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tommy2tone1838494

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Is it just me? Or is chrome the sorriest piece of crap excuse for a browser ever made?

It keeps crashing my music player, randomly reloading pages, essentially eating up all my RAM to the point where my phone has become useless. Why is it doing that?

Ever since I bought this phone its been nothing but a problem and I want rid of it. OR at the least, tell me how to make it work like its supposed to. If it even can?
Like just now, signing into android forums, on a phone with a qaud core processor and 1gb of RAM, no other apps open besides Chrome and Play Music. Play Music crashed 3 times. The website refreshed and I hit the home button and it had to redraw the home screen.

I like chrome for its google account integration. But otherwise its a bloated piece of crap.

Motorola Moto G, XT1028
Android: 4.4.4
Baseband: MSM88626BP_1032.390.81.01P, VZW_CUST
 
Try resetting your google account and Clear cache/data for the Chrome app.
BTW,I have no issue with Chrome on my phones or computers.
 
I've never had Chrome handle a download (roms, zips, etc) properly on my phone. Not one time ever. Firefox, Boat, and Dolphin, no problem.

And I must be an idiot because whenever I long press a link in Chrome and choose open in new tab, it does - and then I have to scroll up, tap tabs and choose the one I just opened. It's like - Open in new tab but ignore it. I have no idea how that makes sense, so I've concluded that I'm doing something wrong. I have no idea what. :D
 
Was there any specific app that was used for AOSP browser on Android prior to KK, Or did it vary with each build?
The old TouchWiz 3 browser was one of my favorite. Lol
 
I've used chrome as my primary browser on my Samsung S4 (2gb ram) for 3 years and I can't remember a single crash ever. Your phone had 1gb ram I think. It makes me wonder if you were right to mention ram usage as a relevant factor in they crashes. ...

If you are inclined to try to avoid the chrome crashes (rather than dumping chrome ), then maybe look a little closer at your ram management:
1-look at the apps that are perpetually listed in "running services" (which is high priority ...kept in ram when most other apps would be killed) even after reboot. Ate there any of these you can uninstall?
2-search for min free manager on the forum
 
tommy2tone1838494 said:
Was there any specific app that was used for AOSP browser on Android prior to KK, Or did it vary with each build?
The old TouchWiz 3 browser was one of my favorite. Lol
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Most browsers, and all stock browsers, use your Android built-in services and rendering engine called WebView.

Interfaces to WebView are not constant so you can expect older browsers to generate copious amounts of errors trying to run. I know because I have old browsers that aren't made anymore and I've tried it.

If you don't like Boat Browser, and don't mind a plain appearance try Naked Browser because it's the most memory efficient and has no tracking of your habits. For a good open source, compact browser with more eye candy, try Polarity browser.
 
electricpete said:
I've used chrome as my primary browser on my Samsung S4 (2gb ram) for 3 years and I can't remember a single crash ever. Your phone had 1gb ram I think. It makes me wonder if you were right to mention ram usage as a relevant factor in they crashes. ...

If you are inclined to try to avoid the chrome crashes (rather than dumping chrome ), then maybe look a little closer at your ram management:
1-look at the apps that are perpetually listed in "running services" (which is high priority ...kept in ram when most other apps would be killed) even after reboot. Ate there any of these you can uninstall?
2-search for min free manager on the forum
Click to expand...

I looked at running services.
Only stock Motorola apps and such that are uninstallable without root.
I did, however disable a bunch of these. Let's see if it crashes now
 
OK, updates:

After disabling a lot of the preinstalled bloatware and leaving only the apps I use on a regular basis, chrome has yet to crash.
I would also like to note that these crashes only happen on certain pages.
" certain pages " that contain a lot of advertising, embedded videos, RSS feeds, chat feeds. In other words, Java script.

So Chrome has a problem with memory bloating on Java heavy websites?
 
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