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Firefox 4

I'm sure you can, if there is enough room for it. Why would you want to download FF to your phone, though? It won't run on it. It makes more sense to download it to the PC you want to install it on.
 
fredsmith said:
I'm sure you can, if there is enough room for it. Why would you want to download FF to your phone, though? It won't run on it. It makes more sense to download it to the PC you want to install it on.
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This may be a crazy assumption...but I believe he is referring to the mobile version of Firefox available in the Android Market. And yes, mobile Firefox does support app2sd. From what I have read, Firefox mobile has some great potential but is still in its testing stage so has some bugs to figure out.


Also...there is no harm in deleting an application once you have downloaded it. So if you download a big application and decide you do not want it or it doesn't do what you want, just delete it. Hope that helps.
 
I like Firefox 4. Not quite perfected yet but close enough it's my default browser now. About as fast as the stock browser on my HTC G2 but a far, far better UI. In fact, IMHO Firefox 4 has the best UI of any mobile browser.
 
I think Opera Mobile 11 beats Firefox when it comes to features and browsing experience.
 
I really like the new Firefox browser, especially the way they've done tabs and the ability to grab a copy of the current page as a PDF. If only it could play Flash, I'd make it my default.
 
For those that like Firefox 4 mobile, seriously? Why would you put up with the aggravation? Tell me what website FF can bring up faster than any other browser (e.g., stock, Dolphin, XScope, Opera Mobile, etc.) Then, when the page is finally done loading on FF, double-tap and tell me if you can read the text without squinting. Pinch and zoom, then spend your time scrolling left and right because it doesn't render the text to fit the screen. How many tabs are opened, don't know, have to swipe to see...holy cow, there are 20+ tabs, how, when...?

Save yourself the aggravation and wait a bit longer on Firefox 4.
 
Haven't really measured the speed with a stopwatch, but it's not noticeably slower than the stock browser in my experience. Yes, I can read the text just fine after double-tapping (in landscape mode, which is what I use all the time for browsing anyway). There's a setting for reformatting the text when zooming. I haven't noticed opening multiple tabs without my asking for it. I like the swipe gesture to see the tabs; it definitely beats Menu->Windows on the stock browser.

As I said, I'd make it my default if it only did Flash. Yes, seriously. :-)
 
To you guys using opera mini or opera, how do you exit the browser when finished without hitting the back button over and over? Also is there a way to clear cache, history upon exit?
 
droblyer said:
To you guys using opera mini or opera, how do you exit the browser when finished without hitting the back button over and over? Also is there a way to clear cache, history upon exit?
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I use Opera Mobile 11 (the Mini is useless to me because it has no Flash support).
The exit is as simple as with any other Android application - just press the Home button.

Sure there is way to clear cache and browser data. Just open Manage Applications, select Opera Mobile 11 and press "Clear Cache" or "Clear Data".
 
@droblyer, what @Usta said about using the Home button, but if you are looking for setting like Dolphin where it automatically clear upon exiting the browser, then there is not one for Opera.
 
Using the home button doesn't close opera it simply takes you to your home screen. What I'm asking is there a way to close opera when your finished browsing so its not using memory. Like dolphin has a exit button.
 
Don't worry about memory usage. Android handles that for you very well. If the memory is needed, Android will automagically close Opera or another unused app to free some some up.
 
Yes that's true, but still not what I'm asking. I find that android lets memory get low enough that performance starts suffering before it starts killing apps off and for that reason I don't like leaving the browser or any other unnecessary apps running in background when I'm not using them. Guess I'll just stick with dolphin that has an exit button.
 
droblyer said:
I find that android lets memory get low enough that performance starts suffering before it starts killing apps off and for that reason I don't like leaving the browser or any other unnecessary apps running in background when I'm not using them.
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I use my phone heavily for business and use lotsa memory-hungry apps. Firefox is now my default browser and I often have several tabs open in Firefox, plus a couple of windows in the stock browser, emails, maps, Google voice, maybe something open in Docs To Go, etc. etc. I've never noticed any lag due to lack of memory. Android/Linux always handles memory needs cleanly.

You should never need to close anything. Maybe some poorly coded app is not cooperating as it should. See if something is 'sticking' in memory or hogging CPU cycles.
 
Oh, and the other thing I just noticed about Firefox that's cool is that it handles nested scrolling regions correctly. I imagine some of the other alternative browsers do, too, but it's a nice improvement over the stock browser.
 
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