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Firefox!

It looks like the beta to firefox is out i just installed it heres the link
Its about time we get a good browser.

It's not that great.
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malicenfz said:
It's not that great.
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not yet, but it will be!

meh...Dolphin HD has done me no wrong.

[email protected] beta
its buggy yeah, but they will fix that. LOVE the bookmark/password sync with your desktop pc, and as soon as they fix addons and JIT.... oh man its gonna be nice.

^nice avatar, the att logo imposed over the death star, kinda acurate.
ill give fire fox a shot. i kinda like opera mini but firefox looks cool

Wrong forum. This is an app right. And there are many better browsers currently than firefox.

Just tested it, I love desktop Firefox, but this version is much slower, and is having much bigger problems with elements like Flash than default browser - it definitly has much to improve.
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It's very buggy

Everything takes time to improve. No doubt mozilla will be making it better
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Ok. Just installed and tested it out. it sucks. Way slower than stock browser and flash doesnt work at all, what gives. I was hoping hulu would work. No dice. I know its just beta though oh well
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Its got a nice UI, but its pretty slow right now.
Stock browser as always been the fastest and the must compatible with websites (formatting).
However, xScope comes as a very close second with great speed and functionality. The new version has a nice ui, but the free version has a watermark (xScope 6). The old paid version is now free on the developer's website however.
(these comments are based on my experiences looking for the best browser)
Stay with stock or try xscope imo
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Reefermattness said:
[email protected] beta
its buggy yeah, but they will fix that. LOVE the bookmark/password sync with your desktop pc, and as soon as they fix addons and JIT.... oh man its gonna be nice.
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Yeah, the sync is one thing that I live by right now as I move from OSX, Ubuntu, Windows, Android it is nice to have the same thing everywhere. Marry it up with LastPass and all is rocking perfect.
I have Dolphin HD as my primary still though. Firefox will get there. I suspect that as the tablets start hitting the market, and FF4 goes mainstream we will see a huge push in this dev as there will be a huge market for it.

I downloaded the fennec browser but how can I install it. When I try to open it I get a message saying its blocked because its not from android marketplace?
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I downloaded the fennec browser but how can I install it. When I try to open it I get a message saying its blocked because its not from android marketplace?
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Need to be rooted - or you can use the Wonder Machine to sideload applications to your phone.

I think we are losing sight of the fact that this is a BETA! nowhere near the final product, I have been testing this app since pre-alpha and it has made miles of improvements, if the fixes continue at the rate they have been since it was available for download, the final product will sail

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I think we are losing sight of the fact that this is a BETA! nowhere near the final product, I have been testing this app since pre-alpha and it has made miles of improvements, if the fixes continue at the rate they have been since it was available for download, the final product will sail
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Totally agree. This product is no release candidate. Look at it for potential, not current usability.

New beta is now smoother and faster than dolphin
Still no flash, and the dumb thing restarts everytime you go into it. You lose your last webpage.
I also noticed that you can't pass url's into it (like out of an sms)
Using it sparingly now over dolphin because it's smoother. No replacement yet.

I just downloaded and installed the latest. Slow and buggy.
Uninstalled.
Will definitely try at a future time.
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Everytime I open more than 3 windows it crasher.
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[Q] Is it just me or...

Is the browser on Gingerbread truly awful?

Im gonna agree. I have problems navigating back on all gb roms, sometimes it just locks up and refuses to do anything, other times it takes ages to load pages.
I've given up on it and use maxathon browser.
Would be nice if we could use the browser from 2.2
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I really hate the default browser on gingerbread, I hate it so much that I went back to froyo because of that.
The part I do not like is where I can't scroll a long page all the way from top to bottom with only one swipe. Samsung for some reason copy that crappy iPhone thing to this phone.
the reason I keep using the default browser not 3rd party one is because it continue to load when the screen is off. Yes, I only have EDGE connection.
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I've also had many problems with it before i went to CM7.

Why using default browser?
Dolphin works just fine.

I find dolphin quite slow tho.
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malcho said:
Why using default browser?
Dolphin works just fine.
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with no flash at all :>

[fixed] browser issue

I cant download the motofail.zip. or any files from forums. I'm stock and on 3g with 4 bars. Downloads fail within first 5sec.
Ideas?
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You can download astro file manager from market.under file manager go to preferences and enable browser downloader and you should be ok
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I've been told Opera Mobile works and is designed to play well with forum downloads and hosting site downloads. My experience on the Droid X hasn't confirmed this theory, but it seemed to be something others insist works.

he is a solution to you with out having to use other browsers worked flawless for me on my evo epic charge and now my bionic heres the link called download all or something
https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5od2tyYmJ0LmRvd25sb2FkYWxsIl0.

The stock browser sucks. I recommend the dolphin browser. Stock browser has all sorts of problems. I wasn't able to download many files with the stock browser but they downloaded perfect with dolphin. Sooner you stop using the stock browser, the better off you will be.
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The stock browser is so bad, that the dolphin browser is always one of the very first apps I download. I switched over 2 years ago and every time I have played with stock since then, I see that it still has issues.
The dolphin browser is so good, Mozilla has been trying to play catch-up for 2 years with their mobile Firefox browser but are still very far behind. I don't think android has a browser that can compare to dolphin, even though opera and x-scope are alright.
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I love the Ics stock browser works great imo
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bfitzpatrickd2d said:
I love the Ics stock browser works great imo
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Just wait until you come across some website that won't load properly on the stock but will load properly on the other browsers. They're out their. One of my membership sites has trouble with stock but loads perfect on every other Android browser. Majority of my customers login issues are fixed just by switching their browser from stock.
On a side note, the stock browser has different issues on different phones, doesn't matter on the version of Android. Samsung phones' stock browser has different issues than Motorola does or HTC does.
With all the issues that have been fixed just by having users switch to an alternate browser, I can't recommend the stock browser. Not every Android 's stock browser has the issues, but many of them do. It's became easier for me to recommend the dolphin browser to my members up front, than to have to handle the customer service when they have issues that are due to the stock browser. Dolphin browser runs more universal than stock so its easier to figure out any problems a member may have if they are using dolphin. The ratio of problems that I get reported are about 10:1 with stock having 10 to every 1 dolphin has. That's just too big of difference for me to ever recommend the stock browser.
While many users might not notice the problems with the stock browser, they are there. I guess it depends on how much browsing you do if you will notice the problems. I'm a pretty heavy android user, lucky to get 8 hours of battery life at the most, so I notice some things that ordinary android users may not.
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Dolphin worked. Used it on the dinc2 and my settings were saved on my old sd card... bonus
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Little812 said:
Dolphin worked. Used it on the dinc2 and my settings were saved on my old sd card... bonus
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Kind of funny how something as simple as switching browsers can solve a problem. You not being able to download from the stock browser is just one of several issues that stock browser has.
I like that you are able to save your settings and bookmarks to your SD card with dolphin. Makes it convenient when flashing different roms and being able to have your browser set up easily. The themes they have are also nice.
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Just wanted to let all Nexus 7 owners know...

It seems Dolphin has disabled Flash. I tried to turn it on some time back and it gave some message about HTML5 and flash causing your browser to crash. I was just reminded of this a few minutes ago and wanted to update anyone who is interested. Anyway, I had side loaded Adobe flash some time back and it is still working on Mozilla Firefox. Not sure what other browsers support it except for Frost lite. Hopefully I posted this under the right topic because all of my posts always get moved, lol. I am not rooted because I like the way everything is currently and have no real need to root. So, I guess it seems dumb for me to post this seeing most on here are probably rooted? God bless!

As you can see it no longer allows you to turn it on.
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This is old news I believe, I'm fairly certain Dolphin has disabled flash for months now.

Best bet for flash is the AOSP browser. At the same time, though, I feel that if a site still uses Flash, they don't deserve my clicks

SolsticeZero said:
Best bet for flash is the AOSP browser. At the same time, though, I feel that if a site still uses Flash, they don't deserve my clicks
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Actually Firefox is the best bet. Doesn't require flashing, and works fine.

Puffin Browser works fine with sideloaded Flash 11 and Android 4.2.1

Boat browser mini work fine with flash and android 4.2.
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I'm using dolphin browser mini and flash is still working

Nobody should be using dolphin browser IMO.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
Doesn't make for happy reading.
Cheers Danny

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Actually Firefox is the best bet. Doesn't require flashing, and works fine.
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The only thing is if you update it becomes bigger and bigger in storage usage. It already is on the "not-lite" side. I only use it for flash video. It's not my choice for browsing.
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SolsticeZero said:
Best bet for flash is the AOSP browser. At the same time, though, I feel that if a site still uses Flash, they don't deserve my clicks
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That's quite a bold statement, lol. Often, there are things one needs to do and often one will go with the particular means to get to the ends of getting those particular things done.
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7thSeal said:
I'm using dolphin browser mini and flash is still working
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Strange. Maybe you don't have the newest version?
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toidimaet said:
Nobody should be using dolphin browser IMO.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
Doesn't make for happy reading.
Cheers Danny
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Interesting. I deleted Dolphin anyway. Never could see what all the hype was about. That fella who developed naked browser seems rather helpful. Wonder why the browser uses HTTP by default? By the way, I did ask him that question on his forum post. I am waiting for a reply. Thanks for the link!
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I use Firefox for flash myself. I prefer the aosp browser but haven't rooted or anything so Firefox was the only way I could find to watch south park episodes on my tablet.
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Naked Browser works well. It's small and fast.
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I run Maxthon. Works just fine with sideloaded flash.

Best browser for nexus 7

Firefox vs chrome vs Dilphin ..
Addons vs speed vs gestures, which is better in ur experience ?

I periodically try the others, but keep going back to Maxthon. Not much in the way of add-ons, but then I don't need much. The built-in "reader" mode works for most sites and gives an easy-to-read, clutter-free experience.

Boat browser, by far.
"What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing. He has already been told twice."

Firefox beta
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Tried a lot of browsers but stock browser is still my favourite by far. Its Quick Controls feature is something I can't live without.

I was actually getting fed up last night with chrome and chrome beta crashing every 2 seconds so i jumped on play store and grabbed a random browser just for fun, i found UC Browser HD and so far i absolutely love it! It works great in portrait and landscape and it feels like it loads pages really quick. Also, i almost forget to mention two finger swipe for adding and closing tabs and a handy little toolbar on the bottom right that you can add shortcuts to, right under where your right thumb usually rests.
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I'd like to mention that for me UC browser was horrible because it spammed my devices. I complained directly in their forum and asked for ad free version but they don't have a pay version. So for me UC was out of the game.
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random hero said:
I'd like to mention that for me UC browser was horrible because it spammed my devices. I complained directly in their forum and asked for ad free version but they don't have a pay version. So for me UC was out of the game.
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Oh really? I haven't seen a single ad, maybe because I'm running an ad blocker
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Opera Mobile. On Presto, of course.
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For me it's mostly chrome as I have no bugs and it works flawlessly with chrome on my desktop for bookmarks and tabs. Stock browser for everything else because of flash.. And the speed. Gotta love that speed.

It seems like everyone is stating something else. I think it's best to just try some and see for yourself.
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Remcotjuuh said:
It seems like everyone is stating something else. I think it's best to just try some and see for yourself.
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Just like roms and kernels, that is the one universally correct answer.
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I prefer using the stock aosp browser but on my n7 it geta wonky on every rom ive tried. It will randonly freeze up and fc and stop being able to go back to the last page. I dont have time to get around and try every rom because of time and because i have 3 users on the device so restoring is a *****. If someone could pm me a rom that the aosp browser (not chrome) works good for them id appreciate it.

Opera is amazing. Chrome is good. Firefox has really upped their game lately and I still hate stock.
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Triscuit said:
Oh really? I haven't seen a single ad, maybe because I'm running an ad blocker
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Well, I use ad blocker, too. When using UC Browser the first page/start screen showed always ads. To be true, if you're willing you can ignore it... but I am very sensitive to ads. They annoy me. :angel:
For all fans of Dolphin browser ->
read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
Right now I'm using stock CM browser.

The AOSP browser by a long mile, IMHO... Sure, the other browsers (Dolphin, Opera, Maxthon) might have more options (lots of bells and whistles), but AOSP has the edge in terms of speed and smoothness.
For anybody not rooted or unwilling to flash a custom ROM, then Lightning Browser is the next best thing to the AOSP browser... (IMHO, of course).
Here are the links...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113198
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=acr.browser.barebones&hl=en
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youdug said:
I prefer using the stock aosp browser but on my n7 it geta wonky on every rom ive tried. It will randonly freeze up and fc and stop being able to go back to the last page. I dont have time to get around and try every rom because of time and because i have 3 users on the device so restoring is a *****. If someone could pm me a rom that the aosp browser (not chrome) works good for them id appreciate it.
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Hi, youdug...
I've never experienced any problems with the AOSP browser in Paul O' Briens MoDaCo ROMs... including the CyanogenMod variant I'm currently running...
http://www.modaco.com/forum/657-google-asus-nexus-7-nexus7modacocom
Hope this is of some use.
Rgrds,
Ged.

On my Galaxy 3, I prefer Boat Browser (it's unbelievable fast),
But on my n7, I use Firefox because of f-sync, add-ons and flash...
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Tried almost all browsers in market and my favorite browser is AOSP browser love that speed and flash support. But sometime using Chrome because of browser sync feature is really useful.

How do I get firefox to work with flash ?
I tried installing the archived android flash from adobe website and nothing ?

I've recently switched to AOSP browser, and I'm happy with it.
I used chrome before, but got annoyed by those popup bubbles when clicking links, because it ended up showing a bubble EVERY time I'd click something.
And also I can't stand their text scaling, most signatures on XDA were MASSIVE while actual posts were tiny.
I tried other browsers as well, every one had something that bugged me (like swiping from one side would bring up a menu or such...)
I still use Firefox occasionally when chrome or AOSP won't download something or for very rare flash.