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I have noticed that while going through the forums the pages do not refresh when I go back to a thread I read earlier. Is there a way to have auto refresh like IE?
Are you just using the back button to navigate back to the forum? I've noticed a few funky things, but I've picked up advanced browser on the app store, and I don't seem to see it AS often. Ymmv.
[Q] web browser
Is there any other web browser for the touchpad? Or any fixes for the browser? It sucks! Anytime you go to a site when you revisit it it loads as if you never left and you have to refresh it.
whitesuxdirtybirds said:
Is there any other web browser for the touchpad? Or any fixes for the browser? It sucks! Anytime you go to a site when you revisit it it loads as if you never left and you have to refresh it.
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nope, nothing else. won't be anything else unless someone extends the browser, which you can do if you know how to develop.
What about the "Advanced browser"?
https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.maklesoft.browser&applicationid=9962
There's advanced browser which gives you tabs but it's also $3. The reviews seem mixed.
I'd like to extend the browser to have many of the features of opera mobile when I have some time to do it. It's on my list of things "webos needs, but need the time to work on them."
the only thing I really miss on this browser is the trinication or what ever they call it. Its when you double tap or use the plus and minus on the bottom right of the screen or pinch to enlarge in android. It automatically puts the next word on the right of the screen on the second row and aligns the article to the width of what you are seeing regardless of how big you make the font size in the article. Really great for aging eyes without glasses. My 2 cent input. Hopefully the incredible devs here at XDA will find a way...please...thanks for all your work...experienced it with viewsonic gtab and nook color....you are the greatest....
dhayden said:
the only thing I really miss on this browser is the trinication or what ever they call it. Its when you double tap or use the plus and minus on the bottom right of the screen or pinch to enlarge in android. It automatically puts the next word on the right of the screen on the second row and aligns the article to the width of what you are seeing regardless of how big you make the font size in the article. Really great for aging eyes without glasses. My 2 cent input. Hopefully the incredible devs here at XDA will find a way...please...thanks for all your work...experienced it with viewsonic gtab and nook color....you are the greatest....
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[Q] Browser: Reduce Caching?
One thing that has really been annoying me about the browser is that it caches whole pages, which is rather bad on forums.
Is there any way to reduce the caching do it works like a regular browser? I'm hating having to hit refresh every time I view a board.
[Q] Browser: Broswer caching issue?
I've been using my Touchpad to browse the internet and it's having some issues. For a certain forum, I will view it at one time. I come back later, refresh, and nothing will change. I have to clear the cache every time. Is there any fix for this or is anyone else having the same problem?
TeeRom said:
I've been using my Touchpad to browse the internet and it's having some issues. For a certain forum, I will view it at one time. I come back later, refresh, and nothing will change. I have to clear the cache every time. Is there any fix for this or is anyone else having the same problem?
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I've found the same issue, clearing cache solves it. Browser needs work.
MOD/FIX- Browser Caching Issue Fix!
So if you have notice the default browser on the TouchPad is over aggressive with its caching. Its painfully evident when browsing XDA, when you return to a forum here it won't load a lot of the new information until you manually refresh. I was finally able to find this simple fix to get the browser working better(at least closer to the way it should run).
1- Download internalz pro from Preware.
2- Launch internalz and go into preferences under the dropdown menu in the top right corner. Scroll to the very bottom and turn on Master Mode. Hit yes on the pop up (its warning you that if you screw things up, you screwed your self). Then touch the drop down menu in the top right corner again and hit close.
3- Now navigate to /etc/palm/browser-app.conf
4- Now find and change the following to this...
MemCacheMinDeadBytes=0MB
MemCacheMaxDeadBytes=0MB
MemCacheTotalBytes=0MB
DiskCacheEnabled=false
5- Now save this under the drop down menu and do a full restart. (not just Luna)
6- Enjoy and hit Thanks!
Just a heads up, some people with a slower internet connection may notice a little bit slower loading. I haven't noticed being any slower though!
There is a patch in Preware called "Disable Browser Cache" that fixes this. You could also do a search on Pre-Central for the patch. Someone posted the file there too. http://forums.precentral.net/hp-tou...eboss-flawed-browser-cache-3.html#post3146221 check post #59 for the file. Very EASY to install.
I forgot to mention that you need Preware installed to use the patch.
The patch didn't seem work for me, plus the patch won't apply if you have some of the other ones installed. This method was great and was still able to be apply with other patches. I was just posting this here for anyone on XDA that wanted to use it.
Your very welcome your rudeness!
Did you notice that ICS browser likes to freeze? It is the same story as it was on Honeycomb on TF101.
Generally I try to type an address thet hit enter. The browser just pretends to be loading a www but it seems to do nothing.
I have noticed that. I have been getting force close after force close with this. The weird thing is that this worked great for the first day and then the second day it just has been fc crazy on me.
I guess I am getting the same thing.....
BROWSER IS NOT RESPONDING.
Then it asks
WAIT or CANCEL
The first night after the update, the thing was awesome. Now it seems to stutter and NOT RESPOND every so often.
Also I have to wait for the whole page to load before I can scroll. And sometimes it will load 75% of the page and then take like a minute for the rest.
For example....xda prime - show us your homescreen- that webpage was kicking my primes ass...lol
Btw, wasn't there settings in debug that we can change or turn on. Type About:debug into address bar and then go to settings and click on debug. Then u can change some if the rendering options. Is this a good idea, and what settings should be changed.
Still love my prime, just some little glitches that can be annoying at times.
Mcoupe said:
I guess I am getting the same thing.....
BROWSER IS NOT RESPONDING.
Then it asks
WAIT or CANCEL
The first night after the update, the thing was awesome. Now it seems to stutter and NOT RESPOND every so often.
Also I have to wait for the whole page to load before I can scroll. And sometimes it will load 75% of the page and then take like a minute for the rest.
For example....xda prime - show us your homescreen- that webpage was kicking my primes ass...lol
Btw, wasn't there settings in debug that we can change or turn on. Type About:debug into address bar and then go to settings and click on debug. Then u can change some if the rendering options. Is this a good idea, and what settings should be changed.
Still love my prime, just some little glitches that can be annoying at times.
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I have this same problem. Usually when the "Wait or Close" option comes up, the page is already loaded. Annoying but useful,
My browser also does the same thing, sometimes hanging and giving me the 'Not responding' dialogue just as it starts responding again. This happens on my prime under HC and is still exactly the same after updating to ICS. I never have to force close the browser due to it, but the freezing is slightly annoying.
None of this never happens in Opera Mobile. Another good alternative browser better than stock is ICS+ browser. the maker of thumb keyboard made it. He has a thread in themes and apps section. its a free app and getting real good reviews on it now. plus plays flash and everything with no problems.
But there is a problem with flash on opera?
When I have issues just force stop it clear cookies and history plus cache... Fresh start It is a pain but I LOVE ICS's BROWSER!
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Dolphin HD locks up too
Any browsers that don't give problems? I saw one post for Opera that was good any others?
Maxathon Browser for Tablets is a pretty nice browser
I have the same problem but it did the same thing more with Honeycomb so ICS was an improvement. It runs faster and better, but there is still some stalls when loading sometimes. However, in Honeycomb this would give me Wait/Force Close messages all the time.
I have the same problem. Noticed it after the latest firmware fix (19th?). Don't recall seeing this happen before.
I don't think its the browser, I think its ICS. I've tried 5 different browsers and they have all had the same issues.
I think it is ICS too. Makes me wondering if Asus is testing anything they release pertaining to the prime? Or if they did, hope they are testing it out on random primes coming out of the assembly line for any abnormality before releasin it. Or maybe they are because we are the beta testers.
I have not experienced freezing, but i get random keyboard lag, where i type an url, and it takes 1 second to register the keyboard presses on the url bar then they print at one pop
I blame the delay on the stock browser's ability to process scripts.
This didn't start till the last update. It was working great before.
If there is one thing I hate about this is that there aren't any good browser on Android. Can't import bookmarks, can't handle flash well, no ad-block adons.
I just use remote desktop so I can use Firefox on Windows. Only real solution.
Hope they figure it out soon, as it is annoying to say the least. I believe it is worse after the latest firmware upgrade also...........
I've noticed the waits a ton since ICS. Never had a problem with Gingerbread. It's quite annoying and my wife thought the same.
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If there is one thing I hate about this is that there aren't any good browser on Android. Can't import bookmarks, can't handle flash well, no ad-block adons.
I just use remote desktop so I can use Firefox on Windows. Only real solution.
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Big peeve of mine, too... no ad-block addons. I thought dolphin had one, but I couldn't find it after I wiped my phone. Haven't looked for it since.
Remote desktop is a poor solution though. I can't find any decent VNC clients aside from AndroidVNC, but that doesn't let you pop up the keyboard on a tablet like you can on a phone.
I'll start by saying sorry for the long post and complaining.
So i've been noticing two things about my View that really bother me, things that I don't have issue with on my EVO 3D.
The first and most annoying issue is intermittent, but happens more often than not. My tabs don't stay in memory. If I tab over for any reason at all, whether it's deliberately or a popup, the page/tab I was on will require a complete reload when I return to it. It's especially frustrating when I'm watching a streaming video, because the video will not resume and in the worse case I won't even be able to watch it. That's because when I click it, an unblockable popup will occur, I close that popup and go back to the video tab which does not remember my last action creating an endless loop.
The next one is that MOST of the time pages do not scroll smoothly. I'm keeping in mind that this is an Android device so it won't be buttery smooth like an iOS product. I understand and accept the technical reasons for this. I'm comparing it to my EVO 3D, and wow, there is a stark difference. The View will judder and incrementally load as I scroll.
I've adjusted various browser settings and so on with no real luck. Do others encounter these issues? Is there a solution or am I alone in this?
are you using the stock browser? The stock browser worked fine for me in GB, not so much in HC. I am using Dolphin HD and it works better.
Yeah, stock browser. I'll try Dolphin, was just hoping there was a solution for the stock browser, I love that it's chrome synced.
I have a question that might relate more to Android than to the Note. I've been using an iPhone since the 3gs and got my Note on Sunday.
On an iPhone, I can exit the browser, do something else, then come back to the browser and continue where I left off. The state of the browser is saved.
With Android, the browser goes back to the home page. I tried Opera and it seems to bring me back to the page where I last left off, but it has to reload it. It's better than nothing but I'd really like to save the browser state in memory.
Can I get the same type of thing in Android? I looked through the settings and didn't see anything?
Thanks
As long as you don't use the back button, it should stay on the page you were viewing. Hasn't happened to me yet.
Hmm.
I just opened up the Android Browser, went to slickdeals.net, hit the home button, went back into the browser (slickdeals was still there), opened up the weather widget, hit home button, opened go SMS, hit home button and went back into the browser and it took me to the home page again.
What am I doing wrong?
Hmm mine does the same thing. I'm using Opera. It seems like if it's closed for any length of time then it dumps the page from memory and requires a reload when you come back to it. My guess this is working a working as intended feature of the operating system.
I tried the exact same thing. Opened Engadget, hit home button, hit weather widget, hit home button, opened the messaging app, hit home button, hit Opera and it had to reload the page. I remember my iPhone saving browser state for days and I guess I never noticed it when I switched to Android about 8 months ago. Just tested my old Inspire on wifi, it does the same thing and it's running ICS. It's gotta be the operating system.
I notice the same thing with my Note. my moto Atrix didnt do this so i dont think it has to do with android in general.
its android..doesnt have anything to do with the Note.
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I have a question that might relate more to Android than to the Note. I've been using an iPhone since the 3gs and got my Note on Sunday.
On an iPhone, I can exit the browser, do something else, then come back to the browser and continue where I left off. The state of the browser is saved.
With Android, the browser goes back to the home page. I tried Opera and it seems to bring me back to the page where I last left off, but it has to reload it. It's better than nothing but I'd really like to save the browser state in memory.
Can I get the same type of thing in Android? I looked through the settings and didn't see anything?
Thanks
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I know what you're talking about. This happened to me several times on my Note. The first few, I kind of blew it off, then it got annoying. When I actively tried to duplicate the issue, it came right back to the same page I was on, rather than the home page. This makes me think that either I closed all apps from the task manager and forgot or that Android actively killed the browser after a time. I definitely never had this happen on my Skyrocket or Vivid.
I just tried to reproduce this - opened Opera, loaded a page, went back to Home, opened a half-dozen apps, went back to Opera, and my page was still there.
Opera keeps the page but has to reload it. The default browser just loads the home page.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using XDA App
Dolphin Browser HD seems to save my pages for days. If I forget to close out my pages it is always on where I left it.
It probably has to do with how the browser is treated by the automatic task manager built into android. My guess is that the stock browser and Opera get closed after a while of non-use, whereas Dolphin probably has some sort of higher priority and stays where you left it.
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Dolphin Browser HD seems to save my pages for days. If I forget to close out my pages it is always on where I left it.
It probably has to do with how the browser is treated by the automatic task manager built into android. My guess is that the stock browser and Opera get closed after a while of non-use, whereas Dolphin probably has some sort of higher priority and stays where you left it.
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I'll try Dolphin HD and post my results later today.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Opera keeps the page but has to reload it. The default browser just loads the home page.
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To be clearer - Opera did NOT reload the page after opening the various other apps in my test. It wasn't until much later when I re-entered Opera did I see it reload the page. Maybe an hour after I ran my test.
sega_102 said:
I have a question that might relate more to Android than to the Note. I've been using an iPhone since the 3gs and got my Note on Sunday.
On an iPhone, I can exit the browser, do something else, then come back to the browser and continue where I left off. The state of the browser is saved.
With Android, the browser goes back to the home page. I tried Opera and it seems to bring me back to the page where I last left off, but it has to reload it. It's better than nothing but I'd really like to save the browser state in memory.
Can I get the same type of thing in Android? I looked through the settings and didn't see anything?
Thanks
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This is samsung's browser most likely as I didnt have this happen when using cm7 on my htc inspire, but if you go do something else and want to return to the browser's last page you were on what I find is working for me is holding the home button and when all the open apps show up just select the browser and it should return you to the last page you were on. Since it only shows 6 apps, if you've opened more than six apps since you left the browser then it wont be on the list and would need to start a new session. This is so far how I've been able to return to my browser's last page I was reading.
This is not a Samsung or a typical Android issue. I have had the Skyrocket, Atrix, Atrix 2, Thrill, Inspire, Captivate, and a some others. Never had this issue. Only with the Note.
So my dock had been regulated to "plugged in all the time charging dock" for my phone for the past few months. Yesterday I needed a reminder why I stopped using the thing so I picked it up, docked it, and started to use it for a bit.
It feels snappy when using the UI to browse apps or if Im in Play News looking at articles. But once I open Chrome to browse the internet, that is when I notice the issue. Pages seem to load fine, but when I try to scroll down them, it hangs for a few seconds and insta-loads the part of the page it scrolled down to. This is really annoying. Again, this is mainly when scrolling up and down pages in Chrome.
I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue or know a possible fix.
Thanks
Just bought this phone today and had this issue too. The touchscreen was not responsive in chrome when I tried to scroll up/down a page. Came here to find a fix too.
So I installed Firefox yesterday and it runs like a dream compared to Chrome. It seems like it takes longer for web pages to render but once they are up, you can scroll through them fine.
Just wanted to give the heads up.
Its not going to be enough for me to be a full FF convert but I will probably use it when I'm docked. Its cool that on my phone, my Home screen can have Chrome and on the dock, it can have Firefox.