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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnstarz:
Only reason I use Chrome is because of syncing. Syncing in stock AOSP browser doesn't work in 4.2.2. I wish they'd hurry up and release ChromeSync for 4.2.2. :(
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackFire27:
I like chrome :c The text is super clear if you ask me
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhand1001:
Install cm10 or any aosp ROM and the stock browser has full bookmark sync support.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NicholasQ:
Have you guys tried chrome beta? There's two versions of chrome.. Chrome beta is new and actively being developed on. I get updates once a week just about.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saturn1217:
The OP is right. I have both the older version of chrome and chrome beta installed on my Nexus 7. I'm rooted but otherwise everything is stock. The fonts are slightly fuzzier in the beta version.

And much more annoying sometimes text is randomly sized way too small no matter what zoom I have set in the accessibility settings. This happens a lot on the xda forums in fact. I can literally switch between chrome (ver18) and the beta on the same page and thing look perfect in the old stable version but in the beta some post responses are tiny while others are normal.

My fear is that this bug along with the fuzzy fonts is now part of the stable chrome update. I was just beginning to like chrome again :(

And honestly I bet chrome is the number one reason why noobs buying a nexus 7 have a poor experience. Which is a shame because this is an amazing device.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NicholasQ:
You know what? Screw Chrome. It has always been buggy and slow and probably will be for a while. The most underrated but best browser there is hands down is x scope. I don't understand why it isn't more popular. I have tried all the browsers and it is by far the best. The quick toggles and ability to swipe the screen to go back and forth are extremely intuitive.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gusto5:
It performs better on my Nexus S than my Nexus 7. It's an interesting situation to say the least
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saturn1217:
Slightly of topic but if I backup chrome with titanium backup will I be able to restore the old version of chrome if I don't like the update? I'm just wondering since you can't uninstall chrome (through the normal ui) the way you can other apps from the play store.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuxLV:
The most annoying problem for me is that it renders text differently in portrait and landscape modes. XDA for example becomes absolutely unreadable in portrait. And zooming without auto-reflow is also a pain in the ass.

The worst thing? They don't use their public bug tracker and don't react to any bug reports in any way.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 95Z28:
Or just install chromebookmarksyncadapter.apk in system apps. I'm currently using stock rooted deodexed ROMs on both my 7 and galaxy nexus with aosp browser.

On topic, I have no problems with chrome on my nexus 7, it runs well and smoothly, I simply use the aosp browser because I prefer the layout, flash support, and quick controls.

Edit: for anyone wanting aforementioned apk. Simply place https://www.box.com/thisguy in system apps, reboot, check sync options and you should now have option to sync browser.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyPeter:
I had mixed results. It wasn't very good on my N7, but brilliant on my N4.

It sounds like a weakness in the Tegra3 platform,,,,,
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolig2278:
Chrome update released yesterday.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -PiLoT-:
Actually Google realised something was wrong with Chrome main. they publicaly said itll soon be getting plenty more stability updates and bugfixes. so they admitted fault there and the beta is exactly that. a beta. its them actually letting us test the versions they test faster.

so when you take these considerations in fact. the only thing you are whining about is them not updating fast enough. and thats just silly
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airmaxx23:
I tried finding x scope in the Play Store but there is only the paid version.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
I've heard that Chrome 25 isn't playing nice on some specific qualcom GPUs.. Shouldn't affect the Nexus 7, but who knows, maybe it's not just Qualcom that's affected.

I quickly browsed a few sites yesterday between Firefox and Chrome Beta 25 (latest as of yesterday) and Chrome felt... Sticky.. Scrolling was laggy and delayed.

Firefox is always smooth for me. Just wish they'd speed up the "tabs from last time" and speed dial display, it takes 5+ seconds for those to show up. I think it's waiting to sync tabs from remote devices, but geez, show the important stuff first while the rest loads...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oik01:
Honestly, Chrome is horrible. Im still using the Inspire 4G and I can not use the chrome browser because it takes too long to load the browser and makes the system lag. Even typing becomes a hassle when running a custom keyboard with the browser. The other browsers, even advanced ones like dolphin browser run much smoother. Testing these apps on less powerful devices I think really demonstrates how much of a power/ RAM hog chrome really is when compared to other browsers. I have tried to reinstall it and give it a shot atleast 6 times, each time deleting it again in a few days. :( With my new Nexus 7 the performance is much better now and more bearable, but I can see it stuttering at times and its obvious. Just go to NBA.com and ask for the desktop site. See how long it will be before you can access the pages.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast95135:
Ugh I hate the new update. I stopped using Chrome Beta because I hated the fuzzy fonts and weird page rendering... With the update now regular Chrome has fuzzy fonts and random font sizes (seriously some will be tiny and some HUGE). WTF, I had to go back to Dolphin.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lightdesiny:
I tried the xscope (pirate version only for try) and it works really great, I'm thinking on buy it, it's really great
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AssailantLF@gmail.com:
This thread is full of over exaggeration and hyperbole for how bad the new Chrome and Chrome Beta are.

Alright, it loads pages with a slight smoothness or blur and people obviously don't like it as much as the standard sharpness we're all used to. It doesn't obstruct your vision or anything, personally doesn't really affect me and I was kind of into it initially. All the fonts look the same to me, it's just an extremely slight fuzz over everything.

On the subject of usability and whether or not scrolling and zooming in and out works well, I think it's quicker than Chrome was before the update. In fact, tests show that it is quicker in benchmarks and it renders pages faster. Sure, it uses more of a blurring effect to load images instead of whiteness, so you can actually see where you're scrolling while it's loading large pages. I can move around a page more freely and quickly than before this update, definitely not "extremely laggy" or "slow rendering" by any means.

In conclusion, the new Chrome is entirely usable, not laggy, performs better than it used to, and has a kind of annoying very slight blurrish rendering effect. All that said, it's still one of the worst performers compared to other browsers and the AOSP browser still out performs it along with everything else.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toast95135:
Please tell me how this is exaggeration...

New Chrome

Dolphin (comparable to old Chrome)

And this is just inexcusable...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FitAmp:
Wow that's bad :/
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agozie:
Chrome(both v25 and beta) lags on my nexus 7 and on my galaxy note 2. Android stock browser, Firefox and Dolphin are butter on both devices.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhand1001:
Its not exaggerated. It is extremely laggy. The biggest issue is the fact that google decided to ship the stock roms on the newer nexus devices without the aosp browser. Had they shipped the aosp browser I absolutely feel that reviews of everyone of the devices would have been much better. I never run stock so it doesn't matter to me but the general public will use what it comes with and thats laggy chrome which is a terrible experience. The aosp browser is miles ahead of it and has a better UI. Google should have just simply shipped all the nexus devices with the aosp browser and if you want chrome you can install it. The nexus 10 is the worst on chrome. Its so laggy. On the aosp browser theres no lag what so ever. The reviews of the nexus 10 would have pretty much said its the best tablet bar none. Instead they complained about how the software felt beta and choppy especially during web browsing.

Google needs to put the aosp browser back in the next ota for all of these devices. Rename it chrome or whatever but its clear that the chrome for android code is unsaveable (with the current team at least). The aosp browser has more features as well like text reflow, quick controls, hiding address bar when not needed.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwxvi:
I haven't really noticed any lagging. Then again, I've not used another browser besides the stock AOSP on my Nexus 7.

Before I got my N7 I had a Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 (atrocious little turd sometimes) and I only used Dolphin on it. I'll give Firefox and Dolphin a whirl on my N7 and see if my opinion changes.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NicholasQ:
I promise you won't be disappointed. It is the best browser.

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Are you on the new version 7? The gesture like controls and quick toggles are so nice.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warface:
I'm glad I found this thread tonight. I was about to stomp the **** out of my Xperia S because it had turned into a pile of steaming turds.

I THOUGHT Chrome was causing it, but because I don't have trouble with Chrome on my N7, I was blaming the Xperia ROM.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Turbotab:
I've spoken vocally about my previous disappointment with Chrome for Android's (CfA) scrolling issues, and how to easily side-load AOSP browser.

But lets put some perspective on this, CfA have made a major effort in mainlining its code back into the open-source Chromium. It has made some major improvements in performance, to the extent of using ideas from the beloved Android Browser, which is the base for many of the other Android browsers, such as Dolphin. http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/impl-side-painting

Overall smoothness is now pretty good on my Nexus 7, at least. It does display a hint of latency and jittery FPS in the first ms of a scroll event, but after that is good. There are some major changes coming in version 26 stable, such moving HTML parsing off the main thread, among others, which will boost performance.

Google are working on the issue of fuzzy text on desktop sites, it was a shocking QA omission, but these thing happen at all companies.

http://bit.ly/XFE10H

The addition of the beta Channel shows that Google is putting a decent effort into resolving outstanding issues, also we can't ignore that CfA offers may great features.

I now don't know why I wrote this, as the usual suspects will continue to whine with their usual sense of entitlement, and lack of even basic understanding of the task in hand, ah the Internet, how I love and hate you so.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S3tArtist:
I have no complains on Chrome, but I mainly use naked browser. Not much of an UI, but it feel faster, especially on weaker wifi signal.

sent from PAranoid Nexus 7 powered by M-kernel
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostHorizon:
lol,

The new update is faster but horrible on the font clarity. I cleared upgrades and want back to stock on my 7. Much better for my eyes. I reported the issue, you should as well.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
No, you shouldn't report it because it's already fixed. I'd have to assume they'll have a beta out soon.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhand1001:
It doesn't explain why The fuzzy text which was present in several of the beta builds made its way into a stable build. And the fact that google has a better all around browser but chooses to ship a half baked glitchy and choppy browser instead on their devices.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stovie75:
Does anybody have a link handy to roll back? I found a version 18 apk, but when I side load it it just gives and error about missing functionality and dies....

Chrome_18.0.1025123.apk was the file I found.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnstarz:
every rom for the nexus 7 is aosp-based.

i dont believe this works for 4.2.2, unless it just doesn't work on PA3.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackFire27:
Ok after just flashing cm10 nightlies I had to redownload all my apps. Which left me using the stock browser for a while while my garbage internet downloads my apps. About 4 hours. And I must say. The stock browser is like the internet explorer of android. Yes. I went there.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaanJordaan:
Agree with the OP

My post about Auto-zooming at the Google product forums didn't get too much responses.

I would really like a Google dev to respond.

Maybe you guys can help out and post your annoyance there as well:)

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/chrome/CgyLs1dW580

Cheers,

Daan
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 95Z28:
It works for me on stock 4.2.2 ROM. I have options to sync both chrome and browser.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevuman:
Chrome mobile is the biggest trash ever. It's slow, slow slow slow and slow. Font rendering is fuzzy as crap. It's always been fuzzy. Wtf?

Oh and no flash..

FAIL ON FAIL ON FAIL ON FAIL

Boat browser still the all around best.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Makxx:
I'm not too sure. I only used Chrome twice when I got my N7 before unlocking and rooting it. Afaik, it ran well and fast.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1.8matt:
with chromes lates update, mainly on my gnex, i'm having a bunch of issues. laggy like crazy, double tap to zoom doesn't always work, and when it does, it doesn't zoom in anywhere near as far as it used to. trying to zoom in on an xda forum is impossible with double tap, very hard to read those little letters. i wish i knew how i could transfer my bookmarks easily to dolphin browser hd so i can get rid of that chrome piece of garbage. the only reason i've been using it because i have it on my laptop and can sync my bookmarks.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veeman:
Google should just take the AOSP browser, put a skin on it and call it Chrome. No need to reinvent the wheel.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Molestratus:
Naked browser super race.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
Check out CMarks or Chrome Sync on the Play Store. Used to use CMarks before the Android Chrome browser and it worked a treat! :thumbup:

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkchazz:
Agree with OP.

It's sad google replaced the fast AOSP browser with this laggy piece of ****e.

What sad though is that reviewers often compare N4, 7, and 10 browsing performance using chrome to iOS's buttery smooth safari browser..... and well, you know the rest..

Guess I'll stick with dolphin for now on my N7.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jadephyre:
Jeezus, what a bunch of whiny people in here.

If you don't like it, don't feckin' use it, and don't start threads about it either...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
Follow your own advice. Some legitimate complaints here. Move along. :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmm200:
Given that this is a forum for reasoned discussion, forum guidelines should certainly prohibit pejorative topic titles.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Culex316:
I agree, the latest Chrome make the text all blurry and it's even more noticeable on my Nexus 7....I'm sticking to the AOSP Browser on the Galaxy Nexus and Dolphin for now.

Even the latest Opera Beta exhibits this behavior

I don't see how the topic title is pejorative.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj03:
I must be lucky then because i use crome on my nexus 7 and its fine. It loads quickly, and zooms well also. Even sites like gsm arenanload quickly. I know flash isn`t supported, but still...its all good. At least for me. I am on stock 4.2.2. Jb. Non rooted.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-Keith:
Kind of hard to blame chrome devs for lack of flash, since that was adobe's decision.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
Okay, new betas looks just as bad, is it my imagination or did they somehow not fix this?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
I have never had any issues with chrome. No fuzzy text or lag ever. Sure I haven't updated chrome in awhile but that would mean I would have all these issues. Maybe it depends on the device. We all have seen devices like the thunderbolt where some people could oc to 1.9 while others couldn't go over 1.5. So maybe its something with your device.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
wat?

People are comparing Chrome to other browsers on the same device...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackFire27:
Stock browser sucks. Just saying. And it always has.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galax_:
If you update, you will see the fuzziness. It's chrome's fault, nothing hw related.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
OK well then I won't update. Thanks for the info.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azurael:
That doesn't really have anything to do with Chrome though, does it?

It's also not tremendously constructive, you haven't actually told us what the problem with it is... I've used the stock browser since ICS and if I have any issues with it, its ROM specific and presumably caused by overenthusiastic CFlags (no criticism on the part of the ROM chefs, I've been there with my Gentoo install, WebKit doesn't like Graphite, LTO, or O3 for me, it segfaults on certain pages if I compile it with more than march=native and O2)

And to those whining about the existence of this thread: you might have a point but for the fact that Google actually ship the Nexus devices with Chrome, so yes, it is valid to draw attention to its shortcomings given that the could just have shipped the AOSP browser which is, as we have established is faster and renders better (although I don't like reflow myself, context sensitive doubletap zoom is more than enough for me...) rather than requiring stock unrooted devices to have to resort to a third-party solution to get a usable browser. Then, Microsoft have been doing that for a long time. Maybe it would be better to ship no browser with the devices and allow the user their choice from the play store with no unnecessary cruft.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackFire27:
I'm not exactly very good with web dev and whatnot so I appreciate the explanation. But I've used the stock browser on pretty much every version of android 2.2 and up and it always just seems to have problems. They vary vastly but with my N7 on the latest CM nightlies since around december. I've never really appreciated the stock browser. Crashes. Bad renders. Whole webpages don't load. Honestly I understand where everyone is coming from with the text render thing. But my vision is quite terrible, so I may not really see it as bad as you all do. But other than that I've found chrome on all platforms to be quite stable and fast. To me its like, if stock doesn't work, go to chrome. If chrome doesn't work, go to firefox. So I use chrome pretty often and if I was a google dev reading this, I would purposely make the rendering worse because whining is pathetic. As said before. Don't like it, don't use it. Asdfghjkl.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyPeter:
Try Opera mobile beta. Based on webkit but VERY quick. The discover feature is cool too.

Really happy with it on my Nexus7 a b X nexus4
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackFire27:
I love opera mini. The buttons are just too small for my big fingers on the N7 :c
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wilks3y:
I've always thought Chrome was clunky, and the scrolling is appauling.

Upon reading this thread I tried the PA stock (AOSP) Browser, and HOLY **** the difference is amazing.

Scrolling is so smooth and buttery, Chrome need to base theirs on AOSP, not the other way round.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nubreed000:
I've been in dire need of a new browser.

Been using chrome for the past few months and after the latest update the browser is terrible. The update log claimed to improve the scrolling (which was fine before) and just made it way worse. Good one Google!

So I went back to dolphin HD but it turns out that that browser is a massive battery hog so that's gone too.

On opera now but not a fan of it. Guess it'll have to do for now though.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg420:
Totally agree with op.

I love the ability to access my open tabs from my phone though. If we can get that functionality in the stock browser, I could finally uninstall chrome :p
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khaytsus:
Seriously, am I the only one that uses Firefox?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saturny:
No you're not. I use it too. Just not as much.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AssailantLF@gmail.com:
If anyone was unaware, they updated Chrome today and fixed the blurry text. Every other browser that's ever existed is still better in terms of performance, but at least the text isn't god damn blurry any more.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevuman:
Lol took them former to fix it. Lol

I got my Nexus 7 since august and it had blurry text up until now... Seriously?

It's only redeeming factor is that it syncs with pc... Otherwise it's still crap. The new update may have fixed the text but the browser still runs like crap.

Even the new Opera Beta that just came out murders Chrome.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoneTomorrow:
I haven't really seen any issues with the latest update (25.0.1364.169). The performance in synthetic tests has improved substantially at least. Peacekeeper went from 460 to 630. And it finally got rid of that annoying double-loading thing when opening a new tab.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LawrenceSeattle:
It's getting better. First release felt very beta quality. Now there are minor font rendering issues. Also I'm getting strange artifacts on HTML5 video.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Variable:
Fyi, Chrome is already updated, i think we need to close this outdated thread.

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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desaturated:
And me too, give a crap to Chrome apps, make people say, android device is bad. Sad.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Macmee:
Chrome is crap. I flashed AOSP. I'll go back to Chrome when/if they begin supporting extensions.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhand1001:
It still performs like crap and the scrolling flat out sucks. Not only is it not smooth but the inertia is different from the rest of the OS. Everytime they release a new beta or stable version I install it and test it and after like 10 minutes I always uninstall it dissapointed by how behind it is. Why don't they just give the stock roms on the nexus 7, 4, and 10 back the aosp browser so that people who aren't rooted or know about rooting have a smooth fast browser that works.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaanJordaan:
This.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Variable:
Have you guys tried Firefox beta?

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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark Jedi:
Why not just flash the aosp browser apk. You don't have to rooted to flash it.