Google Homepage forces browser close

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Hi,

I've just gotten my Vibrant over the weekend and now I'm noticing after I allow google.com to use the "location service" (first time it works fine), when I browses to some other sites then comes back to it, or just simply re-open the browser in a later time and goes back to google.com (mobile version btw), the browser just closes itself.

I've also tried a factory reset and still was able to reproduce this issue.

Now if I do NOT allow the location service, everything would be working fine.

Is anybody else having the same issue?

my phone is not rooted.

Thanks.

Happening to me to, very very frustrating

Its probably due to the GPS. Try turning it off or applying the temp. fix.

the flash plugin has been giving me a bunch of browser crashes, not sure if that is you issue but seems to work for me with it turned off

It started happening to me today. It was working all this week with locations turned on and google as my home page, however this morning I opened the browser and it closed by itself, repeatedly. I realized that it had something to do with location as it closed imediately after "updating location". I set the browser not to use the location and now it works fine.

However, now I get "location unavailable" and a link to update. If I click update, then the browser closes, so it seems to be related to lbs.

What I don;t understand is why it started happening yesterday, after a week of normal operations.

I really hope the GPS and compass are fixed in the next release/OTA update, otherwise, back to my nexus one.

Did anyone ever find a fix for this? It happens intermittently on my phone. I turn off location sensing and use it for a while that way and it works fine. Usually, I can re-enable location the next day and everything is okay for a few days before it starts automatically closing again.

Time to use m.bing.com

Google.com force closing

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Happened to me too. Here's the fix:

Go into browser. Before it finishes loading Google.com, go into Settings and disable Location and Plugins.

Now use a task killer to fully kill the browser.

The final step is to go into the browser again and re-enable everything.

Did it work for you?

On an unrelated note, this seems like a Galaxy-S bug:

"Originally Posted by Samsung_Engineer
As Mentioned above, you can either disable Java or the plug-in options in the browser settings for the time being. We have fixed this issue and the soon-to-be-released Maintenance release includes this fix.

Thanks for choosing Samsung!
JP"

Originally Posted by leglevy

Happened to me too. Here's the fix:

Go into browser. Before it finishes loading Google.com, go into Settings and disable Location and Plugins.

Now use a task killer to fully kill the browser.

The final step is to go into the browser again and re-enable everything.

Did it work for you?

On an unrelated note, this seems like a Galaxy-S bug:

"Originally Posted by Samsung_Engineer
As Mentioned above, you can either disable Java or the plug-in options in the browser settings for the time being. We have fixed this issue and the soon-to-be-released Maintenance release includes this fix.

Thanks for choosing Samsung!
JP"

I figured the reason why we're waiting so long for the GPS fix is because it's being bundled in with other fixes.

Originally Posted by leglevy

Happened to me too. Here's the fix:

Go into browser. Before it finishes loading Google.com, go into Settings and disable Location and Plugins.

Now use a task killer to fully kill the browser.

The final step is to go into the browser again and re-enable everything.

Did it work for you?

On an unrelated note, this seems like a Galaxy-S bug:

"Originally Posted by Samsung_Engineer
As Mentioned above, you can either disable Java or the plug-in options in the browser settings for the time being. We have fixed this issue and the soon-to-be-released Maintenance release includes this fix.

Thanks for choosing Samsung!
JP"

Well this quote squashes any hope of getting Froyo in sept along with the GPS fix since they are calling it a Maintenance release. I was hoping they were going to give us a surprise with the GPS and bug fixes for all of our troubles...