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Anyone finds HTC ONE V's web browsering to be quite choppy?

I've tried different browsers, the stock one, Chrome, FireFox, Opera Mini, Dolphin mini and Boat browser,
all of them seem to be quite choppy except Opera Mini which is using different kind of rendering method,
but too bad the mobile sites are ass ugly in Opera Mini and you can't change it's user agent.
I've heard that the web browsers in ICS are improved a lot, so is it just me or is it a common problem? I want to know which one are you guys using too.
Also, I found that the keyboard to be quite unresponsive, after it pops up you need to wait for 1 or 2 seconds to actually able to type, how do I fix this problem?

Yes, I am facing that problem too.
I have no clue why that is so.
Try using Dolphin Browser, it might solve some problems!

Yeah when I had the One, browsing wasn't as pleasant of an experienced. The keywords input was laggy and it just wouldn't work as good as it should. That's one area where I thought the One V fell behind..
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Working fine for me
Browsing is working fine for me in default browser, except that it can not open more than 3 tabs at a given time.
lemmycaution0451 said:
I've tried different browsers, the stock one, Chrome, FireFox, Opera Mini, Dolphin mini and Boat browser,
all of them seem to be quite choppy except Opera Mini which is using different kind of rendering method,
but too bad the mobile sites are ass ugly in Opera Mini and you can't change it's user agent.
I've heard that the web browsers in ICS are improved a lot, so is it just me or is it a common problem? I want to know which one are you guys using too.
Also, I found that the keyboard to be quite unresponsive, after it pops up you need to wait for 1 or 2 seconds to actually able to type, how do I fix this problem?
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BTW, running Browsermark I get the following results:
Stock browser: 40,653
Dolphin HD: 44,018
Chrome Beta: 74,228!!!!
I didn't believe it at first so I repeated the test and got the same result. When you watch the test you can really see the difference.
I can't wait until Google works out the bugs in Chrome and it becomes more stable. It's going to be the browser to beat.

CafeKampuchia said:
BTW, running Browsermark I get the following results:
Stock browser: 40,653
Dolphin HD: 44,018
Chrome Beta: 74,228!!!!
I didn't believe it at first so I repeated the test and got the same result. When you watch the test you can really see the difference.
I can't wait until Google works out the bugs in Chrome and it becomes more stable. It's going to be the browser to beat.
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Ya..I agree but the keyboard not appearing and the double keyboard appearing is disappointing ..hope they iron these bugs out..
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shubhamchamaria said:
Ya..I agree but the keyboard not appearing and the double keyboard appearing is disappointing ..hope they iron these bugs out..
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??? I'm not getting this with Swype.
Edit:
Now that I've rooted I'm getting getting some strange behavior with Chrome and see the double keyboard sometimes and pieces of the keyboard showing up sometimes.

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All This... +Bluetooth issue!
Are there Bluetooth issues too with HTC One V?
Please guide if I should buy this phone...
People say that it sets on fire as soon as we talk on the phone... TRUE?
SHOULD I BUY THIS PHONE OR SHOULD I BE HAPPY WITH MY Dell Venue

Paresh Kalinani said:
Are there Bluetooth issues too with HTC One V?
Please guide if I should buy this phone...
People say that it sets on fire as soon as we talk on the phone... TRUE?
SHOULD I BUY THIS PHONE OR SHOULD I BE HAPPY WITH MY Dell Venue
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This thread is about browser performance. Please post these concerns in an appropriate thread. There are already a couple in the Q&A section.
The fire thing gave me a good laugh!
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Why wouldn't Opera Mini work?
There are two browsers: Opera Mobile web browser and Opera Mini web browser. I think Opera MINI SHOULD WORK.

im using Dolphin HD, best browse for android, im prefer default browser in original ICS, its simple and truly fast

All formatting gone from forums

Am I the only one getting this? It has been doing it for hours.
Looks the same on my PC in FF, Chrome, and IE.
Looks the same from my Kindle in Dolphin and looks the same in Dolphin on my DroidX.
I can't be the only one but I see no mention. Tried changing themes and that doesn't work.
Wow it is missing the button to attach files. Oh well here is an inline image.
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You're not the only one.
Desktop Browsers:
Firefox 14.0.1
IE 9
All cache, cookies, and history cleared.
EDIT:
Interestingly enough, browsers on the phone work just fine.
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It is the same for me. Has been for a few hours now. It must not be broken for everyone... I'd think we would see more complaints.
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Yup, broken for me too.

rearview said:
It is the same for me. Has been for a few hours now. It must not be broken for everyone... I'd think we would see more complaints.
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Yes formatting is not right for couple hours on any browser(ff, chrome,IE) or any computer, though it seems some from Europe are not having issues?

yolo2die said:
Yes formatting is not right for couple hours on any browser(ff, chrome,IE) or any computer, though it seems some from Europe are not having issues?
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That's right. I'm in England and none of my browsers are having a problem.
Here's Chrome on my phone -
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All messed up for me too. I could barely even find the reply button to post this.
It's like that on my Chrome browser in ICS too.

Im getting the same thing, I reverted within control panel to the classic theme and its not horrible but readable. Ive been trying all kinds of things for several hours now. Glad I found this thread..

Anyone know of fix, or is this a known problem? Does the problem only reside within the US? Thanks

XDA formatting has been shot all day for me... I hope it gets fixed!!!!
Thanks!

almost impossible to browse on a desktop right now

Earlier today I started having problems and sometimes moving to the master forum list then going back down to the topic I was reading would get it to work, but anytime I refreshed it would break. Now it's broken constantly. It's almost useless at this point to try and read anything here.

Wow, one minute it looks normal, now it seems to change with every page refresh.
Must be some ongoing editing of the web page at the moment.

I found a temporary fix, if you setup a proxy for your browser the site loads correctly, using web based proxy for now just for xda forums and works

I've been having the same problem for most of the day. Chrome, Firefox, Internet explorer, chrome mobile, Firefox mobile, and HTC stock browser all appear messed up to me. I've had to use Tapatalk all day just to be able to read and post.
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If u go to options and pick 'Classic' theme for forum viewing, it makes it use-able

yolo2die said:
I found a temporary fix, if you setup a proxy for your browser the site loads correctly, using web based proxy for now just for xda forums and works
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Tried it. Thanks. Web based proxy works fine for both US proxy and Euro proxy!
Weird
Wish I had some reliable proxy settings that weren't web based.
Surfing from my Kindle Fire running cm10 with SGT7 and Jelly Bean

It happened to me when I hit F5 in chrome.
Then I cleared cookies, etc. to no avail.
I jump over to firefox and it's still screwed up.

Classic style is ugly but works. I reverted to 2010 when they changed to 2013. Anyone else? Maybe that's why it's not everyone?
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It looks like there's a DNS problem with cdn.media.xda-developers.com (the server that serves up the style sheets)
If you know what you're doing, add the lines
108.161.188.192 cdn.media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 img.media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 img1.media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 img2.media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 img3.media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 img4.media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 buttons.media.xda-developers.com
108.161.188.192 icons.media.xda-developers.com
to your hosts file until they fix it.
If you don't know what a hosts file is, go watch a movie and hopefully it will be working when you come back.
(Devs: I know the benefits of a distributed system, but you're going a little overboard with all the hosts)

Opera Beta (now rebased off WebKit)

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...t-rendering-engine-is-live-in-the-play-store/
Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser.beta
Giving this a try, would like feedback from you guys as well. Looks like a reskinned Chrome tbh!

I only just read about this last night and will be road testing this for sure. Looking for a new browser since my much loved Dolphin seemed to be hogging way too much battery.

Browser is awesome:thumbup: very fast

Yes, I'm very impressed with it and with its performance so far.
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Working great got mad potential
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I like it myself but as I don't have any problems with Google Chrome on my phone. I think the biggest thing that will keep me as a chrome user on my android phone would be the syncing between my desktop, laptop and mobile device. I doubt opera would ever allow themselves to sync their bookmarks with chrome.
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I think its not way faster, but definitly Faster than the latest chrome.
And now the chrome has a bad text rendering making the text so unsharp, then Opera beta is absolutly my choice until Google fixes chrome.

jabbeboy said:
I think its not way faster, but definitly Faster than the latest chrome.
And now the chrome has a bad text rendering making the text so unsharp, then Opera beta is absolutly my choice until Google fixes chrome.
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latest chrome as in Chrome Beta? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.beta&hl=en
I feel that Opera is slightly faster but the bookmarks is one of the things that got me on Team Chrome still.
I wish there was autohide on the URL bar when you scrolled down similar to AOSP browser though.

zephiK said:
latest chrome as in Chrome Beta? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.beta&hl=en
I feel that Opera is slightly faster but the bookmarks is one of the things that got me on Team Chrome still.
I wish there was autohide on the URL bar when you scrolled down similar to AOSP browser though.
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No the latest stable chrome.
Yea i really hope google could make that url bar dissapear in chrome.

zephiK said:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...t-rendering-engine-is-live-in-the-play-store/
Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser.beta
Giving this a try, would like feedback from you guys as well. Looks like a reskinned Chrome tbh!
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Like reskinned chrome without tab swipe, or other device sync. So not really similar at all lol.
I guess it's ok. Nothing of interest to me though. It's just a regular old style browser with no features that seem useful.
Angel browser seems most interesting to me but it's pretty buggy and no dev support... And no other device sync... Man that's a good feature.

jarayn said:
Like reskinned chrome without tab swipe, or other device sync. So not really similar at all lol.
I guess it's ok. Nothing of interest to me though. It's just a regular old style browser with no features that seem useful.
Angel browser seems most interesting to me but it's pretty buggy and no dev support... And no other device sync... Man that's a good feature.
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Well to be fair it is in beta. The feature that opera advertises to put them out of the crowd would be off the road feature.
We all think it's chrome because it uses webkit which is what chrome uses. And chrome is the leader of webkit in terms of putting it out there on the map.
Mozilla uses gecko and the old opera browser uses trident.
I'd say it's a pretty successful beta 1 and looking forward to see what else they have to put out there.
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zephiK said:
the old opera browser uses trident
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Presto.

Pretty much using it as my daily driver with no issues. Which is more then Chrome was able to do on its first "stable" release.
All the features I need are there and work. And if its little data saver counter is correct then it is certainly friendly on a mobile network like old opera mini.
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That Beta has become their new Mobile browser and they have released a new Beta thats pretty awesome, Full screen browsing at last and moveable navigation bar :good:
Heres a screen
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How To: Flash Player for Galaxy S4

How to Get Adobe Flash on Samsung Galaxy S4 Working.
There are only a few Web Browser that are able to use the flash player, Stock and Chrome DO NOT WORK. there is a list of compatible browsers down below.
First what you wanna do is open the Adobe Archive link I provided and scroll down to where it says Android 4.0.
Adobe Archive Site: http://bit.ly/AdobeArchives
Now pick the first on and it should stat downloading a APK file.
Install and you should now have flash on you phone, but like i said the Stock and Chrome browser are not compatible use on of the following listed.
List of Compatible Web Browsers:
-Boat Browser
-SkyFire
-FireFox
-FireFox BETA
-Naked Browser
-Maxthon
If you have another compatible browser, Please feel free to leave a comment so I can add it to the list. Thanks
Video Instructions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAMQjGNf5gs

Thanks. Didnt know it went up to .54 Downloading now.
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blackout720 said:
How to Get Adobe Flash on Samsung Galaxy S4 Working.
There are only a few Web Browser that are able to use the flash player, Stock and Chrome DO NOT WORK. there is a list of compatible browsers down below.
First what you wanna do is open the Adobe Archive link I provided and scroll down to where it says Android 4.0.
Adobe Archive Site: http://bit.ly/AdobeArchives
Now pick the first on and it should stat downloading a APK file.
Install and you should now have flash on you phone, but like i said the Stock and Chrome browser are not compatible use on of the following listed.
List of Compatible Web Browsers:
-Boat Browser
-SkyFire
-FireFox
-FireFox BETA
If you have another compatible browser, Please feel free to leave a comment so I can add it to the list. Thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAMQjGNf5gs
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Maxthon. And the default phone browser should work as well (not Chrome).

thank will try out

fbueller said:
Maxthon. And the default phone browser should work as well (not Chrome).
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tried the default it don't work for me tried a few sites and nothing. did it work for you?

blackout720 said:
tried the default it don't work for me tried a few sites and nothing. did it work for you?
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It's actually not working for me in any browser, it flashes random colors instead of showing video. Wonderful.

www.youtube.com still uses flash right? Works for me there with the stock browser. I'm stock not rooted.
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fbueller said:
It's actually not working for me in any browser, it flashes random colors instead of showing video. Wonderful.
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Same here, after installing in works for couple of videos then crashes browser and shows colors, tried all flash versions and all browsers

dh2225 said:
Same here, after installing in works for couple of videos then crashes browser and shows colors, tried all flash versions and all browsers
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You can try my edited Dolphin Browser apk. I have used flash on 4.2.2 before with no issues or crashes. Strange why its crashing.
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Alright, so I took a few minutes to test these and other browsers, here's what I found:
1. YouTube and many other video sites support HTML5 on mobile devices. This is why you are able to view them.
Flash is NOT supported on stock or chrome browser.
2. Photon Flash Player & Browser (Google Play App Link) has the best flash plugin support that I've seen for in any browser.
- I was actually able to play flash games and the option to switch between touch control and "mouse" control makes games that do not require directional pads playable.
3. Every other browser in the list that I tried testing flash games with crashed shortly after entering the game.
I can't confirm the compatibility with flash-only video sites at the moment but I'll update this when I don't have pending homework.

Still can't get it to work for Facebook apps. Just keep getting the page that says "you need flash....."

loonamark said:
Still can't get it to work for Facebook apps. Just keep getting the page that says "you need flash....."
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Make sure you're using a browser that supports flash like Firefox
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There's a Browser called xscope pro it's full flash....
Works great
X10a-Freedom

zorprime01 said:
There's a Browser called xscope pro it's full flash....
Works great
X10a-Freedom
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Firefox works better. Plus it has ad blocker edge no more commercials for me
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zorprime01 said:
There's a Browser called xscope pro it's full flash....
Works great
X10a-Freedom
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thats 3 bucks though, if anything someone would just Pirate it if anything, Thankis ill add it to the list.

screen goes black in full screen mode
Is anybody able to watch a flash video in full screen mode?
Tried various browsers but none seem to work. The video works when viewing in normal mode, but once i switch it to full screen it goes black.
I'm trying to watch live streaming video on ilemi if that helps.
Tried most of the browsers and i liked firefox the best other then the black screen (which happens on all) it had the advantage of the adblocker really does make a difference.

Download puffin brower it has flash built in and works very well
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zorprime01 said:
There's a Browser called xscope pro it's full flash....
Works great
X10a-Freedom
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I use and love xScope. It's been my preferred browser for years now.

Safari Browser for S2 - lightning fast

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.granitamalta.cloudbrowser
Cloud Browser is a fast Android browser. Cloud browser is inspired from iOS's Safari for its user interface. By using iOS Safari as an inspiration, we were able to develop a natural and modern user interface aimed at making our users' life easier.
Speed: Cloud Browser is without a doubt one of the fastest browsers on Android.
Security: Cloud Browser has Icognito mode built in so if you need to browse the web anonymously, you know you can do it with Cloud Browser. Also, our browser sports the latest in data encryption methods so you know you are safe when browsing with Cloud Browser.
Productivity: Cloud Browser is very easy to understand and use, thus making migrating from other web browser an easy and painless process. You can even use the built in option to import bookmarks from other web browsers.
Works excellent whether on phone or tablet: Cloud Browser has been designed with both phones as well as tablets in mind from the very beginning and thus looks good whether it is being used on your phone or else on your tablet.
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Does it support flashplayer like dolphin browser does?

fiz:ik said:
Does it support flashplayer like dolphin browser does?
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Only on devices which support flash. If flash does not work on your device, it wont work here.

theumad said:
Only on devices which support flash. If flash does not work on your device, it wont work here.
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My S2 supported flash until kitkat. Now it's only working on dolphin browser and that's why I asked, if this browser supports it or not

no problem

Did a speedtest with cloud, chrome and Firefox
Cloud: 10 sec
Chrome: 17 sec
Firefox: 10 sec
Nice speed, but I don't really like the layout (it takes too much screen from the top)
It would be nice to have the tabs like on firefox.

When i click on bookmarks, it crashes..
using S2, Mokee Open source rom..

no mobile view/desktop view, also, the going icognito is bit weird, if it is like chrome or firefox, you can switch between icognito tabs and not icognito tabs.

GreekBlood said:
no mobile view/desktop view, also, the going icognito is bit weird, if it is like chrome or firefox, you can switch between icognito tabs and not icognito tabs.
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For the desktop/mobile view, you can go to settings and change user agent. Default is mobile, iPad is iPad, and Desktop is Desktop.
For incognito, to exit incognito, just close all the tabs in incognito mode.

theumad said:
For the desktop/mobile view, you can go to settings and change user agent. Default is mobile, iPad is iPad, and Desktop is Desktop.
For incognito, to exit incognito, just close all the tabs in incognito mode.
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And how to switch between icognito and not icognito open tabs?

GreekBlood said:
And how to switch between icognito and not icognito open tabs?
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For now you can't.

The speed is pretty good but the ads so annoying.
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Looks nice
Is it comparable to Google Chrome?

DroidBoy2000 said:
Looks nice
Is it comparable to Google Chrome?
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It is faster

dungm said:
The speed is pretty good but the ads so annoying.
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Will be making a way to remove the ads