Windows Phone WebBrowser slow startup - windows-phone-8

I have an application that opens a webpage in WebBrowser but it takes more time than normal browser to startup. Once it has opened the first page, browsing speed is ok. Whats the difference between them and any idea about how to fix ? Thanks.

you might have done any massive processing before opening webbrowser,you just need to do this:
WebBrowserTask webBrowserTask = new WebBrowserTask();
webBrowserTask.Uri = //your Uri
webBrowserTask.Show();
Hope this helps.

Im guessing it has nothing to do with code. You should check what kind of connection you are using in you'r phone. Or the webpage has a lot of script or images, which typically takes time to load to your phone webbrowser control

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Can I get hacked after writing something in the "console" part after clicking "inspect"? A YouTube video showed a person writing Runner.instance.gameOver = function(){}; in the dinosaur game's console part after clicking on "inspect". I did that (because this "hack" does not harm others) and the game did become easy. However, the day after that, I heard that console can be dangerous, can you please help me? I am VERY concerned.
tl;dr: Yes.
Pasting and running anything you don't understand from an untrusted source (i.e. basically everyone on the internet) is as bad in the console as it is anywhere else. In practice, someone malicious could trick you into Self-XSS, effectively hijacking your account on the current browser tab.
This is why e.g. Facebook injects a warning message whenever you open the console on their page:
That being said: If you know what you are doing, using the console is perfectly fine.
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The code is just replacing the method gameOver by a function what does nothing.
What this means? The original function what is designed to stop you playing when you lose, is no there anymore so you can't lose at all.

Programmatically trigger the stop button from a Chrome extension

I am trying to implement a hard limit on a how long a web page can load via a Chrome extension. I have seen a number of implementations that suggest using a content script to call window.stop(), but in some cases the browser is never going to execute that JavaScript because it's still attempting to load a page that is going to time out. An example of such a site is http://blackhole.webpagetest.org.
At a very basic level, I need the extension to be able to hit the "Stop" button in the browser after a specified amount of time.
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Web pages in CHtmlView with high dpi (150%) display incorrectly

Problem
I'm having the problem for days and haven't found anyone else mentioned it..
The issue is that when I set the system dpi scaling to 150% or above, some webpages I open in CHtmlView would be messed up, while using IE or Chrome not causing the same problem.
Context
It seems like in CHtmlView the fonts get bigger than it's needed. I figured out this situation happens if my program's "high DPI-aware" property is set. But I can't turn it off either because the webpage would be blurry.
The strange part is when I tested msdn or google paged in CHtmlView, they neither caused the problem nor scale 150%. They just displayed as the 100% one.
Not sure if I should do something to my program or the webpage. The webpage needed to be displayed in my program is also from my company, so if I know what to set in the webpage I could handle it.
Thank you :)
Edit:
Because the website I'm having problem with is a private site, so I use another page to explain the situation.
Webpage in HtmlView, seem like only fonts get bigger.
Webpage in IE
I'm here as I've got the same problem.
You can create a new VS2017 MFC project, derive a view from CHtmlView, you'll find this in the constructed code
void CMFCApplication4View::OnInitialUpdate()
{
CHtmlView::OnInitialUpdate();
Navigate2(_T("http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/"),nullptr, nullptr);
}
(Note I had to delete the two trailing nullptr arguments to get it to compile)
My application manifest lists the app as being High DPI Aware and I've got a 200% (192dpi) scaled monitor.
The web page that loads is tiny (unscaled).
zett42's answer (Aug 31 '17 at 14:39) is correct. Add the registry key indicated, using
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
MFCApplication4.exe=11001 [your application name here].
Restart the app, hey presto everythin is correctly scaled.
Dunno why I can't upvote zett42.

Is there an alternative to watir::ie.attach for watir-webdriver since attach is not supported on webdriver

I have a website which is only rendered in Webkit enabled browser (Google Chrome, Safari). I am using Google Chrome since I am on Windows 7.
I am using Watir-WebDriver to automate the same.
Issue: When I click on a button on the browser window, is launches another window and post click content is rendered in the new browser window. I need a way to be able to Identify this new browser window, in-order to be able to proceed with my testing. I have been reading on various forums, but not getting any certain answer/solution.
Q: Is there an alternative to watir::ie.attach for watir-webdriver since attach is not supported on Watir-Webdriver
Sample code:
require "rubygems"
require "watir-webdriver"
require "selenium-webdriver"
b = Watir::Browser.new(:chrome)
website = "http://xyz.com"
#a new browser is launched and the website is opened
b.goto(website)
#this opens a new browser window
b.link(:xpath,"/html/body/div/ul/li/a").click
#there is a button called "MAP" on the new browser window
b.link(:id,"btn_MAP")
#this gives an error, unknown link
"window" method is the alternative for ie.attach. Webdriver can handle the window opened by itself with window method.
b.link(:href,/server\/getPage/).click
b.window(:url,/server\/getPage/i).use do
b.link(:id,"btn_MAP").click
end
you can handle popped up windows in the window method block. If you want to keep handling popped up window, use it without block, like window(:url,/foobar/).use
see also:
http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/232df221602d4cfb
#Yutaka: Thanks a lot for all your help it lead me to use something like the following and it worked!
b.link(:xpath,"/html/body/div/ul/li/a").click
c = b.window(:url,"http:\/\/server\/getPage\/67\/1354")
c.use
b.link(:id,"btn_MAP").click
have you tried making the website the default homepage for the browser?
that might prevent you from having to do an attach.

Creating Chrome popup with a C++ program

Problem context:
I have a C++ program and a web presence. Currently the way things are working I have made a control panel with javascript and html. And it send commands via an unimportant communication medium to control things or get information from the C++ program.
Now, when the C++ program launches, I'm making it run a
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", addressBuffer," --new-window", NULL, SW_NORMAL);
This is a way of launching the default browser with the given address. The addressBuffer in this case points to an intermediate HTML file that quickly turns around and uses the
window.open()
in Javascript to open the final popup, then closes itself.
The result is the user now has the popup control panel that I want them to have but the user's main browser window also gets given focus, un-minimized, and placed on a different tab than the one they had selected. (Basically pops up out of nowhere and selects a another tab)
Problem:
I'm looking for a way to launch a Chrome popup, without disturbing a previously open browser window. Any ideas or solutions would be very helpful.
Lastly, it's worth noting that the " --new-window" from the code above doesn't actually open a new window like you would expect. In this case it's actually doing nothing... If it did work, none of this would really be an issue.
I know this is wordy so thanks in advance for you time!
-Michael
Alright, I came up with a solution.
Something about how ShellExecute processes it's commands was preventing the command line args to be passed in correctly.
My work-around includes grabbing the path to Chrome from the registry,
HKET_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe
Then simply doing a system() command with the chrome path "--new-window" and the web path.
Then I let the intermediate html page open it's popup and close itself.
Tada done.
Thanks.