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Surprisingly, I find the Dolphin HD browser superior to Chrome in three major areas. 1. Better bookmark management. 2. Less intrusive tabs. 3. FAR SUPERIOR in terms of connecting to wifi hotspots away from my home. With Dolphin, connections are instantaneous. As such, Dolphin HD is my new default browser until Chrome VASTLY improves, and I mean VASTLY.
 
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Surprisingly, I find the Dolphin HD browser superior to Chrome in three major areas. 1. Better bookmark management. 2. Less intrusive tabs. 3. FAR SUPERIOR in terms of connecting to wifi hotspots away from my home. With Dolphin, connections are instantaneous. As such, Dolphin HD is my new default browser until Chrome VASTLY improves, and I mean VASTLY.

connecting to wifi hotspots has nothing to do with the browser IMO.

and back on topic, ICS stock browser on ICS is smoother (scrolling and general responsiveness to touch) than Chrome on JB.
that's how frustrated I am with chrome.
 
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I used Dolphin for a while, then moved onto Boat and now I'm back on Dolphin again for the simple reason that they have addons for both Evernote and Pocket - 2 services I use frequently.

I've played around with Chrome on my Xoom ICS but find it pretty bland and boring - a shame since it is my goto browser on my PC.

I tend not to use too many of my PC bookmarks on my phone, but when I do Chromemarks brings them to my device (although not sadly, to my browser).
 
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connecting to wifi hotspots has nothing to do with the browser IMO.

and back on topic, ICS stock browser on ICS is smoother (scrolling and general responsiveness to touch) than Chrome on JB.
that's how frustrated I am with chrome.
Really? Well, your IMO is wrong. Chrome SUCKS at connecting to wifi hotspots that I FREQUENTLY visit. SUCKS. It hangs, freezes, chokes, then finally connects. This NEVER happens with Dolphin HD, at least in my experience. The bottom line is, I connect to the web via wifi in DOZENS of hospitals very frequently. Establishing such connections with the stock Chrome browser has been a miserable experience as described above since day one of receiving my smoking hot Nexus 7. Since switching to the Dolphin HD browser I have had nothing but smooth sailing.
 
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Not willing to take sides here, but connecting to a public WiFi usually takes 2 steps - the first making the physical connection to the WiFi AP and the second to fire up a browser to hit a T&C Page and agree to the providers policy.

Sounds good enough for me. This process works like a charm since I switched to Dolphin HD browser on the Nexus 7. On Chrome, well, you know the rest. Thank you.
 
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On another thread someone suggested that we could see flash enabled videos using dolphin. I can't see how to do that with the Nexus 7. Do any of you dolphin lovers know how.

Dolphin HD removed flash support soon after the announcement of when adobe would stop supporting flash, unfortuantely. You'll have to either find an old version of switch to any of the alternatives being mentioned.
 
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