Phone Browser general discussion

354 Views 17 Posts Mobile Phones

Kudos: 354,140

I know we've touched on this topic numerous times in the general Android discussion but since there's so many free browsers available we could have a separate discussion.
This thread can be used to discuss all browsers for all mobile operating systems.

For my Android phone I can not move away from the Dolphin browser I have just gotten so used to how it works and it does exactly what I want it to do.
Not long ago there was a recent update for the Dolphin browser that changed a few things around. Instead of doing a screen gesture to get to the top of the screen the moment you start scrolling up a "home" button appears in the bottom corner.
I've just started messing around with the voice activation commands and they seem to work ok, works really well with common stuff like "youtube", however it's a little hit and miss when asking for MMGN channels.

I have been told the Opera browser is also good but I haven't really given it much of a chance.

So what mobile OS you running and which browser do you prefer and why?

21/04/2012

Melbourne The land of moist beginnings

Kudos: 35,082

capt_oats

I'm using the Chrome Beta browser on my phone. I think it only works with ICS...

I like using it because it syncs up all my bookmarks from my desktop, laptop and now my phone. This is a big plus to me. Only downfall is that it lacks flash in favour of the whole HTML thing...

21/04/2012

Σίδνεϊ, Αυστραλία.

Leave a comment

Kudos: 45,782

iamtom

capt_oats said: I'm using the Chrome Beta browser on my phone. I think it only works with ICS...
I like using it because it syncs up all my bookmarks from my desktop, laptop and now my phone. This is a big plus to me. Only downfall is that it lacks flash in favour of the whole HTML thing...

This is actually a good thing, sacrificing Flash. Flash is being less and less supported every day, and with HTML5 natively supporting videos there is no real reason to use it.

21/04/2012

/no1

Kudos: 354,140

Guyver

capt_oats said: I'm using the Chrome Beta browser on my phone. I think it only works with ICS...
I like using it because it syncs up all my bookmarks from my desktop, laptop and now my phone. This is a big plus to me. Only downfall is that it lacks flash in favour of the whole HTML thing...

Didn't know that there was a mobile Chrome.

iamtom said:
capt_oats said: I'm using the Chrome Beta browser on my phone. I think it only works with ICS...
I like using it because it syncs up all my bookmarks from my desktop, laptop and now my phone. This is a big plus to me. Only downfall is that it lacks flash in favour of the whole HTML thing...

This is actually a good thing, sacrificing Flash. Flash is being less and less supported every day, and with HTML5 natively supporting videos there is no real reason to use it.

No that's bad I like how inconvenienced Apple users are with the lack of Flash support :P

21/04/2012

Melbourne The land of moist beginnings

Kudos: 35,082

capt_oats

^ This. :P

21/04/2012

Σίδνεϊ, Αυστραλία.

Kudos: 354,140

Guyver

Still have been using Dolphin browser all this time and since I'm so used to it I can not be stuffed changing to anything else. I have recently been messing around with plug in though, coloured themes, brightness control, language plug-in, speed boost and few others that all make it run well. What are some other worth while Dolphin browser plug-ins?

19/04/2013

Melbourne The land of moist beginnings

Kudos: 70,499

Kerosanak

I use Dolphin as well, how do you get new skin? I'd like a black one to match the rest of my phones black UI.

19/04/2013

I'm still kind of a big deal in the Capital Wasteland.

Kudos: 76,264

Doyl

I like the stock browser, the one with the pie menu when you touch the side of the screen.
Proper full screen browsing.

(has to be enabled through options - labs)

19/04/2013

Perth - pew pew

Kudos: 45,782

iamtom

I dropped Dolphin a few months ago for Chrome.

19/04/2013

/no1

Kudos: 76,264

Doyl

When I say stock browser I mean the stock JellyBean browser. Takes a proverbial dump all over the chrome browser, which I fond to be rather clunky in fact. Just like the Firefox browser.

19/04/2013

Perth - pew pew

Leave a comment

Kudos: 48,889

Jubilee

I really like Dolphin. I tried to use Chrome on my phone but it kept on crashing for some reason.

On my N7 I use Chrome though.

19/04/2013

QLD | Tweet: @jeannius88 | Steam: jeannius88 | SC2: Jubilee251 | Part of the Swarm

Kudos: 35,082

capt_oats

I'm using Chrome, but they also have a separate Beta app where they test out the new features before putting them in the proper chrome app. Works fine! The last update they FINALLY added full screen mode and I think they added a data compression setting.

Next step is to add pie controls and I'll be happy. :)

19/04/2013

Σίδνεϊ, Αυστραλία.

Kudos: 43,118

metalliguy

I also use Dolphin. Having easy access to bookmarks is what I really like about it.

22/04/2013

My Body IS Queensland ヽ(^o^)丿

Kudos: 32,951

Doles

I liked dolphin, but I'm right into Firefox now because of the sync capabilities with my desktop

22/04/2013

Western Australia | /dev/null is already 98% full

Kudos: 354,140

Guyver

Doles said: I liked dolphin, but I'm right into Firefox now because of the sync capabilities with my desktop

I think I'm just about to do the same thing, as of today Dolphin browser suddenly stopped working with continuous typing or Swipe or what ever they call it now, also predictive text and auto punctuation doesn't work as well. Thought it was one of my random mysterious issues that only seem to happen to me but turns out I'm not the only one to have this problem. Checked all the options for the above mentioned features in both the text box menu when typing and under the phone settings. They are all selected and swipe still works on everything else. Looks like there's no update for dolphin browser on the Play store.. So until they fix it I will be exploring other phone browsers.

26/04/2013

Melbourne The land of moist beginnings

Kudos: 156

ArchMeistr

Chrome.. nuff said.. :D

26/04/2013

Kudos: 354,140

Guyver

ArchMeistr said: Chrome.. nuff said..

Does it sync up with all the rest if you Google stuff? email, G+, Youtube and the rest of the planet that Google is slowly purchasing?

Just installed Firefox for now, seems to run quickly, tried to sync it up with my desktop but just my luck the "servers are under maintenance" [Shifty]

26/04/2013

Melbourne The land of moist beginnings