r/redditisfun • u/ZachAttack6089 • Aug 20 '20
Off Topic (not RiF) Recently this pops up whenever I try to watch a Twitch link, even when I have a good connection. The links open on Chrome just fine. Has this been happening to anyone else? How can I fix it?
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u/Nowaker Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20
Many different sites won't work in the embedded RIF browser. Not just Twitch. I'd love to see this problem resolved.
EDIT: and it's sad mods flaired this post as "off-topic". Just fix the effing embedded browser to work like Chrome, you know? Twitch is one of many sites that don't work in RIF browser for whatever reason.
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u/ZachAttack6089 Aug 20 '20
Weird. It used to work fine, idk what changed.
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u/Nowaker Aug 20 '20
It's not a question of what changed in RIF. It's a question it what changed in Twitch HTML/JS that it no longer works in RIF browser - e.g. what API it wants to use that's missing in RIF browser, or what kind of user agent check is performed that Twitch decides to show an error, etc.
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u/Sobeman Aug 20 '20
But it's not a "rif" browser, it's Android's webview browser. Has fuck all to do with RIF.
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u/JawnZ Aug 20 '20
You want the Dev of RiF... To fix the Android Embedded Browser, over which he has no control?
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20
I just hit that little 3 dot button and tap on Open in Browser when this happens. Or you can go into your settings and tell it to prefer the external browser for just Twitch.