I have an iPhone 4 with Safari and have one major complaint: when you open a webpage (either via 3G or Wifi) the page will almost always “jump” just before it fully loads. So basically what happens is that you go to hit a button, and in that fraction of a second the page jumps, meaning you have now hit something other than what you were after. (Drives me frigg’n nuts!)
Is this something that happens with the Android browser?
Anyone have experience with a different browser on iPhone that doesn’t do this?
“Perfect Browser” on the iPhone is a really great alternative to Safari. Loads of neat features like ‘hyperscroll’ to the bottom of a very long page (e.g. SDMB threads), real full-screen browsing, tabbed browsing, desktop browser emulation, open link in background tab, and it doesn’t do the ‘jump’ either. It’s not actually ‘perfect’ but it is highly recommended.
I use Perfect Browser also and agree with jjimm. There’s also a Firefox browser that you can link to your Firefox account (if you have one) and have access to all of the bookmarks on your home computer.
And Opera, that one is pretty nice but I haven’t had a ton of time to play with it yet.
Safari I only use when a link I open defaults to it.
It happens with this very site. The banner on the main page loads just a bit slower than the rest of the site (Andrioid, not using the default browser, but Dolphin Browser), so if I try to hit User CP too soon, it jumps, and I miss user CP and hit the banner, reloading the page. Drives me nuts too.
It also has an orientation lock. You can lock the orientation to portrait or landscape and it won’t shift when you tilt the phone. Very nice for surfing while lying in bed.
My browsing experience on the Android is way, way, way better than on the iPhone.
No comparison really.
It’s the little things. Far faster scrolling (so I can zoom through SDMB threads) and “smart” zooming (i.e. a double-tap on my screen expands the text from the SDMB to fill the screen).
I never noticed that jump on Android, but maybe I just hadn’t noticed it, so i cannot say for sure what you are saying is not there. They are both built from the same base, WebKit, IIRC, so it very well may be.
FWIW, the biggest advantage the Android browser has over the iPhone browser is Flash support.