Drives me nuts when the next page won't open. I keep having to close background browser screen to open a new one. Is there a way to not do this? I really don't care about what i've oppened previously.
Most custom ROMs don't have the 6 tab limit in 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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Has not happen to me.
It could have been the site you visited. Try Dolphin HD, much better than stock browser.
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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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..
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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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
Hi all devs,
could someone help me about booth apps...i got all the time issues by surfing with my chrome Browser on jellyBean 4.1.1 and the keyboard Swiftkey by using or typing in my Keyboard.
For example:
the keyboard goes crazy and disappears constantly can type anything ... that is extremely annoying
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Chrome browser flickers constantly only dolphin browser works better but I still want to stay with the chrome. Would it only work without any probs
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Can anyone upload the stick browser apk, it seems the Verizon version only comes with chrome and it's bugging me.
I noticed that too. Found it quite curious that HTC didn't include their browser.apk
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This was one of the first things I noticed when setting up my home screen. Chrome is good but in the HTC browser I could set it to desktop mode instead of always having to request it in Chrome. I'm sure it's just another quirk that will be taken care of with root.
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I'm actually okay with them removing the stock browser since I only use Chrome Beta and Link Bubble, but it was a curious decision by VZW since I know a lot of people like it. What's even more odd is that the AT&T M8 100% has it since i was playing around with one at work yesterday.
I just came on here to post about this. WTF?!
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NoFanboy said:
I just came on here to post about this. WTF?!
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I pulled the HTC Browser off my HTC One Max but it is a system app so I can't install like normal nor can I push it to /system/app because /system is RO. Here is the apk anyway. Not much you can do with it though.
Hey thanks anyway.
C'Mon ROOT!
Didn't work, even with root/system rw access
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If the reason people want the stock browser over Chrome is because of Flash support then this may be a solution:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Here...e-Flash-support-in-Android-4.4-KitKat_id49851
I think once we get S-Off a lot will be revealed! People are saying these devices do come out of the box with stock internet and stock flashlight app and who knows what else? Thing is, the carriers had these locked down so not visible to the user. Once we are able to modify system files these can then be revealed! I'm hoping that the built in stock text messaging app feature to block people will be restored as well! The international users have all these features out of the box!!!!!!!