In DL09 I had a debinged browser I used and I loved it, however I am not sure if I can use the same one in DL30. I know that the browser in Froyo uses the V8 Javascript engine and I do not want to lose these improvements. Is this in the kernel or in the APK? If it is the APK then I cannot use the same one I was using before correct?
Is a de-binged browser necessary with DL30? The browser settings now have an option for the default search, and mine was on Google by default. Is there any other forced Bing stuff in the browser that this option doesn't effect?
This is the browser from Adrenalyn's cleaned rom. When in the browser, the dedicated search button searches with Google and all the bookmarks are removable (through the old method of visiting each one, and then going into the history, clicking each and selecting "remove from bookmarks"). I didn't try the stock browser for too long, but I do know it wouldn't let you remove the Verizon bookmarks at all, through any method.
Best part is that this doesn't suffer from the grayed out address bar that the old 2.1 DeBinged browser did.
beeblebrux said:
Is a de-binged browser necessary with DL30? The browser settings now have an option for the default search, and mine was on Google by default. Is there any other forced Bing stuff in the browser that this option doesn't effect?
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I have google selected but it still goes to bing everytime, no matter what.
ChrisDDD said:
This is the browser from Adrenalyn's cleaned rom. When in the browser, the dedicated search button searches with Google and all the bookmarks are removable (through the old method of visiting each one, and then going into the history, clicking each and selecting "remove from bookmarks"). I didn't try the stock browser for too long, but I do know it wouldn't let you remove the Verizon bookmarks at all, through any method.
Best part is that this doesn't suffer from the grayed out address bar that the old 2.1 DeBinged browser did.
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Thanks a lot man, def use it.
EDIT: I'm apparently a slow typist. Everything I had to say here was said earlier mid-posting. Mods, please remove.
Edit nvm, I forgot I have my homepage set to igoogle. Searching in the url box does only use bing. However the softkey uses Google as does the voice search.
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EDIT: I'm apparently a slow typist. Everything I had to say here was said earlier mid-posting. Mods, please remove.
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I get the exact same.
Out of curiosity does long pressing the search key work for you? it does NOTHING for me.
Cali3350 said:
I get the exact same.
Out of curiosity does long pressing the search key work for you? it does NOTHING for me.
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Nope. Does nothing.
Here you go ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939098
-Doug
beeblebrux said:
Is a de-binged browser necessary with DL30? The browser settings now have an option for the default search, and mine was on Google by default. Is there any other forced Bing stuff in the browser that this option doesn't effect?
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Yes .... 1) keywords entered in the URL go to Bing and 2) you can't delete the Verizon bookmarks
See my post above for a DL30 based Browser.apk that has been fully debinged.
-Doug
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In the first few days it was fine, but now I cannot view some webpage completely.
One is the bookmark called My Verizon it use to display to where I could see the whole page, now the window that opens shows only the first 4 lines and that it.
I am having this same problem on some other sites, and they use to work good.
I have cleared the cache I am going to do the cookies next hope that helps.
Lino. said:
In the first few days it was fine, but now I cannot view some webpage completely.
One is the bookmark called My Verizon it use to display to where I could see the whole page, now the window that opens shows only the first 4 lines and that it.
I am having this same problem on some other sites, and they use to work good.
I have cleared the cache I am going to do the cookies next hope that helps.
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Is JavaScript enabled in your browser settings?
jonnybueno said:
Is JavaScript enabled in your browser settings?
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Yes it is, I did clear cookies and it did not solve the problem
Lino. said:
Yes it is, I did clear cookies and it did not solve the problem
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is flash enabled?
Edit: you are using the stock "internet" browser right? any other browsers installed?
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is flash enabled?
Edit: you are using the stock "internet" browser right? any other browsers installed?
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Yes I am using the stock browser and flash in enabled also.
I do not have any other browsers installed
Anyone else having browser problems?
I have not got this figured out yet, there is this option that I have not done because I don't know if it will delete all my bookmarks.
(Clear all internet data and reset all setting to default.)
Does anyone know if the bookmarks will be lost?
One of the sites that does not display correctly is Google maps online, does your phone display this correctly?
Have you restarted your phone? I had a problem where the browser wouldn't accept any input in text fields, I restarted and it fixed the problem.
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Anyone else having browser problems?=
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NOPE, everything works great here!
I noticed you only had 10 posts when I checked.
What does VZW support say? What is your signal strength in db when you are having problems (assuming 3G since you didn't say over wifi)? What apps do you have installed?
What is the most active under "Battery use", please list everything.
syntrix said:
NOPE, everything works great here!
I noticed you only had 10 posts when I checked.
What does VZW support say? What is your signal strength in db when you are having problems (assuming 3G since you didn't say over wifi)? What apps do you have installed?
What is the most active under "Battery use", please list everything.
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I have not checked Verizon support, I figured I could get better help here, from people that use the same phone.
Signal strength varies I have the problem at home or at work, at home I have 1 bar, at work I have full signal.
I have not used wifi mostly on 3G service.
Programs I have installed are, Advanced Task Killer, Astro File Manager, Convert Droid, ebuddy, Labyrinth Lite, OI Shoping list, PicSay,ShopSavvy, and Voice Recorder.
I got these programs as soon as I got the phone, they were programs I had on my G1 and my browser worked fine for a few days.
If this was on my home PC I would say that I have spyware on my PC or a virus.
I have not done a browser reset back to default because I did not want to loose all the bookmarks.
Just backup your bookmarks with "bookmark backup and restore" or "bookmarks2sd" you can find both of those on the market.
OK I downloaded and backed up my bookmarks with this program BookmarkBR (Bookmark Backup and Restore) and I reorganized my bookmarks then did a backup.
Then I did a Browser restore back to defaults and it took care of the problem without deleting my bookmarks, this is good because this BookmarkBR does not organize my bookmarks as I expected, so I figured that it did not work with this phone, I had to do a bookmark restore to display my changes, great program this BookmarkBR and it's free.
Thanks for the help.
All my webpages are showing in mobile view. I have looked all through the settings and cannot find the option to make everything show up like I am on a PC.
Does anyone know if this can be done, I have been able to do this on my previous HTC phones. I have loaded Dolphin Browser HD and Xscope but they still both also show some pages in mobile view.
Thanks.
I have the same problem
I've tried every thing to and it won't disable mobile views anyone have ideas
After playing with different settings in multiple browsers, if you download xscope browser and tell it your an ipad it makes everything show up correctly. I tried desktop view in that browser but some things still came up as mobile view.
Egads, this is my #1 annoyance. although this is a Google thing and not Samsung, per se. HTC Sense however has an option in the browser settings to disable mobile view pages from coming up (doesn't disable WAP capability though so you can still open a wap page manually).
i tried the manual method where you enter that debug command in the address bar and then go into the settings where you can change it from mobile to desktop (and iphone lol) views and other phones the 'desktop' view takes care of it, but i tried it on the Vibrant and then it renders the browser unusable until you reset the browser.
I came to this site to post about this but someone beat me to it. I hope there is a solution out there. I also think its really stupid that these websites think they need to show android phones their mobile views.
Maybe someone can push one of the other ROM's browser .apk to this phone. The browser on the rom I'm using has an option in the settings to change your User Agent.
Hey guys/gals, try something out for me (I don't have a V so I can't)
Open up your stock browser.
Type “about:debug” in the address line and press enter. (No quotations)
Hit “menu” and then select “Settings.”
You should now see all kind's of debugging settings including "UA String"
Click that and select "Desktop"
Let us know if it worked
Thanks!
Doesn't do anything.
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Doesn't do anything.
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AFter typing about:debug in the browser address window you have to press menu, then settings and then go down to the bottom and look for UAstring. That is how it works on the Nexus. I don't have a Vibrant yet either but it is on the way.
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Doesn't do anything.
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May be Sammy did something to the Browser app... can we get few more confirmations that it in fact does not work?
Other solution could be to rip out Browser.apk out of CM 2.1 rom and try installing or ADB pushing it to the system.
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i tried the manual method where you enter that debug command in the address bar and then go into the settings where you can change it from mobile to desktop (and iphone lol) views and other phones the 'desktop' view takes care of it, but i tried it on the Vibrant and then it renders the browser unusable until you reset the browser.
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Already confirmed here.
One just can't trust Samsung... I tell ya
Here's stock Eclair Browser.apk for the brave ones ( I take no responsibility for whatever happens)
borodin1 said:
Hey guys/gals, try something out for me (I don't have a V so I can't)
Open up your stock browser.
Type “about:debug” in the address line and press enter. (No quotations)
Hit “menu” and then select “Settings.”
You should now see all kind's of debugging settings including "UA String"
Click that and select "Desktop"
Let us know if it worked
Thanks!
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So I did this and got it to work. Clicked UA string and selected desktop. Now my browser force closes repeatedly and I can not get it open. Please tell me how to undo what I did.
Thanks
southpaw773 said:
Egads, this is my #1 annoyance. although this is a Google thing and not Samsung, per se. HTC Sense however has an option in the browser settings to disable mobile view pages from coming up (doesn't disable WAP capability though so you can still open a wap page manually).
i tried the manual method where you enter that debug command in the address bar and then go into the settings where you can change it from mobile to desktop (and iphone lol) views and other phones the 'desktop' view takes care of it, but i tried it on the Vibrant and then it renders the browser unusable until you reset the browser.
I came to this site to post about this but someone beat me to it. I hope there is a solution out there. I also think its really stupid that these websites think they need to show android phones their mobile views.
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How do you reset the browser? Ugh
After changing my UAString to Desktop, Browser did nothing but FC on start, I had to push a default version of Browser back to the phone and reset the settings.
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After changing my UAString to Desktop, Browser did nothing but FC on start, I had to push a default version of Browser back to the phone and reset the settings.
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Hate to be a Noob here, but how exactly did you push the default stock browser for the fix.
Thanks
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Hate to be a Noob here, but how exactly did you push the default stock browser for the fix.
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Since I'm not using ADB, I used terminal to copy the Browser.apk from the Vibrant dump.
install busybox
cp /sdcard/Browser.apk /system/app/Browser.apk
reboot
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Since I'm not using ADB, I used terminal to copy the Browser.apk from the Vibrant dump.
install busybox
cp /sdcard/Browser.apk /system/app/Browser.apk
reboot
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OK. I am not rooted. Is there a non rooted way to reset a FC browser?
edykes1 said:
OK. I am not rooted. Is there a non rooted way to reset a FC browser?
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You could do a Factory reset.
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You could do a Factory reset.
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Haha. Don't really want to do that. Maybe it is time to root.
I suppose. Idk, coming from the Mytouch, I'm used to wiping and formating and reinstalling and wiping and resetting things so many times testing the new roms that I'm used to it. May wanna try Titanium Backup first, I suppose.
web browser test on each tablet's native browser. Summary, the browser in Honeycomb is better than previous version. All three tablets are connected to the same wifi. check out the results yourself!
http://acid3.acidtests.org/
http://html5test.com/
http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.htm
Probably the most amazing use of chrome to phone I have seen. When all three devices instantly ran the Acid3 test I was like WTF, ninja edit.
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Probably the most amazing use of chrome to phone I have seen. When all three devices instantly ran the Acid3 test I was like WTF, ninja edit.
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Yeah, Chrome to Phone is the shizit.
muyoso said:
Probably the most amazing use of chrome to phone I have seen. When all three devices instantly ran the Acid3 test I was like WTF, ninja edit.
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indeed
The only wish that I have with Honeycomb web browser is ability to change USER AGENT STRING. That's all I want.
I know, there is that about:debug trick, but it does not stick and we must do it again and again. Even does not work on certain website.
So, Google ... please please please add this!
Don't force me to use Dolphin
Is there anyway to edit the ".apk" and make it permanent change An idea for hacker with root.
gogol said:
The only wish that I have with Honeycomb web browser is ability to change USER AGENT STRING. That's all I want.
I know, there is that about:debug trick, but it does not stick and we must do it again and again. Even does not work on certain website.
So, Google ... please please please add this!
Don't force me to use Dolphin
Is there anyway to edit the ".apk" and make it permanent change An idea for hacker with root.
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My user agent string has never changed back, what are you talking about?
The reason some sites come up mobile is because they match on the word Android instead of mobile. Websites are to blame, not google in this case.
i swear Androidcentral took my blog story!
http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-xoom-browser-ready-primetime#comment-116845
Create a book mark to about:config on your home screen. All you do is click the shortcut then hit the go button in the URL bar.
I tried with my Nexus S and browse to Facebook.com (full site).
It worked for a while, but then went back to Touch.Facebook.com.
Because of this, I am using Dolphin Mini which has option to browse as desktop browser. Problem solved.
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My user agent string has never changed back, what are you talking about?
The reason some sites come up mobile is because they match on the word Android instead of mobile. Websites are to blame, not google in this case.
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When accessing google in the standard browser I get the following strange behaviour:
Search for something.
Click a link.
Use 'back' key to return to search results and the page shows no results, just the Google logo and the search box.
If I refresh the page I get the search results back.
Is this the same for everyone?
Yep i had the same on both 3.0.1 and 3.1 however when on google.co.uk i have the cog icon top right for search settings and even though browser set to google instant off the sttings here still show as active so unticked google instant and saved preferences, now i do not have this problem
yep... i am seeing i too under 3.1
yep...this is a bug in the stock browser..
not a big deal but hopefully it will be fixed soon
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Yep i had the same on both 3.0.1 and 3.1 however when on google.co.uk i have the cog icon top right for search settings and even though browser set to google instant off the sttings here still show as active so unticked google instant and saved preferences, now i do not have this problem
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Awesome! Fixed my issue with the browser too. However, I did like the google instant feature. I'll wait until it's fixed, since this is much better.
Was on the main google site and could not type anything into the search box. I would click in but no keyboard would pop out to type... Am I doing something wrong?
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Was on the main google site and could not type anything into the search box. I would click in but no keyboard would pop out to type... Am I doing something wrong?
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Got the same on Galaxy Tab 10.1 the moon eclipse animation works but no keyboard pops up when tapping at the search box. I had to click the google logo and search from there.
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Was on the main google site and could not type anything into the search box. I would click in but no keyboard would pop out to type... Am I doing something wrong?
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Ya I have the problem with the stock browser as well, specifically with the docked keyboard. I have found if I do a right click to pop up the menu and cancel it, then I can start typing in the search box.
I also have this issue with the Dolphin browser.
i'm having this problem too... kinda. certain websites, like xda, i can't use the back button. this is happening on my tf and on my gt10.1 so it's not a tf specific issue. it may be an app causing this b/c before i synced my gt10.1 after reformatting it it worked fine.
since dolphin is doing this too maybe dolpin is causing the problem? got some digging to do. i may go back to fresh and install apps one at a time... what a pain that'll be.
Anyone know what happened to the 'Home' button that used to be available from within the Bookmarks section of the Honeycomb stock browser? It's not even available in the Quick Controls. I just want a quick way of getting to my homepage.
Not sure about that. Simple solution -> open a new tab
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Not sure about that. Simple solution -> open a new tab
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Yes, there are any number of workarounds I could use and I could try different browsers but I don't want to! I just want the same simple functionality that was previously available in the stock browser and would now appear to be lost.
Am I expecting too much?
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Yes, there are any number of workarounds I could use and I could try different browsers but I don't want to! I just want the same simple functionality that was previously available in the stock browser and would now appear to be lost.
Am I expecting too much?
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No.
Although, hitting the new tab "+" sign is one step less than opening the bookmarks then hitting home making it slightly more simple.
Try ICS browser + on google play, lots of customization.
yeah i noticed that too about the home button
also using drive with ics somehow when my browser
synced bookmarks they are all gone even wiped out chrome
on laptop, had to restore on laptop but all i can do is add
one by one on tablet............
lowsum said:
Try ICS browser + on google play, lots of customization.
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Thanks for that. ICS Browser + does the job.