Following google news articles yields blank page - General Questions and Answers

Has anyone else experienced subject symptom on CyanogenMod 12? My location defaults me to google.ca, where I then browse to News via the pulldown menu.

Or if anyone can confirm or deny seeing this behaviour on their installation, that would be helpful. I'm on CyanogenMod 12-20150213-NIGHTLY-falcon, 1st generation Moto G. I was told on a forum that there no milestone releases of CyanogenMod for this phone yet.

It seems like the problem is related to high volume of extra information that Google appends & prepends to the target URL for a news article. Typing in the target URL unadorned with extra info seems to work fine. It doesn't make for a usable Google news, though.
On a related note, is the CM 12 browser basically Chrome? It's just referred to as "browser" and there is no reference to Chrome.

According to http://forums.oneplus.net/threads/default-cyanogenmod-browser.94832, the native browser is not Chrome. Reference is made to GMS certification, for which I found an explanation on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Mobile_Services.

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Hulu on Android?

Found this thought I'd share
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/04/28/hulu.may.not.reach.britain.but.will.see.android/
can't wait!!!
If you explore the page the Google search references (which apparently the authors of this and a few other articles neglected to do), you should note that there is a hidden discussion area where the Android and iPhone/iPad apps are referenced only as desired options by page visitors. There is nothing to even hint that Hulu is working on any such thing.
Just a rumor, friend.

[Q] TTS for web browser/VoiceOver equivalent for Android?

Hi,
I've been looking for a way to have my Android phone read to me similar to iOS's VoiceOver feature. I'm running Android 2.3 but can't seem to find a way to accomplish this easily.
A couple quasi solutions I have found is to use a RSS reader, such as "FeedSpeak" or "Web Talks" that support TTS (Text to speech), however this only works for RSS feeds. Another method is to convert websites into PDF's using Dolphin Browser's "MyPDF" Add-on and use ezPDF's voice reading feature to read the PDF back.
Am I missing something that is inherent in the Android OS? Does anyone have a better app to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance for your help!
gTen from over at the PPCGeek's forum recommended
Voice Browser Lite: https://market.android.com/details?...dfreebrowser.lite&feature=more_from_developer
This is an excellent example of what I'm looking for, I just wish it was a little more refined. Hopefully this will help someone looking for a similar app.
Hello,
I've been looking for exactly the same solution for a while now, and ended up looking at the same SW as you mention -- but found them a bit lacking. And yes, I agree, Voice Browser is annoyingly close. What bothers me the most is why isn't that one a browser plugin that can be activated only when needed.
Sorry if this doesn't provide you with any added knowledge (apart from the consolation that you exhausted all existing options).
Let us know if you find anything new / better. TIA for that.
I'm sorry for posting in a such old thread, but I was looking for exactly the same app and Google brought me here. I foud one very simple but that can satisfy the requirements of anyone looking for something similar. Here it is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benigumo.speechweb
Web Speech doesn`t work for me...I just get FC's all the time...
I think it's really annoying that there is no simple App or Add-on for this feature.
In fact I find it unbelievable. Is there really no convenient solution?
dp
I wonder if the permissions in android prohibit an app like that. my understanding is that apps reallycan't interact with other apps for security purposes.
Use "Voice Reading" app for reading web pages android
"Share" the web page to "Voice Reading" (read aloud) app. You have to get the app from Googleplay. This is the best way that I have found.
It's the highest rated reading app. Remember you can 'share' any page or email.:good:

[Q] LG Optimus Pad V900: Legitimate source for Android Lollipop ROM upgrade?

I stumbled across the web site that suggests that a Lollipop ROM upgrade can be downloaded for the LG Optimus Pad V900. Being that I have less than 10 posts, I cannot reference the page directly. If you currently do a google search for the following terms: lg optimus pad lollipop
The top ranked search result that has upgrade, lollipop and org in the link is the page that I am referring to. Three people apparently posted comments there in December 2014 suggesting that they were largely happy with the new ROM. However the web site's home, about us, and privacy policy links do not give related information which suggests that it may not be authentic. Also the wikipedia page for this LG device notes that closed drivers were an issue and I doubt that situation has changed. I am leery to try to attempt to download and load a ROM from a suspect source.
Any thoughts or comments as to the likely legitimacy (or not) of that site would be appreciated.

Issue with pop-ups on specific site

Not sure if this is the correct place for this post, but recently I've been noticing whenever I access the android police website from my android phone it almost always launches a pop-up that requires me to close the chrome browser and upon reopening, close the website tab quickly to exit completely and prevent the pop-up from relaunching.
Is this something I should be concerned with or is it most likely an issue with their site advertising. Most of these are being launched initially from my google now news articles.
Again if this is the wrong forum please let me know where I should be posting this. Thanks!
Probably related to their website. Feel free to contact them. You may remove intrusive pop-ups/ads.

No options for date range for Google searches in Android devices?

Hi,
I've been using my new Android phone for web access a lot more recently. On a PC I like to limit my Google searches to a specific range of dates. But I see no option for that with my Android copy of Chrome.
I found this Reddit post from 3 years ago complaining about Google removing the option. Can anyone confirm that this is still the case?
There is a post in that thread with a link to information on how to use advanced google search terms like: date:3 date:6 and date:12 ...But those don't seem to be operational any more.
Is anyone aware of any more current information on whether or not it may still be possible to set a range of dates for Google searches in Android?

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