is a standard browser installed on every Android smartphone and any Android tablet. This is certainly useful if you just navigate on the web, but available on the Google Play marketplace have been many alternatives. These often offer more features, more comfort and surf are often clearly quicker than the installed browsers
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Installing a browser is very easy: you can find them in Google Play, customized on your device or on the Internet. Each browser automatically sets itself, but not automatically replace the standard application. This is in the beginning quite irritating, when a link from another program is recalled, Android lets you then choose from all installed browsers
You can change that when you first the button “Default for this action. use “activates and then connecting to the browser. This lets you roll back to the institutions of Android, with the options of the installed apps.
1. Ghostery
In addition to advertising use various websites as tracking providers to register users’ behavior. The makers of Ghostery had resolved to make visible this invisible state of affairs for users.
For desktop use, there are enhancements in this area and Android developers have built it’s own browser. This allows for each website to see which and how many trackers are showing interest to the user -. It may be blocked as required
The browser is free. Who wants to support Ghostery can optionally activate the Ghost Rank-feature. These reports found trackers anonymously to the developers.
2. Javelin browser
What first strikes you Javelin is the very beautiful design. The browser has been completely adapted to the theme material design, which Google introduced Android 5.5. Especially like the clean minimalist design well: tabs and settings you can drag from the left and right of the image. That does not distract from the surf and still reach the different functions quickly.
Javelin also has some convenience features. For example, a reading mode that reduces the website in a plain text, a AdBlocker, an incognito mode and a password manager. Interestingly, the spirit mode leading Internet traffic through a VPN Javelin. Thereby bypassing internet filters example. But after a free trial month, you pay for this browser monthly $ 1.99.
The browser is free in itself, but provides a pro mode that activates other functions with in-app purchases.
3. Lightning browser
The Lightning browser is one of the few open source browsers for Android. The complete code is available on the code-sharing platform Github. Lightning itself is pleasantly fast, the design is minimalist and uses almost no room for the control functions. Open tabs and bookmarks on your side, which works very well in practice. The privacy features like extremely good. You can, for example Orbot – TOR browser -. Integrating
Lightning uses the WebKit rendering engine integrated in Android. The advantage is that you do not need extra engine to install or use. Still, it can cause problems if, for example faults can only be remedied with an Android update.
Lightning is free for up to 10 tabs. Who wants to support the developers for € 1.09 can buy the pro version and gets unlimited tabs and a AdBlocker return.
4. Naked browser
By far not the best browser (where the self-signed icon is worth seeing), but one of the fastest browsers that you can install on Android. The Naked browser has one goal: speed. For this, the developers have removed a huge amount of convenience features and reduced the apps to the most necessary. Phishing filters fail example, which Chrome and Co. do offer. So you must be careful with the Naked browser surfing and installing any additional anti-virus app.
In addition to the free version there is a pro version which costs € 2.17. It offers a few extra features. For example you can set the content for any website to be loaded. Additionally, you can download images as deactivating your device is not connected to wifi. That saves your weather data volume and is it worth to turn on when roaming or when only a 2G connection is available.
5. Puffin browser
Quick, with flash support and a desktop-like browsing experience that promises the Puffin browser. The browser provides speed while the Internet – anonymously and encrypted – is sent to the cloud systems of Puffin, where it is optimized for the device. In addition, the content is compressed, which in turn saves data volume. By using the data center Puffin can also display Flash content on the device, even when there’s no flash is installed on.
The browser also has a virtual touchpad and a virtual ControlPad. Both are practical even when they are not used daily. One important tip: the use of the cloud, data is sent through servers in the United States – who does not want to choose a different browser that
Puffin is in a free and a pro version that €. 2.91 cost. The free version is limited in functionality, so you can use the flash feature just two weeks.
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