Woot gives Captivate the Boot?

Crutnacker · Aug 19, 2010

I was at the AT&T Store last night trying out this phone during Woot.com's woot off. I tried going to Woot.com and every time the browser shut down and kicked me to the home page. Scared me off the phone a bit.

Then, by chance, I was on Woot.com's boards and found out that two other Captivate users had the same problem.

Not sure what this means, but is this a problem with certain sites on the Captivate?

Thanks!

A.VOID · Aug 19, 2010

have you tried other browsers with it?
I just used dolphin over 3G and it came up no problem

Dennis_Bham · Aug 19, 2010

The problem with WOOT (and some other sites as well) with the default browser can be stopped if you go into the browser settings and disable plug-ins.

It does not happen all the time on those sites either ... some days it works fine.

sremick · Aug 19, 2010

Crazy, I just noticed this exact same thing with Woot today. You are not alone.

Regalicious · Aug 19, 2010

Yeah, I have plug-ins disabled and it works fine for me.

NJR · Aug 19, 2010

I was one of those who commented on the Woot site--I also sent them an email. Really frustrating during a wootoff

. I wonder if this is a Captivate issue or a 2.1 issue? I will have to try the plug-in fix though

edit: Disabling plug-ins works--Now what do I lose by doing that?

Regalicious · Aug 19, 2010

Flash lite (and Java?), I think. Might be an ad or something on Woot that's crashing the browser.

Uzza · Aug 19, 2010

Just checked out woot.com woot off on my captivate..it was fine.

St_G · Aug 19, 2010

Step one: replace stock browser

Step two: don't look back

Thare187 · Aug 19, 2010

I have problems with mobile Lifehacker. Sometimes it crashes Dolphin HD sometimes as well.

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