Dolphin Browser is a great free alternative to the built in web browser on your android device. It offers a great user interface with a ton of features such as tabbed windows and depending on the device multi-touch and many more. Where the built in browser is lacking dolphin more than makes up for it.

You can find Dolphin Browser on the Market here.

Dolphin Browser is a very fluid browser that I have found to be a very fast way to get around the net. There are plenty of built in features in this application that you can find out about right here. Just so you know why it may look different if you are opening it for the first time, I have the full screen view here, you can get to this by double clicking on any white space within your page.

Multi -Touch zooming/ multi - tabs

Mulit-touch is apparently the only good feature on a competing device, and within dolphin you have that feature too. Depending on your phone (hero, droid, nexus are a few) you have the ability to do the pinch zoom in and out by using two fingers on the screen to either move in or out of the screen. I did find the zooming to be touchy at times, sometimes when it zoomed out so far i couldn't find the page but it is relatively good.

Tabbed browsing is really cool. In the below image you can see the screen I am on however at the bottom of the screen there is a grey line and a blue line. The blue line is the current tab I am on. Once you have more than one tab open you can simply swipe left or right to get to another tab. This is a very fast way to have multiple tabs open at the same time and you do not have to hit any buttons to get to them.

If the web page you are viewing has a horizontal scroll bar you have to scroll all the way to the side before the tab switches so it works very well in combination with the multi touch support and wide web pages.

Easy Navigation

Dolphin has an easy way to provide additional navigation options by a long click on the screen you get this little context menu. Don't raise you finger when you get it but simple move your finger over the option and release. You can do zooming, page options and gestures through this handle little interface.