I am owning a xperia Z3 using lollipop.
On Android, finding a perfect browser is not an easy job. The fact is that renowned browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Opera on desktop doesn't perform well for every aspect(I'll tell you the reason later), making me never to enjoy browsing on a device. Therefore, I started to try out some lesser known browsers.
First of all, let me introduce some major problems of those options here.
Chrome is nearly a perfect browser, perfect on almost every way, it's neat, quick, intuitive and quite intelligent as well(thanks to her omniscient mother Google). Unfortunately, it jist can't stop doing background tasks all-time, it transmit and receive packets whenever your phone is working, even under sleep state, so that it is obviously a battery-hogger. On my daily-driver, I often could use it for no more than 14 hours including idle time. Go and uninstall Chrome, and you will get my idea immediately.
Opera is also a popular choice among Android users, and it similarly enjoy the benefits from Chrome by sharing the same(almost) engine. Opera is not all good though, it tends to unload tabs very aggressively and often user will find annoying to load the tabs back.
Reviewing the latest acquisition by Qihoo, it makes me feel worried about the future of this seemingly perfect browser.
Firefox for android, well. You are going to have a hard time using it. Firstly, the download manager. Clearing the download history in this app would DELETE ALL files. Second and more importantly, it is simply "boycotted" by major websites, one notable example is Google. This browser both internally and externally repel users.
Here is a list of browsers I would recommend, basically for speed and usability.
1. Via Browser
2. CM13 browser(even better if I could make the title bar stay visible)
3. XBrowser
4. Safari(go and buy an iPhone)
Don't even try to persuade me to use wtf UC, Cheetxh or Maxthxn browsers, they are all messed up.
Edit: Thanks god, Cheeteh's low code of conduct is now exposed to the world.
