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ScuroRaven

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Which one is better? Other then stock I have tried dolphin and firefox. So far I prefer stock. Just wondering what the others are like.
 
i prefer opera mobile above all others by far.
may have to do some user agent tweaks to get it the way you want.

xscope if i need to use a webkit browser.
 
I tried xscope and didn't like that I wasn't able to download some PDFs..got some kind of error message. While using Opera, it would hang and be really slow scrolling the page :/ So those two are out for me, lol. Next on my list is Dolphin HD.
 
Tried Dolphin and thought it was alright but just found I prefer the stock one. Didn't use the gestures feature in Dolphin very much because I didn't really see a need for it. The button I use most while browsing is the Back button, which has its own button built into the phone.

It seemed like most of the other browsers I found did not support flash, which I found kind of silly since it's one of the reasons I bought an android phone over an iphone, for the flash support.

Still running stock since it seems to be reasonably quick and isn't missing any features I crave really.
 
I use firefox, the only thing I dont like is how you cant delete the browsing history. So everyone who uses my phone can see all the porn ive been looking at:p
 
I use the stock one most, Firefox loads faster but the Swiftkey keyboard force closes all the time with Firefox.
 
Roze said:
While using Opera, it would hang and be really slow scrolling the page :/
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that's strange. opera mobile 11 is the fastest flash browser i've ever used on the atrix by far...for both loading and scrolling... i even got out the stopwatch to test...
this is between stock, xscope, dolphin mini, dolphin hd, and some others which i've long forgotten.

maybe it was a bad install or something is/was conflicting? on the latest opera mobile 11 update yesterday it would hang briefly while loading some pages, i uninstalled and reinstalled and everything is back to normal. there are also tons of settings if you go into opera:config.

anyhow,
i keep dolphin mini around just because it will keep on playing flash content (for orb) even with the screen off. i use xscope any time something doesn't sit well with opera...which is rare, but happens sometimes...i just wish xscope would autofullscreen (vs manual) for me.
i keep opera mini just for posterity sake since it's what i used on my old winmo phones.
 
iPhail said:
I use firefox, the only thing I dont like is how you cant delete the browsing history. So everyone who uses my phone can see all the porn ive been looking at:p
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If you're using the mobile version swipe left, tap on the Settings button (bottom right), pan down to "Clear private data". You're done.
 
I like the dolphin HD best so far, simply because it's easier to navigate between multiple webpages than stock. Other than that, I was fine with stock.
 
It used to be Skyfire for me, but now Opera Mobile (not Mini) 11 easily trumps them all in terms of speed and closest to PC like browsing...
 
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