{"id":7565,"date":"2010-08-18T14:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2010-08-18T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:38:13","slug":"uc-browsers-blank-screen-bug-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/7565\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Browser’s “Blank Screen” Bug Fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been quite a while since I’ve written<\/a> about the UC Browser (formerly UCWEB).\u00a0 It’s a proxy based browser similar in concept to Opera Mini. The company behind the UC Browser, UC Mobile Limited<\/a>, is based in Guangzhou, China and\u00a0 UC is the most popular mobile browser in China, claiming over 100 million users. The company is venture funded with investors including Ceyuan Ventures, Morningside Group,\u00a0 Alibaba Group and most recently Nokia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve been a fan of the UC browser since version 6.0<\/a>, released in 2008, the company has been a real pioneer in bringing desktop browser features liked tabbed browsing, copy and paste and a sophisticated download manager to mobiles.<\/p>\n

Sometime around the time that UC 7.0<\/a> was released at the end of 2009,\u00a0 UC’s international server infrastructure for users outside of China began to show signs of stress. \u00a0 Visiting many popular sites became impossible with the browser displaying a blank screen or an error message. There were also problems logging into some sites and with cookies not being retained within and across sessions.<\/p>\n

The UC Browser team appears to have mostly resolved the server\u00a0 issues sometime in the last two weeks.\u00a0 There are still some lingering problems with Yahoo Mail and Twitter OAuth logins on Dabr and Tweete, but most other sites I tried worked well. I’m finally able to use the UC Browser with confidence again.<\/p>\n

While the server improvements are the big UC Browser news\u00a0 for me, the recently released Version 7.2 is a nice upgrade.\u00a0 The rendering in the\u00a0 browser’s “Zoom” (desktop or keyhole) mode is much improved (images, above left and below left). Zoom mode\u00a0 used to be almost unusable due to overlapping text and images.\u00a0 In 7.2 most pages display reasonably accurately with no overlapping elements.\u00a0 I still prefer the\u00a0 UC Browser’s “Adaptive” or fit-to-width mode (image, below right), which, unlike Opera Mini’s similar but badly broken “Mobile View” always works to display pages in a single column without the need for horizontal scrolling.<\/p>\n

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Other enhancements in 7.2 include:<\/p>\n