Is anyone having any luck running the Chrome browser beta?
I'm on Joker's CM9 (0.5.0.1) and have previously been on version 3 and 4 builds of CM9 but I get nothing but crashes with Chrome. It loads, and I can usually navigate to a page, but as soon as I click a link or button, it either freezes and exits.
I saw there was a Chrome and CM9-specific thread that suggested making a change to the ro.build.id parameter, but I tried that and there was really no change.
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1603725)
Anyone have any other suggestions?
Works for me, except tabs it crashes when try to use tabs..but I'm on 0.5.0
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Crashes doing pretty much anything for me.
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Thanks for the feedback, guys.
It just seemed weird to me that I was having so little success with Chrome. After all, Android is Google's OS and I've never had problems with Google sites or apps running on Windows platforms. Likewise, I have very few problems running the Dolphin HD browser on CM9, though I do have it set up for forced portrait mode as it will lock up if it goes to landscape (I understand this to be a known CM9 issue).
Anyway, it's good to know that it's not user error on my part with Chrome. Thanks.
works in my phone only thing when i try to use tabs it crashes.
has anyone looked into why chrome force closes when we try to open up tabs? I would think this would be something worth fixing, seeing as chrome is easily the best browser on android.
R2DeeTard said:
has anyone looked into why chrome force closes when we try to open up tabs? I would think this would be something worth fixing, seeing as chrome is easily the best browser on android.
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Its driver related... won't be a fix until we get ICS/JB drivers
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Jaemostoriginal said:
Its driver related... won't be a fix until we get ICS/JB drivers
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He is right. Opera is in the same boat. I use ics browser+ on 4.0 and above.
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So i have never gotten flash to work on my NC. I am running phiremod 6.1, and have tried Miren browser, stock, and Opera. None of them will display flashing animation or work with many of the restaurant webpages (many use flash based menus).
Reinstalling, changing settings, etc has not changed anything that I can discern.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is there a remedy?
also, a basic website to test it would be helpful in determining if it is the webpage's fault, or something wrong with my NC.
Embarrassing when I give my GF my tablet, and it fails in front of all her friends
Thanks in advanced!!
- Waffles
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A good test website to go test out, is www.cnn.com; have you tried using skyfire or dolphin HD? Skyfire is pretty quick when it loada flash based web pages.
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investinwaffles said:
So i have never gotten flash to work on my NC. I am running phiremod 6.1, and have tried Miren browser, stock, and Opera. None of them will display flashing animation or work with many of the restaurant webpages (many use flash based menus).
Reinstalling, changing settings, etc has not changed anything that I can discern.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Is there a remedy?
also, a basic website to test it would be helpful in determining if it is the webpage's fault, or something wrong with my NC.
Embarrassing when I give my GF my tablet, and it fails in front of all her friends
Thanks in advanced!!
- Waffles
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Have you tried all the opera options? Opera Mobile has worked for me for awhile on the cm7 builds. If you have tried it, don't know what to say.
Would just like to update:
Got it working by uninstalling flash + all extra browsers.
Installed flash first, then opera but it still wouldn't work. Repeated the process with a cache/dalvik wipe but still no worky
Finally, I installed skyfire to test it and viola! Opera now has working flash!
No idea what it did but I have since uninstalled skyfire and used the NC quite a bit and it is still working flawlessly. Thanks for the help guys (and I hope this helps someone else out as well)!
Struggled with this for like a month now LOL
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So, if anyone have tried Chrome Beta for ICS rom, do you guys have the display problem with it? I often got the display to stutter/mixed up and make the page really bad. Sometimes, when I want to type the URL, my keyboard just seems to be a block of image and I have to guess where the letter is located (the keyboard still function but the image just went crazy).
Is this problem on Amaze only? I have been using the Chrome Beta on my HP Touchpad and I have never gotten this problem at all.... So, I am just wondering if this is just my Amaze, or is it a common problem? If someone can tell me how to fix it, that'd be great
I love Chrome Beta since it sync all the bookmarks and the page that I open on my tablet/desktop/laptop all at once.... But, the crazy stutter/mixed images just drive me crazy; especially when I can't see where the letters are when I need to type...
I thought that was only my phone, or the Rom I was running. I also have that problem, distortion, stuttering, and it just goes bonkers on me
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Same here, no clue why it does that, never really looked into it though, will do a log next time I use it.
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Hmm, so it sounds like that It's a problem for amaze only. I have tried using three different roms on amaze and still got the same problem; while the chrome on my touchpad has no problem. Thanks for the confirmation
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Same here, I uninstalled it...
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Maybe it's the drivers we're using? Anyone using stock ICS drivers have the same problem?
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Maybe it's the drivers we're using? Anyone using stock ICS drivers have the same problem?
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I'm on stock ics and had same issues. Plus other graphical glitches as well. I also uninstalled. The AOSP ICS browser is the best IMO
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I'm on stock ics and had same issues. Plus other graphical glitches as well. I also uninstalled. The AOSP ICS browser is the best IMO
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I use the stock browser, so it doesn't bother me a bit.
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I use the stock browser, so it doesn't bother me a bit.
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Have you tried aosp browser? CapRomCE has it and it's pretty nice.
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Try this...thank me later
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.browserplus&hl=en
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Try this...thank me later
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.browserplus&hl=en
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Tried it before and it had some issues I didn't like... But I will try again
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Try this...thank me later
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.browserplus&hl=en
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Just set it to install from the browser, gonna check it out when I go look for my phone.
Works better now. It had user agent issues before, but seems pretty solid. Thanks man
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Whats the all around best browser period to download anyway for the amaze?
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Whats the all around best browser period to download anyway for the amaze?
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Dolphin or the ics browser + are pretty close. I love dolphin... Never let's me down
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Have you tried aosp browser? CapRomCE has it and it's pretty nice.
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I love the aosp browser.
But here are the two things I love about chrome beta:
1. Sync all bookmarks on my pc/laptop browser
2. Sync all webpage that I currently open on my pc/laptop/tablet etc. So I can switch between any device and still access the website that I open easily.
Are there any add on or apps that can do those things?
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shuvarts said:
I love the aosp browser.
But here are the two things I love about chrome beta:
1. Sync all bookmarks on my pc/laptop browser
2. Sync all webpage that I currently open on my pc/laptop/tablet etc. So I can switch between any device and still access the website that I open easily.
Are there any add on or apps that can do those things?
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Not that I'm aware of. I use Firefox at home and am not much if a bookmark guy so I'm no help
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shuvarts said:
I love the aosp browser.
But here are the two things I love about chrome beta:
1. Sync all bookmarks on my pc/laptop browser
2. Sync all webpage that I currently open on my pc/laptop/tablet etc. So I can switch between any device and still access the website that I open easily.
Are there any add on or apps that can do those things?
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Dolphin can sync your Google bookmarks
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Dolphin can sync your Google bookmarks
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That's good to know. But I guess chrome is the only one that can sync currently opened website at the moment...
Thanks for the answers though. I really appreciate it
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shuvarts said:
That's good to know. But I guess chrome is the only one that can sync currently opened website at the moment...
Thanks for the answers though. I really appreciate it
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Firefox does that as well.
Hello everyone, I am a fairly new XDA user and have been on topics for my Galaxy S2. I also happen to own a Transformer Prime TF201. I have to admit, I love everything about the tablet aside from its size. Not so portable but, great aside from the portability.
Since there are little to no tablet optimized apps on Android I end up using the browser on the prime more than anything. Occasionally I will run into a problem where a page will load completely blank white. Usually, when this occurs, I just clear the cache and things get fixed. But, a few days ago, even after clearing the cache, the pages will load completely blank white. I have Chrome on my prime so I can use that at the moment but, it is very unstable compared to the standard browser that comes with the prime. Does anyone know of a fix to this white page loading problem?
Sorry if this has already been mentioned or fixed before. I did a search and didn't find anything on the topic so, I figured that a new topic might be necessary.
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Bump. Nobody knows a fix for this?
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This happened to me once or twice, but simple closing and reopening helped. Since I'm unlocked and on custom rom, I haven't had such problem.
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Hello everyone, I am a fairly new XDA user and have been on topics for my Galaxy S2. I also happen to own a Transformer Prime TF201. I have to admit, I love everything about the tablet aside from its size. Not so portable but, great aside from the portability.
Since there are little to no tablet optimized apps on Android I end up using the browser on the prime more than anything. Occasionally I will run into a problem where a page will load completely blank white. Usually, when this occurs, I just clear the cache and things get fixed. But, a few days ago, even after clearing the cache, the pages will load completely blank white. I have Chrome on my prime so I can use that at the moment but, it is very unstable compared to the standard browser that comes with the prime. Does anyone know of a fix to this white page loading problem?
Sorry if this has already been mentioned or fixed before. I did a search and didn't find anything on the topic so, I figured that a new topic might be necessary.
- Shinya
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I would say just ditch the built in browser. I use two browsers: 1. Chrome as my primary and 2. Dolphin if I come across something where I really need flash. JB does away with the old Browser app and replaces it with Chrome anyway. So why not get it and get used to using it now rather than try to get along with the old browser which is going away anyway.
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I would say just ditch the built in browser. I use two browsers: 1. Chrome as my primary and 2. Dolphin if I come across something where I really need flash. JB does away with the old Browser app and replaces it with Chrome anyway. So why not get it and get used to using it now rather than try to get along with the old browser which is going away anyway.
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There is just something about Chrome on the tablets and phones that just don't do it for me. The PC version is fantastic, but, the android version is just bad I think. I have it lock up all of the time. I guess I'll have to use it for the time being I guess.
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shintastic48 said:
There is just something about Chrome on the tablets and phones that just don't do it for me. The PC version is fantastic, but, the android version is just bad I think. I have it lock up all of the time. I guess I'll have to use it for the time being I guess.
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Have you tried using Firefox Beta?
That's what I currently use and it works great. I will say that I have had it toss out the occasional ANR message and crash, but I find it to be more stable than Chrome.
Rebelwithoutacause said:
Have you tried using Firefox Beta?
That's what I currently use and it works great. I will say that I have had it toss out the occasional ANR message and crash, but I find it to be more stable than Chrome.
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I have given a variety of browsers a go but, I just can't seem to find any that I like and are as stable as the stock browser. Why can't they just make it work like Apple's Safari browser for the iPhone?
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I installed the AT&T jelly bean update a couple days ago and now when I do a Google search the links that come up from the search results won't work. I get a quick flash of the screen and then it goes right back to the search results page. I am not rooted, I'm running stock jb. Has anyone else had this problem? Any advice on how to resolve it? Thanks in advance!
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Try clearing cache and data for the "Google Search" app.
So it appears to be a problem with chrome. I was using chrome as my default browser when I couldn't get the links from my searches to work. I tried opening chrome directly and the app won't open up. I switched my default browser to the LG browser and it works fine now. So now I need to try to figure out why chrome isn't working on my phone. Any suggestions?
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So it appears to be a problem with chrome. I was using chrome as my default browser when I couldn't get the links from my searches to work. I tried opening chrome directly and the app won't open up. I switched my default browser to the LG browser and it works fine now. So now I need to try to figure out why chrome isn't working on my phone. Any suggestions?
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Noticed that my chrome is glitching as well after jelly bean update. Plain clear cache/reset doesn't work, but uninstalling the update and reinstall works.
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Noticed that my chrome is glitching as well after jelly bean update. Plain clear cache/reset doesn't work, but uninstalling the update and reinstall works.
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Thanks, I did the uninstall of updates for chrome and now it works.
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What browsers are you guys using. I've tried to give the stock browser a go but it sucks. I have a zagg screen protector so maybe thats it. Just seems hard to press links.
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What browsers are you guys using. I've tried to give the stock browser a go but it sucks. I have a zagg screen protector so maybe thats it. Just seems hard to press links.
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The stock browser does not suck at all. I think it's faster/smoother than all other browsers.
You could give Google Chrome a try. It's a bit slow/choppy for me though.
There are a bunch of browsers in the Play Store to try too (Dolphin, etc.). Give them all a try and see what you prefer.
I've used dolohin browser before and like it. I just wanted to give the stick browser a far shot one more time.
I use Opera mini. It's very fast and I love it!
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Chrome
Stock Browser is awesome in itself.
But I use Chrome for the link between phone and computer. Luckily dont experience this clunkiness you are referring to.
I'm using Chrome Beta. I'd like to use something else but the syncing of all tabs/history between mobile and desktop has me hooked. Otherwise I really like Dolphin and another one called Xscope
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I just tried out the stock browser and it's fast as hell. I'm going to use it from now on.
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Stock browser with flash installed. If it aint broke, dont fix it.
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Stock browser does not sync with chrome bookmarks...an absolute requirement for me. I have never been able to get any of the bookmark sync across platform things work anywhere near as well as Google's built in solution, and I am not going to f%$$ around doing manual syncing. So I use the AOSP browser. Fast and light.
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Stock browser does not sync with chrome bookmarks...an absolute requirement for me. I have never been able to get any of the bookmark sync across platform things work anywhere near as well as Google's built in solution, and I am not going to f%$$ around doing manual syncing. So I use the AOSP browser. Fast and light.
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Find Chrome to Phone in the App Store, it's never not worked for me (as it is, in fact, built by Google).
edit: This doesn't support bookmarks anymore apparently... weaksauce. I always click the button to send to my phone what I need to read later, anyway.
I think it may be the thickness of my zagg screen protector. After using both browersers back to back the stock browser loads pages faster than dolphin but it just seems hard to click or tap anything. Sometimes I have to tap 3 times.
How do you install flash on the stock browser?
Chrome
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