Better Browsing On Your Android Phone, The Top Ten Net Browsers For Android
Android has been made by search giant Google so you’d think they’d get web browsing right.
While the local browser for Android trumps the iOS equivalent this isn’t precisely a massive challenge and it is not as feature-rich as you’d expect from the company that made Chrome a browser that assembled a userbase of 23% of all web users in just three years.
Thankfully Android’s flexibility and the strength of the developer community means there are lots of other browsers out there to take its place.
Opera
While many protest about the performance of the Opera desktop browser the mobile browser is solid as a rock.
It may lack add-ons but its light, quick, isn’t restrained by a specific number of tabs and has fantastic zoom capacities.
Dolphin
Dolphin was one of the first browsers for Android phones to supply shareable bookmarks If you are a fan of swype-type navigation then this browser is certainly great. It’s also got a significant number of useful ad-ons
Fennec / Firefox for Android
Firefox has maintained its placement as 2nd most favourite desktop browser for many years now so it was only a mattter of time until a mobile version with the browser came out (particularly given the nature of technology these days).
Firefox for Android acts very similar to you’d expect the desktop version to act and lets you share bookmarks between the mobile telephone and desktop browser.
SkyFire
SkyFire was the first online browser to allow you to use flash on your phone even before Adobe managed to port the language to the Android platform. It won no shortage of fans and lots of people still use it.
XScope
This browser allows you to do what no other browser can and is intensely customizable.
You’re able to switch the height of the address bar, as well as a number of other areas with just one or two swipes of the fingers. This customizability comes at a price (ninety nine cents in contrast to free for most of the other browsers)
Maxathon
If you absolutely love IE then the nearest experience you are going to get to it on the Android is the Maxathon browser. Based off the same framework as IE6 Maxathon manages to really squeeze more functionality out of a browser than Microsoft ever did.
Ship Browser
Speedier and more light than Opera, this is one browser that may work great on lower spec’d Android smart phones.
Miren Browser
Coming with pinch zoom settings, a handy ‘speed dial’ front page and a number of other functions it has been called a good replacement for a significant number of OEM Android phones.
UCWeb
One of the more flexible browsers of the bunch there was a version of UCWeb built for pretty much every mobile operating system, from Android to Symbian.
As a result it’s lightweight and will sit nicely on even the lowest speccd Android cell phone.
Textonly
When it comes to weight they don’t come much lighter than text only
It eschews all pictures acting more like a glorified RSS reader that can jump between pages.
There are lots of browsers out there that are suitable for any Android smartphone. Select your favourite and start enjoying the full benefits of an Android phone today.
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