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best browser for droid
- Thread starter pyrofreak
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Martin030908
Super Moderator
Supposed to be this year (2010)... but still no date... we're left to guess :blink:
Bring on Firefox but ONLY if it can use this:
Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic
The BEST add-on ever created.
Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic
The BEST add-on ever created.
HKYStormFront
New Member
Bring on Firefox but ONLY if it can use this:
Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic
The BEST add-on ever created.
yup, i think i will wait for FF for this reason right here. hopefully ABP will work on the droid FF browser, that would be sweet:icon_ banana:
LakeMountD
Member
Yeah I used Dolphin for quite a while, then switched to xscope. It definitely isn't polished but it is pretty damn quick. I liked the way dolphin operated and such but there was some annoyances as well! It was definitely slow, it never had a start page, refresh/stop buttons were awkward, and some other things. Stock browser is good minus pinch zoom which is huge for me and it doesn't resize well. One reason I am still using xscope is because it auto-resizes perfectly. I would never pay for xscope though, not polished enough and not feature rich enough to pay for. Also, I won't buy much of anything until I test the new 2.1 platform.
dbronstein
Member
I like the stock browser but I use Dolphin for a lot of sites because I can set it to desktop mode and get the full sites. I hate getting mobile sites, especially the ones that don't give you the option to get to the full site. The biggest advantage of the Droid is the screen and it's really annoying the stock browser doesn't let you take full advantage of it.
Bring on Firefox but ONLY if it can use this:
Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic
The BEST add-on ever created.
Whenever I have to use IE, or a computer without ABP I'm always amazed at how many ads are on the pages that I frequent. To the point where seeing all of them looks strange to me.
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Just installed Dolphin and I like it so far. Seems slower than stock but has some better features.
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I'm so torn between Dolphin and the Stock browser. I've switched back and forth between them thrice now! I love tabs and a whole lot of other things about Dolphin but the thing that annoys me is that it seems to reset the page zoom every time you load a new page and since it doesn't have the simple double tap to zoom functionality of the stock browser it takes more work via pinching to get the right zoom level and align the text in your screen.
Anyone know if it is possible to get the stock browser double tap zoom feature in Dolphin? If I had that, I'd switch in a heartbeat. As it stands though, I think I'm going to stay with the stock browser. It also seems to feature autocomplete in the keyboard entry forms in a lot of places where dolphin doesn't provide it.
Pinch zoom is nice, but I am realizing more and more that it is honestly a bit gimicky and less functional for a browser. I'll take a simple one finger double-tap any day of the week.
Anyone know if it is possible to get the stock browser double tap zoom feature in Dolphin? If I had that, I'd switch in a heartbeat. As it stands though, I think I'm going to stay with the stock browser. It also seems to feature autocomplete in the keyboard entry forms in a lot of places where dolphin doesn't provide it.
Pinch zoom is nice, but I am realizing more and more that it is honestly a bit gimicky and less functional for a browser. I'll take a simple one finger double-tap any day of the week.