Despite challengers across the board in the Android browser space, Dolphin Browser HD remains the one to beat. Here’s why.
The stock Android browser is just that; stock and standard and generally very dull indeed. Dolphin Browser HD spices things up for the enticing price of absolutely free, which is its first positive step. Most of its features are the kinds of things you’ll find in full desktop browsers, such as full tabbed browsing, gestures to launch specific pages and the like.
There’s also some Android specific features, like the ability to only run Flash on demand, use your volume controls as scroll controls and change your user agent. It also doesn’t hurt that Dolphin Browser HD looks damned fine as well. [Dolphin Browser HD]
adammc86
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11:35 AMI was about to scrap this from my tablet. until I found out about the volume control tab change.
Makes it far easier than scrolling back to top of page to switch tabs
Ollie
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 12:27 PMI prefer Dolphin mini TBH. All the functionality with less rubbish.
Happiboi
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:03 PMTBH I find Dolphin HD too bloated these days… I prefer xScope as it does everything I need minus the bloat
Stew
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:23 PMI’d really like the option to open YouTube vids in the YouTube app instead of playing it as Flash content.
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:32 PMFlash on demand is available in all stock Android browsers I’ve tried.
Ash
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 2:14 PMI tried it for a month then got rid of Dolphin HD. It slowed down my SGS1 like no tomorrow. So bloated, but it had fantastic add-ons (which probably slows it down even more). If youre going to go with a 3rd party browser, it probably should be Opera for overall performance, simplicity and usability.
EckyThump
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 2:18 PMI tried it for awhile when flash kept breaking the stock transformer browser, but I like the stock one better, and the latest update seems to have fixed it so I don’t need flash! I bloody hate flash, bring on HTML 5 for Gods sake! #]
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 3:49 PMYou know you can disable flash in all stock browsers on Android right? Or have it on demand or whatever?
EckyThump
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 4:55 PMYeah but the stock browser was still playing up anyway! Seems to be OK now though! #]
Glenn
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 6:21 PMI’ve been using Dolphin for Pad beta on my Honeycomb tablet. Much better than the stock browser for sure.