xScope Browser Update

**garysui** · 02-08-2010, 04:00 PM

MdicnMan,
Thanks for this information. I coded it but had never got a chance to produce that. Even when the app is at foreground, android still kills some invisible tabs when memory is low. This is the main reason why sometime switching to a different tab causing crash. I haven't got this sorted out so temporary solution.

Originally Posted by MdicnMan

While xScope is working really well now, I am not sure about the memory management pop up that is happening often now. It is asking about manually closing apps. I thought the OS whas supposed to handle that.

SGTiger · 02-08-2010, 07:10 PM

Has the limit on the number of bookmarks been removed from the paid version yet?

**jsh1120** · 02-08-2010, 11:14 PM

Kudos to Gary for getting rid of the annoying ERROR(!) I (and apparently some others) was experiencing on the Google search screen. It appears to have cost the "near me now" Google app but it was a small price to pay.

OmegaXzer0 · 02-09-2010, 01:14 AM

I'm not sure if it's just me or not, but I was wondering if location based services are unavailable using xScope or not? I'm referring to having the website (namely google) know where you are so as to provide a list of restaurants and what not near your location based on GPS and cellular triangulation. Keep up the good work Gary!

natediddy1120 · 02-09-2010, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by OmegaXzer0

I'm not sure if it's just me or not, but I was wondering if location based services are unavailable using xScope or not? I'm referring to having the website (namely google) know where you are so as to provide a list of restaurants and what not near your location based on GPS and cellular triangulation. Keep up the good work Gary!

I would say it can use GPS....I wouldn't see why not?

**jsh1120** · 02-09-2010, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by natediddy1120

Originally Posted by OmegaXzer0

I'm not sure if it's just me or not, but I was wondering if location based services are unavailable using xScope or not? I'm referring to having the website (namely google) know where you are so as to provide a list of restaurants and what not near your location based on GPS and cellular triangulation. Keep up the good work Gary!

I would say it can use GPS....I wouldn't see why not?

Last week I (and according to Gary some others) began to experience an error using the Google search page. (The error is documented earlier in this thread.) It appears to have been related to the "near me now" functionality on the search page. And it apparently affected only some people, depending on their location. Gary couldn't reproduce the error from his location, for example.

Oddly, the error never appeared with the stock Droid browser and the Dolphin browser does not provide the functionality at all. At this point it appears the problem may have come about from bugs in Google's own location based services, at least in the "near me now" app.

After Gary spent some much appreciated time and effort in trying to track down the source of the error he managed to eliminate it but the minor cost is the loss of the "near me now" functionality in the browser. (It's now identical to the Dolphin browser in that respect.) I assume that's the case for everyone and not just me.

Why the stock browser doesn't have the problem remains a mystery (at least to me.) But I suspect it stems from the fact that both the Google search page and the stock browser are Google products. "Open" source goes only so far and it's not surprising to see that two products from the same company can be more tightly integrated than either product with third party apps.

In any event, the loss of "near me now" is a minor issue. When I want to know what's "near me" I typically use Google Maps, not the web browser.

**MdicnMan** · 02-09-2010, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by garysui

MdicnMan,
Thanks for this information. I coded it but had never got a chance to produce that. Even when the app is at foreground, android still kills some invisible tabs when memory is low. This is the main reason why sometime switching to a different tab causing crash. I haven't got this sorted out so temporary solution.

Originally Posted by MdicnMan

While xScope is working really well now, I am not sure about the memory management pop up that is happening often now. It is asking about manually closing apps. I thought the OS whas supposed to handle that.

Let me know if you need any data from when this happens. Happy to help out with this great browser.

SGTiger · 02-09-2010, 09:33 PM

Can someone with the paid version please tell me if there is still a limit on the number of favorites you can have? I really don't want to go through the hassle of removing the lite version and adding the paid version just to have to uninstall it again if it is still limited and reinstalling the lite version.

I'm not buying this app until I am sure this limit has been removed from the paid version.

Bueller? Someone? Anyone?

**garysui** · 02-09-2010, 09:38 PM

20 is the limit.

The best workaround right now will be having a bookmark page(such as google bookmarks) and set that as your home page.
Eventually the bookmarks will be unlimited and organized by labels. But I am overwhelmed by other tasks lately.

Originally Posted by SGTiger

Can someone with the paid version please tell me if there is still a limit on the number of favorites you can have? I really don't want to go through the hassle of removing the demo version and adding the paid version until I am sure this limit has been removed from the paid version.