The increased memory usage is greatest with no or just a few tabs open. The Photon has a gigabyte of RAM and showed no signs of distress with five tabs open in the UC Browser with several other apps were running in the background at the same time. \u00a0Phones with less RAM may not be so fortunate. There are already several Android Market comments<\/a> reporting out of memory issues with the new release.<\/p>\n

Traditionally UC has been a proxy based browser, similar to Opera Mini. \u00a0I suspect that starting with version 8.0 for Android, the UC Browser is a direct (non-proxy) browser created with an embedded\u00a0Android webview. I believe this for two reasons.<\/p>\n

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• First, in desktop or zoom mode, UC 8’s rendering is much more accurate than on other platforms. The browser exhibits none on the usual UC rendering quirks like too small header text, extra white space between block elements and artifacts on transparent images (see the Synbian 8.0.4 version image below, left ). Pages in the UC Android Browser \u00a0(image below, right)\u00a0look identical to the way they appear in the Android native browser.<\/li>\n
• Another clue is that the Android version of the UC Browser does not send an X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. \u00a0That header is used by web proxies to indicate the IP address of the\u00a0original\u00a0user agent. It’s a de facto standard that’s sent \u00a0by most non- anonymizing\u00a0proxies including the UC browser on non-Android platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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  There are lots of alternative Android browsers based on the Android webkit class. Dolphin, Boat, Maxthon and Skyfire are some of the better known ones. They typically provide alternative UIs and additional features compared with the stock browser. I don’t use any of them but they do have their fans. However UC’s\u00a0biggest advantage is that, as a proxy browser. it speeds up page loading on slow networks and saves users money by reducing data consumption. With the demise of the Bolt browser<\/a>, the only other Android proxy browser is Opera Mini. While Opera Mini is an\u00a0excellent\u00a0browser, \u00a0it’s not perfect and it’s always good to have alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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