![]() It seems any time I talk about something I don't like, lots of people come in to blame this or that or talk about totally unrelated crap to what my complaint is. After getting used to Lollipop, there are maybe two changes I actually like but overall prefer Kitkat still. Like I use WPS Office for documents on the rate occasion I need to do something like that and it's mostly great, except it lacks the ability to automatically add paragraph indentations and a few other basic word processing necessities, but has a bunch of other pointless crap not integral to word processing or other things, but then, none of the others have those same necessary features either.īut I do know people are fickle with all sorts of crap on their phones and just love novelty. My whole thing is that the IU is something I like and that it works. I don't share pages or anything like that and don't need most features. I also never understood the popularity of Chrome. You have to put up with toast messages complaining about Java exceptions (probably OS version related, the same xScope didn't used to do that on the older OS - and bear in mind I'm on KitKat right now, I'll have to test later on stock Lollipop).īut I've found my solution to the annoying insistence that I can't get a desktop view on a lot of sites and that's good enough for me. Nothing else explains the rise of Chrome - it was a piece of featureless crap at launch and everyone raved about it. I may drop the xScope dev a line for all the good it will do.Īt one time xScope was the hot thing but browser users are fickle and gravitate to the latest hot thing. I gave up on finding the perfect browser long ago.Īnd to answer your question, the xScope screen shot was made on my HTC One M8, default zoom at 2x, and default user agent set to Android lol. I don't set a default, I jump around by sharing through Choose Browser if I don't like how a site responds to whatever I'm on. But I still have sites or times where I prefer it. Dolphin is looking better than when they began their v11 stuff.Ĭlick to expand.I got it a while back and stopped using it for whatever reason, don't really remember.īoat was my go-to browser for years but it started leaving me dissatisfied at Jellybean.Opera (though its tabbed browsing option is ugly as sin).CM browser (too loud/busy, no real tabs, tab browsing actually more annoying than cardstack).UC Browser (no tab bar, no dialer, annoying default home page).Chrome (no true tabs, basically no options, no dialer, no fullscreen).Firefox (no true tabs, just more Chrome rip-off, no true fullscreen).Web Browser and Explorer by Litter Penguin (constant bombardment of adverts).Will update shortly with which browsers I tried and hated, since I need to check them all as they may have changed since I last tried them. No real way to compare features unless you read out-dated blog posts. I am still surprised there's aapparently not one chart that has the browsers along one axis, the features along another, and checks to tell you which browsers have what features. Games/mini-activities/friend-sharing-activities.Desktop sync (bookmarks, tabs, whatever).Ability to turn off gestures/talk/swiping menusįeatures that would be nice but I can live without:įeatures I don't care about at all and will never use:.Quickly request desktop site and/or change your apparent device (though many sites now work around that and force you to their mobile site regardless of those settings, but a few I use often enough don't and their mobile versions are atrociously annoying).automatically extends and scrolls the page so that your soft-keyboard doesn't obscure the text box in which you're typing.Open links in a new tab or in a background tab.A REAL tab bar and full-screen support, not that side-list bullcrap like Chrome where you hit a button and have tiles of "tabs".Sucks that, of all the ones I have tried, Boat is the only one that has all the features I want. So basically, I want a browser like Boat, but with stability. ![]() Not that I can blame them, most of the browsers are Chrome rip-offs with a few unnecessary/novelty features (like "Doodles" or something). I tried to do a Google search for Android browsers that was basically a comparison chart of features, but apparently, nobody has made one. Well, now the developer of Boat is basically non-responsive and Boat has begun crashing a lot. ![]() I ended up using Boat because it had everything I wanted. So, a while back I asked for browser recommendations.
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