[ippa]

Bought two nexus 7 over christmas, one for me and one as a present. I've only read good things about them.

Ended up returning them both due to the bad surfing experience. Laggy, bad scrolling. Sometimes it felt like it missed my swipe as a whole and just got stuck. Switched back to my ipad1 which is much better in that regard.

I liked the rest... but surfing is what I do most on a pad, so that has to be perfect.

[rednukleus]

Did you try using a different browser? I've heard some people say that Chrome performed poorly on their Nexus 7 for some reason, but switching browser always seems to fix it. IRL every Nexus 7 I've seen is buttery smooth, so I don't know what is causing the problem for some people.

[ippa]

No I didn't, maybe I should have. Chrome is so good otherwise so it felt improbable that any other browser would be better.

With that said.. I don't understand how google could ship chrome in that state. Or how the reviews (I've read) seems to fail to mention it. Maybe it's just crystalclear when directly compared to an ipad.

[adev]

I have a Galaxy Tab II 7.0 (so I know it's not as fast and smooth as a Nexus), but not everyone has a Nexus.

It doesn't matter what browser I use, the experience just isn't anywhere near iOS levels of ease and enjoyment. From slowness, to click position errors, to ugly fonts, to just issues typing in URLs and constant browser crashing (I work a lot with HTML5 Video). The fact that the browsing experience is so poor on the device keeps me from using it other than when I need it for testing. I'd rather browse on my iPhone's smaller screen than deal with the poor experience on a larger 7" Android tablet. When I switch to my iPad 4, I immediately feel relieved... then disappointment when I even thinking about having to pick up the Android tablet.

[wvenable]

I experienced laggy bad scrolling on the Nexus 7 and it turns out the problem was other applications running on the device. I rarely have the problem but if I do, I just swipe off some old apps and it speeds right back up. It's probably just one app but I haven't bothered to figure out which.

I moved off of Chrome as my default browser and now use Dolphin with Jetpack -- no only is it faster but it generally works better for pinching and zooming.