Anyone else use this browser?
For a few days now it's been crashing when trying to view CCE. Main page is fine, but when you go into any thread it freezes then crashes.
Chrome and stock browser both OK.
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Dolphin browser on Android
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Its gone down hill a lot recently. I've ditched it for firefox. It crashed on far too many sites for my liking, including this one.
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I'm mainly sticking to Chrome on Android now.
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I've been using Opera quite happily for a while. Firefox is too new-fangled for my version of Droid.
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@steveo, thanks, always good to know it's not just me.
I really like Dolphin's right-swipe to access bookmarks. That's why I went back to Dolphin on my new phone.
Chrome is nice ('specially the enlarge-the-screen-when-links-are-small-and-fiddly feature), but it uses the 'OS' bookmarks, so all the undeletable Samsung guff is in there.
Should really root it.
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Ah, fair enough, I have a Nexus so there is no pre-installed manufacturer/network-operator guff. Previously had an Xperia through Orange and the bloatware drove me nuts.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Saw the subject. Thought this was a 'hot or not' style site for cetaceans. Disappointed.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Fnarr fnarr fnarwhal.
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Uberuce, I'm sure you're aware that any use of the word (****ing) 'narwhal' (YEAH!) in an online post anywhere must, by law of the meme, have a sweary introduction. Please hand in your beard and XKCD browser history and find a job as an accountant.
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But I don't use XKCD. I use Internet Explorer.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Pedantry noted. You may keep your beard. For now.
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I use Internet Explorer.
Surely a more heinous crime against geekery!!
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I just use the pre installed browser on my Samsung S2. You mean I can install a better browser? Runs off to phone...
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Chrome for me, albeit on a rooted S2.
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I have been using on my XOOM for some time now, mostly OK, certainly rendered some sites faster than FF. A few crashes recently, though not this site.
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I have no problems at the moment with Dolphin (HTC Desire).
My problem is that all the apps that I use are becoming bigger with each release meaning that I have to be very careful with space. Contract finishes soon :)
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Yeah thats the one thing that really grates with the Desire, well with Android in particular.
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It's not really Android; Galaxy S3 has plenty space.
I rooted my HTC Desire because of the space issue, then partitioned some of the SD Card for the OS to use.
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It is an Android issue, your S3 has what 16gb of built in flash but you can use about 4gb for the OS. iOS lets you use all 16gb how you like. The trade off is that you can mount your android phone as a mass storage device so you don't have to muck around with an iTunes equivalent. I'm happy with the trade off I just wish there was a expand it on the cheaper phones that come with trivial amounts of on-board flash, like the Desire. Rooting is fine for you and I but my mum....
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... and me!
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"
Schiller also pointed to one of the major shortcomings of the Android platform: fragmentation. He noted that many Android users are running old versions of the OS, whereas Apple's iOS is more congruent."
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Fragmentation is a manufactured issue.
Your phone has an OS of a given version. Either you are happy with it and it meets your needs and desires, or you are not happy with its capabilities and you choose to upgrade to something else.
Apple release one phone model per year, and builds both hardware and software. In the Android ecosystem, there are a dozen manufacturers producing dozens of models and they get to choose a version of android that matches the hardware capabilities. It's a different approach. Saying that Apple has a 'more uniform OS implementation' is just dumb. It's not comparing..well, Apples with Apples. [note to self, find a better analogy]
I have several friends with iPhone 3/3Gs, limited to iOS v4, because they can't upgrade to anything beyond that. So by the same definition, iOS is fragmented too. Is it an issue for them? Absolutely not. Their phone does what they bought it for.
That said.
A segment of people are attracted to Android for the flexibility and customisation of the OS (others for the price, others for other reasons!). Fragmentation is a non-issue. But a very real issue is the temptation for mobile network operators and hardware manufacturers to place all sorts of bloatware on the phone. Not always just a nuisance - it often can't be uninstalled and therefore takes up memory that you could be using for something else. This, frankly, has been the bugbear of the Android experience.
But there are two possible solutions - you root the phone, or you buy a Nexus direct from Google, which is completely free of any bloatware and updates itself direct from Google, immediately. Funnily enough, the MNOs tend not to offer the Nexus, probably because they aren't allowed to put their bloatware on it. 16Gb Nexus leaves about 13Gb available for the user.
Fragmentation, far from being a problem, allows manufacturers to offer a wide range of hardware at different price points. An issue for the customer? Absolutely irrelevant.
Forking - now that's a different issue and don't get me started ;-)
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