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Best Browser for FROYO???

Maveri9720

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May 12, 2010
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Hey all. I'm looking for people's opinions on which browser they think is best for 2.2 and why. I've searched and mostly came up with older threads talking about browsers that let you view flash sites, obviously before FROYO.

I've experienced a problem on a couple different sites, using the stock browser, where the webpage continuously reloads, so when I zoom in to read something, 5 seconds later, the page reloads and it zooms back out. I've tried stopping the page and 5 seconds later, it still reloads. Very annoying, so I was going to try another browser and see what happens.

Any thoughts or comments please?

Thanks.
 
I've tried all of them; Firefox, Dolphin HD, Stock, MIUI, Skyfire.

I would say Dolphin HD is the best alternative but I keep coming back to the Stock/MIUI one. Gestures are unnecessary for me and I like to be able to swipe up and down, left to right without my viewing screen shifting to show pointless add-ons and such.

pretty much this. stock browser is just the most consistently accurate renderer as well.
 
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I've tried all of them; Firefox, Dolphin HD, Stock, MIUI, Skyfire.

I would say Dolphin HD is the best alternative but I keep coming back to the Stock/MIUI one. Gestures are unnecessary for me and I like to be able to swipe up and down, left to right without my viewing screen shifting to show pointless add-ons and such.

pretty much this. stock browser is just the most consistently accurate renderer as well.

I like the dolphin HD too - and I think it's a great alternative and I've tried a lot of others, but I also just keep going back to the stock browser. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with it. It works for what I need, which is a basic, no bells and whistles browser.

but now having just typed that, I realize I have been using dolphin more and more lately and I think at some point I might tip completely to dolphin.
 
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For now, it's Dolphin just because you can exit and kill the process - the stock one always makes my phone hot and uses CPU even when I'm not looking at it.

Eventually, I see myself switching to Firefox once it and its desktop coutnerpart are out of beta - it looks better than Chrome and any Android browser, and combined, it'll be great.
 
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