Hi,
My TV-provider has an online tv-guide from which I am able to remotely control my PVR, to set future recordings etc.
However, this web page is designed with a horizontal scroll bar, and on my Desire I am unable to see or navigate that scroll bar, and hence it is more or less unuseable.
Try the link in a regular browser on the PC to see how it should work, and then try it on the phone. I've tried both Opera Mini and Dolphin in an emulator, but they both seems to suffer the same problem?
How can this be? Any assistance or insight will be very welcome!
The same problem here - on some pages (eg. Google Reader!) there are no scrolls available and no other possibility to scroll content or one can do it in some way that I don't know...
It seems that it doesn't handle any javascript scrollbars.
I though the webkit engine was top notch, but this is just stupid, and extremely annoying.
It's not to do with Javascript, it's a CSS issue.
When an element is set to have an overflow of "auto" or "scroll", the Android browser seems to treat this as "hidden" instead, hence no scrolling. Pretty bad oversight
There's a bug report here: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2118
emdzej said:
The same problem here - on some pages (eg. Google Reader!) there are no scrolls available and no other possibility to scroll content or one can do it in some way that I don't know...
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Is there a reason you don't got to the mobile formatted Google Reader?
I had assumed this was an issue with ajax?
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Incendiary said:
It's not to do with Javascript, it's a CSS issue.
When an element is set to have an overflow of "auto" or "scroll", the Android browser seems to treat this as "hidden" instead, hence no scrolling. Pretty bad oversight
There's a bug report here: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2118
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Is this why Facebook (non mobile) doesn't show "older posts" at the bottom of the page?
Incendiary said:
It's not to do with Javascript, it's a CSS issue.
When an element is set to have an overflow of "auto" or "scroll", the Android browser seems to treat this as "hidden" instead, hence no scrolling. Pretty bad oversight
There's a bug report here: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2118
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Thanks for clearing this up, but I am completely miffed that they made such a huge mistake. It certainly breaks a whole lot of web pages!
Unfortunately, there seems to be no workaround either...
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I use stock browser with quick controls turned on. This has happened about three times now. I'm on a forum andi have about 4 or 5 browser tabs open. I'm finishing a long letter and I'm hitting the submit button. Suddenly I'm at android's home screen. I hit the browser button and my letter is gone including all tabs.I don't know what I'm doing to cause this.i don't even know what buttonsi could hit to make all the browser tabs to close at once. Does anyone have any idea? Thanks.
You're running out of memory. If rooted, try changing your low mem settings.
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If you are running out of memory while browsing the web, there is something wrong with your unit. That should not be happening.
Is that what's really going on? I thought maybe I was hitting a combination of keys with the outer palm of my hand or something.
My evo 3d has a gig of memory (800 something useable), and to many browser tabs, plus some music playing, etc will kill my browser. It's not really out of memory per se just the oom value of the browser gets up there too high. Especially with the values most people set by default on custom roms. What's the default for the tab?
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I don't understand. How do I look that up?
It happened today also and I'm positive this time I didn't accidentally hit any buttons or keys.
Every problem I had went away when I installed Opera browser. No more crashes. No more stuttering, choppy YouTube videos. Working select text, copy, and paste. No more bumping the wrong links or accidently closing on-screen keyboard because I hit the spacebar wrong. No more opening windows because my finger accidently strayed across the screen. Everything just works now. Boy am I glad I tried Opera. If you're having any of these issues I suggest giving Opera a try.
Unfortunatly, Opera wont work for some sites that use certain javascript functions and most sites that I use break in Opera (tables & forms dont show up properly). Luckily Ive never really had a problem with the stock browser, but I think the reason why is because I have pluggins set to On Demand. If you ever feel like giving the stock browser another shot I'd highly recommend to keep the plugins set to on demand and clearing out the cache every once in a while doesnt hurt either.
crossix said:
Opera wont work for some sites that use certain javascript functions and most sites that I use break in Opera (tables & forms dont show up properly).
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Could you please give some examples of sites that "break in Opera"? I am using Opera exclusively and I haven't experienced that problem.
I havent tried using Opera Moble recently, but the last time I worked with it one of my banking sites wouldn't let me login due to javascript errors that were only present while using opera. Also, I use my tablet for supporting customers while out in the field and the primary site I support does not function properly under opera (things like javascript links, the div wrapped tables and embedded videos do not display properly or sometimes not at all).
Opera is great for sites using html5 and simple javascript functions, but I cant use it as my daily driver when it wont play nice with my development stuff and refuses to render pages properly that my clients create. I want to be able to use one browser for everything, not be in the middle of a call and have to tell a customer "oh wait, give me just a sec I have to switch browsers, I forgot your site uses a ajax generated, javascript pop-up and I cant scroll it".
I'd link a specific site as an example, but it would require customer permissiions to do so since their site requires authentication but here's a charted example you can see that while opera has issues other browsers do not: www.quirksmode.org/m/table.html
For the general public though, you shouldnt have an issue.
One of the new feature of ICS is the ability to request desktop version when browsing the internet websites.
How does it works?
I mean, does it apply for one web page only?
Or the entire website domain?
Or the entire browsing session?
Thanks
It just requests the desktop version of that page that you're currently looking on. Nothing else.
All it does is requests the same page again with the UAstring of 'desktop' rather than the default 'android'.
Crap ... That mean we need to request every time for other pages.
Oh well, better than nothing.
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It just requests the desktop version of that page that you're currently looking on. Nothing else.
All it does is requests the same page again with the UAstring of 'desktop' rather than the default 'android'.
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gogol said:
Crap ... That mean we need to request every time for other pages.
Oh well, better than nothing.
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There's probably an option under labs in the settings to always request desktop pages by default. Not sure though.
At least it's there. It's better than typing about:debug and fiddling with settings.
From the video below, I saw a checkbox in the Request desktop version of the ICS web browser. Does it mean that it works for the entire sessions or all the time?
That is nice!
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/11/2...-controls-movie-editor-and-new-voice-to-text/
Can someone with GN explain this feature?
it doesn't stay persistent all the time (i.e. if you set it, then close all tabs and close the browser and come back later, the checkbox will be unchecked).
Hello everyone,
This is my first android device and I have a couple of questions regarding the browser:
1) Is there a way to add a plug-in to the browser to behave like iOS's Safari "Reader" functionality? Something that will basically display the text of an article without all the fluff (like ads and whatnot)?
2) The fonts used for the different sites I frequent seem to be a bit off. Are there fonts missing from the stock android that I need to add?
3) Zooming-in to a piece of the text by double-tapping seems to be a bit off, for me its zooming in a bit more that it should leaving the last few words of each line of text outside of the view. Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks a lot!
LordGrahf said:
Hello everyone,
This is my first android device and I have a couple of questions regarding the browser:
1) Is there a way to add a plug-in to the browser to behave like iOS's Safari "Reader" functionality? Something that will basically display the text of an article without all the fluff (like ads and whatnot)?
2) The fonts used for the different sites I frequent seem to be a bit off. Are there fonts missing from the stock android that I need to add?
3) Zooming-in to a piece of the text by double-tapping seems to be a bit off, for me its zooming in a bit more that it should leaving the last few words of each line of text outside of the view. Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks a lot!
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1) "Reader" functionality? some kind of jailbreak hack? Anyways, I believe you can disable images in the settings of browser (theres a ton of settings there so go check them out). As for ads, there are some apps out there that do that.. but as a dev, I'm pretty against it so maybe someone else will point one out
2) Thats even more weird.. the Galaxy Nexus does use the new roboto font and it does use this to render websites. But you're saying some websites appear off? Got any examples?
3) huh? double-tapping works very well for me. Again, some example sites? You're double tapping on a segment of text right?
For #3 you probably need to turn on word wrap/reflow or whatever it is called. Occassionally doesnt work and you need to refresh on dolphin browser.
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The answer is yes
For issue #1, there is! You don't need an account, but I would highly recommend signing up for one at readability dot com
Go the Android Market and search for Readability. Download the Readability Bookmark app and create the bookmarklet. This will create a bookmark with no icon called Readability. Then just go to any page with boat loads of text and images and ads and garbage and click the tabs button to show the bookmarks button, click it and then click the Readability bookmarklet.
It's a terrible workflow but it does work. I've been using it the past couple of days and it's very comparable to the Reader button in Mobile Safari.
For issue #2, I don't know of anything like that.
For issue #3, I have the same problem. Double tap on a column of text and the column fills the screen with just a few words off of the edge. I've played around with the browser settings and I can't get it to work. Pretty much any site with text, to answer kwazi's question.
Thanks for the respone!
kwazi said:
1) "Reader" functionality? some kind of jailbreak hack? Anyways, I believe you can disable images in the settings of browser (theres a ton of settings there so go check them out). As for ads, there are some apps out there that do that.. but as a dev, I'm pretty against it so maybe someone else will point one out
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It just formats the page to make it all text with no images or ads or anything else that doesn't belong to the article you're reading. Its like the Readability plug-in for desktop google Chrome and Firefox.
kwazi said:
2) Thats even more weird.. the Galaxy Nexus does use the new roboto font and it does use this to render websites. But you're saying some websites appear off? Got any examples?
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I noticed this while reading on a boxing site I frequent: www.eastsideboxing.com
I also noticed the same with websites written in a foreign language.
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3) huh? double-tapping works very well for me. Again, some example sites? You're double tapping on a segment of text right?
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I noticed this also on www.eastsideboxing.com
Thanks!
freicook said:
For issue #1, there is! You don't need an account, but I would highly recommend signing up for one at readability dot com
Go the Android Market and search for Readability. Download the Readability Bookmark app and create the bookmarklet. This will create a bookmark with no icon called Readability. Then just go to any page with boat loads of text and images and ads and garbage and click the tabs button to show the bookmarks button, click it and then click the Readability bookmarklet.
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Ahh thanks a lot! That's what I was looking for. Yeah its bit of a workout, but better than nothing
pukemon said:
For #3 you probably need to turn on word wrap/reflow or whatever it is called. Occassionally doesnt work and you need to refresh on dolphin browser.
Sent from my samsung gt i9250 which is in the wrong state.
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Thanks. Do you think this can only be done under Dolphin browser and not the stock one? I've just checked the settings of the stock browser and didn't find that option.
I have a question, will Last Pass be able to plug into it something like it does with Dolphin?
After further inspection, the font looks just about right when zoomed in (for English at least). I think my eyes are not used yet to see cramped text on this display
So I guess the only thing that I still can't figure out is how to make the double tap zoom work properly.
I just got my Pixel XL yesterday since I've set it up I've had this problem. When I open links, regardless of the app I open them from, they do not open in Chrome or whatever I have set for my default browser. Instead they open a sort of overlay WebView window. To clarify, these are not opening in the apps internal browsers (Like what is available in Twitter or Facebook). I have cleared all the default handlers, changed default browsers, tried from multiple apps, but this continues. I even did a chat with Google support and they claim this is supposed to happen. I have a video below of what I'm talking about. In the video I am clicking a link and instead of Chrome coming up, a window appears on top of Twitter and the link is rendered there.
Does anyone have any idea what would be causing this?
https://youtu.be/NHeNalBXG7s
Do you have any 3rd party browsers installed or any "multi-window" apps installed?
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Do you have any 3rd party browsers installed or any "multi-window" apps installed?
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I do not. Chrome is the only installed browser. Every app I have was also on my S7 before I switched and it did not have anything like this going on, even on the Nougat beta. I have never seen anything like this before.
Gotcha, and what app are you using to show the links to begin with? Sorry if I missed it in the OP.
EDIT: It has to be the originating app?
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Gotcha, and what app are you using to show the links to begin with? Sorry if I missed it in the OP.
EDIT: It has to be the originating app?
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This happens regardless of the originating app. It happens in Gmail, Inbox, Facebook, Twitter, my Reddit client, everywhere that has links that would normally be handled by the default browser.
This is part of nougat.. kind of.
Previously in android apps could use something called web view. Basically it was a built in generic mini browser that the app developer could customize to their liking and make it look however they wanted.
Now with Nougat they are trying to keep everything looking similar so apps can now use the mini browser thing which is part of Google chrome. Sounds like those apps your using might be using the old web view still
aholeinthewor1d said:
This is part of nougat.. kind of.
Previously in android apps could use something called web view. Basically it was a built in generic mini browser that the app developer could customize to their liking and make it look however they wanted.
Now with Nougat they are trying to keep everything looking similar so apps can now use the mini browser thing which is part of Google chrome. Sounds like those apps your using might be using the old web view still
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This is not a WebView window like I've ever seen. Nor is it a Chrome Custom Tab. I have never seen anything like what my video shows.
I guess I'm just going to have to do a screen share support call with Google and hope they have a solution, even if it is a factory reset.
Have you tried opening your Google app from the app drawer, going into settings > accounts and privacy, and disabling "open web pages in app"?
Ya, this is a confusing one.
moot4prez said:
I just got my Pixel XL yesterday since I've set it up I've had this problem. When I open links, regardless of the app I open them from, they do not open in Chrome or whatever I have set for my default browser. Instead they open a sort of overlay WebView window. To clarify, these are not opening in the apps internal browsers (Like what is available in Twitter or Facebook). I have cleared all the default handlers, changed default browsers, tried from multiple apps, but this continues. I even did a chat with Google support and they claim this is supposed to happen. I have a video below of what I'm talking about. In the video I am clicking a link and instead of Chrome coming up, a window appears on top of Twitter and the link is rendered there.
Does anyone have any idea what would be causing this?
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I watched your video. Yes that's different from what I get. Looks kinda cool. Looking forward to hearing what Google tells you.
A factory reset did the job. The only explanation I can think of is that for some reason my phone couldn't set a default browser. Anything that had an open to go from internal to external browsers (such as Twitter or Facebook) showed "Open in" instead of "Open in Chrome" even though my system settings showed Chrome as my default. Also, one of my default browsers listed was the Setup Wizard. I am thinking this is shenanigans from doing a USB transfer setup from an S7 on the Nougat beta.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!
moot4prez said:
A factory reset did the job. The only explanation I can think of is that for some reason my phone couldn't set a default browser. Anything that had an open to go from internal to external browsers (such as Twitter or Facebook) showed "Open in" instead of "Open in Chrome" even though my system settings showed Chrome as my default. Also, one of my default browsers listed was the Setup Wizard. I am thinking this is shenanigans from doing a USB transfer setup from an S7 on the Nougat beta.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!
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The good news is you got it straight! :good:
Sorry to necro, but I have this problem now and I'm really not trying to factory reset after all the work I've done making this phone mine. Are there any developments on this? The WebView thing doesn't support YouTube which is killing me the most. A Google product that doesn't support YouTube...madness....
If anyone else finds this, disabling the Setup Wizard app resolves the issue. That app just tries to open all links rather than letting the default browser do the job.
I went through this exact situation, and couldn't figure it out. Here is a link to the thread i had started going through the entire process, its about 3 pages. It started with gmail, then got widespread. My end result was a reset also.
Here Is The Thread
Since early 2017 my E980 on stock 4.4.2 has been struggling on text-heavy pages, in every browser. Zooming and then clicking is very laggy; clicks often show up delayed or misplaced due to rendering lag. Example page on Reddit (log in so things are clickable).
Is this normal?
Edit: disregard, this was due to AutoInput.
Depending on the browser, I'm using Firefox Focus on mine nd everything works okay... Consider that this is a 6y old CPU and modern web pages are full of different scripts, stylesheets and stuff... simply don't expect much from it.
ShadySquirrel said:
Depending on the browser, I'm using Firefox Focus on mine nd everything works okay... Consider that this is a 6y old CPU and modern web pages are full of different scripts, stylesheets and stuff... simply don't expect much from it.
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Define okay, though. The pages I'm talking about have tens of thousands of characters. This is causing a zoom and UI delay where you zoom in, tap something, and the tap is registered in the wrong spot because the tap zones haven't updated. Try it on the example page. Scroll around, zoom in, and immediately try to tap a grey link (no account needed).
LowVolume said:
Define okay, though. The pages I'm talking about have tens of thousands of characters. This is causing a zoom and UI delay where you zoom in, tap something, and the tap is registered in the wrong spot because the tap zones haven't updated. Try it on the example page. Scroll around, zoom in, and immediately try to tap a grey link (no account needed).
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By okay I mean I can spend 30-60 minutes on reddit w/out any issues or slowdowns It really depends a lot on the browser, Chrome is lagging even on my newer device sometimes, while Firefox likes to freeze for no apparent reason. I have only Firefox Focus on that phone and it's as fast as you can expect from that device.
I finally found the cause: AutoInput (Tasker plugin). Disabled it and restarted Chrome.