Review of Baidu Browser – Fast and simple Android browser focused on performances
Monday, January 14, 2013
The Baidu Browser is a product from the large Chinese web services company – Baidu. This company presented its own Android web
browser in September, but it was only available to the members of the Baidu
Forum. From December it’s available on the Google Play Market.
What we also liked were the short advises that the browser gives you in order to easily find and use its features.
Maybe the only con is that you can’t synchronize with various platforms. Maybe in future they will fix this with some update.
Compared to its competitors, Baidu has better HTML and Java
Script support. It has simple design and it’s very fast. Also, Baidu works on
the powerful T5 engine, which is not compatible with all devices. But, if your
phone supports this feature, you’ll receive message that you can install it. It’s
truly an amazing browser!
Features:
- - Home screen, with direct links to your favorite
web sites and social networks, divided in several categories.
- - Supports tabs.
- - Scrolling and browsing with two fingers. If you
tap from up to down you’ll open a new tab, if you tap from down to up, you’ll
close it. If you scroll from left to right, you’ll go through the open tabs.
- - Bookmarks.
- - History.
- - Incognito mode.
- - Text mode – which ignores the pictures and shows
only the text.
- - Screen Shot of your favorite web sites.
- - Night mode brightness.
- - Your own downloads manager.
- - Many other T5 features like zooming and memorizing
zoom ratio, underlining links, GPU rendering, HTML 5 video.
What we also liked were the short advises that the browser gives you in order to easily find and use its features.
Flaws:
Maybe the only con is that you can’t synchronize with various platforms. Maybe in future they will fix this with some update.
Developer: Baidu Inc.
Our rating: 5.00