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Pro Syncs with desktop browser
Chrome for Android will sync bookmarks, passwords, history, and open tabs from your desktop.
Pro Supports the latest web standards
Chrome for Android supports HTML5, CSS3, and many APIs.
Pro Backed by Google
Like Android, Chrome is a Google product, which means the two technologies can be expected to grow together and remain compatible.
Pro Articles can be saved for offline reading
A simple double-tap will save and article that can be pulled up at any time. All this is done in the background as to not interfere browsing.
Pro Built-in reading mode
Blogs and articles can be opened in a distraction-free mode that even removes ads, saves memory and uses up less data.
Con No desktop sync
Although there's a sync option to sync across devices, it has no web client. If you want to view the links on your desktop, there's no feature for that.
Con Messes with any video played full screen
The screen flickers in full screen video mode if any Flynx bubble is open.
Pro Built-in adblocking
Other apps make it difficult to block ads without rooting your phone or going through unoptimized add-on stores, but Link Bubble blocks them out of the box, making browsing much less crowded.
Pro Loads a bubble in the background
So you can tap links in other apps and keep reading and not waste time while the browser starts up and the page loads.
Con Can't copy text
This is a limitation of Android service overlays.
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Pro Free, open source and community driven
Firefox is available as a free download. All Mozilla software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Instructions on how to obtain the source code can be found here.
Pro Functionality can be extended with add-ons
By far the best browser if not using an adblocking app like AdAway or Adguard. Adblocking, Privacy, Themes/Stylish, etc. Add-ons make Firefox the best total package mobile browser... You may even forget you're using a mobile browser.
Con Reading mode removes images and videos
Reading mode removes everything that's not text, even if it's desired content.
Con Can't play flash videos
Due to security concerns, Firefox does not include Flash support by default.
Pro Data saving 'off-road' mode
Off-road mode compresses web pages to increase performance, and Opera claims it can help reduce data usage by around 80%.
Pro Reflows text on zoom
So you don't have to scroll sideways on every line.
Con Adblock
Adblock works in Data save mode only.
Pro Very light weight
Great for phones with lower RAM or performance issues.
Pro Has a data saver
Opera mini's data saver has two modes - regular and extreme. great for people with smaller data plans when not on wifi. Has also the ability to control the quality of downloaded images and some video optimizations.
Con Doesn't support some common modern browsers functionalities
Some web pages might look a bit broken but from personal experience it doesn't happen often enough (or at all) to be a major issue.
Pro User Agent support
Aside from requesting to display the desktop version of a website, Dolphin Browser also includes requesting to show the iPad, iPhone or custom version.
Pro Plugins
Plugins for Xmarks, Lastpass and other. Easy to turn them on and off.
Con No way to hide the address bar
Most browsers will automatically hide the address bar once you start scrolling down to increase display realestate available for the page. Dolphin does not do that.
Pro Privacy Protection
Brave protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere, script blocking, 3rd party cookie blocking, and private incognito tabs.
Pro Built-in Adblocker
This feature ensures an ad-less web experience, while also having a performance improvement in loading websites up to 4 times faster.
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Pro Seriously fast
In tests performed by PhoneArena, Puffin consistently outperformed any other browser both on synthetic JavaScript speed tests as well as real world cold page loads.
Pro Data savings
Puffin servers can compress pictures before you download them for faster page downloads and data savings for capped data plans.
Con Blocked in some countries
Puffin is blocked in China, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
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Pro Extremely lightweight
Naked browser is just 232Kb.
Con Lacks incognito mode
While the browser lacks a private browsing mode, it does allow customizing settings that will get you a similar effect.
Pro Full of Features
Many Features we can use.
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Pro Slide-out tab switcher
Tab switcher can be quickly accessed by swiping from the left.
Pro Built-in reading mode
Reading mode allows removing everything on a page but the content. It removes ads, styling and anything else that could get in the way of a comfortable reading experience.
Con No bookmark folders
Bookmarks can't be organized into folders.
Pro Real night mode
Erebus analyzes and changes the colors that the user sees on the screen, other browsers are limited by placing a dark theme in the browser, or putting a color filter above the website.
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Pro Built-in ad blocking
The browser uses EasyList data to remove ads from sites. It can further be supplemented with EasyPrivacy data to limit website ability to track you.
Pro Stores preferences on per-site basis
The browser can be set to remember which sites need to be shown in desktop mode, with certain content filtering settings, etc.
Con Abandoned
Atlas was last updated on September 19, 2014.
Pro True desktop browser experience
In flash mode you get remote access to desktop Firefox on a Linux server. Unbeatable desktop web compatibility on Android.
Con Videos are compressed twice
In Flash mode, you get an interactive streaming video of a desktop browser running on their server, but this means that when you watch videos (a major use case for Flash mode), which are already compressed, it has to be lossy compressed again to get to you, with noticeable loss of quality. So it&#...
Con Flash mode has ads
You can also get an annual subscription to turn these off, but it's $10/year. That's kind of pricey when you can get Puffin Browser Pro with unlimited service for a single payment of $4.
Pro Flash support
The browser can play Flash videos, Flash games, etc.
Pro Floating tabs
You can open a page as a floating window, you can open as many floating windows as you need. The windows can be individually resized and positioned wherever you want. The window can float on top of other applications as well.
Con No directory for add-ons
The only way of finding add-ons is by searching for them in the Play Store. There's no well organized directory available.
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