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Best Web Browser

The included Browser is fine for most things, I suppose.

The geek in me made me get Opera Mini. I like how it has a nice 3x3 grid of favorites for its home page. They're miniature screenshots of sites you pick -- the desktop Opera does this too. (In landscape, you just get 2 rows, one of 5, the next of 4, it's lame.) Quick access to 9 sites at a second touch (first touch to open it) makes it nice for smartphones, and it's my preference.

Are there other choices? I don't know of any. Mozilla has been working on a smartphone version of Firefox for a couple years now (it's called Fennec) but while they offer a beta version for Android, I can't figure out how to install it. It's on my SD card but the stock file manager can't see it. And it isn't on the Market.
 
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Dolphin HD is a good one, Xscope is also pretty popular and so is SkyFire. I think you will have a hard time getting a consensus, just like asking everyone's favorite music player. It really comes down to preference.

People that have received the FroYo update, have mostly stated that then the stock browser is fastest and then is their favorite. But again, different people look for different features or layouts, etc.

Just try them all and determine your favorite! That's the best thing about Android, lots of choices!
 
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xScope is pretty sweet.
- It supports all of the flash content that my stock browser runs (though it has trouble with running TV shows from fox.com).
- I have Froyo, and xScope is much faster than my stock browser.
- It has 'Pin Zoom' - a GREAT one-handed alternative to pinch-zoom (though yes, it also has pinch-zoom).
- It has tabs if you want to use them.
- It has a File Manager!
- The most fluid and intuitive interface IMHO.
- It has copy/paste function, and word/phrase search.
- It has the ability to run completely full screen, but you can still access the notification bar through a "double drag".
- It has an Exit button! (this is a HUGE deal if you don't want a browser hogging resources in the background!)
- It has a basic task killer. I don't usually support task killers, but it's a nice addition IMO, "just in case"

I contacted the Dev a couple days ago. He said an update was coming soon with "totally new architecture under the hood" and "great speed improvement." That's a tough pill to swallow IMO, b/c I don't see how it could get much faster.

Quite simply, it the most intuitive and feature packed browser I have tried (I've tried Opera, SkyFire, and very briefly Dolphin). And it is among the fastest browsers available (if not THE fastest... but that's a tough race against Opera).
 
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