonder if it is a settings issue. Interesting browser for sure!

Edited February 15, 2012 by Shahmatt

[Guest targetbsp]

Yeah, not many people have heard of Angel lol. I've not had the problem you mention but I do make a habit of holding the back button when i want to exit it which completely closes it. This is a throw back to a bug in an earlier version that stayed using quite a lot of ram and a little cpu time if its left running in the background. So I don't know how well it behaves if you swap it in and out of the foreground in a more traditional way. It's also updated a lot so it could just be a temporary issue.

[Guest i am not a hacker]

1. Using CM7 nightly around 100

2. Max CPU is 672 with SmartAss.

3. I use Opera Mini

4. I have tried: Miren, Boat Browser, Dolphin Browser Mini and HD, Opera Mobile, Stock Browser, XScope, Skyfire, UC Browser, Maxthon, galapagos, Boat Browser Mini, Ninesky Browser, Puffin Browser and Opera Mini ofc! So I have tried 16 browsers fully and have made an informed decision.

5. Pros:

Fastest browser at loading pages-definitely

Not many bugs at all

Opera Link

Very easy to access bookmarks, history etc

Very fast in terms of using the browser (no lag)

Switching tabs is very fast

Multiple search engines which are easy to access

Speed Dial

Website and search suggestions

Pinch to zoom

Shows you your data usage

CONS:(

No flash or Javascript (I use dolphin browser if i need any of these)

No addons

Doesn't download things in background (biggest problem for me)

With larger files, it takes about 30 seconds to start the download

So I know a lot about browsers and launchers btw

Sometimes if i press home and set it to run in the background it just closes itself.

[Guest alex_slx]

1. Swedish Snow RLS4

2. 122-604MHz with ondemand governor

3. Opera mobile

4. Android stock browser, opera mini ,firefox

5. Pros: Opera mobile IMO is stable, fast, smooth and clear.

[Guest juehackr]

I use the Internet browser

[Guest juehackr]

I use the Internet browser

[Guest 705H120]

1. Swedish Snow RLS4b Ventura (waiting for the MIUI/ICS from tilal6991)

2. 122 Mhz - 604 Mhz, SavagedZen

3. Opera Mobile

4. For the browser I tried : Miren, Boat Browser/Mini, Dolphin Browser Mini/HD, Opera Mobile, Stock Browser, Skyfire, UC Browser, Maxthon, Opera Mini.

5. Pros :

It seem that is the more fastest. The tab-switching style, the data reduction ... All the browser is good.

Cons :

No flash plugin and no addons.

Some mobile site aren't displayed properly.

[Guest Sulthekk]

Opera Mobile

No flash plugin and no addons.

Some mobile site aren't displayed properly.

Actually, there IS working flash under opera mobile. I know because I built the flashable package for hungarian blade users, and I found the method on an xda samsung forum. I will re-upload it to dropbox and post the link here, but I don't recommend using it, as it's slower than the 'classical' armv6 flash. Other cons:

-If flashed, no flash in webkit based browsers.

-It places a few libraries in /system, so you must make sure before flashing that you have enough space there. 10MB Should be enough as far as I can remember.

EDIT: I think that was the package

http://db.tt/7Y0wez7D

Don't worry, it's only made as a cwm package because of 2 reasons:

-Libs are being installed on /system

-It needs to set some permissions.

The reason for it's working:

We had no flash under opera because opera devs implemented some security checks. One of those was Signature verification. Since the hacked armv6 wasn't re-siged with adobe's key, opera refused to load it.

BUT, prayansh ( I think that was the samsung dev's name ) found out that we can place libs under /data/data, and install an original, signed armv7 apk. That way the apk is signed, and the plugin is loaded, but the binaries are loaded from /data/data, which are the ones from the armv6 flash. There was only one problem: The libs were deleted on each reboot. To fix this, I have moved them to /system/lib, and now it's working nice. It's just slow, and breaks webkit flash.

Edited February 23, 2012 by Sulthekk

[Guest Weezle]

CM7.1.0

122 - 633 MHz AnTuTu CPU Master

Stock

The browser does what I need it to do, should I need to do more then I shall research something more fitting....