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Your most used/favorite browser?

I'm not sold on any of the browsers honestly. Dolphin is very pretty but a total resource hog and the scrolling isn't that smooth or as responsive as I want. I like xScope, and its light on the resource usage, but really ugly. Not a fan of the stock, but its the lesser of three evils I guess.

It seems tough to get the perfect balance of form and function to me.
 
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Opera has no flash support, doesn't render all pages correctly, doesn't have pinch to zoom correctly, and I don't think it even reflows. Opera was great for tiny slow phones back in the symbian days, but it's pointless now.

Dolphin HD is what I use now, and that's mostly for tabs and the slide left functionality for bookmark access. I use it in fullscreen mode for better screen real estate.
 
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Dolphin HD for me. Plays videos, reflows text, does pinch and zoom.

But the killer feature for me are the gestures. I can load web pages in a split second with gestures, go to the bottom or top of the screen with gestures, and slide between tabs with gestures (this is a new feature). I can navigate to the previous or next screen, close tabs, open new tabs, go to bookmarks, reload the page -- probably something like 80 % of the commands in Dolphin are done with gestures.

I did flop the gesture OSD to the right side since the transparency was interfering with readability on the left, and I disabled the swiping to access bookmarks because it's not tight enough for me.

But the gestures save me a ton of time.
 
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