Android Browser Love it or Hate it?
 

How is everyone finding the switch to the new browser?

I for one love it. It seems to render snappier then Opera. It also displays elements (I think mostly ajax stuff) that Opera doesn't. My only complaints are the bookmark management could be a lot better, and I would like to individual passwords. I certainly don't miss Opera closing on me when I bounce between tasks.

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I love it. Faster than Opera but not than the WebOS browser. Flash is great on my end and i love the text reflow, copy paste, and how the bookmarks are displayed as well as the open windows. Great browser but more speed would be nice

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Meh. I prefer Opera Mobile for its better rendering and animated GIF support. That last one blows my mind - how can a modern smartphone not display animated GIFs?

It works fine for me, but I do have one major gripe about the Hero's browser: no option to keep the status/notification bar on the screen! Driving me bonkers.

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I don't understand the animated gif thing either, but I'm very happy with the webkit browser. Scrolling is great, and very fluid. Some sites seem to be very slow to load all the time, and others fly right to the screen.

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Wow I didn't notice the animated GIF thing, that is a bummer. Can mike20pr or anyone with a Pre see if its browser displays them?

Yeah at the very least it should display the notification bar when we get notifications :/

I'm also not a fan of htc's flash.

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I like the browser, its faster than the Opera browser, the only browser I've seen faster so far was the Pre browser, faster but not better (but the Pre was very immature). Other than the battery issues I'm having no complaints about the Hero.

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Pre doesn't either.

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just wondering why we dont have htc magic on here i had a touch pro but went with the mytouch from tmobile . weres the free paid apps just a heads up there installed on your card not the phone

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just wondering that if you android apps are installed to your card


i have the htc magic from t-mobile running the sprint hero rom

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The CDMA hero has the apps installed on the phone's memory. Not the SD card. Installing apps on the SD card can't happen until the device is rooted.

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true about the gif. animations.

but when i want that WOW factor browsing the web, i go to a website with flash ads and zoom out. loooove how the ads look with animations and such

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Just realized we had pinch zoom, cool.

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haha nice. its one of those features i did not see myself using much but love to use now

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I like the browser. It renders great and I love how it reformats the text so you don't have to scroll sideways. The only thing I wish it had was an option to allow server side rendering like in Opera Mobile 9.7 for when you really want to speed things up.

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well so far i hate it, i go to school at university of phoenix. Now with my touch pro i was able to get online with it and type in my discussions and everything. Now with my hero i can not so i miss opera and internet explorer because they both worked beautifully for me.

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I totally agree with you (but don't worry, opera has said they are working on a version for android http://www.androidcentral.com/opera-...coming-android). I don't hate the browser (its definitely better and more functional than the pre or iphone browser), but I do wish it could do some of the more advanced things opera could, like easily change your user agent and the ability to have ad blocker. plus I think the ad blocker would definitely speed it up.