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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tosheeba:
For me, the best browser for Android is Google Chrome for Android... oh wait, there's no chrome for android YET. Way to go Google.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] EnsconcE:
Where is the poll?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Oat23:
Poll added.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] LawAce:
Stock for hardware acceleration.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] BillSplate:
I use Skyfire. Haven't used Miren yet and IMO Dolphin is really ugly. :p
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Remoteconcern:
Dolphin Mini. So blazingly fast.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] puremind:
I think opera may be slightly faster but not as smooth. Scrolling is definitely jerkier. Overall I prefer the stock browing experience: nice rebound effect when overscrolling, smoother scrolling, especially short-distance/slow scrolling is jerky on Opera.

Opera does render text while zooming and not after zoom. so that's a plus, but then I use default zoom, I rarely pinch to zoom and when I do, I pinch to zoom out, because I zoom "closer" and then move from there, so text reflow doesn't affect me.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Ohkuni:
I like the stock browser as it's fast, but I need the option to leave the screen on when using it, and also there's no exit button. Any way around this?

Otherwise I'll stick to Dolphin HD, it's not very smooth but has the options I want.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] paranoid2007:
There is a neet little app called "Keep Screen" in the market. It lets you define all the apps, you wish to keep the screen active, when running in the foreground. If you want a more powerful tool to control even more things, you could have a look at "Tasker".

As to the browser having no exit button, exiting is not necessary, because the android system has a memory management, which automaticallay closes apps as needed. Also the GS2 has memory in abundance, so why bother with closing apps?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Ohkuni:
Cheers I'll check that app out. As for closing apps I just thought they'd be using battery if left open, so this isn't the case?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] paranoid2007:
That depends. There may be some rogue apps, which use cpu power even when running in the background. You can check that out with the build in task manager. It shouldn't be the case with the stock web browser though.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] skola:
+1 for the stock browser

havent had the need to try anything else

only thing is websites detecting a mobile browser when i want them to present the full site but theres not many sites i use regularly i have this problem with
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] m.stark:
I love the stock browser, it's everything I want in a mobile browser. But am not using it because there's no way to activate persistent desktop mode (and, though this is minor, it doesn't re-flow text).

Dolphin mini for me, simply because all the other browsers (tried them all) failed at one thing or another. I hate the design of it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] narcoustic:
Miren browser. I've tried pretty much every single android browser and miren meets all of my needs, its the fastest by far too. I would use the stock gs2 if there was a persistent desktop mode.

Sent from the baddest phone in the universe!! - SGII using Xda App/Tapatalk ;-)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] spen2:
Dolphin HD for me. But only because the stock browser doesn't have persistant desktop mode...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] giokou:
I have tried almost all of them, but always samsung's is faster! It is phaenomenal!

But the others are more eyecatching, so i use one of them along with samsung's! ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] TekJoe:
I use firefox and the samsung stock browser occasionally. I stopped using Dolphin HD after I saw in battery usage that it was using 12% battery :S. Using Firefox now and the problem is gone :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] victorinoxs:
Stock is nice, but with two major drawbacks:

1. No full screen mode to prevent status bar burn-in.

2. No text reflow for pinch zooming

Besides, I kinda hate the window switching preview, so annoying. A list of windows in vanilla android browser is much better.

Dolphin & Miren can do full screen but still no text reflow since they both use the system rendering engine. However, they both support pinch-zoom&pan.

Opera Mobile doesn't have these two issues and rendering is so fast, even faster than stock browser, scrolling is buttery smooth too; however, text selection feature is horrible, and there is no pinch-zoom&pan.

As a result, I use all of them, except for Miren because I don't trust Chinese apps (I myself am Chinese btw).
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mobilegalaxy:
Fully agree with you!

I mainly use the stock browser because it's fast, relatively stable and very responsive. The only drawback for me is the lack of text reflow for pinch zooming which makes reading online newspapers on the S II despite it's large screen quite an unpleasant experience.

I haven't given Opera mini a try yet, but judging from what I've heard so far it seems to be a perfect choice for reading newspapers as the text reflow seems to work smoothly.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Rixsta:
Nice thread OP ...

Added to my Sticky :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] big_adventure:
You all know that you can turn on text reflow in the stock browser, right? It's right in the browser's settings.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] victorinoxs:
You should try Opera Mobile or CM7 browser. The S2 browser only reflows texts at a fixed level when double tapped; it doesn't respond to pinch-zooming. Opera Mobile & CM7 reflows texts immediately when pinch-zooming is performed at any level.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] lemondroid:
Stock browser? Nice to learn some new things in here, Leeching ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rockky:
Exactly my position.Stock gingerbread IS fastest...but these Samsung brilliant decisions limit it.

Anyone have an apk of Stock with flow and useragent settings? ?!!

Thanks

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ithehappy:
The Stock Browser undoubtedly outperforms the other browsers listed. If anything follows it, it will be the Dolphin HD. Though I am stunned that Mozilla browser is really bad, laggy, used to use Mozilla for PC for almost 5 years now, but really embarrassed to see in Android it's not that good.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] reyza:
I've used Firefox, Opera, Skyfire 4.0, and Dolphin HD.

My favorite is Dolhpin HD cuz it looks like Chrome and has a lot of nice features. Second is Skyfire. Third is Opera. I don't use the stock one cuz I can't access the tabs as easily.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] parker7:
I like the stock browser but i had to change it as this annoying checkered pattern would come up when the page was loading or not fully loaded. If i could get rid of that i'd go back.

I liked Dolphin HD but it used a little too much power, so i am now trying Opera mini out. It's not as fast, but i think it's designed for lower speed connections and i've only used it on wifi so far.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] DJTaurus:
Any solution to that till now?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] maedox:
The latest (5 beta6) of Dolphin HD is pretty damn good. The performance is very very close to the stock browser. I have been using D HD for a while until I got the SGS2 and saw the stock browser performance due to its hw acceleration. I'm going back to D HD for a while again.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] reyza:
Isn't Dolphin HD out of beta now? Full release is 5.0.1 I believe
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] maedox:
They made new betas trying to fix some page load issues on some devices.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] snowsire:
would have to be stock, although FF seems ok too,
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] damian5700:
I have not yet made a decision between stock and Opera Mobile.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] s1m:
Stock and Opera Mobile have the smoothest scrolling (both support hardware acceleration?). I prefer the text reflow in Opera Mobile so that's my main browser.

I do like Dolphin HD too, but it doesn't feel as smooth as stock or opera mobile.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] free-sidux:
I'm primarily using Dolphin Mini, but use D HD as well as Aurora (which is not as bad as some say it is) and Opera Mobile (love the tab management). Every browser has its advantages and I'm still pretty unsure with which one I'm finally going to stick with.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mark2222:
Tabs are so much better in Opera mobile. Some forums I use it for that reason alone.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] A7md Babylon:
I prefer stock browser.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Idan73:
Funny that you would mention opera in forums. cause it sucks now due to page being zoomed out when going back. I have no clue why they would screw with something that worked so well for them since symbian days.

this alone made me not have opera on the phone at least as a secondary browser for the first time in years.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Butt3ry:
I tried a few browsers and didn't really get on with them. Then I tired Boat Browser Mini and been using it ever since :p

It's free on the market if anyones interested. very underrated browser in my opinion.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] InspectorFrost:
Where is the setting to turn on reflow on stock browser.....maybe im being blind but i just cant see it !

Cheers

No reflow is why i use Dolphin

EDIT: Found it.......duhhhh!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] InspectorFrost:
Any way to get full screen on stock browser ?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] TheSaw:
Doesn't Dolphin HD have hardware acceleration? Or is that only on Android 3.0+?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] adamantell:
Stock / HD dolphine Both very nice and smooth, just think if its not broken why fix it :P after some testing im gonna use my phone with stock items to keep it fast as possblie
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] blackspp:
Stock, hands down. I tried them all but they drown bloat...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] buzzboy:
Opera with the latest update is amazing. Ultra quick.

Regards
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] malayalapenkutti:
I suggest the Google Chrome that is best Browser....I am using the Browser in may samsung PDA Phone...It's very fast... It has default flash player....It's fast to browser,upload and Download is Good, i checked my uploading and Downloading speed at here Ip-details.com
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kamaliqwan:
Dolphins!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kamaliqwan:
FYI i use stock browser to view as phone view and Dolphins to view the desktop view
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] -ph-:
Skyfire ftw!

With skyfire you can choose the view!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] jeff.liu:
Don't know why but dolphin crashed my s2.

Both dolphin and stock still run in background heavily for some web sites, used up all my battery if not killed.

I now use and love boat browser which is prefect.... it even exit by long press with back button.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kimaro:
I wonder why Xscope is not in the poll...

IMO one of the best with Opera...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Mittaa:
Still no real reflow!

Only a few browsers supports true reflow .. Opera does.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Galactus:
only way I can get text to reflow is by rotating to landscape then back to portrait as others have mentioned. Takes 3 seconds to do and works nicely although it would be nice if it did it without having to rotate the device
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ozan07:
Any browser without "desktop agent" is sucks. :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cchant:
Boat browser
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kyapkk:
Maxton browser also quite nice.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] maltloaf:
My top 3 in order of preference are

1. Maxthon Browser

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mx.browser&feature=search_result

2. Miren Browser

https://market.android.com/details?id=cn.miren.browser&feature=search_result

3. Stock Browser
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zustloj:
Dolphin HD has many features, but I like Opera better, because of the way it handles the scrollable frames. Non of the browsers support inside frames. Opera extends the whole frame, which is very useful.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Dexonja:
Maxthon browser No.1 :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] malayalapenkutti:
Thanks for sharing.........
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] netcitizen:
long press exit works for Dolphin browser as well.It prompts the clear cache,history options with exit button. same as boat.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] samyboy:
I recently changed from Dolphin HD to Boat Browser. I was surprised on how good it was :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] lesa0208:
Boat browser is the best :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] blossom:
Just hate the opening screen of maxthon
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sjbanner:
I have always stuck with the stock browser. Tried Opera Mini for a while and hated. Thinking about FireFox mobile because I use it on my desktop...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] astoria85:
Boat browser!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Jecht:
I've been using the stock browser mostly and for me it just works. I have not found the need to change browser for a while.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] alexxx87mi:
for me the best browser is dolphin HD, also it eats battery!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Astla:
Just a stupid question: night-mode view in any of the browser?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] folexzy:
Just try bolt browser,believe you me you can do just everything called download onit plus its fast
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] claimui:
Depends what you mean -- Miren and UC browsers have "night modes," but I think they just dim the colors. If you want to make webpage backgrounds black, you can try the solution in my signature.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] azakarea:
Tried to test it as u recommend it but i am getting the attached error when it is starts up........ Any hent??

BTW i am having very similler issue when trying opera mini

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] buzzboy:
Thanks for the recommendations, I have to say, Maxthon is now my browser of choice, Boat browser a close second.

Bye bye Opera.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Limpperi:
i'd say the stock is best, or dolphin hd. dolphin would be out of this world if it would have HW acceleration. maybe it will be implemented after android 4.0 comes out.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] cih997:
Opera is quite poor :/
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zustloj:
Still haven't found any browser that supports iFrames. Opera at least expands them, so they are readable...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bryant_16:
I do not know why when I use the stock browser, once in awhile I will get a blank page even though the page has fully rendered.

Anyone facing the same problem as well?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] jonny68:
Been using X-Scope for over a year now and for me it's still the best, the only gripe i have is in that time i think there has been only 2 maybe 3 max updates which isn't really good enough when it is a paid app, it is good but there i can think of a few things they could improve on but ill continue to use it anyway.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] okmijnlp:
Stock, nuff said.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mirchichamu:
Opera is the best. No other browsers offer the text reflow what opera is offering.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] eranyanay:
I've been using Dolphin for a long while but wish to go back to stock. is there a way to move all my passwords from one to the other?

Bookmarks i can do with bookmarks to sd, but passwords i have no idea.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] jonny68:
I would search the market as im pretty sure there is an app that can do that for you i recall reading someone who said it but i cant remember the name of it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] randy.turker:
Stock is quite good for me
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] KcDaRookie:
Stock and FireFox Nightly Builds (flashplayer support)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] PedroMRP:
Stock and Dolphin HD.

Still haven't found a browser with the tab feature like Dolphin.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] komsa:
Dolphin HD with no doubt........... :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] extract1:
Tried Boat browser(mini) after it was mentioned here a number of times and it immediately became my favorite browser. Nice and light, pages load quickly, easy to change tabs.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] davethechamp:
Miren browser for me.

I particularly like the fact it fills the whole screen, can easily adjust user agent, handles downloads pretty well and has quite nice tabbed browsing.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Skenderbeggar:
Flipped through most of them, including Firefox 9. Dolphin HD seems to have the best combo of speed and features for now IMO.

Opera comes in second for me because it allows file sharing downloads which don't seem to work in others??
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Hertz33:
Dolphin HD is my choice.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Harsha Raj:
Using opera mobile now. Only opera supports text reflow?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Gorjess:
ICS web browser smokes everything :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Dexonja:
Thats true, but i wana exit option.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] juz4:
Sure does, I voted stock but would have to qualify ICS stock
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] hat_trick:
The ICS browser is the best by far. One of the reasons I'm finding it difficult to go back to a more stable GB ROM.

Was using Maxthon previously. Not the most eye pleasing interface, but it gives you easy access to tabs in full screen mode. And there's an option to always show the zoom buttons which solve the text reflow issue whenever pressed.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] komsa:
+1 for this............i don't wanna mess with task manager all the time
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Kimbell:
Try maxthon, I love it. Especially the gestures you can use. I think it's awesome that I can open my favourite pages and close tabs with one small gesture
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ithehappy:
Agree with all above.

Even I love the GB stock browser so much, now this ICS browser is just awesome. Yes, an exit browser should be there, but still. And also its a beta, I am sure final version will be more stable and smooth.

Swyping from my GT-I9100 via Tt
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Harsha Raj:
We can use ICS browser in GB? I can't find the apk anywhere. Or is it only in ICS leaked builds where you people referring to?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Nescho:
Yeah I wanna know bout that too!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ithehappy:
I don't think that's possible sir. Won't care as its almost knocking on the door ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] snowblind2142:
I've always stuck with opera (not opera mini) does everything I've ever needed.

(O_o) [Meaning of life or Bust]
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Harsha Raj:
Yeah. But as the people were discussing I thought that the browser was ported to GB lol.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Gorjess:
lol, if it does successfully ported it would need the ICS framework to make it work.. In theory it wouldn't run on GB..

It's the only reason I want ICS so much, it beats my google chrome hands on :D

Back on gingerbread, stock browser is still the best..

Swyped from The Center of The Earth
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Harsha Raj:
If only it supported text reflow :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Aggr094:
At the moment I use Dolphin HD most. For sites which doesn´t work on it I use the opera mobile.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Waddle:
Thanks I would of never found this by myself. Really helpful app
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] DaLuigi3:
hi,

i used the stock browser for a long time, but a few days ago i found the MAXTHON Brwoser and this Browser is the BEST!!

It is like the Stock browser, but with real tab browsing, fullscreen option, good zooming, own font size, good home site, smooth scrolling, not overloaded, like stock......

i think you should test it...

edit: you don't need a app for downloading all sort of files, it works with maxthon...

greetz
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Dexonja:
I use maxthon. But i swich back on dolphin browser. Dont know why xD
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Skenderbeggar:
Tried a bunch, and Maxthon does it for me, for now. Tabs, full screen, downloads all work great. Also, gestures are quicker than in Dolphin.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] timothyshrimp:
Stock brower is my favourite

Hi the stock browser is my favorite as it just works.

I have tried all other browsers like opera,Nightly,Firefox and recommend the stock browser it runs smoothly without a hitch it has got window browsing similar to tab browsing I like :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] astoria85:
Use boat mini browser!after the last update it works and looks great!

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxsashixx:
Is there a way to "fix" my soft mic? The people I talk with say I don't speak loud enough. I'm speaking in my normal voice though MAYBE I do speak kinda soft.. anyways is there a fix or something. Running CM7.0.3 thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tariqa3588:
Hello,

HTC EVO 4G running Cyanogen 7.0.3.1 latest release. Will not send messages over 160 characters. Now, I know sms split can solve this problem, but I don't want my texts to be split. I want it to be sent as one long message. Please don't tell me that CDMA does not allow this (like Ive seen in some threads while searching for a solution), because this is not true. This problem has nothing to do with CDMA, I know millions of people using the same phone from the same provider without having this issue. Is there a fix for this.

While we're at at it, ever since I flashed cyanogen, GPS doesn't work, any fix?

Thanks for the help
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidc23:
Are you using a 3rd party app for messaging?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arnezie:
Well if you know millions that can , ask one of them and let us all know. .. Wow he knows a million people.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hazakins:
You need to sms split or get somthing like handcent that will convert messages over 160 to a mms message
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tariqa3588:
No I am not using a third party sms application.

Thank you but I do not want to split messages!

And Ive asked many people with the same phone, it works fine for them, but they don't know how? they're just not having the problem, what benefit would asking them be.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chronicrebellion:
the SMS limit might not be a CDMA thing but it could possibly be a Sprint enforced rule. splitting messages isn't too bad especially since you have that option in CM7.

you need to reset your GPS for it to work. but that can be done two ways.

download GPS Status app and choose reset GPS in the settings (i never tried this)

OR (i did this)

(1) get MSL reader from market and copy down the MSL for your phone

(2) flash back to any Sense ROM, type in ##GPSCLRX# in the dialer

You will be asked to enter your MSL and then the phone should reboot.

after rebooting test to make sure your GPS works in sense and then immediately flash over to CM7.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
No text message is over 160 characters. GSM carriers automatically split, then put-back-together long messages. Sprint, and every other CDMA carrier, doesn't do this automatically. Instead, the stock HTC software itself automatically splits, and puts back together split messages that it sees coming in (it's pretty easy to tell a message is split when five messages from the same number come in within 2ms of each other).

CyanogenMod had this added by 7.0.3 (if not 7.0.2) for all CDMA devices, where it would automatically split the messages. Don't know about putting them together, as I just use Google Voice for everything, because IT WORKS.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strykerbax:
I do have mine limited to 90 characters and automatically converts to MMS once it exceeded that number. I dont want to use a third party sms program for it provides you two sms notification every time you receive a message. Does rooting solve this problem? Any option on getting it on its regular sms(160 characters). I tried using a third party keyboard input like smart keyboard but it did not fix the issu of 90 characters:(

Help please!