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anyone else tried the new fennec mobile browser from mozilla? Just gave it a shot today. still an alpha release, i believe. could turn out to be a decent browser, but still a little jerky gui, but it seems to navigate to new sites quick enough.
Here is the post with the cab.
zacnotes said:
anyone else tried the new fennec mobile browser from mozilla? Just gave it a shot today. still an alpha release, i believe. could turn out to be a decent browser, but still a little jerky gui, but it seems to navigate to new sites quick enough.
Here is the post with the cab.
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Unfortunately your phone only has 64Mb of RAM. We’re targeting phones with 128Mb or more for the best experience.
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WTF. I love Firefox on my desktops, but I doubt I'm ever going to use it Mobile.
I tried it the other day, I think it sucks.
I do uses FF on my PC though.
Hey guys, if you don't know by now, Google released Chrome for ICS phones/tablets today!
Just go to the market and check it out
I'd paste the link, but since I created a new account recently, not enough permissions. cheers~!
Yea its really nice for a beta on the nexus s . Nice animations and I really like the syncing the tabs from my other devices
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Duplicate thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1485437
I love it. This is what the stock browser should be. It's slightly shower thank the stock isc browser, but damn I'd it slick. The ui is awesome, love the syncing features. I really hope Google makes this the stock browser.
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It works great, i've made it my regular browser since yesterday
that is great i am going to try it
No password syncing and slower then stock.... Immediately removed it...
Running nicely for me on cm9. Can't wait for updates.
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I like it. However, I visited a site with some video content and got a message that there is no "plugin" available to play the content I think once its the finished product it will be pretty sweet.
No flash and no user agent settings kind of make it less useful than boat, dolphin, stock or opera. Speed is similar between them all so i will probably not be using it for awhile. It's a decent beta though.
I was under the impression they were implementing some sort of "chrome to phone" within the browser based on who you were signed in as.. I clicked through the window that mentioned it.. I'm thinking I misread it and it's actually just that you get your signed in bookmarks... would be nice to have desktop to phone push/pull enabled tho
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I was under the impression they were implementing some sort of "chrome to phone" within the browser based on who you were signed in as.. I clicked through the window that mentioned it.. I'm thinking I misread it and it's actually just that you get your signed in bookmarks... would be nice to have desktop to phone push/pull enabled tho
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We already have Chrome to Phone...
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I was under the impression they were implementing some sort of "chrome to phone" within the browser based on who you were signed in as.. I clicked through the window that mentioned it.. I'm thinking I misread it and it's actually just that you get your signed in bookmarks... would be nice to have desktop to phone push/pull enabled tho
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It does show your open tabs on your other computers as their version of chrome to phone.
junkedBrian said:
I was under the impression they were implementing some sort of "chrome to phone" within the browser based on who you were signed in as.. I clicked through the window that mentioned it.. I'm thinking I misread it and it's actually just that you get your signed in bookmarks... would be nice to have desktop to phone push/pull enabled tho
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It has a desktop/phone sync function, where it shows the open tabs on your desktop Chrome on your Android Chrome. It seems a bit laggy but it works
I read it doesn't include flash.
And I find it slower than stock browser.
Let's hope ! It's just a beta
Yeee friggin' haaa!!!! Love Google! Mad props...fill in the blank...add excitement of your own choice....too stoked for words...geek out to the max and stuff! OK now that I've made it obvious how bad I wanted this I guess I'll go back into hiding until I get my galaxy nexus ....
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And again we (who do not live in the US of A) get to wait.. anyone care to share a apk or some such
*update*
never mind: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1485473
evcz said:
No password syncing and slower then stock.... Immediately removed it...
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It's a beta, you jackass.
Its taking up 50mb of memory in phone and cant be moved to sdcard. dunno if its worth that.
I know it's in beta only, but no quick controls makes me sad.
Also, it's terribly laggy even just to navigate the menus/bookmarks.
Other than the different OSs doesn't it seem like Google & Samsung are basically cloning Apple's computers with this http://www.jailbreakdroid.com/2012/07/introducing-google-air-and-google-mini.html? Also what are your thought on the Chrome OS, would a chromebook be worth considering as a cheap travel computer?
Apple designs can't be cloned because there is nothing distinguishing about them, a metal frame and a thin design are hardly anything unique.
ChromeOS will work if you are mainly using your computer for browsing the web, if you need anything else you should probably look elsewhere.
I'm actually considering it for an elderly relative. The reason I like it more than a Windows netbook is that the Chrome OS seems to be simpler and more user friendly. Said relative only wants to get online to browse the web and check email, so this looks like the best option.
My step mum recently bought a laptop just to go online, so when I set it up for her I put a shortcut to Chrome in the startup folder. For her, a Chrome book would be perfect. She doesn't care about windows at all! Horses for courses.
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I love my cr-48
#Thatisall
Throwing bricks since 2008.....and proud of it.
Make a Firefox computer and I'm in. Oh yeah, never gonna happen.
Maybe you can install Firefox to Chrome book?
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ArmorD said:
Make a Firefox computer and I'm in. Oh yeah, never gonna happen.
Maybe you can install Firefox to Chrome book?
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So you want an internet browser inside an internet browser. OK.
ArmorD said:
Make a Firefox computer and I'm in. Oh yeah, never gonna happen.
Maybe you can install Firefox to Chrome book?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS
That is all.
I've been hearing that the One has issues similar to its predecessor, as far as browser multitasking. Has anyone had issues with the browser constantly refreshing when you leave, go to another app, and come back to it?
No such problem with my HTC One. Multitasked between apps and browser, different tabs stayed put(no auto-refreshing).
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I've been hearing that the One has issues similar to its predecessor, as far as browser multitasking. Has anyone had issues with the browser constantly refreshing when you leave, go to another app, and come back to it?
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I would like to know the same..
EDIT: nvm
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I've been hearing that the One has issues similar to its predecessor, as far as browser multitasking. Has anyone had issues with the browser constantly refreshing when you leave, go to another app, and come back to it?
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Yes. Me.
Shasarak said:
Yes. Me.
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What kind of websites does it happen with and how often? It worries me how there's no definitive reason why some people have this problem. It seems to be random.
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What kind of websites does it happen with and how often? It worries me how there's no definitive reason why some people have this problem. It seems to be random.
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It does it a LOT on a dating site that I use, OKCupid (when accessing the desktop version of the site). I think it may possibly be related to the number of tabs one has open, as well. But certainly it's very annoying. I sometimes do a bit of browsing on London Underground trains. (You get about 20 seconds of wifi when the train is in a station!) What I'd like to be able to do is load up multiple pages in different tabs (each one opened as a new background tab) while the connection is up and then read them in the tunnels between stations; but it insists on refreshing each tab as you go back to it, and, as there's no connection in the tunnel, you can't actually read the page, even though it's fully downloaded and should be cached.
It does it pretty frequently. More with stock browser than with chrome though.
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It does it pretty frequently. More with stock browser than with chrome though.
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But that doesn't happen on my Chrome on my Note II... ever! Even if I press a link by mistake I can press back and it will be stored in cache, this is probably an HTC problem then, anyone else having this issue?
Nope. Not a problem for me. Always going back and forth on my browser. No issue there
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I agree. I can't remember if it's because I swipe it away with the recent apps button.
But sometimes the browser panics on me and closes on it's own.
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This was NEVER an issue specific to HTC or its software. The sooner people stop spreading the FUD the better.
The only reason Android will force the browser to clear its cache of a page is because it needs to. That is, it's running low on RAM due to other services/apps and needs more. Your browser is not considered a high-level process in the priority list (it's not a service, unlike many other apps), so it'll get hit more often than other apps.
So, the reason this crops up for some people more than others is simply due to what they have running in the background (services, such as Facebook, Trillian, GMail, etc etc). The more crap you run at the same time, the more likely it's going to run out of RAM. This is how it works for ANY Android phone going all the way back to the 2.0 days. It's ALSO how it works on iOS, BlackBerry 10, and webOS (except those platforms don't use a priority system). Also keep in mind that websites these days actually take up a significant amount of RAM, especially ones with heavy amounts of Javascript and retina-level graphics.
The HTC One has 2GB of RAM, which means you have quite a bit of RAM to work with before this happens, but how often it happens is always going to be determined by how you use it.
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This was NEVER an issue specific to HTC or its software. The sooner people stop spreading the FUD the better.
The only reason Android will force the browser to clear its cache of a page is because it needs to. That is, it's running low on RAM due to other services/apps and needs more. Your browser is not considered a high-level process in the priority list (it's not a service, unlike many other apps), so it'll get hit more often than other apps.
So, the reason this crops up for some people more than others is simply due to what they have running in the background (services, such as Facebook, Trillian, GMail, etc etc). The more crap you run at the same time, the more likely it's going to run out of RAM. This is how it works for ANY Android phone going all the way back to the 2.0 days. It's ALSO how it works on iOS, BlackBerry 10, and webOS (except those platforms don't use a priority system). Also keep in mind that websites these days actually take up a significant amount of RAM, especially ones with heavy amounts of Javascript and retina-level graphics.
The HTC One has 2GB of RAM, which means you have quite a bit of RAM to work with before this happens, but how often it happens is always going to be determined by how you use it.
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Thats false, it was an issue on the HTC One X, and thats why I went for the GS3 instead of the One X (that and battery life), and it was done on purpose by HTC, not sure if they "fixed" it or not since then.
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Thats false, it was an issue on the HTC One X, and thats why I went for the GS3 instead of the One X (that and battery life), and it was done on purpose by HTC, not sure if they "fixed" it or not since then.
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No, it wasn't, no more than any other device with 1GB of RAM. I'm sure that's what you thought based on all the fud being spread at the time, but it wasn't true, as anyone who knows more about the internals would acknowledge.
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No, it wasn't, no more than any other device with 1GB of RAM. I'm sure that's what you thought based on all the fud being spread at the time, but it wasn't true, as anyone who knows more about the internals would acknowledge.
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Well I think I know a lot and it was definitely HTC's fault.. it was a software preference made by HTC
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Well I think I know a lot and it was definitely HTC's fault.. it was a software preference made by HTC
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A preference that had no influence apparently, since all it takes is a person with a task manager to confirm what I said was true.
This happens on my Nexus 4. Nothing new to see.
Vincent Law said:
This was NEVER an issue specific to HTC or its software. The sooner people stop spreading the FUD the better.
The only reason Android will force the browser to clear its cache of a page is because it needs to. That is, it's running low on RAM due to other services/apps and needs more. Your browser is not considered a high-level process in the priority list (it's not a service, unlike many other apps), so it'll get hit more often than other apps.
So, the reason this crops up for some people more than others is simply due to what they have running in the background (services, such as Facebook, Trillian, GMail, etc etc). The more crap you run at the same time, the more likely it's going to run out of RAM. This is how it works for ANY Android phone going all the way back to the 2.0 days. It's ALSO how it works on iOS, BlackBerry 10, and webOS (except those platforms don't use a priority system). Also keep in mind that websites these days actually take up a significant amount of RAM, especially ones with heavy amounts of Javascript and retina-level graphics.
The HTC One has 2GB of RAM, which means you have quite a bit of RAM to work with before this happens, but how often it happens is always going to be determined by how you use it.
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This is also BS. The evo lte I had always dumped the browser and this phone does it as well, even just going back and forth from the browser to the music app. The galaxy i switched to did not exhibit the same behavior. In fact, that thing would often keep the browser in memory till the NEXT DAY. This phone with 2gb ram (and 700 plus free) will dump my browser pages for nothing but time it seems
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This is also BS. The evo lte I had always dumped the browser and this phone does it as well, even just going back and forth from the browser to the music app. The galaxy i switched to did not exhibit the same behavior. In fact, that thing would often keep the browser in memory till the NEXT DAY. This phone with 2gb ram (and 700 plus free) will dump my browser pages for nothing but time it seems
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It's really not. I had chrome stay in RAM for 3 full hours tonight even when playing games. Don't ever use the stock browser, they're always terrible on all platforms.
Vincent Law said:
It's really not. I had chrome stay in RAM for 3 full hours tonight even when playing games. Don't ever use the stock browser, they're always terrible on all platforms.
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See, that's what's retarded to me. I too have also ran a heavy game and came back to the browser and my pages were still there. But let me play some music and come back a few minutes later and it's highly likely that it's been terminated
I don't use chrome because the stuttery scrolling. The stock browser is the smoothest I've ever used on android so I'm a bit smitten
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See, that's what's retarded to me. I too have also ran a heavy game and came back to the browser and my pages were still there. But let me play some music and come back a few minutes later and it's highly likely that it's been terminated
I don't use chrome because the stuttery scrolling. The stock browser is the smoothest I've ever used on android so I'm a bit smitten
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Chrome doesn't have any scrolling lag for me on the One.
My N5 is on stock 4.4.2,
Having read that the Nexus 5 CPU throttle back when it hit it's preset temperature to prevent overheating (while charging or running intensive apps) generally doesn't affect much of the UI, most apps and gaming (still buttery smooth) but the throttling had affect Chrome so badly that it's absurb !!
When I'm charging, web pages takes ages to load on HSPA+ and never ever loads completely, the blue loading bar in Chrome will hang at about 9/10 of it's way thou page are readable but images don't load up. Pinch zoom and kinetic scrolling stutter, couple with Chrome hang for a good 2 sec before resuming itself. Web pages like the Verge, dpreview, gsmarena and xda forum can never load up completely and I'm getting incomplete texts and forget about images !!
I've initially though it's the N5's cell signal problems but atlas I downloaded Dolphin Browser, I can full load all the above mentioned web pages in about 7 - 10 sec. I think Google should really further optimize Chrome for upcoming Kit Kat updates, If they can make Chrome blazing fast on a x86-64 PC why not Android ?
I'll be sticking with Dolphin Browser for a while thou until 4.4.3, finger cross then
Anybody experience this problem too?
Weird this doesn't happen on
my nexus 5
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markdapimp said:
Weird this doesn't happen on
my nexus 5
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Maybe I should give Chrome a 'good cleaning' inside via clear cache and app datas
Or reinstall it
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I've noticed Chrome using much more battery then any other browser I've tried. Not sure exactly why I've since switched to Firefox which syncs with my desktop browser.
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I've noticed Chrome using much more battery then any other browser I've tried. Not sure exactly why I've since switched to Firefox which syncs with my desktop browser.
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Exactly... chewing up to about 12% of juice during my N5 9hrs usage time, forget to took a screen shot thou...
Just today I was also wondering why chrome is so slow. Slow to load and really bad scroll stutter. My GS2 with CM10.1 browser so much better. How can that be?
But lots of people reporting no problems with chrome. Would love to know what I should be doing differently.
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Just today I was also wondering why chrome is so slow. Slow to load and really bad scroll stutter. My GS2 with CM10.1 browser so much better. How can that be?
But lots of people reporting no problems with chrome. Would love to know what I should be doing differently.
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Short answer, Chrome sucks. First thing I did when I got my N5 was root it, install Titanium backup and freeze Chrome. I use Dolphin and Next for now. I do notice that in general, the browsing experience has gotten worse going from 4.3 to 4.4. Hopefully google will address this going forward.
LOL to root to freez chrome ?
just use the disable functionthat come with android
Yandvoiris said:
LOL to root to freez chrome ?
just use the disable functionthat come with android
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Was a slight exaggeration, I flashed kernel trinity and rastakat before I froze Chrome
Shouldn't use dolphin. They have some serious privacy violations with all their apps. I recommend Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Naked Browser. Chrome does suck though IMO.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
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After clearing cache and app datas, Chrome run like brand new again thou for less then 10 over web pages. It begin to rear it's ugly head again...
Looks like just have to wait for the next 4.4.3 again before I'm going back to Chrome... sigh.
Chrome has been my go-to browser since the galaxy nexus days, never had a problem. It's the only browser I'll use. JMO
jlevy73 said:
Short answer, Chrome sucks. First thing I did when I got my N5 was root it, install Titanium backup and freeze Chrome. I use Dolphin and Next for now. I do notice that in general, the browsing experience has gotten worse going from 4.3 to 4.4. Hopefully google will address this going forward.
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Yup Chrome performed wonderfully on my 2 yrs old Gnex with 4.3, maybe the codes are not yet fully optimised for 4.4... bummer.
1stx2 said:
Chrome has been my go-to browser since the galaxy nexus days, never had a problem. It's the only browser I'll use. JMO
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Happy for you, are you on LTE? because I've only HSPA+ and Chrome loads painfully slow...:crying:
stelv said:
Shouldn't use dolphin. They have some serious privacy violations with all their apps. I recommend Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Naked Browser. Chrome does suck though IMO.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529
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But dolphin has flash support
I think Dolphin's security exploit had been fixed after ver 7
check out their blog...
http://dolphin.com/webzine-does-not-store-user-data/
You really trust the people at Dolphin. Its up to you guys. I personally don't like handing over my private data to some untrustworthy company in another country. Check the privacy thread out. Dolphin Zero still has privacy issues too.
I think Firefox supports flash and you can always sideload it too.
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