Hi guys
Sorry to post another browser thread, but i searched and all i could find were threads full of people saying how bleedingly fast Opera Mobile is for them, so i had to post this.
I've been trying it out in comparison to the stock Android Browser (i'm using a Galaxy SII on 2.3.4). To test, i was loading up the full desktop version of the Engadget site, as it has lots of graphics and seems like a good test.
Well, the stock browser finished loading (i.e the little green bar) in about 20 or so seconds (didn't time it exactly as the difference between the two browsers is so massive). On Opera Mobile it loads for, and i'm not joking here, about 2 whole minutes! The site is readable long before then in fairness, but it should not be taking this long surely. I was using 3G for both tests so i cannot see why there is such a huge difference. I tried out a few other sites, and they too were much slower, so it wasn't a one-off.
The thing is i really like the Opera browser and would love to use it, but not with these kind of load times.
Can people share their experiences, and let me know if i'm not alone in this regard, or if i'm missing something?
Cheers guys.
xiga said:
Hi guys
Sorry to post another browser thread, but i searched and all i could find were threads full of people saying how bleedingly fast Opera Mobile is for them, so i had to post this.
I've been trying it out in comparison to the stock Android Browser (i'm using a Galaxy SII on 2.3.4). To test, i was loading up the full desktop version of the Engadget site, as it has lots of graphics and seems like a good test.
Well, the stock browser finished loading (i.e the little green bar) in about 20 or so seconds (didn't time it exactly as the difference between the two browsers is so massive). On Opera Mobile it loads for, and i'm not joking here, about 2 whole minutes! The site is readable long before then in fairness, but it should not be taking this long surely. I was using 3G for both tests so i cannot see why there is such a huge difference. I tried out a few other sites, and they too were much slower, so it wasn't a one-off.
The thing is i really like the Opera browser and would love to use it, but not with these kind of load times.
Can people share their experiences, and let me know if i'm not alone in this regard, or if i'm missing something?
Cheers guys.
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you are not the only one..
me too facing this weird problem!
opera has so many features, but for now, I'll just use stock one !
thnx for sharing experience
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Opera Turbo usually introduces such 'infinite' loadings for me. Have you tried turning it off?
Yes
I had a bunch of problems with Opera as well......Sticking with Dolphin for now as stock is not playing well with CM7
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Thanks for the replies guys. I turned off Turbo and it made a big difference I have to say. The jury's out though as to whether our not it's actually any faster.
Something else is bugging me now though
The font in Opera Mobile is just horrible. I've changed my system font in Display Settings to Helvetica S. With it webpages look so much nicer, but Opera mobile uses it's own horrible font. Is there any way I can make it use the same font as the rest of my device?
opera mini is the fast one... though fairly buggy
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runs like the new opera mini. Very Fast
Here is a Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUmiDLRcNs&feature=player_embedded
Here is Screenshots
Here is the Download http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/
is this sig promo, or just o10 post doubling?
all i can say: no flash, no fockin WAY for that release.
another opera makers' joke(after o5).
0 progress since 4.2 all i can say.
you know, i am using opera on every dekstop i have, it is ULTIMATE solution, BUT, time for PROGRESS for wm devices, not another bulB****.
( xoen / nothin )
pupakota said:
is this sig promo, or just o10 post doubling?
all i can say: no flash, no fockin WAY for that release.
another opera makers' joke(after o5).
0 progress since 4.2 all i can say.
you know, i am using opera on every dekstop i have, it is ULTIMATE solution, BUT, time for PROGRESS for wm devices, not another bulB****.
( xoen / nothin )
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is there another opera 10 thread
its not worth using yet imo. it has some buggyness and isnt much different than om5. it lacos spme plder options like choosing image quality
we recently reviewed it here : Opera 10 Beta Features and Video
i am using it on HTC TOUCH ELF XL..better and improved than other like UCWEB, SKYFIRE. and also IE^6 when it comes to page view and movements
New opera is great
Meh.
It's really not that impressive -- meaning it doesn't really show off anything different or better than the last Opera release.
My brother just got this phone, and he's loving it! We've got CM6 up and running. Is the default browser the best one? Or is there another browser he should look at? I ask specific to this device, and not to android in general, due to the relatively small screen size.
hungarianhc said:
My brother just got this phone, and he's loving it! We've got CM6 up and running. Is the default browser the best one? Or is there another browser he should look at? I ask specific to this device, and not to android in general, due to the relatively small screen size.
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I personally like Opera Mobile a lot, it works very well on my Mini and it has support for HTML5 videos, you should also get Skyfire for general flash video support.
I've found opera not to support multi-touch on my mini pro, dolphin mini or dolphin hd do though. +1 for skyfire
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hungarianhc said:
My brother just got this phone, and he's loving it! We've got CM6 up and running. Is the default browser the best one? Or is there another browser he should look at? I ask specific to this device, and not to android in general, due to the relatively small screen size.
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Skyfire 4 FTW, Dolphin Mini is not that bad either.
Skyfire is not compatible with X10 Mini Pro?
Skyfire is fully compatible, just using it. When you can't play videos on Skyfire4, uninstall it, download Skyfire 3, run Skyfire 3, uninstall Skyfire 3 and than install Skyfire 4 and you will get licence for watching videos
wOrHeR SvK said:
Skyfire is fully compatible, just using it. When you can't play videos on Skyfire4, uninstall it, download Skyfire 3, run Skyfire 3, uninstall Skyfire 3 and than install Skyfire 4 and you will get licence for watching videos
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But don`t appears in market to download....
You will need to use the hacked market from the development forum as the market will not show skyfire due to our screen resolution, despite this skyfire runs beautifully.
You can download .apk file and install it manualy, just search for it.
i suggest you use skyfire too, works like a charm on the phone
Opera Mini 6 on my Xperia mini pro works great and supports dualtouch...
If you are on slow GPRS or EDGE connections than Opera Mini is the fastest among all the browsers that I have tried.
Miren browser comes close to opera mini in terms of performance on slow connections and has an option of clearing the cache and exiting so that the RAM memory can be reclaimed by the operating system.
So what exactly has to be done, to find Skyfire in the market?
I already tried "Market Enabler", but that one didn't do the job, and although I searched for it, I could not find the .apk to install it manually. I looked through the dev forum, but could not find a "hacked" market.
I am running MiniCM7-2.1.8 btw.
Master One said:
So what exactly has to be done, to find Skyfire in the market?
I already tried "Market Enabler", but that one didn't do the job, and although I searched for it, I could not find the .apk to install it manually. I looked through the dev forum, but could not find a "hacked" market.
I am running MiniCM7-2.1.8 btw.
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look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049648&highlight=best+browser
there is an updater version skyfire 4.2 at page 3
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Opera Mini 6 on my Xperia mini pro works great and supports dualtouch...
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Works for me too!
I am using Dolphin Mini Browser now, as it seems to be the best option for such "low end" mobile.
From what I read Opera is closed source and the traffic is "optimized" using their proxy servers, which means they can track & analyze all your steps in the web, which is nothing I would trust (as if one isn't already sharing enough data in the net). But to be honest, I don't really know the situation concerning the Dolphin company as well, so both may be in the same ship?
I haven't used the browser on the mobile much by now, so I can not really tell if it is the best option, but it will have to do for now.
Can anybody recommend a good open source browser for Android? On my PC I only use Firefox and Midori, but unfortunately those are not an option on the phone.
you should try uc browser works perft on my psp go
and on my iphone 3gs so it should work fine on xperia
by the way , whats that market called blackmarket ??
Ok opera it is fast and nice looking. But many pages not showing good. Thay are smashed. I lot travell in my country with buses. And when i need to open the page with timetravel table it is all smashed, evan id i unchack text warp. Also page of my university had view proble, with opera.
Because of that i use mini boat. Simple lookung but works nice.
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On the gs2 browser when i zoom in on text, it doesn't reflow.
Is there a way to get the text to reflow???
(because scrolling left to right is rather tedious)
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Yeah, just enable it. Its Right there in The browser settings!!
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bullsh*t. there are no settings for this. dont mix up text reflow with double tap fit to page.
i use opera mobile, the only one browser where it works on sgs2.
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Isn't the option "Auto-fit pages" what you want?
walda said:
bullsh*t. there are no settings for this. dont mix up text reflow with double tap fit to page.
i use opera mobile, the only one browser where it works on sgs2.
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This guy is right. It is double tap to fit the page.
Really annoying, the only thing I miss on my HTC Desire! Really would like full text reflow, but double tap really isn't that bad!
Opera is the only one with a propper rendering as you are searching for.
Has its own Presto engine coming with it. Best browser at the moment, imho. And I spent some efforts to compare, measure and daily-use almost all the existing browsers.
What I also like: it's the only browser that allows to activate a single flash content in a page with several flash contents.
HTML5-Test: 234+11 (stock: 182+1)
Browsermark: >60'000
Rendering: top
Same issue for me.
I switched to Dolphin Browser HD which is great and does text reflow.
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Opera is the only one with a propper rendering as you are searching for.
Has its own Presto engine coming with it. Best browser at the moment, imho. And I spent some efforts to compare, measure and daily-use almost all the existing browsers.
What I also like: it's the only browser that allows to activate a single flash content in a page with several flash contents.
HTML5-Test: 234+11 (stock: 182+1)
Browsermark: >60'000
Rendering: top
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Thanks a lot. I think ill use opera seeing as im cheap and don't want to pay for ad free dolphin hd.
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I changed for Opera precisely for this reason, the text reflow.
It changes everything for ease of use.
abel06 said:
I changed for Opera precisely for this reason, the text reflow.
It changes everything for ease of use.
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Speed wise does it match the stock??
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Yes it's very smooth, and you don't get the frequent checkerboarding. Make sure you get Opera Mobile rather than Opera Mini.
I don't understand why some people have to lie on this subject !
Some SGS2 owners (a minority, but still) said in this forum that if they pinch to zoom (even to a very large size), and then *slowly double tap on the screen*, text reflow will happen (without zoom being changed). They said they can achieve text reflow at any zoom level using this method.
Apparently you can't trust anyone here. If someone thinks he can do this, please post a video so we could all see it's possible (as of now there a ZERO videos on the net showing this is possible).
daivik said:
Speed wise does it match the stock??
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It's faster in my opinion.. Atleast it feels faster..
Noam23 said:
I don't understand why some people have to lie on this subject !
Some SGS2 owners (a minority, but still) said in this forum that if they pinch to zoom (even to a very large size), and then *slowly double tap on the screen*, text reflow will happen (without zoom being changed). They said they can achieve text reflow at any zoom level using this method.
Apparently you can't trust anyone here. If someone thinks he can do this, please post a video so we could all see it's possible (as of now there a ZERO videos on the net showing this is possible).
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Your right it's bull ... except other might have another browser settings making this difference?
PLS video and settings!
daivik said:
Speed wise does it match the stock??
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For me, yes.
snark_be said:
Same issue for me.
I switched to Dolphin Browser HD which is great and does text reflow.
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Hmm, i cant get it in Dolphin HD... How did you do it?
Noam23 said:
I don't understand why some people have to lie on this subject !
Some SGS2 owners (a minority, but still) said in this forum that if they pinch to zoom (even to a very large size), and then *slowly double tap on the screen*, text reflow will happen (without zoom being changed). They said they can achieve text reflow at any zoom level using this method.
Apparently you can't trust anyone here. If someone thinks he can do this, please post a video so we could all see it's possible (as of now there a ZERO videos on the net showing this is possible).
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I can do it on my htc Desire running MIUI rom, using Dolphin HD.. zoom in, then double tap fast and it reflows. i've always done this on my browser so im really surprise that its not normal!
walda said:
Hmm, i cant get it in Dolphin HD... How did you do it?
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It does not. As has been stated already only Opera Mobile does it properly on the S2, so far. Stock: nope. Dolphin: nope. Don't let anyone fool you.
Dolphin Browser HD can reflow (see screenshot, full version of Lifehacker website, not the mobile version).
I really don't understand...on my device and another 2 of my mates devices with dolphin installed and fit to pages ticked we can never get it t reflow when piched to zoom..it will only reflow on double tap...how come people keep saying it will reflow on pinch to zoom??? plse tell me how to do it???
Thanks
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini.next.android
This new beta seems to have
1. Much lower memory footprint
2. Is much faster
3. Beautiful transitions!
3. Seems to work like a GPU accelerated app on Gingerbread!
which brings me to the question, is there any way a particular app can use GPU ui in Gingerbread. Not an NDK app, just a normal Dalvik-VM app.
Tested on GT-P1000
I was a fan of Dofin HD, then switched to Opera, a favorite, then switched back to the Fin HD since it seems to be lighter and faster.
I might give Opera another try and see how good it is.
But I definitely using stock WebBrowser when ICS released
Thanks OP
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votinh said:
I was a fan of Dofin HD, then switched to Opera, a favorite, then switched back to the Fin HD since it seems to be lighter and faster.
I might give Opera another try and see how good it is.
But I definitely using stock WebBrowser when ICS released
Thanks OP
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Give Opera Mini Next a try. It does have hardware acceleration says their press release though I don't understand how, on gingerbread.
Are there any hacks for it yet, like free 2g/3g internet?
does it have flash support this time? I loved it, but because of not supporting flash kinda bad...but i loved turbo mode =) saved like 60% internet
Kresh0 said:
does it have flash support this time? I loved it, but because of not supporting flash kinda bad...but i loved turbo mode =) saved like 60% internet
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You can get Opera Mobile which has the same UI as Opera Mini only the download is larger since it can download and render pages locally, and also includes flash compatibility. Opera Mobile also allows you to toggle turbo mode, I have mine set to be on turbo when on 3G and use the local presto engine when on wifi.
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Are there any hacks for it yet, like free 2g/3g internet?
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Anyone?10c
Hey guys, this is mike and i would like to know which browser would you recommend for an android mobile phone or tab because Mozilla is very slow in android phones so if you know anyone else then please let me know?
I appreciate your time and patience.
Thanks a lot!!
mike5568 said:
Hey guys, this is mike and i would like to know which browser would you recommend for an android mobile phone or tab because Mozilla is very slow in android phones so if you know anyone else then please let me know?
I appreciate your time and patience.
Thanks a lot!!
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Depending on your device Chrome works flawless (On Nexus 4 is impressive, whereas on S3 was a bit slugglish, so pretty much device dependant). You can also try to search in here for AOSP Browser which is the default browser for AOSP ROM's and behaves pretty well too ^^
MuertoKo said:
Depending on your device Chrome works flawless (On Nexus 4 is impressive, whereas on S3 was a bit slugglish, so pretty much device dependant). You can also try to search in here for AOSP Browser which is the default browser for AOSP ROM's and behaves pretty well too ^^
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Thanks a lot for your reply and yeah i tried chrome and [ROOT]AOSP Browser but chrome is very slow and aosp is also not good enouph.But let me tell you i found two browsers named as Dolphin and Maxthon and both looks good.Can you suggest me one from these because i heard these 1st time!!
mike5568 said:
Thanks a lot for your reply and yeah i tried chrome and [ROOT]AOSP Browser but chrome is very slow and aosp is also not good enouph.But let me tell you i found two browsers named as Dolphin and Maxthon and both looks good.Can you suggest me one from these because i heard these 1st time!!
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Dolphin works great, even though i don't like the fact it used to reset my openened tabs after reboot (I usually stack over 20 tab to read later or similar, and that nerfed a bit my experience even it works great, definitely worth a try!). Maxthon used to be a nice browser back in my Sensation times, it's been a while since I used it but some dev's even include them on their builds, so worth a try as well.
As nearly everything in android world you should just try it, usually worth the experience because it hardly depends on device and use (for example, my "special" use and Dolphin browser).
Best regards,