Best Android browser?

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Her guys,

I know it's kind of subjective but what is considered the best browser for Android these days? I use boat browser at the moment but I'm sure there must be something better out there these days.

Cheers.
 
i found boat crashed all the time so have gone back to using a combo of chrome and dolphin, all is well now

e: i only use chrome for the chrome-to-phone plugin on chrome on my laptop/pc ;)
 
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I've always used chrome for browsing and if i ever want to watch a flash vid i use dolphin,

So a mix of those really.
 
Quick ics browser or dolphin with the jetpack addon imo.

If you have a HTC device with the latest sense, then the stock sense browser is the best overall imo.
 
I dislike Chrome on Android for a few reasons:

1) weird text scaling
2) no fullscreen (absolute rubbish on phones with software buttons)
3) top bar that doesn't hide when you scroll down
4) no quick controls

I tend to switch between the AOSP browser (with Quick Controls enabled + fullscreen), Maxthon (very solid browser) and Dolphin Beta (great overall, but it has some power management issues on Nexus 4).

Boat Browser used to be my favourite, but it lags behind the leaders these days.
 
I used Opera for a while, which I liked a lot. I'd still be using it now if it weren't for the crashing. Using Boat Browser ATM, and so far it's been fine.
 
It appears to be as highly subjective as I suspected. I don't like chrome because of the text scaling which is just ridiculous and it always seems to crash on both my galaxy s2 and my note 10.1.

I'll give a few of the ones listed in this thread a go. Some of them I have never heard of.
 
Stuck on Gingerbread on my phone and found Dolphin browser to be the best.

For tablet however I found Firefox to be quite nice since you can change the viewport desktop width.
 
Left field... Firefox beta

Used to be diehard dolphin fan but I have recently switch to firefox beta.

1. Its got flash support even on jellybean
2. Lastpass extension, how do people live without this on touch devices?
3. It renders better than webkit on the sites I go on, even the google+ site has issues on webkit based browser (inc chrome).
4. Decent desktop sync
5. With recent ionmonkey builds its only marginally slower than chrome/dolphin.

EDIT, Infact I just ran sunspider on my nexus 4:

firefox beta = 1775.7
Chrome = 1895.8

To my surprise it seems firefox is actually faster these days, ionmonkey obviously dong its job :/
 
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IMO Dolphin or Chrome for the phone they're both neck and neck on features ans speed.

For tablet I'm currently using nightly builds of Firefox due to addons advanced features like the ability to set the viewport/zoom level correctly. The only downside is a low colour depth on images. Might do a speed comparison as sometimes it's hard to tell which is faster.
 
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Chrome for me. I use Chrome on the desktop and so having all my tabs, bookmarks, history etc automatically sync across all my devices is very useful.
 
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