Yesterday I had a hanging browser without full crash but an error message regarding booster-browser - wait or abort. I did nothing to not confuse the phone and only waited, and luckily the browser continued after abt. 5 seconds.
most crashes or at least massive delays occur on this SFOS Forum site, fewer on news.orf.at , surprisingly Youtube never crashes.
My too, but looks strange. Right now I had my first crash on sending a SMS. So maybe the underlying problem is really not the browser itself but more the process management in base system. There I can also say nothing to it, imy knowledge is much too less.
Booster browser is a systemd template service (booster-browser@.service).
There are at least two services derived from that template, one for the browser and one for the email apps. (In theory any app which uses WebView could have its own booster this way.)
Each has their own booster process, the same binary with different configurations applied.
Yes, now. Because of your information that this exists.
I clicked âFree memory - MinimizeâŚâ, then enabled âShow memory reports - verboseâ and clicked âMeasureâ.
A strange output is this (maybe of interest):
Warning: the âheap-allocatedâ memory reporter does not work for this platform and/or configuration. This means that âheap-unclassifiedâ is not shown and the âexplicitâ tree shows less memory than it should.
I honor this efforts to get a more stable browsing-experience but i fear the solutions will only last until next update of the used Browser-Engine in native SailfishOS-Browser.
Just for info, I continued my experiments with the browser and set all âgeneral.smoothScroll.*â settings to false. This speeds up browser significantly, and I did the same settings change also on laptop and also got better browser performance there.
I could also minimize browser crashes by letting another app run that keeps CPU busy and prevents the phone from entering some power saving states. Usually I let DeadBeef Silica play music or AllRadio play webradio. If I donât want to listen to music I turn volume down, but keeping the CPU alive minimizes browser crashes on my phone.
Has anyone âapk-extractorâ from F-Droid installed? Has anyone seen that the Sailfish Browser is on the list of installed Android apps? Name is âBrowserâ, displayed icon is the well known icon of the Sailfish browser, and displayed source is âcom.jolla.nativeapp.browserâ.