We'll probably just have to agree to disagree. I haven't really noticed any problems with GIF heavy pages on the N7, sometimes I notice that they don't animate but I just close the browser from the task switcher and restart it and the page seems to load correctly. I also usually have an ungodly number of tabs open (of course it doesn't load them all at once), and if it matters, I'm using the beta version of Chrome 97% of the time.
I think my problems with the Venue Pro 8 browsers would be fixed if Metro IE had an easy to get to way to send a mobile user agent (apparently impossible currently?). I get why it's not that way by default (don't want to send a mobile user agent on desktop) but it seems useful for such a small device. Perplexingly, Metro IE seems to render everything even smaller than desktop IE when browsing GAF, and when the text is that small you can really feel the low resolution screen (honestly I feel the screen res is adequate for most stuff, it's just super noticeable when you find yourself squinting at everything)
I can understand doing multiple browser installs to get around it and I personally would be willing to jump through those hoops (if this were my only tablet) but I think that kinda stuff is just going to be beyond the average user.
Google also needs to fix Chrome - clearly they are doing something wrong in the way they are handling touch events. No idea what kind of messages get sent to the application but it makes using Chrome nearly impossible - I got some messages in my Hangout with the window minimized to the bottom of the screen, and it's impossible to hit the "expand" button to bring the window back up with the touchscreen
You might want to read my post again, I understand how it works, I just think it's a bad way of doing it (it's also not the way it's done on every other mobile keyboard I've seen).
