Browser crash

[ranman2000]

Anyone else experiencing browser crashes?

For example, Woot® : One Day, One Deal™ has crashed my browser every time I've tried it today. Most of the page loads, then poof!

My co-worker's Droid X works fine. I've tried clearing the cache & cookies, but it still crashes.

Between this and the other issues (GPS, slow email, problems with wifi on our enterprise access points at work) I'm beginning to dislike my Captivate.

 

[anneoneamouse]

Is this a real post- or an attempt to get me to check out your website?

AoN

 

[fireshot91]

Is this a real post- or an attempt to get me to check out your website?

AoN

I REALLY don't think he owns Woot.

Woot's a really popular One Deal A Day website.


Anyways, OP...try restarting your phone? Have you tried running another browser?

 

[alphadog]

Woot loads most of the way and crashes to the homescreen for me too. Maybe turn off JS and see.

 

[lillejord]

Odd, shirt.woot and deals.woot work, but not regular woot. I also have problems with the Seattle Times website crashing. Sometimes it works and other times I have to try multiple times to get the same page loaded. I figured it might have something to d with a particular ad that is running, but I can't be sure.

[edit]
woot.com also crashes Skyfire in both desktop and android modes.

 

[ranman2000]

I wish I owned Woot, but last I heard Amazon bought em. Didn't know my link would look so suspicious till I posted it.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I tried it on my wife's Captivate and it crashed, too. Like I said, my friends Droid X worked fine; I naively assumed all Android phones running 2.1 had the same browser code & would behave similarly.

I also had an issue on an Engadget article (the one about iPhone chargers dated 8/4 @09:50 pm, if anyone wants to try it).

Guess I'll do some more experimenting before reporting this as a problem. I seem to recall a youtube video review comparing the Captivate to a couple of other phones, and seeing the browser crash in it. Thought it was a fluke; now it looks like another thing to make me suspect Samsung rushed this phone to market.

 

[ranman2000]

OK, unchecking the "Enable Plugins" in the browser settings prevents the problem. I see this has already been discussed here, but my search didn't find it.

So how do I see what plugins are installed?

 

[anneoneamouse]

@ranman2000, apologies,

AoN

 

[dmnall]

Everything default on my browser on my Captivate and Woot.com loads fine. First time I loaded it, it went back to the browser and then closed out. Loaded it back up everything is fine! I would say just restart the phone.

HTH,
Charlie

 

[alphadog]

OK, unchecking the "Enable Plugins" in the browser settings prevents the problem. I see this has already been discussed here, but my search didn't find it.

So how do I see what plugins are installed?

I have the same results - but not sure how to get to the plugins list.

 

[lillejord]

Odd, woot.com works today....

 

[alphadog]

I ran the Galaxy S JM5 dev ROM and Woot worked OK, even with plugins on, so maybe a fix is in the works.

 

[NeilQ]

is there any way to set google or chrome as the default browser?