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[Tablet] Favorite Browser?

I've now got a Nook HD and a rooted Nook HD+, so I'm once again playing in Android world and have been trying out various browsers to see which is, for me, the fastest, most intuitive, and most fully featured one.

So far, I've tried out:
the stock browser
Puffin
NEXT
Dolphin
Opera
Firefox
UC Browser
Chrome

They all seem to have their pluses and minuses. Right now, my two front runners are Puffin and UC Browser.

I was wondering what everyone else's choices are, and why?

For example,the UC Browser with its tab button on the bottom bar makes it easier to access the tabs with my large fingers, as opposed to browsers that just display teeny tiny tabs on top. With Puffin, I like the quick controls that slide out from the sides for paging forward and back quickly; I also like its trackball option.

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Chrome because I use it everywhere with bookmarks in the cloud.

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I use opera mini mostly with stock ICS browser when I don't use opera.

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I'll second chrome because of superior tab management and passwords being synced from PC chrome.

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I used the stock browser on my N4, but then moved to Chrome. Used for Goog searches mainly, otherwise it goes unused.
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I used to use Dolphin HD until Chrome came out. Now I use Chrome on both the phone and tablet

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Boat browser when aosp isn't available.

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Mostly I use the Full Opera Mobile (not mini) as it handles file downloading well and some other thing, but also the stock broweser as it still recognizes FlashPlayer as Opera (as well as some others) has stopped.

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Boat Browser. I like clear all records on exit.

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said by Juggernaut:

I used the stock browser on my N4, but then moved to Chrome. Used for Goog searches mainly, otherwise it goes unused.

Isn't Chrome the Stock browser on a Nexus 4? It is on mine.

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Dolphin for me, clearing cache and history on exit is nice. Gestures also work well. I found the stock browser on the S4 to be junk.
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Dolphin hands down!!!!

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Drat, you're correct. I was thinking of my Nexus S. Just put Chrome on it the other day.

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I use Chrome because it words with Flash (most the time) and keeps a nice mobile view. It also sync perfectly with my laptop at home with whatever sites are open at the time or bookmarks in my bookmark bar.

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I like Dolphin.

Tried many others but always come back to Dolphin.

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Boat Browser. I like clear all records on exit.
Personally I have nothing to hide from gov spose, parents or siblings, not a share PC and live alone... I like the convenience of history.
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I use Chrome because it words with Flash (most the time) and keeps a nice mobile view. It also sync perfectly with my laptop at home with whatever sites are open at the time or bookmarks in my bookmark bar.

Firefox does that too. Never that big a deal to me thouh as I use tablet far more than I do home PC
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I like Dolphin.

Tried many others but always come back to Dolphin.
Been long enough I can't remember why but there were a number of things I didn't like about Dolphin. Lack of Flash support even before Adobe pulled the plug perhaps the biggest.

Though on a big Mem Tablet it is still installed as a last ditch if nothing else works... but really that hasn't happened.
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Which browser is best for flash enabled sites. Most of the online video sites I visit daily still uses flash.

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Dolphin and Chrome.

Dolphin for most everything and Chrome when I'm leaving my PC and want to transfer Chrome tabs to my tablet.

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I use the Android Browser. Like it better because of the Labs features, and also Flash still works with it. Also I just like the way it "feels", and it pretty easy to use, and pretty sleek and not a lot of clutter.

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I've had the best luck with Boat Browser. My previous favorite was Firefox Beta because it supported flash, but I started having a lot of problems with it and Boat's flash support works well.

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Which browser is best for flash enabled sites. Most of the online video sites I visit daily still uses flash.

Dolphin, NEXT, Firefox, UC Browser and Puffin can all handle Flash to one extent or another. Photon Browser is supposed to handle it by allowing you to turn it on for a website, but I haven't had much luck with that. Chrome apparently blocks Flash.

I use the Big Fish Games website as my test. I bring up an offered game page and if in the upper left side of the pictured game has a "Watch Video" button under it and it works, then the browser can handle Flash. If it can't handle it, the "Watch Video" button is missing.

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Chrome...universal across all platforms (save for 2.x), has good features including excellent BM sync reliability and is very stable.
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Re: [Tablet] Favorite Browser?

ALMOST universal...
I can't get my home page to come up by default on my S4.

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I prefer Chrome

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My test mule is my Nexus S. The latest iteration of Chrome makes it crawl. I don't like it. It's gone.

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Chrome

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Dolphin

The tabs seal the deal for me.