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[Asus Transformer TF700] HoushaSen:
Firefox does have sync ability.

Chrome and Stock browser both sync to your desktop bookmarks.

Browsing on Infinity is one of the weakness and hope to be improved aspect. Some one in this thread mentioned possibility of all browser sucks on android, which is NOT true. I had different tablet and its browsing experience was superior to iPad 2 for its speed, stability.

Also there is this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h.chromemarks&hl=en, which allows you to launch any browser using chrome's bookmark.
[Asus Transformer TF700] incarceration:
Opera Mobile
[Asus Transformer TF700] d14b0ll0s:
Everything looked rather tiny on the Infinity last time I checked.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Wauziohr:
Mibile Firefox

I like to:good::laugh: work with Firefox on my Asus Tf700T. It works great and fast
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
Actually, I got my Infinity in july and right now the web experience is the main drawback experience so far. The lag and crash of the launcher is far less annoying that the slowness and lag of the web browsing. I have tested nearly all browsers and none is giving me good experience :

- stock browser : miss some functionalities, slow and laggy

- chrome : my prefered as i'm sharing my bookmarks with my personal computer, work computer and iphone but too slow and laggy

- firefox : looks nice and is doing bookmarks sync (but firefox does not exist for my iPhone), still beta version that deals very badly with plugins. For example when a page needs a flash player then it will display an ugly inside-window with "click here to activate the plugin" and that inside-window prevent any fast web browsing.

- others (boat, dolphin, opera ...) : not impressed, all miss the sync of chrome bookmarks (needed to have my bookmarks sync on all my platforms)

My hope is that Jelly Bean/next version of chrome will improve the stability and swiftness of that browser as this is the only one that contains all the functionnalities i need.
[Asus Transformer TF700] non1oson:
hmm, I might wait for the asus vivo tab. I'm traveling before it gets released, so I'm gonna be pretty gutted not using it overseas :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] yaoops:
Agreed..., sadly.

Though, if NoScript finally becomes available for FF then this will be a prime reason for me to stick to FF (beta or not,

not that much difference these days).

Quote Giorgio Maone on NSA for FF mobile (v 14+): "By the end of the summer."

see noscript.net/nsa
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
There's an update for firefox : v15.0.1

Release-notes : http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/15.0.1/releasenotes/
[Asus Transformer TF700] flhthemi:
After ICS+, Firefox, Stock and Chrome I'm very much liking OverSkreen. Worth the money. It handles Facebook without all the jumping around and even posting on forums seems to work much like MS IE. :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] nooktablet:
Look like no one uses opera mobile
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
About new version of firefox, we talk about it in that other thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31455236#post31455236
[Asus Transformer TF700] non1oson:
I'm using firefox now just because it syncs with home. I think that's pretty cool. I like my bookmarks. plus desktop firefox has always been the first thing I install when formating a pc :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] Grant H:
My stock browser just started to crash over and over and over....
[Asus Transformer TF700] scott.m:
Default 'browser' app.

Chrome lacks basic settings/options. eg: no ''always request desktop site'' option. No way to disable 3rd party cookies

Dolphin and Boating heard about privacy problems

I didn't bother with opera due to my PC experience with it

Firefox might be decent but haven't tried it yet since I'm happy with 'browser' :P
[Asus Transformer TF700] HoushaSen:
I'm still on trail of deciding what's best for infinity.

Obviously, as with everyone else I am looking for

1. stability

2. speed (not so much of sunspider speed but real life page loading)

3. Flash support

4. Bookmark sync support

So far I am leaning towards Maxon HD and Boat Browser. Though with Browser2Ram, Stock has improved its speed quite bit.

Somehow I did not find Dolphin that fast, and firefox was fast but crushed all time. Opera's text are way too small on FHD screen and they haven't fixed it for so long so probably they won't for another several months until newer kindle may be.

As advertised, once boat browser releases the Chrome bookmark sync function I would go with Boat at this point.
[Asus Transformer TF700] scott.m:
I would recommend default ''browser'' for your flash needs, but realize the entire internet, including adobe, is moving to HTML instead, which is superior

And use chrome for everything else.

Dolphin and boat both have serious privacy problems... they are basically spyware apps
[Asus Transformer TF700] newellj79:
I'm not familiar with the "privacy" issues, but I've alot of browsers and I always go back to Boat.
[Asus Transformer TF700] gguy1:
I recommend Dolphin Browser
[Asus Transformer TF700] HoushaSen:
Boat not sure but I thought Dolphin's privacy issue had been fixed a way back.

Privacy concerns

In October 2011, privacy concerns were raised about Dolphin browser after it was discovered that all URLs loaded in Dolphin HD were being relayed as plain text to a remote server,[6] a process described by Ars Technica as "an unambiguous breach of privacy".[7] This breach was patched in the next update.[8]

From Wiki.

Stock is not bad with browser2ram but feels slower than the boat. But I guess I'll give more dedicated time on it and see how stable.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
These "privacy" issues are way overblown and unsubstantiated... Please, if you are going to say an app is basically spyware, post some proof along with it... Just because some user someone on the net says that a browser is "spying" on you, doesn't mean that it is true. I use Boat daily and have never had any issues...
[Asus Transformer TF700] hillyard:
top site on Firefox is a deal killer
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
I dare not post my opinion in here. ; )

---------- Post added at 10:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:48 AM ----------

Thread has been alive and kicking somewhere else on XDA. If you don't believe the package sniff that user did, what else might you be convinced with? Boat seems to be OK, though -- Dolphin was the culprit before. Let's go on-topic again, now, shall we?
[Asus Transformer TF700] misiek_to_ja:
Well, I like the Boat Browser very much and it seems the author was quite helpful in answering all privacy-related questions. Although I couldn't find answer to one issue I noticed today after installing LBE Privacy Guard. Is it normal that Boat Browser requests to get current position every time it starts ? The same applies to all add-ons like Web2PDF, URL Shortener or Show IP. Appropriate warning pop up every time I run the browser, some come from Boat Browser directly, some from the addons, even if I didn't run them. Very strange, especially as all websites do not have any access to my position. I'm writing email to authors ... Dolphin seems to be OK in that respect.

UPDATE: Boat Browser asks for postion every time it starts even if location is disabled in app settings, so it has nothing to do with websites location support ...
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
Point taken. However...

1) it's still unclear to me what information or 'proof' you'd need to be swayed (and to be honest, I do not believe you actually can be swayed).

2) I will happily give my views, and do not like to base them on unsubstantiated data either, but if you propose 'being a straight witness' as a criterion for legit proof, we can put all kinds of genocide (including large proportions of WWII), fraud, murder, etc. to the dustbin as well.

3) The issue at hand concerned Dolphin, not Boat, as I said before. You put forward one mail of a developer -- who, as far as I know, is irrelevant to the privacy issue -- as a 'proof' all developers are clean? Oh my, so far for being 'evidence-based.'

I am not a dogmatic type of person, so I'll just hook off here and let this thread be yours. Do your little dance.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
What I would accept as proof is seeing it for myself. Like if someone says "load this app, do this in the browser and see for yourself".

Like I said, someone just saying boat and dolphin are "basically spyware" (as *has* been stated in this thread and others here on XDA) is meaningless unless they explain why that is the case and how we can see it ourselves.

Most people read something on these boards and simply accept it as fact.

I personally don't care if an app is tracking which sites I going to, but I am, of course, open to accepting real proof (but as you stated, that probably still wouldn't change the fact that I would still use Boat, simply because I don't really care!) :)

But, at least then it would be more than someone just saying something and everyone accepting it as fact and then people can decide on their own if they are willing to deal with that factual information...
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
The mind may be styrong, but the flesh is weak. One last reaction.

I do not think you are a relevant partaker in the dicussion, even if only for the fact that -- and I quote:

But then again, hey, what do I know? Dealing with your next point, however, is easy.

Again, only believing something when you witness it yourself, in my opinion, is the most useless criterion in technological issues (and one of the most useless criteria whatsoever) since it depends on expertise you might not have yourself.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/10/major-privacy-flaw-found-in-dolphin-hd-browser-for-android/

http://www.androidauthority.com/dolphin-browser-hd-possibly-breaching-privacy-28822/

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...in-browser-your-privacy-may-be-at-risk-again/

These guys -- knowledgeable and all -- are all wrong?

See http://dolphin-browser.com/privacy/privacy-policy-for-dolphin-browser/ -- especially the section on receiving personal information from third-party sources. Interesting. In Holland we have a saying that runs "een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken" -- roughly translates as "a fox loses its hairs, but not pranks". Comes down to "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"...

EDIT: Oh, and you used the rather silly argument "don't use Android if you don't want to be spied upon" before, and I've countered it before: Google has been upfront about their harvesting of data. Dolphin had not (or has not, given the phrasing in the EULA referenced above).
[Asus Transformer TF700] misiek_to_ja:
Hi guys,

I just got feedback from Boat Browser authors in regards to asking for location every time the browser starts:

"First, the add-on did not request location permission, you saw the permissions in app info is because the add-on share permissions of Browsers'

Second, Boat Browser integrated a 3rd analysis tool, just like Google Analysis.

The tool request location permission to tell us how many users from certain country, for example USA.

So we know there are 1000 users from USA, 200 from UK.

But we don't know who are you.

Please note that Boat Browser won't collect any private information from users, because that's means nothing to us, we are not Google :)

The data we collected including:

1."Release update" ---The user could change the check frequency in the settings.

When the user open browser, we need to know if there is a new release available. We hope use could always get the latest stable release it they want.

2."Basic Statistics"

We will collect the number of total installs by country, and the times of launch.

3."Force close log"

When force close happens, we may need the log to know what's wrong with the Browser. But, please note that the log is all about the code, nothing with the users' information, for example:

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.boatbrowser.free.view.TitleBar.m(TitleBar.java:418)

at com.boatbrowser.free.a.x(BaseUi.java:604)

at com.boatbrowser.free.view.MyOverlayView.b(MyOverlayView.java:100)

at com.boatbrowser.free.a.e(BaseUi.java:584)

at com.boatbrowser.free.a.y(BaseUi.java:614)

at com.boatbrowser.free.b.handleMessage(BaseUi.java:651)

at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)

at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3691)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:912)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:670)

"
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kalipok:
I do use several browsers : FF, Chrome, stock and Maxthon HD.

I really enjoy Maxthon's ergonomics (the favorites, the tabs, the fast scrolling when you slide quickly your finger), but it crashes, it lags, ...

FF is pretty good (Adblock !!!) but i really don't like the way it handles the tabs...

Actually, the very reason I prefer Maxthon is that i found out it's the best for handling the "desktop view" : in FF and Chrome, even if I use the desktop view, a lot of website are displayed in the mobile version...

BTW : it seems that none of the browsers I've tried is useable with facebook... This site is just a pain in the ... on the tablet :crying:
[Asus Transformer TF700] misiek_to_ja:
Well, I tried most of the browsers available for Android (Firefox Stable and Beta, Chrome, Stock ICS, Dolphin, Boat, Maxthon, Opera Mobile) and the Facebook experience (in desktop version) is the best with Chrome. It is less laggy and works quite fine. All other browsers have huge problems. But for all other websites (including those in desktop version) I think that Boat and Dolphin are the best and fastest. Stock ICS is also quite fast.

Sent using Tapatalk 2
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thats OK:
Wish I could settle on just one.

I do like Maxthon a lot...just can't recall why I uninstalled.

Mostly hanging with boat and ICS+ so far.

Sent from 60 miles west of nowhere
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Just one last comment on Google - you keep mentioned how it's ok since they tell you they are doing it? Hmm, I seem to remember them collecting tons of information *without* disclosing it *until* they got caught (remember the wifi information collection?)! So again, it's ok for them to do it in the past but not some other product? What happened to the "screw me once, shame on you - screw me twice, shame on me" mentality? If you truly believed in that, you would never use a Google product again, based on their previous track record.

But, alas, we could go back and forth for years on the matter. I've made my points and you made yours - I think we've accomplished out tasks! :) I'm sure everyone else is sick of reading these page long posts, so I'll quit now.

I will say this - judging by the number of Boat/Dolphin users and their Play store ratings, I would say that most users are just fine with their privacy policies.

EDIT: And by the way, I *really* did think that this was a constructive, mature debate - I was serious about that last line. Half of the threads here result in people calling each other douche-bags or that they are "butt-hurt" and other such nonsense - I was truly glad we could discuss this stuff in a mature manner!
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
The online name-calling is totally out of control -- and most of the time, I hope it's a 12-year-old. Unfortunately, most of the time they are (or pretend to be) fathers or of like age. :S

And indeed we should stop -- although I do have to concede your point regarding Google. As I said, I have reasons stronger than my privacy sensitivity (which is not the highest sensitivity I have in my personal circles, I do not care as much as many do) that make me accept their stealing my data.

High scores on Play Store ratings do not count as data -- have you read some of the comment on the overall Play Store -- there's a high percentage of idiocy and cretinism in there. :silly:
[Asus Transformer TF700] dougwhatley:
Browser Crash

Several days ago the same thing started happening to me. Stock browser, I don't even have to do anything. Sitting on the ASUS home page will crash it after 30 seconds.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Yeah, this appears to be a major JavaScript issue - I would submit a bug report to Asus, but I don't think there is a way to do that effectively??

For the time being, it doesn't seem to affect all browsers - only browser based on the stock webkit. Try Chrome or Boat - I don't believe that they have this issue (I haven't seen it occur in Boat, which is what I use daily)...

Other options include disabling the "Request Desktop Site" option in stock, or disabling JavaScript in the stock browser, but both of those severely limit the usability of the browser...
[Asus Transformer TF700] d14b0ll0s:
Oh, not at all, I've really enjoyed it, please continue! ;D
[Asus Transformer TF700] vNa5h:
Tried everything

Stock is the best . Period.

Opera mini - while on 3g to save data
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
Since Jelly Bean, I'm back on stock browser : it's faster than on ICS while Chrome is still laggy and slow (and other browsers are not meeting my needs and also laggy/slow)
[Asus Transformer TF700] rikc:
I saw a comment here yesterday mentioning Aurora, but somehow I cannot find that topic back)

Anyhow, Aurora is the pre-beta of Firefox (it's version 17.0)

I allready noticed that FF beta was best in terms of speed compared to i.e. Dolphin and much faster thant the non-beta. Apparently the Mozilla people are working hard on optimizing stuff. I've installed it yesterday and it's the first time I experienced desktop-like smoothness: Also on websites with flash (movies) and the facebook desktop site. - I'd give it a try no crashes yet and have been using it all day now.

It's not in the play store but can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/aurora/
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
I'll test aurora later today, thanks for that advice
[Asus Transformer TF700] pierrekid:
ive got to say firefox is amazing right now. I have used boat, dolphin, opera, chrome and stock. None of them are as fast or as stable as firefox after the update (maybe stock)... give it a try

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
[Asus Transformer TF700] pbg225:
Does anyone know how to get my google account bookmarks back in stock browser? they showed up in ics but jb just shows local bookmarks
[Asus Transformer TF700] redheadplantguy:
used to use ICS+ exclusively. but, since JB, it won't work at all. what i liked was the quick controls. But, stock JB browser has that now. And, it's much faster and responsive now.
[Asus Transformer TF700] dayzrulz:
I also have this issue as well. Only local bookmarks show up. Has been really annoying and made me use chrome which I'm not a fan of.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thats OK:
+1

Working quite well after JBeans.
[Asus Transformer TF700] phree1:
Unlike most people, I am using Firefox. No, it is not the best performance out there. However, the ease of use in switching between my desktop/laptop/tablet while browsing is almost seamless. I have yet to find another browser that is as user friendly, imo.

Dolphin is the closest in user friendliness for me (i love swiping to open a side menu with bookmarks)
[Asus Transformer TF700] reallybigabe:
JB. Stock.

Flash works well, and I find it the snappyest (sp?)

My only gripe is I wish I could force apps from links within the browser I.e. A Google search returning xda results opens this app vice the page. Especially for paid apps like this.

I do wish chrome wasn't sluggish.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mythbuster74:
So I guess I soft bricked my phone a little while ago lol. Anyways I flashed cwm touch a couple of days ago but didn't use it that day, then today i tried to flash a new cm10 nightly and i kept getting a failed notification but that was already after i had deleted the old rom. So I had to restore a synergy rom, one thing led to another and I ended up have to flash a new recovery through odin. Has anyone else had this problem?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Deleted member 3976874:
did u try redownloading cm10, maybe it is a bad download? and I assume you are unlocked right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] epagib:
Be careful. Some people have lost their IMEI with aosp Rom.

Check *#06# from phonepad to make sure you still have your imei/MEID

Back up your imei. From terminal:

su

reboot nvbackup

Your phone will reboot twice. imei now saved. Courtesy of the brainy SynergyROM devs.

A Synergy & JellyWiz FlipFlopper
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] altop1:
no

up up
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dejrfan:
I've had my Nexus S for a year now and it's been pretty problem free... When it had Gingerbread it had the odd reboot glitch but since ICS it's been solid. I have the bootloader unlocked and had root. I had tried out a couple of custom ROMs and had gone back to stock ICS in anticipation of JB rolling out in July. I got the OTA push of JB in mid July and after a factory refresh have had no problems with the phone until yesterday.

I was typing a text message and my phone rebooted in my hand. It never did complete booting and left me at a prompt that stated "Type password to decrypt storage" and nothing would make this phone boot! Also, since the JB update I no longer had root and Clockwork Recovery no longer worked because I didn't have root... which I wasn't worried about up until now. I had to tether the phone to my laptop reset Recovery using the SDK tools and then wipe everything and reset the phone and reinstall all my apps. Funny thing is I've not been able to find much about this from any of the forums I read frequently... seems there aren't many who have experienced this.

Just wondering if anyone else has run into it...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itline:
it's happend for me too. i had to wipe cache and fixed.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hajjat:
Same thing happened to my Nexus S. I have no idea how it came into this "type password to decrypt storage" damned state. I'm trying all passwords and PINs I know but none is working! I'm trying to avoid a factory reset.... Isn't there a way to log in and override this thing, something like forgotten password in emails???
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gearjunkeez:
still no solution for this? i've wiped data and cache and still no fix!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kooske:
I'm facing the same issue: woke up this morning to find my phone asking for a password in order to decrypt storage. Very annoying, since I don't have a very recent backup.

Running CM10.1 nightly 0210 with stock CM kernel. I tried reinstalling CM and wiping cache, but that didn't help. I'll see if I can fix it and and will repost here if/how I fixed it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _android_:
If you can boot into bootloader (fastboot), try to flash Google factory image.

untar (unrar/7-zip) the tar file and flash the update zip within. This should wipe everything including system.

fastboot -w update image-soju-jzo54k.zip
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kooske:
It seems that there is no other solution for this other than a wipe data/factory reset. It's the solution offered in a googleGroups discussion as well. (Can't post links yet, not enough posts...)

Luckily after re-installing ROM and gapps all my apps were restored, and I was able to extract all my pictures and some backups on the sdcard using the mount USB option in CWM. So no big data loss for me.

It's a strange issue though, and should've been solved long ago. First occurrence I found was somewhere in February 2012, that's a year ago!