Chrome browser is horrible on my Tablet S. - Sony Tablet S

Don't know why, but the chrome browser is a buggy piece of crap. Whereas, on my Sony Xperia S, it works like a dream. Why is that?
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dante2086 said:
Don't know why, but the chrome browser is a buggy piece of crap. Whereas, on my Sony Xperia S, it works like a dream. Why is that?
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I don't think Chrome has the greatest tablet experiance - the tab's are just to small for my liking.
What bugs have you found?

Yes mine too. It doesnt like tabbed browsing. Sometimes when I open 1-2 more tabs the pages dont load. Even with just one tab the page sometimes does not load at all. The browser has crashed to desktop on mine a few times as well. The tablets just needs a few things fixing then it will be perfect:
chrome fix
Delay in waking device fix.
Random reboots
Ps store and dual shock 3 native support.
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I have problems with tabs too! it goes blank when switching and end up closing chrome and start all over! really annoying
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it crashes on me almost everytime. I've decided to give it a fair chance by installing it a few times but still the same everytime. Had to go back to dolphin. Dont even bother with chrome at the moment unless it gets a major update.

According to google mobile official blog, Chrome browser is still in a beta phase
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you have to disable the stock browser, and chrome will be better. But firefox is better on my tablet s

Just like they said. Tabbed browsing is bad. Really bad. Another thing I noticed is that when I open a couple of tabs, it crashes. Some pages don't scroll at times. And it sometimes crashes for no reason.
Its so smooth and sweet on my SXS, it confuses me. Both are Sony ICS devices.
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Best Browser

I've tried both Firefox and Opera. Opera was much faster and stable for me. Firefox keeps freezing up on me. What's others experience?
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I have the chrome beta on my ICS Chrome Beta and I love it, Which we could get it. Is there a work around to installing it.
gordata said:
I have the chrome beta on my ICS Chrome Beta and I love it, Which we could get it. Is there a work around to installing it.
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Is there no Dolphin HD for the Note?
Dolphin HD is what I use, works great for me. I've never had much luck with firefox, at least on my xoom.
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Opera Mini
Opera mini is the best uses least amount aof data and loads fastest looks great
Just my opinion I like it
JGuinan007 said:
Opera mini is the best uses least amount aof data and loads fastest looks great
Just my opinion I like it
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I agree opera is fast, just wish it had plugin support.
i miss the way my Evo would resize the website to make it fit the screen. if i zoomed in, it would rearrange the layout again... is this on any 3rd party browser?
Opera seems to work the best for me. I never liked Dolphin so much.
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I'm a fan of Boat Browser.
Here is a review from August.
I use Dolphin HD
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I use Opera Mobile (not Opera Mini). Used it for years on WinMo, and installed it immediately when I found out the built-in browser can't identify as a desktop. Opera Mobile will.
After reading these recommendations I switched to Opera Mobile Browser and I'm glad I did. It has that nice blend of functionality, features, and looks.
DolphinHD hands down!
opera mobile
I have been using opera mobile since when they charged for it on windows mobile 5. After my diseased years (iPhone), when I switched to Android I was glad to see opera. Opera is the smoothest browser hands down I have tried every browser and always go back to opera in like one minute. I'm not sure what folks see in these other browsers. I am really curious about chrome for Android and can't wait till either we get I've or they make it for GB.
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murphy_31047 said:
I have been using opera mobile since when they charged for it on windows mobile 5. After my diseased years (iPhone), when I switched to Android I was glad to see opera. Opera is the smoothest browser hands down I have tried every browser and always go back to opera in like one minute. I'm not sure what folks see in these other browsers. I am really curious about chrome for Android and can't wait till either we get I've or they make it for GB.
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Only reason I use Dolphin HD is for the extension support for lastpass and xmark. Chrome for android is amazing on my xoom, it doesn't support flash but no loss for me.
srtpusher said:
i miss the way my Evo would resize the website to make it fit the screen. if i zoomed in, it would rearrange the layout again... is this on any 3rd party browser?
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Dolphin does this
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I have to say I have dolphin HD and opera mobile both installed, but right now my default is set to the stock browser. Nothing seems to compare to the stock browser's smoothness while scrolling and zooming.
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srtpusher said:
i miss the way my Evo would resize the website to make it fit the screen. if i zoomed in, it would rearrange the layout again... is this on any 3rd party browser?
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the stock browser on the note does this too, you just have to enable it in settings.
Stock Browser is best in my 2 cents. used Dolphin and Opera Mobile/Mini, but i think they are not as smooth as stock.

Facebook work around

I found this YT vid on getting FB to work EXCELLENT on ALL Transformers
It looks great on our TF300
Ive never once had a problem with facebook.... Is this a bug these tablets are supposed to have?
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Ive never once had a problem with facebook.... Is this a bug these tablets are supposed to have?
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Yes it has been troublesome for Android ICS 4.x, in general.
Yeah, I prefer the friendcaster app, it's worked much smoother and you can make it light letters on dark backround which is easier on battery and eyes.
Facebook stinks on this tablet....even on any browser it lags ...also u cant video chat from browser like pc
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Raul69.atl said:
Facebook stinks on this tablet....even on any browser it lags ...also u cant video chat from browser like pc
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it is... *ahem* a tablet. Its not a PC.
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it is... *ahem* a tablet. Its not a PC.
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So... U should still be able to have a great browsing experience.
But google chrome new update works nicely...too bad it doesnt support flash :/
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Facedroid is pretty sweet
Thank you for posting this! This is 10 times better than using Facebook in a browser or using the dreaded dedicated app!
I should warn you guys. Any app that is not THE facebook app will be suspect to facebook API privacy. That means if your friends have not changed default settings, or have setup facebook to not show info about them through the API, you won't be able to see certain things on their page, or be able to do anything with their page through this app. I noticed this first with the xbox 360 app, and then the friendcaster app. Some of my friends had no pictures at all. Just be aware of that.

Best Browser For the S3

Done a search but nothing of relevance came up in these forums.
Just got my phone today and so far just using the stock browser which seems ok but undoubtedly there are better browsers out there, i always used X-Scope on my SGSII but im a bit tired of that now and looking for something else,i hear Chrome for ICS is supposed to be very good, so what browser is everyone using then?
Chrome is not that great on s3 yet, it lags and has touch delays..stock browser is undoubtedly the best browser I have tried . It gets the work done. Only thing I don't like is how you manage tabs . Try dolphin browser, should run as stock but with some enchanced features
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Well the built in browser works really nice, but i personally like
firefox and that you can use addons like adblock and so that i value
a lot personally.
Though I don't currently have the S3 yet, I'll probably use Boat Browser. Easy to use and has been the best I have used for my tastes. It'll be the fist I install when I get my S3.
Dunno where you heard that Chrome 'lags', that's definately not the case. Alright, you don't have Flash. I always thought of it as a huge drawback but I haven't missed it a single time and I've been using Chrome for Android since the very beginning.
It has great tab management, staggering performance and a brilliant look. One of the best things about it is the integration with your desktop Chrome (and all other versions of Chrome you might be using.) Open tabs are synced in real time so let's just say you want to open a link from your phone on your desktop. no more mailing it around, now you can just click on it on your desktop. The bookmark sync is great too. And it's Chrome.
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Dunno where you heard that Chrome 'lags', that's definately not the case. Alright, you don't have Flash. I always thought of it as a huge drawback but I haven't missed it a single time and I've been using Chrome for Android since the very beginning.
It has great tab management, staggering performance and a brilliant look. One of the best things about it is the integration with your desktop Chrome (and all other versions of Chrome you might be using.) Open tabs are synced in real time so let's just say you want to open a link from your phone on your desktop. no more mailing it around, now you can just click on it on your desktop. The bookmark sync is great too. And it's Chrome.
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+10!! Really impressed with chrome browser on both my S1 with CM9 and now my new S3!
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ICS Browser Plus is great
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Use Chrome. Also install Flashify. In the rare instance you launch a site that needs flash, just click share, flashify, then select an alternative browser. The page you were browsing is then opened for you.
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Dunno where you heard that Chrome 'lags', that's definately not the case. Alright, you don't have Flash. I always thought of it as a huge drawback but I haven't missed it a single time and I've been using Chrome for Android since the very beginning.
It has great tab management, staggering performance and a brilliant look. One of the best things about it is the integration with your desktop Chrome (and all other versions of Chrome you might be using.) Open tabs are synced in real time so let's just say you want to open a link from your phone on your desktop. no more mailing it around, now you can just click on it on your desktop. The bookmark sync is great too. And it's Chrome.
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I didn't hear it, I experienced it. Visit www.aftonbladet.se with both stock browser and chrome. While stock handles the website like any other..chrome gets real messy. The touch response like 1-2 seconds after you started to pan. It's just me?
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Just you
That site works a treat for me. Or at least, I think it does, I can't read that language, so I can't tell if it's somehow horribly broken something or not
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I just froze the s3 stock browser using titanium backup and copied the browser from my s2 cm9 rom into /system/apps. It works brilliantly! Need root though
So far, the stock browser is doing it for me
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I use dolphin hd but only because of the adons - I use last pass for my passwords you see.
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Well mozzila firefox has no data compression so it is a data hog. I perso.ally like opera mini , opera mobile.:beer:
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I didn't hear it, I experienced it. Visit www.aftonbladet.se with both stock browser and chrome. While stock handles the website like any other..chrome gets real messy. The touch response like 1-2 seconds after you started to pan. It's just me?
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Does a bit at first, but once you pan through the entire Page and it loads up all the content its fine.
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ICS Browser+ for me. Persistent user agent switch, customisable quick controls, negative colour mode, everything I could possibly need in a mobile browser.
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Just you
That site works a treat for me. Or at least, I think it does, I can't read that language, so I can't tell if it's somehow horribly broken something or not
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Will have to install and try again then. Or else something is clearly wrong
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Does a bit at first, but once you pan through the entire Page and it loads up all the content its fine.
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Chrome still sucks for me even after you let it fully load pages . Zoom in and out pinching and panning it just freeze-lags on me all the time . You guys force gpu acceleration?
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Stock browser works well here.
Before I used Dolphin, but there's a bug or something. When double tapping to zoom in on an area on the page it always zooms in to the left of the page (instead of the area you double tap)
Do more people experience this bug?
Dolphin Mini - best interface, not a ton of features
Dolphin HD - alright interface, just works
Opera Mobile - most like a PC, best comparability with websites that give trouble, has hardware acceleration, super smooth
Stock - smoothest, least features, and has problems downloading certain types of files, or downloading at all from hosting websites

what net borowser do you use ??

ive got this stock net browser on my tablet but it seems to be slow don't open sites which i can open quickly open on the PC
is there any fix
or any other browser you recommend which is fast
thanks
I've tried them all but still end up using stock.
I use the stock browser (but since the ICS update the widget no longer works properly) and Dolphin
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Using dolphin hd working better then the stock
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I use opera. Speedy and good support for flash.
I use Google chrome
I switch between Dolphin HD and Chrome. Both are better than stock IMHO, but each has a few small failings which necessitates both being used.
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dingochutney said:
I switch between Dolphin HD and Chrome. Both are better than stock IMHO, but each has a few small failings which necessitates both being used.
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I've tried Dolphin HD, Chrome, Opera, and the stock. I find myself switching around, but lately I've been using opera, I find it more finger "friendly". the other browser switching tabs is a pain with my fingers, with opera the layout much better.
Dolphin hd
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I find dolphin the best. The ics stock browser is good too, In my opinion better than both chrome or opera for this device.
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Firefox!!!!!
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Dolphin HD Definitely! :good:
Please can anyone post stock browser APK here? I am just want to try it on another device and I heard in internet that stock Sony browser has better performance than usual Android browser.
xdens said:
Please can anyone post stock browser APK here? I am just want to try it on another device and I heard in internet that stock Sony browser has better performance than usual Android browser.
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Please advise if it works.
http://db.tt/q9gNUxWM
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I use stock, works ok for me
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Anyone else think original tablet s is just as fast as xperia tablet s?

apart from gaming does anyone else think xperia tablet s is pretty poor at web browsing on native browser and chrome? my phone (xperia T) which has a lot more to deal with seems so much faster. My original tablet s seemed just as fast. Loading and browsing pages like engadget.com slow the xperia tablet s to a crawl.
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I agree browsing on Xperia Tablet S is jerky at best, Disappointment!
Fine for me with Firefox Beta, default browser + chrome = crap.
The Xperia Tablet S has lots of issues, even the hardware has an issue where it is not waterproof, the screen is lifted up.
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Just wierd how tegra 2 tablets on ics browse way faster and smoother....
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Ah you see, it has nothing to do with the processor - take a look at other Tegra 3 tablets and you'll see the browsing is smooth. It's an issue deep inside the framework of the device.
I agree with SWFlyerUK, its just the OS itself, even CyanogenMod is much more stable then the stock rom
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