skyfire thoughts

[Taterus Maximus]

I'm pretty impressed with it thus far, but I've only messed around with it for a few minutes, but it seems faster than Opera thus far, and I just played a 6 minute youtube video without any hiccups (seems to have a pretty good UI for videos).

 

[xbrokdikdogx]

Latest upgrade for skyfire did enable video to play on abc.com, hulu and I believe watchfullepisodesonline.com but it keeps buffering to 25% and then crashing. Looks promising though. I do believe this will be just a great backup browser for when you want to watch videos. The stock browser is just too good at everything else to dump it.

 

[jonwlewis]

Skyfire briefly, and then went back to Dolphin. It just seems to me that Dolphin is a smidge faster and reliable. I don't ever have problems with it. I have tried Opera, Skyfire, Dolphin, and stock. Dolphin seems to be my fav out of all of them.

 

[godfatherrules]

I signed up for the Alpha but was not chosen. When it came out in Beta, a mere two or so weeks later, I installed it right away. I seriously thought this was still an Alpha release. Buggy is not the word for it. Bugged. I really think this browser has promise, but as is, I think it's barely usable. Extremely slow load times, when pages actually load (and I've tried it on 3g and Wifi) and the formatting is horrible.

I personally use Opera Mini. It's very fast and the closest thing to a desktop style browser. The only thing I use the stock browser for is google sites (i.e. Reader, image search, etc.) because they are specially formatted when accessed that way.

 

[barnacles]

I'm pretty impressed with it thus far, but I've only messed around with it for a few minutes, but it seems faster than Opera thus far, and I just played a 6 minute youtube video without any hiccups (seems to have a pretty good UI for videos).

I mean its not horribly slow, but to say that its faster than opera doesn't seem quite accurate. At least from where I'm at. Both on WiFi and 3G. Opera blazes, and they build their browser to do just that. Cut out all the unnecessary and load the essentials.

 

[Taterus Maximus]

I've had Opera render some pages faster and Skyfire render some faster too, can't wait to see the full version of this browser. One of my favorite things about it is holding the back button to exit the app, and the option to clear out the history at the same time. One other thing I'm liking about Skyfire is the quick switch for viewing mobile/desktop versions. The UI between this and Opera seem to be fairly similar, but I'm liking the Skyfire UI.