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On 09/23/2015 10:35 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

>    While I was researching the 'web-browser which can be moved to SD
> card' issue (see below), I stumbled on the explanation why you (The Real
> Bev) could move Facebook to the SD card on your Android 5.0.2 device,
> but I can't move it on my Android 4.1.1 device.
>
>    The reason: It's not the same app! Apparently 5.0+ has it's own
> Facebook app, which is different from the app for pre-5.0+ systems.
>
>    You can verify this by looking at the version of the Facebook app.
> Yours is probably something like 3X.X.X.X.XX (maybe 37.0.0.0.88). While

37.0.0.48.234

> mine is 46.0.0.26.153. I.e. the app for older systems has a higher
> version number than the app for newer systems.

That seems semi-nuts.

>    So, one mystery solved. No solution for me, but the mystery is solved.
>
>    Next point:
>
>    During the same research, I found that there's a thing called
> 'Facebook Lite'
> (<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.lite>).
>
>    Compared to the regular Facebook app, it's not just 'Lite' but
> featherweight: 3.30MB Total! (1.23MB App and 168KB Data). And no, the
> decimal point is not in the wrong place and it's really KB, not MB.
>
>    I installed it and it seems to do the basic stuff. It probably can't
> do video's (which is probably an advantage instead of a limitation) and
> it didn't seem to honor rotate-screen.
>
>    I couldn't install it from the Play Store. The Play Store said "X
> This app is incompatible with all of your devices.", which is strange,
> because the Play Store page also says "Works on all Android phones".
>
>    Anyway, I downloaded the APK from APKMirror and installed the app from
> the APK.

There's also 1MobileMarket when Play Store gets nasty.

>    BTW, the app's name is (only) 'Lite', i.e. when trying to find it in
> 'Manage apps' (or whatever), it'll be under the 'L', not under the 'F'.
>
>    Bottom line, I can 'Uninstall [updates]' Facebook and disable it and
> use Facebook Lite instead. That way I free some valuable Internal
> storage space.
>
>    And now the third point:
>
>>   Alternative: Does anyone know of a web-browser which is 'Move to SD
>> card' capable?
>
>    For the moment, I found a solution for this as well:
>
>    Firefox is quite a bit smaller than Chrome, some 48MB versus 145MB,
> and the Firefox app *can* be moved to the SD card.
>
>    After moving it, but only using it for a bit, it was Total 47.68MB
> (*6.04MB* App + 39.62MB USB storage app + 3.67MB data + 0.00B SD card
> (data)).
>
>    So Firefox takes only about 10MB of Internal storage space, compared
> to 145MB for Chrome.
>
>    N.B. The data still sits in Internal storage. Apparently this can be
> (partly?) moved as well, but for the momentI didn't bother.
>
>    Summary:
>
>    All in all the changes from Facebook to Facebook Lite and from Chrome
> to Firefox, give me quite a lot of extra Internal storage space, which I
> can use for Stuff That Matters (tm).
>
>    I hope that some of this is of use to some of the audience.

Indeed.

You'd think that android would be a lot more user-friendly than it is. 
It's not like everybody has 128GB of internal memory or anything :-(  I 
wonder which group is more technologically sophisticated -- the aUsers 
or the iUsers...  My impression -- people who have either plenty of or 
little regard for money and/or don't want to learn about stuff buy 
iStuff and the rest of us buy aStuff.

-- 
Cheers,
Bev
*****************************************
"Don't force it, use a bigger hammer!"
			      --M. Irving

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