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Hi,
Noticed the default browser seems a little less stable after upgrading to Froyo.
On some pages it just dies. Can open the page fine in Opera Mini.
Emailed HTC support and they suggest a hard reset.
Didn't expect that to work and I was right.
Anyone else seen this?
Here is a page which causes a crash for me. Please try it and see if it does the
same on your Desire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11079055
Thanks
Peter
I've seen it crash out on some pages. Sometimes just the scroll is completely disabled and unable to be used. A bit annoying to say the least and I've found no fix to it yet.
I have noticed it too, it seems it happens when on a bbc (could be others too) site with more than one flash video content window on the same page.
Yes crashes for me too... seems to be related to Javascript - the page will load if you disable it...
Only seems to happen on BBC pages... only half joking when I say its a deliberate anti-Android measure from the Apple-loving BBC...
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Same here. Especially when being brought to the browser via HTC Peep or Seismic.
Same here, have had lots of crashes to desktop with stock froyo when loading www.bbc.co.uk/football
Thanks all. HTC's response of send your Desire back for a repair now seems like a poor answer from them. Did anyone notice this happening before the 2.2 Froyo update?
Or perhaps someone on 2.1 can see if that link crashes now.
This has been happening ever since the 2.2 upgrade.
Wonder if HTC will acknowledge its the firmware, not the hardware. Was fine before. Also, if you disable javascript, load the page, then re-enable it and refresh it'll often play the video without crashing, but as soon as you navigate to another page and try to play another video, it's back to the homescreen!
Odd that they would prefer to get me to send a handset back rather than say... sorry.. it's a bug. S/W bugs happen. As long as they get fixed not a big deal (well no in the mobile phone sector). Planes
I have responded say that I don't believe it's a hardware problem. Opera loads the page fine. See what they come back with.
www.bbc.co.uk/f1 was causing the default browser to quit, but today it is working fine.
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www.bbc.co.uk/f1 was causing the default browser to quit, but today it is working fine.
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I've only seen this on BBC pages so far - there were a couple of threads in the Q&A section about this a few days back (here), but to date I know of no solution other than disabling the plugins.
I've just come back from a month travelling the states and since the official froyo release hadn't come out when I left I have been using Android 2.1 daily whilst in the USA to keep up with the football news at bbc.co.uk/football and never had a problem. Since I got back to the UK and upgraded to 2.2 I have problems accessing this page without getting a crash back to the homepage.
Therefore, I am certain that this is a problem caused by the official 2.2 rom
it's good to know I'm not the only one having these problems on the BBC site. I've been running 2.2 since the OTA launch and have been having no problems until now.
The problem seems to have started (at least for me) some time this week, as I was able to stream some of the BBC F1 content on Wednesday(25/08). It was only when I was trying to access content yesterday (27/08) that this problem started.
Is this happening just with the BBC, or are there other sites that have this issue?
I first noticed this problem on Monday 23rd August (when i updated to Froyo) and haven't encountered it on any other sites yet.
I have also tried the stock OTA 2.2 and a rooted custom 2.2 rom (leedroid) and both of them would crash on the bbc site
I seem to have fixed it for now. I just cleared data from the internet application and no more crashes on BBC pages. You will lose bookmarks so make sure these are syncd with HTC sync 3 first. This may be a temp fix, so let's see how long it lasts.
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It's caused by flash overload as was mentioned above.
With the stock browser open go to Menu / More / Settings / Enable Plugins and use the arrow to select 'on demand' from the list.
Flash objects on the page will be replaced by a green arrow and will only load when clicked.
The pages should load ok now. If you have several windows open and try to load a heavy flash object the browser will force close.
It's not a perma fix but plugins 'On Demand' allows you to browse at least.
That's not necessarily always the case here. I only use on-demand and many BBC and such sites are crashing the browser in 2.2 whereas they aren't in 2.1. Now all those pages have embedded Flash content and there is never a crash on a Flash-less page so it might well be an Adobe Flash issue. I had no crashes before the last Adobe update.
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elbowz said:
Yes crashes for me too... seems to be related to Javascript - the page will load if you disable it...
Only seems to happen on BBC pages... only half joking when I say its a deliberate anti-Android measure from the Apple-loving BBC...
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How do you disable Javascript?
In the browser Settings there's an option to enable/disable it from there...
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squared1200 said:
it's good to know I'm not the only one having these problems on the BBC site. I've been running 2.2 since the OTA launch and have been having no problems until now.
The problem seems to have started (at least for me) some time this week, as I was able to stream some of the BBC F1 content on Wednesday(25/08). It was only when I was trying to access content yesterday (27/08) that this problem started.
Is this happening just with the BBC, or are there other sites that have this issue?
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It's not just the bbc site,I've got this website where I watch live football online via my desire.it was fine before yesterday,but now when trying to view some of the matches it just crashes and returns me to my homescreen.it was a good thing I didn't do a factory reset,it would've been a waste time.
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Firefox 4 beta is now available for download
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/m/beta.html
Had a little play with it & it seems to have a lot of features, but took a while to load up :-V
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Looks very nice. Like the sidebars when sliding in a site to the left or right to get the tabs and settings. Zooming in and moving in a site is quite fast but the text isnt rendered very well. Looks it needs a kind of antia-aliasing.
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Short link:
http://firefox.com/m/beta
Very buggy. Crashes, becomes unresponsive and has to be killed with a task manager.
Not ready for anything except bug finding and crash testing, imho.
Quite slow especially when zooming everything becomes pixelated for ages.
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Works slowishly ok on sites with no Flash. Sites with any flash content go gray immediately. Then the browser crashes.
Running on the euro version, rooted 2.1.
It's a bit slow tho. Standart browser is faster.
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What is best browser for galaxy s, supporting flash?
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What is best browser for galaxy s, supporting flash?
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I've tried a few different browsers Opera, Dolphin HD, Skyfire & this Firefox beta, they all have there pros & cons it's what works for you.
Saying that I'm back on the stock browser running DXJP1 froyo test build & it plays flash sites really well, I can watch tv from catchuptv.com & play videos from other sites & play flash games.
I've just tried.
What a heap of ****e...
Slow as hell, doesn't even load a page. Couldn't quit from the application it was so slow!! Had to close it with task manager for me as well.
My Samsung I9000 Pda Jpk ,,,I was www.DailyMoton.com..But The video is slow and I can't hear nothing ..Any help About That? Thank
it's a praiseworthy attempt! let's hope it'll be as good as it is on the desktops.
I think it lunch for android..
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anybody knows when will it be on the market?
Just a shameless plug.
If you (like me) don't want to put up with the bugs in FF4-Android-Beta2
(like not starting with the link that started the browser, taking forever to load,
no double-tap to zoom, forgetting it's sync-settings,..) but LOVE Firefox Sync,
then I recomment to try
FF Sync for DolphinHD.
http://sites.google.com/site/firefoxsyncfordolphinhd/
or:
http://www.androidpit.com/en/androi...hinhd.firefoxsyncplugin/FF-Sync-for-DolphinHD
I'd love some feedback on the new version 1.6 via email or the website.
BTW, you can get the daily builds of Firefox 4 Android at: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android-r7/
Hello everyone. I'm noticing a 10-20 second lag when I open my Internet browser. I'm running dolphin hd. Any ideas?
Yeah I get the same problem,maybe I'll try a different browser. Any suggestions for a good browser?
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Its funny I don't have that problem.
I still haven't set a default browser so everytime I open something it asks me stock browser or dolphin.
Or maybe because I've only had the phone for 5 days
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Recently I have had a lot of lag in Dolphin HD when scrolling, maybe the latest update is the issue?
Yeah could be
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Lgnitro1 said:
I'm running dolphin hd. Any ideas?
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It homecalls your browsing history. it takes 10...20 sec. You should better try boat mini
Glad to know I'm not the only one. I guess I'll try to keep the stored information deleted more frequently. If it doesn't help, I'll give another browser a try but man, I love the gesture feature a ton. Nothing like it...
Try Opera. It's a fantastic browser that's really fast and smooth.
+1 for Boat Mini. It's lightweight and fast. Switch to the grey theme.
A few thoughts...
* Dolphin HD is one of the few browser that will sync up with Google Bookmarks...Which is great, UNLESS you're like me and have HUNDREDS of links which will bog down the browser on startup tremendously.
* As has been warned about Dolphin, it apparently reports usage back to its' servers so that lag is likely due to that comm going on.
* Sometime bad things happen to even good apps...Check your running apps and kill/restart Dolphin and see if that helps.
* I have 4 browsers loaded, since there's still yet no perfect ONE browser.
** Boat Mini (when I just want to view something quickly and cleanly)
** Dolphin HD (Usually my general go-to browser)
** Opera Mobile (If there's any particularly content that Dolphin can't render properly)
** Firefox (Because I'm holding out hope that Mozilla will EVENTUALLY get it right with the mobile version so I can finally be in-sync between my phone and desktop!)
Found out where the delay in the stock browser was coming from. I disabled browser syncing in dolphin and it fixed the issue. Anyone else notice how choppy the stock browser is when scrolling? Any ideas what may cause it, or how to fix it?
Have you enabled "Force 2D Hardware Acceleration" (can't remember the name exactly) in the developer menu?
I'm actually running stock gingerbread, so no dev menu.
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drummer07 said:
I'm actually running stock gingerbread, so no dev menu.
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There's your problem right there. 2D applications aren't hardware accelerated in Gingerbread, and it's actually well-known that the stock Gingerbread browser is very choppy.
Try Opera Mobile...its probably the best you can do on Gingerbread.
I thought it was supposed to be chrome, but im using a phone from Google IO stock unrooted with 4.1 and the regular browser is still installed. is this only for the nexus 7?
They aren't going to be changing the default browser. Future devices will come with Chrome as the default, but they aren't changing it for the Galaxy Nexus, they are leaving it to us to use Chrome if we want. I'm glad, I'll probably be sticking with the standard browser for now.
Updating to 4.1 doesn't remove your stock Browser. Could you imagine if Google just pushed an OTA that removed the Browser?
The Nexus 7 could come with just Chrome because it didn't ship with a Browser and get updated later.
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They aren't going to be changing the default browser. Future devices will come with Chrome as the default, but they aren't changing it for the Galaxy Nexus, they are leaving it to us to use Chrome if we want. I'm glad, I'll probably be sticking with the standard browser for now.
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With u on that. ^_^
Need my full screen browsing!!!!!
Thank you. Just watched the unboxing of a nexus 7 and he said that in jelly bean chrome replaced the stock browser. It wasn't even installed. So I assumed it would be the same for gnex.
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donniestarko said:
Thank you. Just watched the unboxing of a nexus 7 and he said that in jelly bean chrome replaced the stock browser. It wasn't even installed. So I assumed it would be the same for gnex.
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The GNex will still have the 'Browser' by default and will not come with Chrome stock.
Now hopefully we can all agree that Chrome on Android blows away the default browser -- without Flash. It'd kind of be nice if they pushed away from Flash unless you need to use it - like having Chrome be default from now on. (Sorry Adobe, I love you, but even the good kids don't always make it very far.)
For those of us who want to always use Chrome yet worry about Flash. Try Flashify (on the Play Store). You can now set Chrome to be your default browser, yet if something needs Flash, you can "share" the page, which will allow you to choose Flashify. Upon choosing Flashify, the exact page you were on will open up in the "Default Browser" with Flash support.
Hope this helps anyone. :fingers-crossed:
kynolin said:
Now hopefully we can all agree that Chrome on Android blows away the default browser -- without Flash. It'd kind of be nice if they pushed away from Flash unless you need to use it - like having Chrome be default from now on. (Sorry Adobe, I love you, but even the good kids don't always make it very far.)
For those of us who want to always use Chrome yet worry about Flash. Try Flashify (on the Play Store). You can now set Chrome to be your default browser, yet if something needs Flash, you can "share" the page, which will allow you to choose Flashify. Upon choosing Flashify, the exact page you were on will open up in the "Default Browser" with Flash support.
Hope this helps anyone. :fingers-crossed:
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Scrolling feels very laggy and heavy on Chrome compared to the stock Browser.
kynolin said:
Now hopefully we can all agree that Chrome on Android blows away the default browser -- without Flash. It'd kind of be nice if they pushed away from Flash unless you need to use it - like having Chrome be default from now on. (Sorry Adobe, I love you, but even the good kids don't always make it very far.)
For those of us who want to always use Chrome yet worry about Flash. Try Flashify (on the Play Store). You can now set Chrome to be your default browser, yet if something needs Flash, you can "share" the page, which will allow you to choose Flashify. Upon choosing Flashify, the exact page you were on will open up in the "Default Browser" with Flash support.
Hope this helps anyone. :fingers-crossed:
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The stock browser destroys chrome in most ways, so I hope they improve chrome to match stock before making it the default browser.
I was shocked Google took chrome out of beta, and even more so when I heard that it was going to be the stock browser. I had just gone through crashes, lagging, just really not so good, and I uninstalled.
After all that, I still said why not, reinstalled when jb released, and I really think they did a great job with it. If you haven't tried it since it left beta, it's a different browser.
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Does anybody know how to change the full screen mode?
I want full screen on to be the default setting. But unfortunately it always changes back to off after some time.
Anyone know the actual name of the stock browser by any chance?
Trying to debug an issue that only shows up on stock [loads fine on mobile FF & chrome] but trying to find info on 'stock browser' outputs so many generic results.....argh! plus i like using the javascript console & this doesn't seem supported on other other browsers.
I am using:
g-nexus 2
unrooted with 4.1
stock browser
any info much appreciated.
This problem may not be exclusive to Firefox, or CM10, or the E4GT, but here goes:
Firefox 15.0.1
CyanogenMod 10 (Alpha 5.3 or any recent nightly)
Epic 4G Touch (black, shiny)
Same issue on other CM10 devices
Every time I launch Firefox and try to open XDA Forums' page with it, it crashes. Or on virtually any other page. Pretty much any page. Any search engine. ANYTHING.
Every. Single. Time.
It's really hard to believe that I've sent probably 100+ crash reports to Mozilla (many of them inadvertently), and that I am the only one encountering this problem. No other threads are reporting this. Firefox 15 seems only to cause this issue under Jellybean, but maybe not. Maybe Firefox just can't load web pages.
But if so, how come there are no other reports of this problem on the interwebs?
spnkmstr said:
This problem may not be exclusive to Firefox, or CM10, or the E4GT, but here goes:
Firefox 15.0.1
CyanogenMod 10 (Alpha 5.3 or any recent nightly)
Epic 4G Touch (black, shiny)
Same issue on other CM10 devices
Every time I launch Firefox and try to open XDA Forums' page with it, it crashes. Or on virtually any other page. Pretty much any page. Any search engine. ANYTHING.
Every. Single. Time.
It's really hard to believe that I've sent probably 100+ crash reports to Mozilla (many of them inadvertently), and that I am the only one encountering this problem. No other threads are reporting this. Firefox 15 seems only to cause this issue under Jellybean, but maybe not. Maybe Firefox just can't load web pages.
But if so, how come there are no other reports of this problem on the interwebs?
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Have you tried different browsers instead of firefox? I typically use UC Browser. I haven't found any issues with it yet and works great on CM10. Seemingly Firefox doesn't want to play nice currently. Lol.. I'll download it and test it see what happens. I'll leave ya a message on here. But as I stated, i don't use stock browser or firefox (well on my phone i don't)
One more thing i forgot.. I'll have to flash CM10 tonight when i get home. i'll see what happens.
I'm on the same Firefox and CM10 as the OP and get Firefox crashes on almost every page. I assumed it was Firefox but maybe it's the ROM. Either way, I'm glad to see it's happening to someone else.
I just wanted to chime in to say I have the exact same problem on my HTC One XL with CM10 and Firefox. I'm beginning to think it may be a CM10 issue as our phone hardware should be fairly different.
Its just CM10 related. Im running super galaxy v1.8, it works fine. Sure itll be upstream later down the line once bugs are worked out.
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Firefox is bad m'kayyyy
I'm on Phantom Phreakz's CM10 and I bounce between the stock JB brower or Chrome.
I can confirm that this has been happening for a few days on the CM10 nightlies using the Nightly build of Firefox. It crashes whenever it loads a page.
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Hi,
We believe this was an issue on our side (Mozilla) and is now fixed on our developer channel. Can you try out a Nightly build now (http://nightly.mozilla.org) and report back if things are fixed for you?