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Stupid question I know, but when you open the browser, is there no one click other than opening bookmarks that will just go to your homepage, and also is there a refresh button?

I've not been able to find either. The lack of refesh is very annoying when you are looking at thing like football results.

no, as shown in another thread, there is no home button. like you said, use bookmarks, or open a new window. Daft but that's what were stuck with at the moment.
As for refresh button, yes there is.
press menu to show the address bar at the top, and on the right of the address bar is a button that changes from refresh (when a page is loaded) to stop (while a page is loading)

Thanks..
Strange they let you set up and change the homepage but not the most basic function of getting there. As most of the time it's left on the last page you were on and doesn't revert to home? Oh well. Another one for the updates.
As a sidenote, how do you guys feel about the applications you download having access to :
Phone calls, read phone state
Hardware controls
Network Communications, full internet access
etc
etc
Why would something like Shazam need all this info about phone calls in particular

I have igoogle as my homepage,all i do is put a shortcut for igoogle from bookmarks on my homescreen and use that as my browser.

gaz31 said:
I have igoogle as my homepage,all i do is put a shortcut for igoogle from bookmarks on my homescreen and use that as my browser.
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like yer style!
done that now to!

[Q] Xoom Browser

So far I'm really liking my Xoom but the browser keeps bugging me. Is there a way to change the theme of the browser? The dark browser is driving me crazy.
Also instead of going to a homepage is it possible to have a New Tab page like chrome has now?
I am noticing that some pages are not rendering very well. If you go to eBay's page some of the graphics and drop down arrows are blurry or grainy is the any fix for this?

I dont have it next to me, but you can always try switching it to a desktop version or something...
open a page, then in the address bar replace the web address with "About:debug" and hit enter (no quotes). Then hit the browser menu button, go to settings and the in the left menu choose debug. Click UA String and change it to desktop. Close the settings, retype the web address and hit enter and you should be viewing as a desktop browser. See if that helps at all.

Labs > Most Visited Homepage. That will make it show as chrome does. Some sites will have those minor issues, as they aren't optimized for mobile view.

k0smo86 said:
Labs > Most Visited Homepage. That will make it show as chrome does. Some sites will have those minor issues, as they aren't optimized for mobile view.
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Been using this for my home/new tab page for a few days now and its awesome. No bugs showing pages yet.

[Q] Dolphin HD Browser on A500 Help Needed

I am trying to remove the 'exit' prompt when hitting the back key. The FAQ at their website says go to Menu/More/Settings to turn off the prompt. Problem is that I can't find Menu/More/Settings. Where is it?

Hit the system menu button at the bottom left of the screen. Go into settings (you might not have to hit "More"), change settings.

Entropy,
Thanks for your reply. I'm sorry for being so slow but I do not see any menu button at the bottom left of the screen. When I bring up the Dolphin browser I have a left arrow for back, a up arrow that brings up the tablet home page, a layered rectangle that brings up a graphical column that has My Apps, Team Stream, Gmail, Google Search, and Settings.
If I hit Settings I do not get a "More". The last icon at the lower left, a rectangle grid brings up the a bottom six options; refresh, bookmarks, toolbar, forward, exit, and uh-oh "more". Oops! There it is. Found exit settings and fixed the problem. Thank you very much.

lmao!
Glad you got it! Totally got a chuckle out of that stream of consciousness style there lol

Where is the Thanks button?

Get the dolphine browser for tablets.
Good luck

jborchel said:
Where is the Thanks button?
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Below each post - if you don't see it you need to hit the user cp and change your theme, I think

Brilliant, so goodto know there is at least one other person out there that is as slow as me at spotting the obvious. Now if I can just find someone with the inability to saty polite when drunk then I've had a good day.

erica_renee said:
Get the dolphine browser for tablets.
Good luck
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I tried dolphin for tablets but it was blurry. It didn't look good. I looked through the options to see if there was a way to fix it but I couldn't find anything.
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Hello to everyone,
first of all sorry if this thread is posted in wrong theme.. I want to know how to download files for example from mail etc. in .doc, .xls in Dolphin Browser HD..I have used Opera and it downloads everything,but Dolphin looks much better so I want to know is there solution?Some people told me to download app Download All Files from Market but it doesn't help me.Is there any other solution?
Thank you

Hey Gmfeny, did you get you random wifi disconnects sorted... I read that you used the wifi analyzer (where did you find that..?) and then at your womans pad, it started working. What is the latest. Later on.

shortcut to Metro IE

Hi,
I just instapp Win 8 cp on my Dell Latitude XT, and it seems to work pretty well.
A stupid thing I did - I removed the tile in the start screen for the immersive/metro IE, on the assumption that it would be easy to put it back, but I have no idea how to do that... Uninstalling ("turn windows features on/off") and reinstalling IE didn't help.
Any tips... ?
Thanks!

Try putting your mouse in the upper right hand corner of your screen to access the hidden sidebar. Click the search icon to access your total apps list. You should see the IE icon. Right click it to bring up your action bar at the bottom of the screen. You can repin the app to the start menu from there.
Hope that helps!
GL HF

Nope, doesn't show up there. I deleted the tile from the start screen, so then it shouldn't show up there, should it? Accessing searching through applications like this, it isn't different from just typing on the start screen, is it? I have icon there that I created later for the desktop IE, but none for Metro IE (immersive). I do have Firefox as my default browser though, that might complicate things...

Just set IE as default browser and Metro IE will be back.
You can set default program for webpage as the Firefox in "Set Default Program" (by click "Choose defaults for this program" button)

Nope, that didn't work either...

[solved]Max number of tabs & Always Request Desktop site in Official 4.0.4

So I have flashed the italian version of official ICS rom.
I was wondering is the stock browser can be modded to allow more tabs? and set to always request desktop site?
I have found a few mods but they are for phone ICS, not sure if they would work on tablet ICS.
any suggestions?
Edit : i flashed the deodexed, zipaligned stock 4.0.4 and modified the SecBrowser.apk to enable a maximum of 99 tabs, and some faster animations. i have attached the modified apk here for those who need it. note: only works on deodexed stock 4.0.4

rihui said:
So I have flashed the italian version of official ICS rom.
I was wondering is the stock browser can be modded to allow more tabs? and set to always request desktop site?
I have found a few mods but they are for phone ICS, not sure if they would work on tablet ICS.
any suggestions?
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one of the very first things I did:
RE "always request desktop site"
type about:debug in the broswer's address bar
go to the browser's settings
go to the "advanced" (IIRC) tab or something like that
find the voice "UAstring" (IIRC) or something like that to "desktop"
type again about:debug in the broswer's address bar
this setting stays set even after rebooting (which was not always the case in the past)
don't know where/how to change the "8 tabs max" settings but would like to!

xdapao3 said:
one of the very first things I did:
RE "always request desktop site"
type about:debug in the broswer's address bar
go to the browser's settings
go to the "advanced" (IIRC) tab or something like that
find the voice "UAstring" (IIRC) or something like that to "desktop"
type again about:debug in the broswer's address bar
this setting stays set even after rebooting (which was not always the case in the past)
don't know where/how to change the "8 tabs max" settings but would like to!
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Is this for the stock browser or for chrome or both? Thanks

Raistlin1 said:
Is this for the stock browser or for chrome or both? Thanks
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I was referring to the stock browser. And since I don't have Chrome (a browser which doesn't reflow zoomed in text, like the stock does, is useless to me) I have no idea if it works with Chrome too, sorry.

xdapao3 said:
I was referring to the stock browser. And since I don't have Chrome (a browser which doesn't reflow zoomed in text, like the stock does, is useless to me) I have no idea if it works with Chrome too, sorry.
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No worries and thanks for the info!
When you say doesn't reflow zoomed in text, do you mean the fact that Chrome doesn't properly fit a page on screen when you change pages?
I have noticed that on Chrome every time I go to a new page it is zoomed in and I have to either scroll to see all text or double tap screen to get it to fit. Very annoying and I don't know if that is just a setting or a fact of life.

Raistlin1 said:
No worries and thanks for the info!
When you say doesn't reflow zoomed in text, do you mean the fact that Chrome doesn't properly fit a page on screen when you change pages?
I have noticed that on Chrome every time I go to a new page it is zoomed in and I have to either scroll to see all text or double tap screen to get it to fit. Very annoying and I don't know if that is just a setting or a fact of life.
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yep, double tapping only zooms out while in the stock browser it reflows (reformats) the text leaving the zoom level you set and making the page readable without scrolling (make sure to also check this in the settings).
frankly this is one of the most basic functions of a browser and IDK how people can live without it. until Chrome gets this elementary feature it's just worthless crap, to me.
BTW, no settings issue, it's "a fact of life" with Chrome. Can't believe so many people rave about it......
oh and, just checked and the way to change the user agent that I wrote in my earlier reply doesn't work with Chrome.

Dolphin browser + desktop toggle is what you need. I have given up on stock browsers on all my devices. Dolphin is miles ahead.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

Thanks for all the input.
I've found this on the S3 forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1723182
I'm not familiar with compiling/decompiling, can anybody do the modification on the browser.apk for the official ICS rom?
edit: okay, tried modifying the apk using APKTools, deleted the SecBrowser.apk and .odex, replacing them with modified one, but ended up having a missing internet icon. Looks like it is not possible to modify apk in non-deodexed stock rom.