Re: Which is the best mobile browser?
Reply #12 –
Some browsing impressions on Xperia M5.
I cannot find Opera Mobile Classic in Google Store/Play anymore. I have v.12 installer stored somewhere though and maybe I will get around to installing it some day.
In older Androids there was an included browser that never got any updates. In my opinion it was almost adequate, even though rather limited in options. Any other browser I tried on Android 2.3 (LG P500), they were either too fat and resource-hungry or full of annoying quirks in the interface. Opera Mobile Classic was the best. It could do wap too, natively, which I tend to expect from a mobile browser.
Now in Xperia M5 (Android 5.0), the main browser is Chrome. It does its Chrome thing, connecting to every other (Google) app and presenting its own tabs as separate apps by default. Luckily I found how to keep Chrome's tabs virtually together as a single app. And I managed to switch its annoying translation suggestions off, something I never managed any other time at my reluctant encounters with Chrome.
Dolphin has acquired a Night Mode, i.e. a Dark Theme. Such theme should be available across the entire device. On Xperia M5, when you turn the brightness to zero, it still blazes, and Dolphin in Night Mode is the only tolerable thing to look at. It will become my main browser on the phone.