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AWFUL browsing speed android's 2.1 or droid/milestone's fault?

I always tought i was getting awful browsing speeds in all the broswers stock, dolphin,skyfire because of poor speed with my 3g connection or my wifi , but i got an ipod touch 4th generation and was blown away but how quickly the pages loaded , i am no apple troll, or fanboy i just want a rational explanation , i know the browser in froyo was adevrtising as a the fastest browser around , but is it any true? can someone with leaked 2.2 or official 2.2 running in the droid comment on this?

The browser is not blazing fast because of lack of CPU speed on a droid for the most part, apple likely has some type of gpu acceleration going on.
Loading times of web pages are noticeably improved in froyo.

fivefour said:
The browser is not blazing fast because of lack of CPU speed on a droid for the most part, apple likely has some type of gpu acceleration going on.
Loading times of web pages are noticeably improved in froyo.
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i have my milestone overclocked to 900 mhz and the gpu is supossed to be one of the best in android , so im guessing it must be the lack of gpu acceleration im pretty sure they wont implement it in gingerbread, maybe in honeycomb?

Are you getting poor download speeds or slow rendering speeds? The former is not the Milestone's fault because it should very fast with 3G/Wi-Fi G.
I get similar rendering speeds compared to the iP4, but the download speeds seem to be a bit slower on Wi-Fi. I'll attribute this to Wi-Fi N on the iPhone versus G on the Milestone.
AFAIK, the iPhone 4 uses PowerVR SGX 535, and the Milestone has the 530 --both pretty good and similarly powered. Even the Milestone 2 uses the same 530 chip.
IMO, Safari on iOS4 is superior to Dolphin HD on 2.1/2.2., but I love Dolphin's flexibility and options.

@900 rendering speeds of the stock browser surpasses ios on froyo....on 2.1 I don't know. I use xscope most of the time.
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applebook said:
Are you getting poor download speeds or slow rendering speeds? The former is not the Milestone's fault because it should very fast with 3G/Wi-Fi G.
I get similar rendering speeds compared to the iP4, but the download speeds seem to be a bit slower on Wi-Fi. I'll attribute this to Wi-Fi N on the iPhone versus G on the Milestone.
AFAIK, the iPhone 4 uses PowerVR SGX 535, and the Milestone has the 530 --both pretty good and similarly powered. Even the Milestone 2 uses the same 530 chip.
IMO, Safari on iOS4 is superior to Dolphin HD on 2.1/2.2., but I love Dolphin's flexibility and options.
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poor download speeds, the pages take forever to load even on 3g so i dont think wifi g is to blame

Web browsing?

Just wondering how is the web browsing when it's rooted? Is it pretty fast on wi-fi? Also has anyone ran skyfire on it for flash? I'm probably getting one tomorrow and was wondering because I do alot of web browsing. Thanks guys!

it seems to load pages slower than my evo 4g. i've done a few test and it's anywhere from 10-30 seconds slower. dunno what the slowdown would be since when i compaired my droid to the evo they were nearly equal in loading pages.
i used engadget as the test page and xscope and dolphin on both as the browsers.

I SetCPU to Performance (600 min 800 max) and I am getting faster web load times than EVO 4g.
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it seems to load pages slower than my evo 4g. i've done a few test and it's anywhere from 10-30 seconds slower. dunno what the slowdown would be since when i compaired my droid to the evo they were nearly equal in loading pages.
i used engadget as the test page and xscope and dolphin on both as the browsers.
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gigadigit said:
I SetCPU to Performance (600 min 800 max) and I am getting faster web load times than EVO 4g.
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still no difference with mine. 16 sec slower on latest test. 600/800 on demand.
800/800 the evo just beat it by 3 seconds.
still, not bad for a $250 tablet.

Does it make a difference if you use an alternate browser?

i've used both xscope and dolphin, both current versions. dolphin seems to load faster. i'm not 100% on that as i only counted seconds after loading finished on the faster unit.

So web browsing isn't a highlight on it then. I'm not sure how fast the EVO loads but it is a phone. Have you guys tried Opera in turbo mode? Might help ya out.
Also, has anyone tried Skyfire for flash or anything?

Rooted, running the Dolphin browser and page loads are good on wifi, roughly the same as my rooted phone on wifi.

I've tried all the major web browsers on my NC and Opera Mobile is by far the best experience. Dolphin HD is mediocre on load speed and downright sluggish and moving around the page and zooming. Opera Mobile is a full web browser (not to be confused with Opera Mini) and it has very smooth panning and zooming. It feels hardware accelerated even though it's not. You can also enable Opera Turbo in the settings which just made it that much faster.

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I've tried all the major web browsers on my NC and Opera Mobile is by far the best experience. Dolphin HD is mediocre on load speed and downright sluggish and moving around the page and zooming. Opera Mobile is a full web browser (not to be confused with Opera Mini) and it has very smooth panning and zooming. It feels hardware accelerated even though it's not. You can also enable Opera Turbo in the settings which just made it that much faster.
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i've never liked opera and honestly i don't know why, lol. guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot.

WOW Browser from 1.1 update is amazing

I changed it back to default...it's that good!

Is it better than using dolphin HD?
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What makes it so amazing? I am using Froyo and am fairly happy with the stock Android browser, however, it would be nice to know how the one from Eclair is

The pinch to zoom is smooth like butter and far more snappier than Dolphin HD in IMO

What kind of sites are you seeing smooth as butter zooming?
Mine is not smooth at all. Not horrible, but not smooth like you describe.
I usually use the double tap to zoom as it seems to get me to the text I'm trying to read.
Looking at sites like engadget various anrdoid sites and such.
Some heavier content sites.
Are you looking at less content heavy sites?

To me where the stock browser shines is:
Loads sites faster than dolphin which sometimes stalls for a bit not doing anything when you click a link.
Also the user agent on it actually works so I can go to some sites that will give me a non flash way to watch a show or movie streaming that would work on iphone/ipad but not on android as it wants to give the flash stream.
Otherwise Dolphin is great and 4.3 now works with pinch to zoom since the 1.1 update.

Smooth like butter? Right. Try ESPN.com, when you zoom in on the pictures it takes a while to get the pixelation right. I think DolphinHD is more crisp and less laggy at this point.

Having the lastpass plugin for Dolphin HD means it'll most likely always be my Android browser of choice.

I had Dolphin HD 4.2 installed on my previous root, but I was not pleased with the performance.
I am now using the rooted 1.1.0 with a 1.1gHz OC in the stock browser and mine is quite literally as smooth as butter.
I love it!

I also just went to rooted 1.1 with 1.1GHZ OC.
Stock browser is MUCH better, pinch zoom is very smooth, but no tabs is a killer to me.
I upgraded to Dophin HD 4.3 as pinch to zoom now works in the latest and greatest, but it seems slower than before, and pinch zoom jumps all over the place as it tries to auto correct or something.. weird.

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I also just went to rooted 1.1 with 1.1GHZ OC.
Stock browser is MUCH better, pinch zoom is very smooth, but no tabs is a killer to me.
I upgraded to Dophin HD 4.3 as pinch to zoom now works in the latest and greatest, but it seems slower than before, and pinch zoom jumps all over the place as it tries to auto correct or something.. weird.
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I get the same zoom weirdness on 4.3. I'm going to downgrade and see if that helps.

I forget to say that my rooted nookie is also OC to 1.1GHZ so that might be part of the reason why I find the stock on 1.1 so smooth now. I did upgraded Dolphin HD to 4.3 and it seems smooth as well. I have to keep testing sites out

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Having the lastpass plugin for Dolphin HD means it'll most likely always be my Android browser of choice.
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BUT:
After checking out the stock browser, its definitely more enjoyable than before. I don't see it as being any smoother than Dolphin HD though. And the feature set it not quite there. But its still good to see that they improved upon it. Can only imagine what B&N's official Froyo and Gingerbread iterations will be like.

I tried the 1.1 browser for a ~10 minutes and ended up going back to dolphin.. wasn't smooth for me..
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Stock browser Performance on CM7

Hi all,
I have noticed that the stock browser runs really slow in comparison to Opera Mobile, especially when browsing the XDA forum. Page loading speed, panning and scrolling is a lot slower. Do you guys find that? Currently I have CM7 on an SDCard. Do you notice any performance difference running it on internal memory?
Thanks.

This is because Opera mobile uses the GPU for zooming and scrolling. It has nothing to do with it being on your SD card or CM7.

I tried out a Xoom today at Best Buy. I was mainly curious about its performance with web browsing through the stock browser. It seemed to perform pretty similar to the Nook Color on CM7, if a little faster, but some sites like the XDA forums here were still noticeably slow.
I find the slow performance of Android's UI to be very annoying because my 3 year old EeePC 900 on XP with its ancient Celeron M and Intel GMA 900 perform far better. Only Opera Mobile comes close but Opera Mobile is a rather annoying browser to use because of how limited the config options are and bookmark management is terrible. (yes I know about the ridiculous secret config page with its indecipherable options )

swaaye said:
I tried out a Xoom today at Best Buy. I was mainly curious about its performance with web browsing through the stock browser. It seemed to perform pretty similar to the Nook Color on CM7, if a little faster, but some sites like the XDA forums here were still noticeably slow.
I find the slow performance of Android's UI to be very annoying because my 3 year old EeePC 900 on XP with its ancient Celeron M and Intel GMA 900 perform far better. Only Opera Mobile comes close but Opera Mobile is a rather annoying browser to use because of how limited the config options are and bookmark management is terrible. (yes I know about the ridiculous secret config page with its indecipherable options )
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Blame the lack of GPU utilization on UI elements. Here's a good breakdown of opera:config settings.

Nexus 4 Benchmarks

I ran a bunch of benchmarks on my LG Nexus 4 16GB.
Antutu 24884
Quadrant 6494
Basemark OS II 558
Basemark X 11127
Passmark (System 2292, CPU 13517, 3D 695)
3DMark IceStorm Unlimited 11330
Vellamo (Multi-Core 1204, Browser 2188)
Geekbench 3 (Single 505, Multi 1654)
GPU Benchmark 3D 12523

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