Help BBC News pages w/Flash crashing browser

speedycolzalez · Aug 29, 2010

Woke up a tad early this morning so rather than get up I thought I'd read the news on my phone (its what its for after all

).

Problem is, any page on the BBC News website containing a Flash movie crashes the stock browser

. So, while this and this are OK. This, this and even the mobile help page crash the browser (links included for you to try

). No force close, the browser just vanishes and I get returns me to the phone home screen.

I've cleared the cache and cookies and even restarted the phone to no avail (and no, I'm not doing a hard reset

).

iPlayer pages are OK as is YouTube.

Is this a BBC problem? Is anyone else having the same issue or is it just me?

Running stock browser on LauncherPro on FroYo btw.

philarmer · Aug 29, 2010

Try Dolphin HD browser it loads the pages fine. I just tried it out & have the same problem with the stock,

Raggy · Aug 29, 2010

Yeah I been getting the same problem, started on mine last week. Might try different browser but that is not a cure is it.

Running stock browser and froyo 2.2

.ParanoidAndroid. · Aug 29, 2010

Hmm, I noticed this yesterday in the car home last night...was trying to load the page about the Chilean miners, and once it loaded, after about 10 seconds the browser would just crash.
Happened every time.
Hrmph.

alexp86 · Aug 29, 2010

Try changing the "enable plugins" setting to "on demand" (go to internet, press menu, more, settings).

When ever there is flash content, this stops it loading automatically which speeds up the load times no end. It should also solve your problem with it crashing

If you do ever want to view the content, you just click on the little arrow that appears where the content would normally be.

Squared1200 · Aug 29, 2010

I seem to be getting the same issue with dolphin HD. I also don't get the green arrow on BBC pages with video when plugins on demand is set, but I do on other sites. This is the same for both the default browser and dolphin HD.

Raggy · Aug 29, 2010

alexp86 said:
Try changing the "enable plugins" setting to "on demand" (go to internet, press menu, more, settings).

When ever there is flash content, this stops it loading automatically which speeds up the load times no end. It should also solve your problem with it crashing

If you do ever want to view the content, you just click on the little arrow that appears where the content would normally be.

That does stop the page crashing but then there is no access to the video at all

alexp86 · Aug 29, 2010

Yea it's really odd - you get the green arrow to view the flash content on every site apart from certain bbc news page -perhaps it's a problem their end?

Fatwaz · Aug 29, 2010

just tried all those pages on my desire and all work fine(love the mifi stuff lol).using an unbranded and unlocked desire with 2.2 via dolphin hd browser

mancrunch · Aug 29, 2010

I'm another who's had exactly the same problem for about a week so I changed to dolphin hd and no problem since. Infact I'm quite glad as I love the browser.

speedycolzalez · Aug 30, 2010

alexp86 said:
Try changing the "enable plugins" setting to "on demand" (go to internet, press menu, more, settings).

When ever there is flash content, this stops it loading automatically which speeds up the load times no end. It should also solve your problem with it crashing

If you do ever want to view the content, you just click on the little arrow that appears where the content would normally be.

Thanks. That works for me. I might give Dolpin a go if I can remember why I uninstalled it last time

Tó Madeira · Aug 30, 2010

I'm having this same problem as well, always with sites with embedded flash, although not all flash sites seem to have a problem. Same as the OP, youtube and iplayer are fine, but the BBC website is a nightmare.

It didn't happen immediately when I updated to 2.2 but soon after. I initially fixed it by reinstalling the Flash plug in, but that only lasted a couple of days.

Really don't want to hard reset but I'm reading that is currently the only way to fix this.

Raggy · Aug 31, 2010

The BBC page with flash on crashes Dolphin HD as well

RaivoNaama · Aug 31, 2010

Try this version of flash 10.1!
I tried installing an "older" version of flash 10.1 that I downloaded from xda dev. forums.. The problem just disappeared!

The flash version on the phone was something like 10.1.72.7 and I "downdated" it to 10.1.68.xx (something, can't remember) At the moment I've uninstalled the 10.1.68 version and the 10.1.72 ver. works without any problem. Guess reinstalling flash gets rid of the problem? o_O

If it doesn't work just go to app manager and uninstall the "downdate"

Flash Player 10.1

The attachment doesn't work for some reason.. had to upload somewhere else

Tó Madeira · Aug 31, 2010

RaivoNaama said:
Try this version of flash 10.1!
I tried installing an "older" version of flash 10.1 that I downloaded from xda dev. forums.. The problem just disappeared!
The flash version on the phone was something like 10.1.72.7 and I "downdated" it to 10.1.68.xx (something, can't remember) At the moment I've uninstalled the 10.1.68 version and the 10.1.72 ver. works without any problem. Guess reinstalling flash gets rid of the problem?

If it doesn't work just go to app manager and uninstall the "downdate"

Flash Player 10.1

The attachment doesn't work for some reason.. had to upload somewhere else

That seems to have worked for me (so far)

As I said above, initially, just reinstalling the current version of flash worked for a while as well so we'll see if this continues to work, but if so, thanks very much.

tef89 · Sep 5, 2010

I initially only noticed the crash problem when the browser was loaded via the NEWS app, but now the std browser is crashing whenever flash is present, even when loaded on it's own.

I've d/l the older version and that seems to be working.

tef89 · Sep 5, 2010

UPDATE:

Nope ... now the stock browser crashes nearly all the time when any page with flash content is loaded.

sookster54 · Sep 5, 2010

Have you tested with Skyfire and Dolphin?

Raggy · Sep 6, 2010

Crashing all the time now on all flash pages, stock browser and dolphin

Tó Madeira · Sep 6, 2010

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wraggieone · Sep 10, 2010

Hello Peeps

I too am having the flipping BBC news problem, in fairness i've only really been having this problem with articles on the front page or even just the main headline item. Seems very odd to me as i can view pretty much everything else on the site including flash content. BBC are mad tinkerers when it comes to their website's. I previously had issues with the beeb when rockin my old N900, ironically the N900 doesn't have this problem.....but it's an n900 and dont play all my flash video's anymore. not very well anyway.

Every other flash site i've been to works fine, iplayer, cheeky bit of filth (two main stream sites), imdb, empire, totalfilm etc etc.

I did try the flash un/re install ting but it would'nt allow me to install the older version??

I'm blaming the BBC, as this worked last week and still should. The lack of continuity (splet wrong) makes me feel like it's a mess behind the scenes or their not thinking about us poor folks who use their smart phones more often that a PC or laptop.

We pay for all things BBC, and we are well within our right's to be alittle hacked off with them.

Look forward to hering some more thought's on the matter.

wraggieone

tef89 · Sep 10, 2010

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alexp86 · Sep 11, 2010

I find that all the links are slightly out of place on the BBC news website too. E.g. when you click on the text of a link the actual hyper-link (the green line) appears slightly above it rather than on the actual text. I don't have this problem on any other website, just BBC news.

Anyone else notice this?

wraggieone · Sep 11, 2010

Yeah man, I noticed the links being little off, weird!

Typical that the website I visit the most has gone all pair shaped on me..

does anyone know why this would've just started out of nowhere? is it temporary? ie will the beeb stop messin about, or will this be a bug fix kinda ting?

wraggieone

ianb11 · Sep 11, 2010

BBC Sport crashes all the time on the stock browser for me.

Cleared all the history, cookies etc etc & it's been OK - so far.

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