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Dolphin HD browser for Android is swimmingly good

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FYI - I just uninstalled Dolphin last weekend because I couldn't figure out how to stop it from opening a new tab every time it launched.

You mean open its homepage? It never opened a new tab in addition to that (but I would love to disable that phoning home...).

I've used Dolphin on my Android G1 running version 1.6 since they announced the flaw in the standard browser that allows websites to read your SD card. I'm assuming the default browser on my phone is still vulnerable to that and will be for some time to come.

I've found opera-mini to be faster and just as good/better

albeit without gestures

But opera mini is HUGE.

I tried it and found it to be extremely over-hyped.

I love Opera Mobile.. the interface is much simpler, the text zooming/wrapping features work nice.. and I still get my tabs.

This works really well on a rooted nook color too. Much better than the stock browser that comes bundled.

I like the gestures. Works well on the Galaxy Tab.

The Dolphin Browser Mini is fantastic as well. While it doesn't have the HD's plugin system, it includes several of the popular ones in the quickly-accessed Toolbox.

Personally I find the HD version a bit gaudy and slow... which is why I prefer the Mini on my memory starved, dated but trusty Droid.

What kind of problems have you had with Dolphin HD on the Droid? I've been using it with the Ultimate Droid roms without any problems. If you're not using a custom rom, I'd highly recommend it. Both UD & Cyanogen Mod are good choices (I went with UD because the IRC community is much more helpful).

I'm running CM7. I mostly don't like the HD chrome, I feel tacky when I use it. Also, the Mini is really just a bit faster, even with CM7 and overclocking, it's just that tiny bit more responsive. It's the difference between me clicking on two links from TweetDeck, or all of the interesting ones.

I liked Mini, but switched to Miren. Something about using a random Chinese browser on my handheld computer makes me feel like I'm in a William Gibson novel. Though it's less exciting now the name and description in the market are English. Also it's pretty fast and featureful too.

Appropriately, the photo for this story is from (the filmatization of) a Gibson novel.

I discovered Miren Browser a couple of days ago and it does a phenomenal job. Faster load times than Dolphin Mini and iOS-like copy & paste.

One caveat is it's developed in China, so my latent racism is telling me it's also doing a phenomenal job of phoning home my private data.

I'm not sure that's racist - presumably you wouldn't feel the same way about something developed in Taiwan, or by ethnic Chinese living in California.

You are correct, endtime. I said latent racism but meant overt fear. :-)

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