Is there anyway to let the browser run in the background? Coming from S60 I'm used to letting pages load in the background while doing other stuff. Can this be done on Android?
It always is in the bg >_> if you click on the internet/browser app it will go to the page that you were browsing/navigating on. Android=Muilt-tasking phone.
No, it does not let the browser run in the background it "pauses" it. If you begin to load a page, intertupt it while switching to another app, it will not continue to load. It will begin loading from the BEGINNING when you switch back. That is not multi-tasking.
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I wonder if there is a better way to close a browser instantly rather than to pressing Back button several times until back to the homepage?
Thanks,
Elgs
Get a task manager like Advanced Task Manager
elgs said:
I wonder if there is a better way to close a browser instantly rather than to pressing Back button several times until back to the homepage?
Thanks,
Elgs
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If you're talking about getting back to the homepage, you can always do that through bookmarks, or by creating a new window and then closing out the old one.
If you're talking about closing the browser completely so that it's no longer running, pressing the home icon and moving on to another task normally closes it out. Since the Browser is the largest application on the G1, it's a system resource hog, and as soon as Android sees that something else wants a chunk of that resource, it makes room for it by closing the biggest app open :].
For an insta-kill (not to be confused with Halo 3 ), use a task manager like TasKiller.
I have tried to ignore this issue but it's gotten to be such a huge pain in the ass that I have to ask. Every time I open a new browser window (tabbed browsing) or use another app even for a split second and switch back to the browser, the whole page reloads -- wtf?? Pisses the hell out of me.
Does that happen to everyone else too?
I'm running Cyanogen 4.2.5, with an 8 GB fat/ext3/linux-swap partitioned SD card. I have very few apps, and am always running 30+ MB free according to TasKiller. The browser reloads even happen when I kill all other tasks except for the browser.
Is there a way to minimize or stop the browser reloads from happening altogether?
Always Happens for me too.
This is pretty ridiculous. I can be on a single webpage, press home for literally 1 second, then go back to browser and it'll reload. (With no other apps open). Grrr
The worst part is the page is 90% visible, so why does it need to fully reload?? (You can press Stop, but then it continues reloading and leaves you with a white screen.)
There has to be a way to stop this?
This is ridiculous
Paul22000 said:
This is ridiculous
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so is this
OK, this may be kind of a dumb question but...Why isn't there a quick way to quit browser? Menu--->Quit like with Pandora would be a useful addition IMO. Right now, there is no reliable way to quickly quit the browser other than hitting back however many times is needed until the browser quits. Or, menu--->windows--->X on the open windows--->once a new window opens up the hit the back button again. Seriously, it doesn't make sense.
ummm try the home button.
Sleeepy2 said:
ummm try the home button.
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I don't want it to continue running in the background though.
staunty said:
I don't want it to continue running in the background though.
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Use advance task manager or some kind of task killer to kill it.
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I don't want it to continue running in the background though.
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Android will kill/clean it up when the ram is needed.
Why not just let android do what it does and kill it when it's necessary?
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Android will kill/clean it up when the ram is needed.
Why not just let android do what it does and kill it when it's necessary?
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While correct I find android deals with backing out of an app and pressing home differently.
Home says try to keep the apps state.
Backing out says I no longer need this app.
Neither kill the process but the second will be chosen first if more memory is needed. So by using back in general I find it more likely when I need multiple apps in ram they will both/all stay there.
The browser of course overrides the default back function to a web browser's back button unless you are on the first page of a window/tab.. so it can be harder to tell the OS you are done with it.
However even so don't use a task killer on the browser I find it causes some things to become out of place and make the memory issue worse as the day goes on.
If fact just don't use a task killer!! If things are going slow and you have swap. . Reduce or remove swap. If you have comp cache above the cm default same applies.. if you are tired of waiting on the home screen to reload, try keep home in ram.
Dolphin browser has exit with or without clearing cache on long press of back.. hopefully it 'backs' and nothing fancy. (Well unless you asked it to clean the cache)
ezterry said:
While correct I find android deals with backing out of an app and pressing home differently.
Home says try to keep the apps state.
Backing out says I no longer need this app.
Neither kill the process but the second will be chosen first if more memory is needed. So by using back in general I find it more likely when I need multiple apps in ram they will both/all stay there.
The browser of course overrides the default back function to a web browser's back button unless you are on the first page of a window/tab.. so it can be harder to tell the OS you are done with it.
However even so don't use a task killer on the browser I find it causes some things to become out of place and make the memory issue worse as the day goes on.
If fact just don't use a task killer!! If things are going slow and you have swap. . Reduce or remove swap. If you have comp cache above the cm default same applies.. if you are tired of waiting on the home screen to reload, try keep home in ram.
Dolphin browser has exit with or without clearing cache on long press of back.. hopefully it 'backs' and nothing fancy. (Well unless you asked it to clean the cache)
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What he said. I don't use a task killer anymore. I could get the quit function on dolphin browser but I don't understand why it isn't a standard function on the stock browsers.
Its a small complaint, but I notice that the new bowser simply loads the last page you were on, rather than loading up your homepage, even after killing the app. Is there any way to make it go to your homepage upon startup?
Hello everyone.
My Bionic is my first android device and I'm having an issue with the web browser automatically refreshing the page when I leave the browser and then come back.
It will still be open to the page I was one but refreshed and back at the top.
I'm assuming this is a memory savings item so it doesn't have to hold the entire page in memory while the browser isn't active but it's very annoying when I'm partly through a page and having scroll back down and figure out where I was.
Is there a way to stop this behavior? I've seen the ability to add tasks to an "autokill" list that drops them within a few seconds of going inactive but nothing to make something permanent.
Thanks.
This is something I've had to deal with since Android, but it doesn't really bug me, because I can understand why. With my Bionic, this definitely doesn't happen as much as when I had my Droid X, since it has more RAM, but there very well could be some sort of way to get this to work. I know there are some task killer apps (but that makes it completely useless if our on an OS past 2.2+) that will allow you to keep apps in memory at all times, but other than that, I believe it does it just so your phone doesn't get bogged down with trying to keep a whole web page in memory.
That's what I figured.
I was reading a game walk through and then switching back to the game and I had to keep scrolling back down through the massive page to find where I left off.
I wonder if an alternative browser would be any better? I'll have to search the market.