Anyone running this browser? I like it its got some weird graphics issue sometimes tho . Anyone else that's running it experience this as well?
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Same here.
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I was running it for a few days, but I had to stop. The graphical issues and general unstability just became too much. It would randomly crash for no reason, and more often than not, it would simply refuse to load a page. It would also frequently take a good 10 or 15 seconds to even start loading a page after hitting a link. Stuff like that.
It sucks, 'cause the browser was really great when it worked, and the extra features like desktop tab sync were really helpful. I just needed a browser that worked reliably.
That's why its BETA. Need I say more?
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Installed it here. The stinking browser is the largest application on my phone. Unceremoniously uninstalled.
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when it works right its the best browser .hope it becomes stable soon
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I use it and don't mind the lil bugs, the sync of the tabs I use a lot. its only got up to go from here so ill stick with it or just the stock ics one, the lil graphic bugs are annoying but go away, doesn't make it unuable imo
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Is the tapatalk forum app any good? It sounds like a cool idea but hasn't gotten many good reviews lately.
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Xda app is based off tapatalk and I think its pretty good software. If my reg. forums supported tapatalk id prob buy the app
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I use it for a few forums (Cyanogen, XDA, RiderForums) and it makes viewing them all easier since they're in one place.
Every once and a while it does hiccup though, it'll just hang on a screen for 5-10 seconds - for example when loading favorites - sometimes with a Force Close popup dialog box, but if you click 'Wait' instead of 'Close' I'd say 9/10 times it loads the page you want without restarting the app.
It's a lot like the XDA App: not perfect but convenient to have.
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Mine has never force closed or freezed, has worked like a champ. Use it to visit Overclock.net, and it works very well. Definetly a winner if you visit a lot of forums on your phone.
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XDA also supports Forum Runner, a similar app...you may like to try that as an alternative.
i was thinking about getting it but from the latest reviews i seen theres a new one that you will have to pay for also and other people said the update brought new problems
^ I downloaded version 1.4.2 yesterday on my motorola defy and it's working great. No issues whatsoever.
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About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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Has not happen to me.
It could have been the site you visited. Try Dolphin HD, much better than stock browser.
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About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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All of the Galaxy S phones experience this occasionally when viewing certain heavy websites like the pocketnow.com desktop site, especially if you get a few tabs going. Nice to see Samsung still hasn't fixed that. I suggest Opera Mobile.
I can vouch for the browser crapping out on any large website, this was one of reasons I switched from the captivate to the inspire. Used an infuse today and noticed the browser froze right away on anything with flash content.
I like the stock browser but I will try Opera Mobile for a while to see if it helps...it was my browser of choice on WM 6.5
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If I remember correctly on my captivate there were a few development who had tweaked the browser.apk to fix rendering issues and freezing. Will have to go back and read changelogs on some of the custom roms
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If I remember correctly on my captivate there were a few development who had tweaked the browser.apk to fix rendering issues and freezing. Will have to go back and read changelogs on some of the custom roms
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Yes...please let me know what you find out...this has been the only real complaint I have with this great phone...
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This happened again today...on both of our phones...anyone else encounter this lately? It is starting to become a show stopper for us on this otherwise awesome phone!
I had the same problem. The stock browser is a RAM hog. Use opera mobile, much much better and faster!
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Just use Dolphin browser, when out of ram it will not load new tab on the background unless you open the background tab,
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Well here's my quandry... I like the stock browser and I didn't have this problem with my Captivate... I am just really hoping that we can find a solution for this. I did reset the browser back to default settings and so far in the past couple days this is not happened... I'm not saying it fixed it but I will monitor it for a few days.
Side note however..
How can I make one of the other browsers the default browser and also where do I go to reset that back to the stock browser?
Thanks...
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If you're having problems with the stock browser just switch to an alternative like dolphin or firefox etc. Many improvements over the simple UI and limited functionality of the stock browser anyway.
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I'm trying something different now... I think I was on wi-fi each and every time that the browser locked up the phone and rebooted... I am going to try to keep it off of wifi for a few days and do regular browsing see what happens
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I have had this problem as well. It is really annoying.
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I have had this problem as well. It is really annoying.
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It is quite annoying and honestly unacceptable... using another browser is only a bandaid... this needs to be made loud and clear to at&t and samsung... there is a problem here...
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Happens to me as well...
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garak0410 said:
About twice a day, when browsing with the default browser, it will lock up, give the one vibrate followed by two...stay locked up, do the vibration pattern again and then present a black screen. About two minutes later, it appears it rebooted but never showed the Samsung or AT&T logos...
Anyone else having this issue?
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I have never used the stock browser....especially when Dolphin HD or Skyfire offer a far more superb browsing experience...
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ok.. i cant zoom with stock browser??? wtf??? i just noticed yesterday.. any answers .. i thought maybe it was a setting but i couldnt see anything i could change to fix it..
When I use the search button on my phone lately(past week or so) it's asking me to full out one of those capta things where you just type a word in a box. It's getting very annoying. From the same page it says this:
" Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot."
Anyone else getting this? I dont use this feature enough to cause this, maybe I'm being hacked?
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Got the same thing happening to me. Just started yesterday.
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I've never had it happen til this week, weird.
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Happened to me the other day. I guess robots are taking over
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Same here. Google shows that it thinks I am a bot. Says that they have detected bot-like activity from my IP addrss. Happens anytime I'm not on WIFI.
Same with me, nobody knows what's up???
What browser is everyone using, and what is the user agent set to?
For me it happens only if the stock browser searches, for example if I hit search button, our search via address bar in stock browser. Doesn't happen when I go to google.com and search from the page.
Btw, I'm on fusionV rom, what about you guys? It wasnt doing it till recently, and I've been on the rom for some time, I don't think it's rom related.
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Also happens when using voice search
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Happened on dolphin browser hd too
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I have noticed it happens only on KJ1,2,3 roms for me. Went back to kh3 and I didn't have to fill out the captcha.
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I have noticed it happens only on KJ1,2,3 roms for me. Went back to kh3 and I didn't have to fill out the captcha.
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Interesting, cause I'm on kh3 and it happens all the time
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This is happening to me quite often when I search from the widget. Really annoying.
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I'm on 2.2 kb1 fasty rom and its been happening to me as well. It must be something to do with google perhaps.
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I'm on stock 2.2 but recently rooted. Been happening for the past 3 days.
Terry
On KI2 and have been getting it for a few days now, but only when using the quick search options. If I open the browser and hit google.com, it works fine. Really a PITA when I'm trying to use the voice search...
I am on Fasty 2.5 (2.2 kb1) and this started for me a couple days ago too. Only when not on WiFi and I use the search widget. I am glad I am not the only one.
Geeve
I had that happen this past weekend on stock AT&T 2.2, so I doubt it matters what ROM you're on.
Hey all!
What is your preferred browser?
I am a continuous user of Opera Mini for several reasons. The top of which being the data usage savings thanks to the compression from Opera servers. My second reason, it's simple to use and fast as all get out even when on 2G.
Being open to change though, I'm curious to see what others use regularly. Thanks guys n Gals, let me know. Any input is appreciated.
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I use chrome because that's what I'm using on my pc as well. I'm not saying it's the best though
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Boat browser...
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Dual Thumbs-Up Stud!
Rude and rather on the condescending side as you seem to be assuming I didn't already look for a post like this but I'll give you your upper-hand and admit that I must have missed it, so I'll bite the rest of my tongue and apologize anyway. Have a super day. :good: :good:
Thanks to the other replies.
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stock browser.
its light-weight and therefore fast, all websites run on it no problem and it syncs with my chrome because my chrome is synced with my google account.
but also im on nexus s, so cant really handle the chrome browser optimally.
perhaps for s3 or galaxy nexus it would be worthwhile using the chrome browser.
For me its opera mini just for the fact it loads pages quicker and its snappier than stock or any other browser I've came across.
But when YouTube app decides to start hiccupping I go to stock for YouTube.
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I Just Recently got the new Firefox browser, Its a beta but ill tell what, its hella fast
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Stock one, firefox isnt there yet. Though when they do ill switch because i use it on my pc (ecosystem and stuff)
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Yeah I tried Firefox for a while. Was pretty impressive but it seemed like a bit of a memory/storage hog. Other than that, no gripes with it. I have used Firefox on my laptop for I don't know how long and love it.
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For fast connections Dolphin is the best but for 2G none other than Opera.
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Dolphin HD is a really nice fluid browser. Maybe switch to Chrome when I get ICS because its such a great computer browser
Anyone using this yet? Pretty smooth so far..
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Seems ok in my limited testing. I always found the prediction engine in SwiftKey to work the best, having swipe just makes it better. I was going to try the tablet version on my Nexus 7 but I guess the download site is swamped as it couldn't connect. Most likely because guys like you are posting it all over XDA...
been using it all morning so far so good
Odd... In some cases it won't let me swipe.. Like the main search on the xda app for example..
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Anyone using this yet? Pretty smooth so far..
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Working great so far!
it working alright I just don't like how it stops the swipe affect on certain apps but pretty decent
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My first install was awful, it installed, but the prediction boxes on top weren't working. I uninstalled it and reinstalled and it's been working fine ever since.
Although, I think it predicts words better if you actually type the words. You can't select the word you wanted to type if it guesses the wrong word
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bps119 said:
My first install was awful, it installed, but the prediction boxes on top weren't working. I uninstalled it and reinstalled and it's been working fine ever since.
Although, I think it predicts words better if you actually type the words. You can't select the word you wanted to type if it guesses the wrong word
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I don't like the fact that if it got the wrong word when you swipe, you have to backspace over all of the letters. I think the stock 4.2 keyboard will delete the whole word if you backspace once. It might be an option though, I haven't looked that closely yet. Other than that, no real issues. Haven't decided if I'm going to stick with it or not, even though I bought it.
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I don't like the fact that if it got the wrong word when you swipe, you have to backspace over all of the letters. I think the stock 4.2 keyboard will delete the whole word if you backspace once. It might be an option though, I haven't looked that closely yet. Other than that, no real issues. Haven't decided if I'm going to stick with it or not, even though I bought it.
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U just have to hold down the back button to delete the whole word, or back up one space in order to get more suggestions..
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U just have to hold down the back button to delete the whole word, or back up one space in order to get more suggestions..
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I will have to try that, thanks!
Just installed it. Will update later. Seems pretty good so far.
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Works amazing, no issues since late last night.
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for me swiftkey in general, flow included, just seems really slow and laggy, would be great if it was as fast as aosp keyboard, and the swype doesnt work that well yet
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for me swiftkey in general, flow included, just seems really slow and laggy, would be great if it was as fast as aosp keyboard, and the swype doesnt work that well yet
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I've only used Swype as far as having something to compare it to...and it seems faster to me. I also like the prediction better than swype.
I don't type often(I mostly swipe), but when I have used it for typing it seems pretty fast....a little lag now and then.. I also do NOT miss the glitches in Swype, such as not spacing automatically in the browser and other apps...this has been good for that.
Keep in mind it's a beta, and as fast as the previous version is, I'm sure this can only get better...they've already got a great start..
So its been a week. Flow works pretty smooth for me but I did notice that the prediction needs a little work. But all in all I see a solid keyboard app worth using.
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Has anyone else experienced the inability to search from within a website using flow? For example, using Chrome or Google search if I navigate to xda, rotten tomatoes, imdb or android central(those are the sites that I've tested on) I can't search from within that specific site. After I switched back to SwiftKey 3 I was able to search successfully. I haven't checked the forums over at SwiftKey yet so that will be my next step. Thanks
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Google Reader sharing to Facebook doesn't allow the use of flow swiping. Hope they fix that as I'm sure there are other instances it won't work.
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Has anyone else experienced the inability to search from within a website using flow? For example, using Chrome or Google search if I navigate to xda, rotten tomatoes, imdb or android central(those are the sites that I've tested on) I can't search from within that specific site. After I switched back to SwiftKey 3 I was able to search successfully. I haven't checked the forums over at SwiftKey yet so that will be my next step. Thanks
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Swiping doesn't work in browser.. But I have no problem typing..
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Neither worked for me. Flow really seemed to be really eating my battery so I un installed it for now and am sticking with SwiftKey 3.
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