I just got a Nexus 10 and I'm considering returning it because of all the crashes. (At least twice a day since I got it.) But I'm even having trouble finding a good browser. Does anyone else find they have these problems, or is it just me? Opera was my favorite browser on A100, but its unusable now.
In chrome mobile if you click anywhere near the X button (on a tab), the page will close. Chrome also causes tablet crashes. (Chrome is the stock browser on my tab.)
Boat takes up high battery
Dolphin - clicking on a tab closes the tab
Opera buttons/menus are so tiny it can't be used.
Firefox (regular And beta) - parts of or the whole screen goes black sometimes. (Resizing the page fixes it.) Requires effort to scroll fast. Some images don't ever load, like on Google images (middle of page). No speed dial or even a way to organize bookmarks. Previous session tabs don't reload automatically.
Maxthon - maxthon tablet - sometimes no links work, tab fonts too large
I'm using Firefox mostly, but don't like it for above reasons.
Not a browser but, my favorite keyboard on my a100, Thumb keyboard - if i click near the top edge of the comma key, I get an apostrophe. (Rt. Side) also, it becomes erratic sometimes, like cursor jumping to the wrong places.
Do you have these issues, or did I get a bad Nexus? Thanks.
I still would like to hear if anyone is having these troubles on the Nexus 10, but I think I found happiness with Ocean Browser. I'm already familiar with it because it came pre-installed on my Acer A100, but I don't think they ever gave the name. It was re-branded or something. Glad I found it again. About the only thing it's lacking is the ability to rearrange bookmarks on the screen. But you can use folders. I think I found the winner.
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I am just having the hardest time making my craigslist ads which require me to cut and past the URLs of my photobucket images. I also need to edit in HTML into the posts and this is proving to be a nightmare on the transformer. In tablet form or docked.
It seems that I can't just click to place the cursor exactly where I want it and the cursor seems to always be moving to places I don't want it. Also trying to cut and paste works great sometimes and others it just seems unusable.
Should I maybe use a text editing app and then just cut and paste it over? Can anyone relate to the things I'm talking about? I'm new to Honeycomb so maybe there are a lot of little tricks I don't know yet.
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getting a stylus may help with the fine aiming of moving the cursor. and if it moves around you may be hitting the trackpad so try turning that off.
but for what your doing, it may be best to make it all in a text editor and then copy/paste it in the browser.
neok44 said:
getting a stylus may help with the fine aiming of moving the cursor. and if it moves around you may be hitting the trackpad so try turning that off.
but for what your doing, it may be best to make it all in a text editor and then copy/paste it in the browser.
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Any suggestions for text editor apps?
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well the included polaris will work pretty good, color note and basically any other note pad app will as well.
there are a couple apps that can make and create .txt documents and those should work as well.
Ill look around, thanks.
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Just an update.
I am currently using Opera forced in desktop mode only. This is the fastest scolling and zooming browser there is. The only thing I hate is how opera functions when selecting text off of a page to copy. It is really cheap. I also like the fact that I can add any search engine to the browser. I couldnt stand how every time I did a Google search it would search through Google mobile, so I just added the main Google search and all was fixed.
Typing on forums has been a breeze for the most part with opera, now if I can just find a way to use the Native copy and paste on web pages it will be almost perfect. At least when editing text or web page URLs it uses the native highlight feature.
In response to the cursor moving, I have that problem and am pretty sure it has to do with the mousepad being set up for "touch to click". On a fullsize laptop, no big deal, but on the smaller keyboard I keep hitting it. As a result, that disable-mouse button gets a ton of use from me.
It was doing it to me while editing on the screen as well. It doesn't seem to be doing it with opera though so Im happy about that.
One weird thing I have noticed as too is that if I really get going and start typing fast, the keyboard will register double I inputs twice. So for example if I type the word that, it will sometimes show as ththat. This only happens when im typing at full pace though and only sometimes. I went to Verizon today to play with a zoom and couldn't get the zoom to recreate this issue, it was only running 3.0 also.
If you are talking about the same thing I'm thinking about, I think this is just a general Android bug. My 2.3.4 phone does it and the stock browser on my TF does it. I have a guess it has to do with text wrapping... but no idea if that's really it.
An easy way to see why I think it seems to be a text wrap issue is by zooming in a little and typing a few lines of text, then try to edit it. Then pull up the green caret move handle thing and notice that it moves where you didn't place it.
Another way is to get a keyboard with arrow keys (thumb keyboard) and select one line and press the down key... it sometimes jumps a line or two. Almost certain its because of the text reflow. I wish you could turn it off or Google would fix it. I HATE working on a long forum post or Outlook Web App on my phone because textarea editing is just a horrible experience.
Finally, I, too use Opera... I'm not a fan, but its the only browser fast enough and that doesn't try to reflow ANY text area. No other browser, that I know, uses text areas that do not reflow.
I completely agree about Opera.
Hi, I have installed elites 4.1.2 ROM, which so far is great.
What I have noticed, however, is that the Chrome browser that comes standard on JB is laggy - when I scroll around a large page such as a long list of forum posts, it becomes unresponsive and twitchy and its very annoying.
I tried Dolphin browser, and its scrolling is much smoother, although a little flickery when filling in unrendered parts of the screen as you scroll - perhaps that is the price of smooth scrolling - if so, Ill gladly pay it.
But dolphin browser uses up a ridiculously large screen area for the search bar and tab area, particualrly when the phone is held sideways. Its a bit ridiculous.
So Any tips out there for the smoothest, best browser to use?
cheers
Opera Mobile
Cheers
stefoid said:
So Any tips out there for the smoothest, best browser to use?
cheers
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i use maxthon, when i am on wifi (btw i use desktop mode)
and when i am on 3g i use opera mini (its saves u some tarific)
I used stock for a little while and was really liking chrome on my N7. I just went through a few ROMs and settled on one (see sig) which has the original android browser on it just like Galaxy Nexus has. My question is why would anyone use that over chrome? What are the pros and cons of each browser?
Thanks in advance.
Some use browser due to it supporting flash, personally I stick with browser because I'm used to it, like the quick settings function, and have all my bookmarks saved with it so all I have to do is sync.
I do keep chrome installed as I do have occasional use for it.
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well i havent played with the new chrome version(s) but back then when most of us tried chrome it was hella 1) buggy 2) slow 3) didnt support flash. and i believe it had that annoying feature of constantly refreshing pages (again not sure if newer versions have smoothed everything out)
and the fact that it's the stock browser was quick, snappy and that it was able to synce my google bookmarks too, it was a winner winner
Chrome is trash. It's slow, no flash, text is blurry. The only redeeming quality is that it syncs with chrome desktop.. But even that isn't enough to save it from being a horrible mobile browser
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The constant refreshing pages is annoying as heck. Hate that! Safari on my iPad Mini does the same thing. Pisses me off. It's not even a memory issue either, cause I'll leave the tab and come back and it still refreshes smh
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Chrome is trash. It's slow, no flash, text is blurry. The only redeeming quality is that it syncs with chrome desktop.. But even that isn't enough to save it from being a horrible mobile browser
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The constant refreshing pages is annoying as heck. Hate that! Safari on my iPad Mini does the same thing. Pisses me off. It's not even a memory issue either, cause I'll leave the tab and come back and it still refreshes smh
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So true !
I was a die hard Chrome fan on my laptops etc, so when it came to Android I never looked back.
Until literally a couple of months ago, I though I'd give a different browser a go.
I'm afraid to say, EVERY other browser I tried, was better than Chrome.
Being rooted, I replaced the default N7 browser with the AOSP browser and side-loaded flash. It works great. Fast browser and excellent flash videos.
AOSP browser is just smoother than Chrome... a light feather gossamer touch is all that is needed to scroll up or down - and apart from frighteningly fast page download speeds, it's also Adobe Flash compliant.
The one feature missing, that would make the AOSP browser a 10 marks out of 10 browser is 'text-flow' (pinch zoom, and text 'flows' and automatically reformats into the space created, instead of going off the edge of the screen). But even Chrome doesn't have this feature.
Dolphin Browser Beta - (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dolphin.browser.lab.en&hl=en) has 'text-flow' , but unfortunately isn't entirely stable... and doesn't support Flash.
An interesting new contender is the (relatively) new WebKit version of Opera...
Opera Browser Beta - (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser.beta).
Smooth scrolling and a nice 'clean' interface... supports 'text-flow'... but not particularly fast... and doesn't support Flash. Like Dolphin Browser Beta, it's also a bit flaky.
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So for me, it's going to be the AOSP browser everytime... it's fast, smooth and supports Flash. It's not perfect, but it's the best Android browser available... IMHO, of course.
Now... what was that question about Chrome again?.
Rgrds.
Ged.
I can live with Chrome pretty much, it's slowly getting better with each update. But it would be follish to reject the fact that AOSP Browser is faster and simply more appealing in terms of UI. Though the address/search/control bar in the upper part of the screen takes too much space, while Chrome's panel is minimalistic (though nowhere as close as Opera Beta one - the smallest bar evar)
Lack of Flash support in Chrome is again not a big trouble, since it's not OFFICIALLY supported in 4.1.x and above => Browser tends to crash from time to time forcing me to completely close it and reopen with opening all the tabs again or wait until it opens the same cached tab again until it hangs dead once more. HTML5 is more than enough (at least for the sites I visit from my tablet)
I'm thinking of changing browsers from Chrome soon, lately EVERY click gets that popup balloon and I have to click it again, even if there is no other buttons around what I pressed, it's getting kinda annoying. And what they do with the text, instead of just displaying everything nicely, browsing the forum looks awful. These two 'features' should be disabled somehow, other than that I don't mind chrome. It's not the best, but not the worst either.
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The one feature missing, that would make the AOSP browser a 10 marks out of 10 browser is 'text-flow' (pinch zoom, and text 'flows' and automatically reformats into the space created, instead of going off the edge of the screen). But even Chrome doesn't have this feature.
Rgrds.
Ged.
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If you zoom to where the text goes off the page, double-tap the screen to make the text flow reformat back to fit the screen.
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If you zoom to where the text goes off the page, double-tap the screen to make the text flow reformat back to fit the screen.
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Yeah, I know about the 'double-tap'... it just enlarges/zooms... but doesn't reflow - or at least on my version of AOSP browser it doesn't.
If you have (or know of) a version of the AOSP browser that does that... then I would be most interested in it.
So any download links, CWM/TWRP flashable's... or even something I can 'push' to /system... or maybe flashable ROMs... that would be most appreciated.
Such a browser - (AOSP, Adobe Flash Compliant... and Text-flow capable) would be the sine qua non of browsers... IMHO.
Rgrds,
Ged.
Yes, if I just double-tap it zooms or zooms back. But if I have zoomed the text too much to fit the screen, a double-tap will re-flow the text to fit the screen. The ASOP browser I'm using shows in All apps as Version 4.1.1-eng.sparkyman216.20120801.074324. I think I got it from an XDA thread but I'm not sure which one. It is dated 8/5/12 and is about 1.6 Mb. I have the .apk available if you want it.
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Yes, if I just double-tap it zooms or zooms back. But if I have zoomed the text too much to fit the screen, a double-tap will re-flow the text to fit the screen. The ASOP browser I'm using shows in All apps as Version 4.1.1-eng.sparkyman216.20120801.074324. I think I got it from an XDA thread but I'm not sure which one. It is dated 8/5/12 and is about 1.6 Mb. I have the .apk available if you want it.
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Sounds ideal!
And it also sounds like 'not all AOSP browsers' are born equal!
I would definitely be interested in a copy of your .apk... probably going to have to too screw around with some ODEX stuff to make it work.
But if I can get text-flow working in an AOSP browser... with Flash Support... that would be great.
Rgrds,
Ged
OK, the process once you get the browser.apk file: you must be rooted and have a root file explorer like 'Root Explorer' or 'ES File Explorer'. Navigate to /system/app, mount as R/W, and rename BrowserProviderProxy.apk and BrowserProviderProxy.odex by adding a .bak extention (i.e. browserproviderproxy.apk.bak). Copy browser.apk into /system/app. Verify the permissions are set as owner=Read Write, Group and Others as Read. Restart the N7. Place a shortcut for Browser from the app drawer on your dock or home screen. Try it out. (Sideload Flash from the Adobe website if not already installed.)
I just noticed you have a custom rom and kernel. I don't know if this works with that combination. I'm stock rom, and kernel and rooted. You might want to check some cyanogenmod forums. If you want to pm me with your email, I'll attach the browser.apk file.
Dolphin. <<<<<<emphasis on the period.
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i have seen a lot of threads about the touchscreen being unresponsive and have pretty much tried everything from disabling currents sync to editing the build.prop (cant remember exactly what the settings were but they were supposed to increase touchscreen responsiveness)
i have tried stock rom, cm10.1, smooth rom etc but using the touchscreen is still a pretty crappy experience
basically, the inertia of swiping up and down is near non existent. it takes me a million swipes just to get back to the top of a webpage.
its not as bad in non web browser apps such as reddit sync or facebook but its still there
ive tried every browser known to man (chrome is nearly unusable, firefox beta is the best, dolphin is ok) and theyre all pretty bad, my galaxy s1 is better than this.
is it possibly a bad unit or is this just how the nexus 7 is?
Without seeing what you are observing, it is hard to know if there is a problem with your tablet, or if you have unreasonable expectations. (You didn't *quantify* what you meant.)
This page:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
is 2203 lines long, but I can scroll the length of the page in either the AOSP browser or Chrome from top to bottom with three FULL swipes. (Portrait orientation, CM10.1 Nightly ROM, no tweaks afaik)
Hope that helps you figure out if there is a problem with your unit.
It's just how it is. It's very sensitive to touch, so when you scroll down (with your thumb as if you were on the phone), sometimes it picks up the last drag before lifting your thumb to reposition as a stop. And they can't say, "Oh, it's because Nexus 7 is bigger than your phone! So you have to swipe a further distance!" because my 7" Galaxy tablet and even the HP Touchpad (10") hacked with Android has better touch experience and scrolls nicely with smooth inertia to the bottom or top of the page depending on how fast you swipe.
Everyone swipes differently, and I think those who swipe with our thumbs at an angle are the ones that are really noticing this. So yeah, Nexus 7 touchscreen sucks for people like us. You can see many threads about this if you search "nexus 7 inertia" or "nexus 7 scrolling" etc. It is quite crappy but I've become used to it some. Looking around for something better, though.
I think chrome on android has improved quite a bit since it launched but I feel like it's especially bad on my nexus 10, and on specific sites. Some sites, such as this one, are very responsive to touch and there isn't any lag to speak of. Some sites, however, seem terrible. One example is androidcentral.com - the desktop version. The lag I'm referring to is when you're scrolling down the page, and you try to stop the scroll, or scroll back up the page. It seems like the browser goes unresponsive for a second and then jumps up the page a bit.
This happens on many sites I visit, but androidcentral.com is one of the better examples. It kind of kills the browsing experience for me and is one of the reasons I don't use my nexus 10 that much.
I've googled and the closest complaint I can find was on this forum - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1986212 However it's an older post and when I checked on the link to the issue it looks as though it had been resolved.
So, my question(s) are:
1) are others experiencing the same issue?
2) is there a fix / workaround for those specific sites?
3) Is there a way to report this to google?
Mine freezes while browsing...I blamed Chrome Beta, and went back to Chrome recently.
Remains to be seen if the problem is gone.
Hi,
First, if you're using Chrome Beta (like me), I'm facing a similar problem as well, but usually mine goes blank and doesn't work till I restart the app. If you want the best fix, then it's best to download the Chrome or a different browser like Firefox or Dolphin.
You can report a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
~Lord