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[Nook Color General] thereddog:
How can I configure the search results from the address bar or the search widget on the home screen? The results are always the mobile version of Google.
[Nook Color General] firehazard:
I'm enjoying the Firefox beta. I like the look and functionality over Dolphin.
[Nook Color General] afroken3130:
I use Miren Browser. It's got a nice interface and is pretty fast. You can download from the market for free.
[Nook Color General] mrschmitz:
Those of you using Dolphin mini, does multi-touch work for you? It does in Dolphin HD for me, but not in Dolphin Mini.

I have installed the multi-touch hack, but it still didn't work for Dolphin mini...

Sent from my Nook Color
[Nook Color General] markiejones:
Dolphin HD - Mini didn't do pinch zoom for me either. I created gestures for my top 5 sites - works terrific.
[Nook Color General] alk195:
I'm currently using the Firefox beta, its really smooth, although maybe not the fastest. I would use Miren browser if pinch to zoom worked in it. Does anyone know why it doesn't work?
[Nook Color General] desolateone1:
Firefox/Fennec all the way.

It's smooth, has a nice interface and syncs with firefox sync. There are even addons you can install.

If you want to check it out, here's a link.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android-r7/
[Nook Color General] Buff McBigstuff:
Try dolphin hd. Don't use firefox it seems very slow on my nook. I haven't tried it on my evo or epic yet so i don't know if its a nook limitation.

Sent from my nook COLOR.
[Nook Color General] PJE66:
I've tried a number of browsers and keep coming back to XScope...
[Nook Color General] t140568:
Just installed DolphinHD after reading this thread. Wonderful browser. Also, I agree about Firefox... a little slow. Also, just has a very unpolished feel to it. (granted, it is still beta).
[Nook Color General] Artood2s:
I've tried stock (duh), Dolphin HD, Firefox, and Opera Mobile. So far I prefer Opera for most browsing. It loads faster, scrolls faster/smoother, and has the added bonus of downloading HTML5/MP4 videos instead of streaming :)

I'll keep Dolphin around if I need to view a page in Desktop form or need its added functionality.
[Nook Color General] mtm88001:
I'll second the motion for XScope, awesome multitouch zoom
[Nook Color General] wmadan:
With regard to Xscope, I, too, like the multitouch zoom. But, I can't seem to be able to add bookmarks to it. Does anyone know how to do that?
[Nook Color General] nrune:
I am loving the Dolphin mini beta. Can't stand making all the sites with a mobile interface. Syncs with Google bookmarks.

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[Nook Color General] thereddog:
Anyone...?
[Nook Color General] testulous:
Another vote for Opera. There're two of 'em: Mobile and Mini. One uses the opera servers' compression by default, the other doesn't.

Tried the free browsers Dolphin HD (slow, otherwise great), Skyfire (has a stupid icons bar) and default browser. Opera is my default until something better comes along.
[Nook Color General] ph00ny:
Opera mobile for me

dolphin hd was too sluggish
[Nook Color General] wvcachi:
Just switched from Dolphin HD to Opera Mobile . . . Zippy as hell, and looks gorgeous in full-screen mode.
[Nook Color General] CBJamo:
All the posts for opera have made me want to try it, but what's the difrnce between mobile and mini?

Edit: I just tried the dolphin mini beta, and love it, it will probably replace dolphin HD for me. Mini has a much better interface.
[Nook Color General] wvcachi:
Mini compresses pages on their server before sending them to you, with the idea of maximizing slow connections and conserving data... Mobile sends the page directly to you like a browser normally does (except for the Turbo setting, which I believe does the same thing as mini). Also no pinch to zoom in mini.

I tried them both and much prefer mobile on the NC.
[Nook Color General] French.:
You all realize that Skyfire can do Flash? Not on all sites, mind you, but for example it works on Justin tv.
[Nook Color General] thereddog:
I can't wait to try out Opera for tablets coming out in a few days
[Nook Color General] brie987:
I use Xscope6, its $299 in the Market I really like it. It has pinch zoom also one finger zoom its interesting and comes in handy when you only have one hand to navigate. Only thing wrong is I cannot seem to share webpages it says it does but I cannot seem to get it to work. There is a free version give it a try its really fast. I like Dolphine but it is sooooo slow, I think its trying to do too much but Dolphine still would be my back up. Skyfire is great but no pinch zoom, I use pinch zoom so much that it is a deal breaker for me. Good luck and give Xscope a try.
[Nook Color General] greenmky:
Anyone have a browser that doesn't crash on xboxlive.com?

I try to go to the My xbox login screen and it crashes Dolphin HD and the stock browser as soon as the page finishes loading (faster than I can log in).
[Nook Color General] PJE66:
If you have the tab/address bar visible just press the 'i' icon to bring up the menu. Unfortunately the text is white on white on my NC, but if you press and hold you can read the entries - the top entry in the 'i' menu is Add/Remove Bookmark depending if the page is bookmarked or not.

Hope this helps.
[Nook Color General] themirthfulswami:
I'm all about the xScope. I was using Dolphin but I found that some pages I visit normally have some formatting issues in Dolphin making buttons hard to tap and form fields mis-sized. xScope doesn't seem to have those problems and it runs very well on the NC so I'm goin with that for the time being.
[Nook Color General] likearaptor:
I also use xScope, it works the best for all the pages I go to. I like how the ui is a little like Chrome. Does anyone know what the difference is between Trial and paid app besides saying Trial in the lower right corner? So far the trial works good enough for me
[Nook Color General] mandlar:
I've had the same problem. I have a feeling it's less of a browser problem and more of a OS problem.
[Nook Color General] Disgustoid:
live.xbox.com has been acting up with redirect errors on both Firefox and IE on two different Windows 7 machines I use lately, so it might not be the browser in this case.
[Nook Color General] caxiem:
I use xScope. It supports pinch zoom and works on xboxlive.com but only tried for a couple of minutes. It's not free but it's really worth it. It's also one of the fastest browsers out there.
[Nook Color General] cyansmoker:
I love xScope, but for some reason my NC becomes extremely unresponsive fairly quickly. It's like xScope is constantly trying to do something and the NC doesn't have this activity (maybe?) and it runs up the CPU.
[Nook Color General] joel71:
Not sure if this is browser based or just the limitations of the device but when I got on this forum with the Nook the scrolling is choppy and looks like the refresh rate is 20hz. Any fix to this?
[Nook Color General] wmadan:
Thanks a lot!
[Nook Color General] brie987:
OMG Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love Xscope but I could not figure out why the menu button would not work. Aaaahhhhh! :D
[Nook Color General] aludal:
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[Nook Color General] greenmky:
Maybe I'll try this. Thanks.

It's weird though that I get the same response from Dolphin and from the stock browser.
[Nook Color General] rabid_droid:
I believe Opera Mobile and Firefox are the only two browsers that use hardware acceleration. Browsing with Opera Mobile, at least, is like browsing on the iPhone or iPad: smooth as butter. If you compare scrolling, panning, and pinch-to-zoom between Opera Mobile versus Dolphin HD/xScope/Miren (using graphic-heavy sites like espn, fox news, gizmodo, etc.) on the Nook Color, you'll see/feel the difference immediately. It's just very unfortunate that Opera Mobile sucks in pretty much every other department IMO, including Javascript loading speed. :p Plus graphics tend to have that weird GPU-blending issue that makes them look fuzzy.

Not sure what the deal is with the newer Firefox betas though. I've only tried version 4.0b2, and that was pretty horrific. lol. The term, "crawl" doesn't even begin to describe how slow 4.0b2 was on the Nook Color. I'm guessing things have changed based on what others in this thread have said.
[Nook Color General] BugsBunny891:
You guys should try UC Browser. It's fast, cross-platform and did I mention it's fast?
[Nook Color General] rabid_droid:
Looks like it's proxy-based, like Opera Mini... except you're using Chinese servers. :p

Oh and Bobb_o, Opera Mobile works in landscape for me just fine. I'm running the newest one from Market. Not sure about Opera Mini.
[Nook Color General] devis:
Just tried opera mobile. Smooth, yes but slower than molasses in my home wifi. Back to dolphin!

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[Nook Color General] joel71:
xScope is great! FAST!!!
[Nook Color General] wvcachi:
I've settled on xscope as well. The first time I tried it, something seemed bizarre with the zoom, but now the zoom is fine. This is an extremely snappy browser, with loads of customization. Highly recommended.
[Nook Color General] jthatcher:
I just downloaded xscope... wow, exactly feels like chrome, and loads my google voice page options with no issues. Dolphin HD couldn't work with that script for some reason... worth the $3
[Nook Color General] nicbennett:
Dolphin HD here. tad bit slow, but worth it for it's full-featured-ness
[Nook Color General] long2know:
My absolute favorite is Miren.
[Nook Color General] mtl171:
Dolphin HD. Occasional lag but works like a charm.
[Nook Color General] DefTaker:
Firefox beta is the one I finally settled on as I couldn't get pinch-to-zoom to work on any of the rest of the browsers I tried (Opera Mobile, Dolphin HD)...Firefox was the only browser that would allow me to pinch-to-zoom. Double-tap zoom worked on all the browsers.

Yes, I rooted using auto nooter and I even used the manual "hack" with the xml file to ensure that I had multi-touch enabled on my NC.

Unless, there's a setting that I have to manually turn on in Dolphin HD or Opera Mobile that I missed?
[Nook Color General] Amin Sabet:
Another vote for Dolphin HD.
[Nook Color General] hahyun6:
Bump on this, multitouch zoom doesn't work on my browsers either..

But all the browsers support multi touch on my phone.
[Nook Color General] Runningramblings:
The latest version of Dolphin HD broke the browser multitouch for me. I had to revert to the previous version to bring back multitouch.
[Nook Color General] dennis-:
the stock browser to me is absolutley horrible. how the crap do you make the keyboard go away in landscape mode? half the time i type something in a reply on a forum it it frezzes and wont type anything. i guess ill try opera mobile sense i tried mini and it wouldnt load half a page.
[Nook Color General] thereddog:
+1 for xScope

Although, it goes into full screen mode automatically sometimes.. I'd like to figure that one out
[Nook Color General] DefTaker:
Ok, glad to know I'm not going insane! :o

I thought it was just me...I like Dolphin HD a lot on my G1 and was kinda disappointed I couldn't mget multitouch to work on it. Also was shocked to see how big the Firefox beta file is (12Mb) compared to the others. Oh well, I'm using Firefox as a supplement to the stock B&N browser for now.
[Nook Color General] erickleung:
The pinch zoom of Dophin HK is no more working for NC. I have to give 2 stars less for this browsers without pinch zoom. It is no more my default browser until the multi-touch feature remains unchanged.
[Nook Color General] deitiphobia:
I love Dolphin Mini. It's fast and no unneeded frils. I especially like that you can lock rotation very easily wich is great for bedside reading.

I have all of my favorite bookmarks setup and I go through them all in the morning very quickly.

I also find that the default zoom level is better than Dolphin HD. It could use better text reflow after zooming. Seems to me that xScope still gets that right where other browsers don't and it's so important.
[Nook Color General] MACLUIS1:
Dolphin HD.
[Nook Color General] markiejones:
I'm fundamentally opposed to paying for a browser (I've bought other apps, but I mean browsers are, like, the original free app). It just seems like Android should come with an optomized, accelerated version of Chrome.

Since it doesn't, I use the previous version of Dolphin HD (before pinch-zoom stopped working). ANd it does the job fairly well, if a tad clunky, and requiring the occasional app-restart to get it going.
[Nook Color General] dalingrin:
Believe it or not, neither of them use hardware acceleration yet. Firefox will be getting it soonish(next month or two, still disabled due to crashes). Not sure when Opera will get it but they have said it will as some point.

Are the froyo rom(s) any faster for browsing on the nook?
[Nook Color General] muskmallow:
I really like the interface of the Firefox beta, but it's way too slow.right now. Hopefully they'll get the speed up for the officql release, but until then I'm using Dolphin Mini.
[Nook Color General] blestsol:
Miren works perfectly for me.
[Nook Color General] norazi:
opera mobile here. dolphin, firefox all feel slow to scroll

question though. anyone know how to change the useragent in opera to default to a full browser? i went to opera:config but not sure what to do from there
[Nook Color General] byproxy:
it's one of the main settings under options. says something like "show moble version" and you have to turn it off.
[Nook Color General] Rrrracer:
I'm running Nookie Froyo, and the market won't show me Opera Mobile anywhere... tried to sideload it from my DInc and no luck... anyone know why I can't find it? Sure would like to take it for a test drive...
[Nook Color General] Rrrracer:
I found the Opera Mobile .apk, loaded it on to my SD card... moved it to system/apps and installed it... launched it, got the splash screen for Opera Mobile and then it backed out to my home screen.

Not sure what I am doing wrong here, anyone have ideas?

I also noticed that I can't find Miren browser in the market either... wtf LOL?

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] madsquabbles:
when this thread started xscope was my primary choice and dolphin second. miren was uninstalled 5 min after using it.

since then miren's made huge improvements and has now take over the spot as my primary browser on all my android devices. it supprots UA selection, swipe to switch tabs, and it's fast with scrolling and zooming. xscope became choppy after the update to 6 if you kept the nav bars ups.
[Nook Color General] Tool Belt:
Miren may not be the prettiest, but just replaced D-HD as my default. After the latest update D-HD slowed down a bunch.
[Nook Color General] polphi:
Bump...any updated opinions on this? TIA
[Nook Color General] rhester72:
Opera Mobile all the way for me. Dolphin wasn't bad, but too sluggish. Firefox was nice (hey, plugins actually work!), but exceptionally memory-hungry. Browsing with Opera is smooth as butter.

Rodney
[Nook Color General] brie987:
+1 for Miren
[Nook Color General] GTT1:
What is the stock browser that gets loaded with gapps?

When you try another browser does it automatically default to your main browser when loaded. Can you have 2 or 3 on and switch around to try them or do you need to uninstall first?
[Nook Color General] 511pf:
Opera

Opera is an order of magnitude faster than any of the other browsers on Rooted 1.1. I use it with an iPad User Agent and have had very few problems with websites not working.
[Nook Color General] GchNYadM:
Dolphin HD>Opera>Dolphin Mini>Stock
[Nook Color General] dsf3g:
Agree. Opera is my default browser on my rooted 1.1.

Anyone know if Opera plays embedded flash videos under CM7?
[Nook Color General] robot8:
Yes it does, and very well indeed. Using Opera Mobile w/ spoofed UAString, general experience is fast and so smooth overall that once you use it you won't go back to stock. Don't care much for Dolphin so Opera +1.
[Nook Color General] robot8:
Stock browser is Android browser, based on the opensource Webkit layout engine, coupled with Chrome's v8 javascript engine.

You can have as many different browsers as you want. Unless you associate one as default, every time you use a link it will ask you which browser you want to open it with.
[Nook Color General] evertec:
Where are you getting that opera doesn't have hardware acceleration yet? As far as i can see it had it from the start on android : http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Android-Opera-hardware-accelerated-pinch-to-zoom,news-8328.html
[Nook Color General] LBN1:
First choice for me, Opera Mobile modified to only display desktop view instead of mobile view of sites. It is very fast and smooth, and gives the closest to my real desktop experience.

Second option is Firefox though flash does not work on it yet, it has good add-ons and can sync with your Firefox desktop, but the memory footprint could be a lot smaller.

Third option is the stock browser - I had tried Dolphin, Skyfire, Xscope and Miren and they all seem to me to be enhanced versions of the stock browser with nice extras, but they all stalled / locked up on some sites. It could be that they are built off the same parts of the stock browser, where Opera and Firefox are different from the ground up so to speak and that's why they work better (for me at least). The best part though, is that we do have so many choices!
[Nook Color General] boxcar8028:
I wish chrome was available for mobile and it's kind of odd it's not. I have try opera it was okay and smooth but cant stop the page columns from moving around every time you touch the screen. maybe I miss something, is there a way to lock the screen in opera. anyway I'm using dolphin hd and loving it.
[Nook Color General] Kadin:
I just came in to say +1 for Opera Mobile. Love it...

Wanted to add a question. How do you all modify Opera so it shows full websites? I don't see a user agent selection or any option for this... thanks!
[Nook Color General] xc68000:
Opera for me. I like the way it renders, and it is faster than any of the alternatives.
[Nook Color General] life64x:
I use dolphin for my browsing mainly...but for all my downloading I use Firefox mobile because it CORRECTLY handles the downloading from file sharing sites. As time goes on I think I will use Firefox more because of the incredible add on community that are coming in board with items. Stock browser is decent and opera is also very good....
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
Can i have some of what you are smoking? The GPU accelerated rendering on Opera makes the use of any other browser clinically questionable. The chart should be

Opera Mobile >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
Opera is nearly the best browser except for two things.

Scrolling can be tricky due to the lack of a direction detection and lock during scroll and,

I have an enormously difficult time editing URLs in the address bar, no matter which keyboard I'm using.

So, I'm back to Miren browser for now.
[Nook Color General] Fixup:
Opera Mobile and MiNi, both are free and extremely good.
[Nook Color General] buzz killington:
Type opera:config in the address bar, then click on User Prefs and you can change the custom user agent.
[Nook Color General] threebeers:
Dolphin HD is tops generally, but I have also held onto Opera Mini 5 for quick reading. It loads faster than Opera Mobile, renders pages in big font mobile format well, and i like the big buttons at the bottom (versus on the top with v.6 Mobile). And it is using Opera's pro servers to render, not the Nook. Not HD graphics but so what.

The stock browser in CM7 is good too.
[Nook Color General] Paul22000:
I'm not sure how or why people are saying how good Opera is because it's a complete piece of trash. I used it extensively for a period of time and found many glaring issues:

A) Panning up and down the page doesn't "lock" the motion to that axis so that it only moves up/down like every other Android browser does. So the page moves around on BOTH axes (up/down/left/right) and even looks weird as it jitters (or "vibrates") left/right when you only mean to move up/down. In every other browser, when you start panning in one motion, it locks the movement to that axis, which makes for a smoother motion (and rarely do you need to move on both axes, which is why this is implemented).

B) Long pressing on a link doesn't show the URL. Sometimes I'm reading an article and want to see what a link goes to without opening a page. In Opera Mobile, there's no way to do that.

C) I find tab switching to be slower and more tedious than in Dolphin, where the only action needed is a single tap on a tab. Whereas in Opera, you need to tap the (frustratingly small) tabs button, tap the tab you want, and then tap out of it to get rid of the pop-out.

I use Dolphin HD. All of the above is fixed, the gestures are additionally handy, and it's super speedy in my experience (CM7 OC 1200).
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
Frankly, A isn't that big a deal; you get used to it in about a day.

B - meh..

C - having used DHD, i had no problems getting used to Opera.

How anyone can call it a pile of trash is beyond me, and you are smoking some good ganga. Frankly, the amazing hardware accelerated rendering, plus desktop like UI, more than make up for what few MINOR nitpicks people here seem to have. Ill take less precise scrolling, in return for never having half a page rendered while trying to scroll (Dolphin.. now there is a POS..), and landing in a sea of grey...
[Nook Color General] Paul22000:
I have an extremely good eye for detail and I'll point out some of the other reasons I'm not a fan of Opera.

First, Opera has a TON of rendering issues. Here's one I ran into tonight IMMEDIATELY after installing Opera again tonight. Issues like this happen ALL the time.

Next, pages in Opera often look a lot worse/uglier than in Dolphin. Dolphin attempts to add visual effects to make webpages look appealing, whereas in Opera there are no such effects. And when this happens on nearly every website, it brings down the entire browsing experience. Here's a clear example on a website that I frequent very often, the official Google News website:

And the graphic for flash before activating it is just downright hideous and obnoxious. Who the hell designed this?

As you can see, I'm NOT just hating on it to hate on it. I dislike Opera for 100% truly concrete reasons. This post and my last post are clear objective reasons of why I prefer Dolphin. Whether these issues bother you or not, you simply can't deny that at least they do exist. For me, the browsing experience is just much better on Dolphin.
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
THe only actual ISSUE there is the one odd rendering, which i have never seen in my use, including at Tom's. As it is, i don't care for programs deciding what i want; as such, i don't need it adding useless visual effects.. They do nothing for the browsing experience.

And the flash box.... really? A big white square is just as annoying as a big black one.

Anyway, I am glad it works better for you; but in terms of the important things like performance and fluidity, Opera wins hands down. I would rather have my web pages rendered as the developer intended, and have it done so that scrolling is smooth and not laggy (browsing Engadget desktop in dolphin was like pulling teeth.. it was HORRIBLE).
[Nook Color General] buzz killington:
Hmm, I just went to the same tom's guide page and it rendered correctly. For me it all comes down to speed. Opera uses its own rendering and it's very fast. Dolphin, Miren etc uses google's engine and they're all slow. If the processor on the Nook Color was a dual core 1.5ghz, maybe it wouldn't have any effect. As of right now, I can't stand using the stock rendering, it's just unbearably slow for scrolling compared to Opera Mobile.