We provide you with the best mobile browsers for Android and iPhone. In the test, Dolphin, Chrome, Firefox, Opera Mini and Skyfire prove their abilities. Even if you rarely surf the internet, it is worth installing an alternative to Galaxy S4, iPhone 5s or iPad Air for the standard browser.
Dolphin Browser
With love for detail and up-to-date technology, Dolphin convinces above all in its design. The test winner for the androids scores among other things with a strong support of current web techniques like HTML5 including the video format defined in this standard.
ChromeBrowser
Also exemplary is the data management of the Android version, in which optionally only in the WLAN pictures or websites are preloaded in advance. Dolphin is the only browser on the iPhone that allows both a pop-up blocker and an adblocker to be activated, which has successfully suppressed most of the small advertising messages between the news.
Firefox Browser
The design, which is similarly complex on both platforms, does not only include a gesture control, which can be used to create characters, letters or symbols for functions or to call up web pages, but also attractive links and history maps that unfold from the right or left edge
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The interaction between the devices knows hardly any limits with Chrome. Both Android and iOS ran the Chrome browser in our test stable. Since Chrome offers the best synchronization among all browsers, the bookmarks should be quickly restored.
However, the interaction between different devices is even more far-reaching: on the way, the browsing history of the home computer is also available, whereby the searches started on the PC can be continued. Unfortunately, the browser pangs up and down problems.
On the iPhone it looked better. Chrome achieves a speed advantage in the WLAN, where pages can be preloaded in advance and are already in the cache, but there was a trigger, because you can not set pictures to be loaded or only in the WLAN.
Tidy and schematically well-structured, the Firefox for Android presents itself. The popular browser was the only one in the test, which occasionally crashed. To do this, it makes the pages themselves with a large font reasonable.
The separation between menu functions is practical: Desktop mode and character encoding are quickly accessible in the clear menu, while the text size and choice between the address and the page title must be decided.
The Tab view is clear and separates the opened pages from anonymous and non-anonymous tabs. Pop-ups are suppressed, but the browser notifies the user about any blocking - after all, it could also be a login window. Just as Firefox changes with Java Script applets: The objects are loaded as a gray box and activated by clicking.
Unfortunately, there is a technical stoppage for the former pioneer. Its reputation as the fastest browser Opera does not do justice to the current versions of the Opera mini on iPhone and Android smartphones. This is not due to a worsening of the technique - Opera compresses the pages and saves on the lower data transmission time - but on the progress of the other browsers.
And perhaps, because Opera has the same Skyfire installed on several systems, several browsers, a version for Windows Phone is planned. But at the moment the browser is technically stuck.
Modern web techniques such as HTML5 and CSS3 are supported only rudimentarily, Java Script can not be deactivated as an option for security, and an option for anonymous surfing is missing. Only the option of not loading images or different quality levels contribute to further data reduction.
Opera mini browser
Skyfire hits the bridge from iOS to Flash. In vain, the browser works only with Android. Skyfire is earned mainly on the iPhone because it runs Flash files that the iPhone does not otherwise support.
Skyfire converts flash data and adjusts it for playback. When loading, the app can examine if Flash videos were found. This works for the most part, but not on all websites. Often they are, for example, protected by DRM and thus can not be decoded.
Skyfire Browser
The Flash monopoly on the iPhone takes its toll: Skyfire is the only paid browser in the test. But also on Android smartphones, where the browser is free, Skyfire simplifies the input of address data on the Internet by storing form data. There was a deduction in the Android version for the missing possibility to log on to websites as a desktop client. It is available on the iPhone.
Available for iOS / Android / Windows Phone: yes / yes / no, price: free, test: 86 points / excellent
Available for iOS / Android / Windows Phone: yes / yes / no; price: free; test: 79 points / good
Available for iOS / Android / Windows Phone: no / yes / no, price: free, test: 77 points / good
Available for iOS / Android / Windows Phone: yes / yes / no, price: free, test: 69 points / satisfactory
Available for iOS / Android / Windows Phone: yes / yes / no; price: free; test: 79 points / good
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