Increase Speed When Web Browsing on Android

Posted: August 01, 2014

[caption id="attachment_11967" align="alignright" width="620"] android chrome beta Image from greenbot.com[/caption]Browsing the Web on an android device can be frustrating. The built-in browser isn't necessarily designed for speed and efficiency. These helpful apps can make surfing the web a little less painful on android devices.

Ryan Whitwam, writer for Greenbot, shares how to increase speed when browsing the web on an android device.

How to make browsing the web faster and more efficient on Android

Smartphones deliver a gigantic world of online content to you wherever you are, one page at a time. But that’s sort of the problem: One. Page. At. A. Time. The fundamentally modal nature of browsing the web on a mobile device leaves you staring at a page while you wait for it to load, and the myriad of sluggish URL shorteners and awful mobile webpages certainly don't help. With a few tweaks and apps, you can make browsing the web on Android a faster, more efficient experience.

Read quickly with Link Bubble

This is an app from noted developer Chris Lacy designed to make loading sluggish websites much less rage-inducing. You simply set Link Bubble as your default browser, then all the web links you tap on will trigger a small bubble off toward the edge of the screen. The page loads in the background while you go about your business, scanning feeds or tapping out an SMS or reading Twitter. When the progress bar on the bubble says it’s done loading, you can tap to open a floating browser window.

The advantage here is that you aren’t staring at a blank page, waiting for it to load. You save a few seconds here and there, but it doesn’t take you out of what you’re doing.

Read the entire article How to Make Browsing the Web Faster and More Efficient on Android on Greenbot.