What is the best browser for the Note? - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Im trying to find out if there is a browser that can compare with the stock browser in terms of speed. Ive found the stock browser to be lightning quick but it has two problems: it doesnt seem to resize text to fit the screen when you zoom and access to bookmarks is at the top of the screen (big deal for me considering the sizs of the note's screen). I used to use dolphin hd because i loved the quick access to my bookmarks, but there is a noticable lag when scrolling and resizing pages. Does anyone have any suggestions for a browser with the lightning speed but better browser access?
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Opera mobile, for everything mobile.
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I might be being too picky, but even opera has a slight lag in scrolling compared to stock.
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Try Dolphin browser HD..
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser&hl=en

I tried dolphin hd and it just lags too much when scrolling. I think im going to use opera as was suggested. It seems to move the fastest and allows you to get to bookmarks quickly.
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opera mobile!
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Boat Browser and Opera Mobile

Stock browser, its the only one that runs on HW accel, best for battery life and performance. Other browsers only offer better functionality at the cost of battery life.

Dolphin HD is the best in speed, battery and marks

Netfront life is very fast and not draining battery as opera or dolphin does.

I keep swapping between boat browser and stock browser.
I think I may just swap back to stock....
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personally i use dophin browser hd

Im using opera and it works really well for general surfing. Resizes text right and has a setting for useragent in the menu.
But it has trouble with flash games on mine, mainly games on facebook which are quite large. the stock browser used to play them really well but i cant even get that to work anymore it just locks up when its trying to load the start page.

Try boat browser

Opera Mobile for me. It makes web browsing 10X better than any other browser I've tried, and I've tried a lot. It's just soooo good with text reflow and centering when zooming! With opera I can effortlessly browse the web, but with all other browsers I have to constantly adjust the screen to have the text readable and all in the right place.

Boat browser
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Sometimes I dont know why people say Opera is fast, all of my experience in Opera was quite slow, even stock browser feel faster. Tested this on my htc legend, sgs2 and note. Maybe its just me .
By far I found dophin HD the best for me. Function wise and speed wise.
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what seems to be the most popular browser being used with a rooted nook?
got a favorite, lets here it
I am using the stock and Skyfire
I use Stock and Opera Mini
Dolphin browser HD with the user agent set to desktop.
I'm running CM7 r17.
Miren has been the best in my experience. It's got a great UI, it's very speedy, renders pages very well (with modes that display full pages on the screen very well), and has loads of options.
Also, I was experiencing a bug where every browser crashed to the homescreen when I tried to visit an htpps: page. Miren does not do this at all.
woot1524 said:
Dolphin browser HD with the user agent set to desktop.
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What he said.
I use XScope.
The latest version of the program has fixed the issue of white text on white background in the pop up menus.
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This is why I love Android. Ask this question in an iPhone forum and see what you get. Safari or Opera. Choose wins!
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woot1524 said:
Dolphin browser HD with the user agent set to desktop.
I'm running CM7 r17.
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Too bad the market says it's not compatible for me
I have give a try to xscope!
Currently i'm using Miren and it's pretty fast, the ui is great to!
I am using xscope pro. I gave dolphin hd a chance for 2 days but couldn't stand how it rendered pages no matter what my settings were... Especially how it rendered reddit. I do love how dolphin does the bookmarks though.
I will give these a try, wow so many options...lol
I am trying Boat Browser, it seems to fill my needs, but the only one that seems to show favacons it the stock browser

What is the best web browse?

Looking for one that is smoother than stock
I did not like dolphin and FireFox just tried skyline its alright anymore suggestions
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Try opera mobile 11. It's great
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Try Opera and Miren
I've tried them all, but I'm going to have to strongly recommend Miren Browser... It's fast and practical and it looks good. I downloaded Dolphin and I deleted it after an hour, the design did not suit me at all.
i use dolphin mini...
Skyfire for me.
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I have been using the new opera and think it's very well suited to the speed of our LTE. It renders pages very quickly and has a pretty clean interface. I will be installing the new firefox browser to give it a run, although it's a release candidate.
I have been using SkyFire for a while i find it to be the best. I just tried Opera Mobile and i had problems with the scrolling lagging. As for Firefox its fast but lacks Flash so that's a no go for me.
Testing Firefox 4. Grab from market.
I didn't really like skyline because of the bottom bar it was annoying. But I did like that if the page was still loading and you were moving around on the page it did not put you in a random spot like stock browser
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Dolphin and Miren for everything. Firefox doesnt support flash... Opera is HORRIBLE with loading desktop versions of sites.
Using miren now for 30 secs and already love it
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i use dolphin mini...
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Same here, I like the shortcuts.
gonna give Miren a try though.
I use dolphin mini as well be hearing alot about Miren so I'll try it too
Any way to make siren view desktop instead of mobile? I checked all the setting and can't find it
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Dolphin hd for desktop view and downloads sites. Opera for everything else.
+1 for Dolphin HD
Firefox is ok but it takes a long time to load some pages. It feels more like performance versus my connection speed.
Dolphin and Dolphin HD are alright but they feel to me like they would be better suited for a tablet.
I just downloaded Miren and Ill give it a go, I was using the stock browser till now though.
dolphin mini is the ticket for me
you guys are nuts hating on dolphin hd I used it on my OG but its sooooo much better on a bigger screen. tabbed browsing, flash, etc etc.

[Q] What browser do you use?

I'm running CM7. I just opened the News and Weather app and went to browse a story, and the page scrolling was a bit jumpy. Presume it would have opened the stock browser. What browser do all of you use?
I use Dolphin HD and Skyfire
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Dolphin HD
Was using Opera for an age. Just now trying Dolphin HD. To be honest not that impressed so might switch back
Stock browser.
Stock one and opera really fast opera!
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Stock browser works well. I tried Firefox (a lot of memory), Dolphin HD (the best alternative), Miren browser (very fast browser) and Opera (I don't like its UI).
Dolphin HD, best browser in my opinion!
Opera a real browser
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i have used opera since the moment i started using internet, so yeah, opera ftw
Im using stock browser at the moment but I intend to go back to Opera once I have stopped messing with my phone.
I think its always good to have opera installed just incase you havent got much signal as it loads pages super fast.
I use Boat Browser Mini, it's really realy fast and simple
Stock browser is ok, but I wasn't quite satisfied myself.
So tried Dolphin HD, wasn't really impressed, can't see what other people find so great about it.
Now using Opera, works the best so far. It's a bit too much of a memory hog for my liking, but overall I'm much happier with it.
i use dolphin HD and opera browser, since my stock browser always suddenly close with no error or force close especially when open the site which has many flash player
Been using Dolphin HD and Skyfire until I discovered Opera Mobile which is significantly faster in scrolling and zooming.
Dolphin browser HD, and Opera
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use dolphin browser hd for viewing flash stuff youtube ect, firefox for downloading pron and opera mini if i need to save data.
Dolphin hd because of his great extensions...but opera mobile is better in smoothness
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max.sh4dow said:
I use Boat Browser Mini, it's really realy fast and simple
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Same here
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I use 3 browsers:
Miren Browser
Opera Mini
Stock browser

Best web browser?

Question for my 4X, need best speed for navigation, Chrome? or dolphin?
What is the best?
Thx-
Nenitoplux said:
Question for my 4X, need best speed for navigation, Chrome? or dolphin?
What is the best?
Thx-
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for me the chrome off course !! with the sommthness its great experience
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I have now tried Chrome, Firefox, Dophin, Opera and stock browser. They're all quite nice (except stock), and speed-wise it's no big difference. So try them all and choose the one you like best.
I like chrome because of it's smoothness and ease of tab switching. UI is better in chrome than dolphin in my opinion.
Dolphin with Jetpack plugin
Nothing works better than dolphin with dolphin jet pack
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The stock android browser is by far the best on my.smothest and fastest. i discussed it with some phone riviewers, and they didnt anderstand why the nexus 4 comes with chrome as stock browser when the stock android browser is just faster overall.. offcorse this is what i have found out. you may have other opinions
Try boat browser.
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I'm using Naked Browser. Simplistic philosophy, and so intuitive, like swipe from edge or quick tap on open tab to close it, not to mention that this is lightest browser for CPU-GPU
Thank u all,
Dolphin is FLASH GORDON! with jetpack
See this xda discussion about how browsers like Dolphin, Boat, Ninesky, and others spy on you, violating your privacy and wasting your battery power, bandwidth, and CPU. The thread is very long and at one point Dolphin removed the tracking but it now tracks again.
I made Naked Browser in response to all of this crap. No spying or monitoring of any kind, fast, and full-featured. This is a not for profit app that's free in the Google Play Store. The xda discussion about it is here.

browser wars

hey guys,
im on the lookout for a nice browser
which one you like most ? i personally like the stock one in tablet mode, but it fails to load some webpages properly ... havent found anything with good functionality/speed/smoothness compromise yet. chrome is nice, but it needs soooo much ram, cant even have 3 tabs open without having to reload them after switching.. awful.
i was hoping ucbrowser would answer my call, but something peculiar happened, i tried the tablet version first, just out of curiosity and it worked great, fast quite smooth with occasional hiccups. but the phone version was just horrible, lagged like i was running it on a single core 600mhz cpu. just pathetic... anyone know what the deal is with that ?
cheers
Naked browser
dolphin but now has some bugs, Opera......
the hemelywo
Chrome or Opera mini
Im using chrome, just becouse its syncing with my pc, but to be honest, the stock browser is my second best one!
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thanks, ill try the naked browser
i didnt like to browse forums with chrome, the text is uneven, eg posts are displayed in a much larger font than the quotes in the same posts, so constant zooming is needed if you want to read the quote. bs..
browser
Chrome and Opera
I'am using this amazing browser named Puffin Browser and it's blowing my mind atm with its lightning speed!
I use "Lightning Browser"! It's just incredibly more fast than Chrome and than all browsers i used
I like AOSP/CM stock browser on kitkat. Puffin is fast indeed but that's it. I also use Opera mini for its great rss support.
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Puffin is the best
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