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[Q]Any chance to get browser in desktop mode?

Hi just like title says.
Debug mode doesnt work

I installed Dolphin HD. You can find a "desktop"-mode in it's settings.

Dont want to mess my device, dont want a workaround ;-) so I'll stay at stock browser ... this one must do it somehow

what exactly is this desktop mode? Do you mean fullscreen? If so, webkit wont hide the taskbar, youll need a third party browser like dolphin or firefox.

ftgg99 said:
what exactly is this desktop mode? Do you mean fullscreen? If so, webkit wont hide the taskbar, youll need a third party browser like dolphin or firefox.
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the mode I nean is that the browser is not recognised as a mobile device but as a desktop pc, some sites redirekt you to mobile version and features are not available e.g. google calander

On my HTC, just click the menu button in the browser, then "More", then "Settings" and there you should see "Mobile view", just untick it.

Webkit will not allow you to choose user agent. Get dolphin he from the market, it does.

ftgg99 said:
Webkit will not allow you to choose user agent. Get dolphin he from the market, it does.
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Mmm I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Dolphin is using Webkit, it's just the appearance that has been changed.
And you can do it with the stock browser just the way I explained it a few post above.

Oh please.
Why don't you try doing exactly as you've recommended above little buddy, starting with more, then settings, then whatever.

what he is saying is true, i have that option on my htc but not my galaxy.

ftgg99 said:
Oh please.
Why don't you try doing exactly as you've recommended above little buddy, starting with more, then settings, then whatever.
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Ok I may be wrong about the settings, but still, Dolphin is based on Webkit.

513 said:
Ok I may be wrong about the settings, but still, Dolphin is based on Webkit.
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The Samsung stock browser does not offer the ability to change user agent. Samsung have stripped that setting from the browser (along with quite a number of other ones littered throughout the OS). Samsung's iteration and Dolphin are both based on webkit.
Use Firefox (behaves a bit randomly though, some pages display mobile view while others don't) or Dolphin HD with Desktop Toggles AddOn as a work around until we get some custom ROMs for this thing.

Like said above no setting like this in menu, not even with debug mode. Personaly I think the whole device is on every edge a bit buggy, translation faults and some senceless functions, or some wich are not thought to the next level. Like allshare, nice but not really functional no option to set more files at once in playlist, or mydocs, no option zo rename.

I also miss that function . On my N1 I can go into the menu and change so the browser does not present itself as a mobile device. On the big screen tab I would mostly like to view webpages as a real browser and not a mobile browser.
When You log on to a newspaper they all end up as mobile pages and You only get the stupid headlines and not the stuff You actually browsed to get.
Tried to download COD yesterday but could not do it as the browser went into mobile mode and presented itself as P1000 which stopped me from even trying to install it.

I search a little bit around without success, about:debug enable some features but seems there is not a chance to enable it.
Seems it happen also with Galaxy S with froyo installed, differently than HTC Desire that has the default the user agent selectable by default (I think is an HTC chose).
Anyway not just Dolphin HD allows to change it also Skyfire, but I agree that would be nice to have it on the default browser...(that seems to be faster then the Dolphin)

For me xScope 6 is the fastest (and featurewise imo the best as well) on the Tab.

With yesterdays release of Dolphin HD 4.0 we now have the finest mobile browser on the tab. All the bugs that used to tick me off are gone and fullscreen is silky smooth.

The awesomeness that is Opera Mobile

I have been struggling with the slow default browser for a while now... generally laggy, but particulary dismal on these forums and on Slash dot. I'm sure you all know how it goes. Had to resort to Firefox for many things, but that has its own problems, like not very tablety UI.
Well, today I found Opera (note: Mobile, NOT Mini - both are in Market). Where the hell were those guys before? It's blazing fast - yes, even on XDA forums - yet still full featured, and with UI that looks and feels very nice on Xoom - address bar always on, and tabs are one tap away. Bonus points for default black theme which meshes nicely with Honeycomb. The only downsid so far is no Flash - it mentions support in settings, and shows the "tap to play" icon, but doesn't load plugin on tap. I guess not updated for 10.2 yet...
If you hate default browser, definitely give this a try. Oh, and don't forget to check opera:config - lots of interesting settings there, like font/color overrides.

Dolphin HD?
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

Dolphin uses same engine as stock browser, and seems to be slow on the same websites. Firefox and Opera are not because they have their own engines.

I do like Opera mobile browser myself. I use it on my OG Droid all the time. It's a good solid speedy browser. But then again I also like xScope and their web browser. It works very well on the Xoom, and you can also change the user agent. It has a file browser built into it which might be good for some who don't already have a basic file browser. Should give it a go sometime. It is probably the fastest of them all, I've had it since launch. I have xScope Pro and prefer it over any of the Opera browsers any day. But they both are excellent choices. It's all preference based. Right now I am mainly using Dolphin HD on my Xoom until xScope gets flash 10.2 working correctly. Dolphin is a pretty awesome browser.
I'm stuck between xScope and Dolphin for my default browser. I can't choose. xD
xScope: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.sui-xEtw.aspx

int_19h said:
I have been struggling with the slow default browser for a while now... generally laggy, but particulary dismal on these forums and on Slash dot. I'm sure you all know how it goes. Had to resort to Firefox for many things, but that has its own problems, like not very tablety UI.
Well, today I found Opera (note: Mobile, NOT Mini - both are in Market). Where the hell were those guys before? It's blazing fast - yes, even on XDA forums - yet still full featured, and with UI that looks and feels very nice on Xoom - address bar always on, and tabs are one tap away. Bonus points for default black theme which meshes nicely with Honeycomb. The only downsid so far is no Flash - it mentions support in settings, and shows the "tap to play" icon, but doesn't load plugin on tap. I guess not updated for 10.2 yet...
If you hate default browser, definitely give this a try. Oh, and don't forget to check opera:config - lots of interesting settings there, like font/color overrides.
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I read on the Yahoo! News tech page that Opera jist released am update today. Did you get an update and did it fix Flash? I might give that and xScope a whirl. I want to like the stock browser but just can't. I like Dolphin's set up but it seems to crash too often for me.

Still ****ty with user-agent.
No desktop mode (spoof user-agent).
But yeah, it is fast.
Dolphin for me just because it can change the user-agent to desktop.

gogol said:
Still ****ty with user-agent.
No desktop mode (spoof user-agent).
But yeah, it is fast.
Dolphin for me just because it can change the user-agent to desktop.
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Curious, why can't you change the user-agent? I went into user prefs, custom user agent, and set it without issue. Flash doesn't work all that great but its better than the stock browser.

What did you put there?
omegard said:
Curious, why can't you change the user-agent? I went into user prefs, custom user agent, and set it without issue. Flash doesn't work all that great but its better than the stock browser.
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omegard said:
Curious, why can't you change the user-agent? I went into user prefs, custom user agent, and set it without issue. Flash doesn't work all that great but its better than the stock browser.
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I don't see where I can change the user agent to a custom one with Opera Mobile.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

colbyb25 said:
I don't see where I can change the user agent to a custom one with Opera Mobile.
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Well if u go to opera:config ---- user prefs ---- Custom user-agent you should see a blank window, insert your the user-agent string in that field. I've tested this with the ipad and chrome strings now i'm using the firefox string
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/4.0 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Yeah I tried out Firefox and couldn't believe how much faster it opened some sites compared to the Honey browser. I did get a lot of crashes though. I will have to try Opera now. Thanks!

I actually tried Opera Mobile again and their new update for tablets. Not bad, it's getting better. It certainly might have the potential to maybe be the top web browser if they keep updating it for the newest devices and adding new features. I'm keeping an eye on it and look forward to updates.
On a side note.. on the desktop I always preferred Firefox over Opera because of all the add-ons and customizations, like adblock plus. And Firefox was always a speed demon. They are trying to bring that full desktop experience to us Android users, add-ons and all! I'd watch out for Firefox as well even though the browser is still in the early beta stage. Once perfected it will dominate for sure, but it has a long way to go in terms of development. Gotta love the fox!

This string works great.
Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; de) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!
The smoothness of opera's scrolling has always been the selling point for me. Tried all the rest and havent been satisfied. Now that I dont get the annoying mobile versions of sites im all settled..

nbowes said:
I read on the Yahoo! News tech page that Opera jist released am update today. Did you get an update and did it fix Flash? I might give that and xScope a whirl. I want to like the stock browser but just can't. I like Dolphin's set up but it seems to crash too often for me.
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It looks like I was actually using the updated version. Unfortunately, I found its release notes, and they say that Flash does not work on Xoom specifically.
Speaking of speed, one thing I found interesting about this Opera release is that they somehow made it silky smooth panning and zooming without either the Safari-style "checkerboard" nor bitmap scaling - honest vector rendering only. What's interesting is that desktop Opera isn't half as good at that (partly why I switched to Chrome on desktop some time ago). Mobile getting all the love?
After using it for a while, one thing it's not is very stable (well, not any more so than Firefox beta). But between them two and the stock browser, you can always find one that doesn't FC on any particular website

I love Opera Mini but am I the only one that can't get flash to work with it? I also don't know why it isn't picking up my bookmarks that I used with my stock browser.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

Once they did Flash this will be my daily browser. just smooth as butter.

i just installed Opera on the Xoom.. works great, fast, but 2 things
it says there is Flash, but it does not work, on demand or just auto, nothing, just blank screen
2. no option to set "desktop" always goes mobile.
i could be missing something, please help

omegard said:
Well if u go to opera:config ---- user prefs ---- Custom user-agent you should see a blank window, insert your the user-agent string in that field. I've tested this with the ipad and chrome strings now i'm using the firefox string
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/4.0 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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It doesn't seem to want to save my settings. If I put in a new User Agent info, like you provided, and either back out or force close so it restarts...it seems to clear the user agent field. Am I missing something?

update:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=940252
Xoom does not get working flash..

eatonjb said:
update:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=940252
Xoom does not get working flash..
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I think it's something that will be supported since both the stock browser and Dolphin work with it on XOOM. Saw your post though. Please post here if you get a response

about:debug

It just doesn't stick. It resets if I close the browser meaning to get it back I have to go through the whole process again. While this isn't a big deal, it is annoying. Is there any way to get the UAstring to remain valid until the setting itself is changed manually?
I don't want to change browsers if that's the only option. I like the stock browser and sliding (labs, quick controls) features.

gammaRascal said:
It just doesn't stick. It resets if I close the browser meaning to get it back I have to go through the whole process again. While this isn't a big deal, it is annoying. Is the any way to get the UAstring to remain valid until the setting itself is changed manually?
I don't want to change browsers if that's the only option. I like the stock browser and sliding (labs, quick controls) features.
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It works for me for most sites but definately not all. I happen to use msn as my home page and it always reverts to mobile version for some reason.
Tried Dolphin but it had other issues and I like the stock browser for it's simplicity.
Maybe in a later fix....

... maybe.

Create a bookmark to about:debug or even set it that as your homepage. That'll get it browser back in debug mode so that it remembers your UAString from before.

Euclid's Brother said:
Create a bookmark to about:debug or even set it that as your homepage. That'll get it browser back in debug mode so that it remembers your UAString from before.
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That was the first thing I tried and it doesn't quite work like that. Calling it as a bookmark doesn't work.

Euclid's Brother said:
set it that as your homepage.
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Good idea, trying that now. We'll see what happens.
Edit: Didn't work.

I saw in the Xoom forums that someone changed the framework-res.apk to have the change permanet. I wonder if someone can do that for ours.

Only showing moble sites

Hey guys I just first want to apologize if there are a string of these somewhere, I cant find a pair of shades on my head... anyway I flashed to Dexters Iconia p2-2 the other day and noticed that no matter what I do I cannot stop websites from going into the moble sites. I have reflashed the rom twice as well as used Thor's new V1 Kernel with no luck. I tried stock (Aboutebug) I tried dolphin and skyfire and set their settings to desk top with no effect. It worked fine on stock 3.01. Could someone please help me figure this out?

Humm
Weird... I'm using Dolphin on Dexter P2 and desktop site works fine..

with the stock browser open go to browser settings then select the advance tab. Then look for "viewing Mode" and change it from android to desktop then you should be good to go. I believe you also have to type WWW. for each website address you want to visit, for it to go to the desktop version of the site.
You dont have to do the whole about debug thing anymore as it is in the settings menu. It's just called viewing mode now.

dolphyn browser
Use dolphyn browser with add on for switch from mobile to desktop mode. I use this and it s great.

das7771 said:
with the stock browser open go to browser settings then select the advance tab. Then look for "viewing Mode" and change it from android to desktop then you should be good to go. I believe you also have to type WWW. for each website address you want to visit, for it to go to the desktop version of the site.
You dont have to do the whole about debug thing anymore as it is in the settings menu. It's just called viewing mode now.
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Some custom roms don't have that setting. I'm assuming that's his issue.

rquinn19 said:
Some custom roms don't have that setting. I'm assuming that's his issue.
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Yeah, I am thinking this is my issue. As posted before I know how to set up the options to display in desktop mode, its just not doing it.

I did the following to get the desktop version of Facebook to show instead of Mobile. All it does it changes the UA (User-Agent) string used by the browser.
In the browser address bar, type about:debug then press enter. Nothing will appear to happen.
Open the context menu and head into the browser settings. A few new options will appear, including a Debug tab below Labs.
In this tab is a an option UAString. Click this, and change it to Desktop.
Head back into the browse and it should load the desktop version of websites like Facebook, over the mobile edition.

Finally....Stock browser worthy of the Note.

Still boggles my mind that Samsung manufactures the best screen displays in the industry then dumbs us down to mobile only displays with no ussragent settings option. (the Verizon Charge is the only Samsung device I know of that does have these options).
Manually putting in the useragent options a pain btw, so I've set the best third party option (that equals stocks speed) to do this: boat browser mini.
BUT... BUT...been waiting for this:
Thanks to padlad we have these options...that have stock android browser with full beautiful Note webpages functioning with its innate very fast accelerated zip.
Thanks Padlad.
Flashable from recovery:
User agent thanks to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23JBrowser stock no lags, thank to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/DP63H16VPC

Great find thanks!
Flashed both files and websites are no longer load mobile version. Double checked with about:useragent command, and the default custom agent has been changed.
The 2nd file also change the stock battery meter on the status bar for some reason.
P.S. the correct link for the user agent is: http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23J by the way.

Please make it a bit clearer when posting modding application,with the GNote has come a wave of new Android users.as myself.
A simple question:Should my device be Rooted to do this mode?.

Bigmille said:
Great find thanks!
Flashed both files and websites are no longer load mobile version. Double checked with about:useragent command, and the default custom agent has been changed.
The 2nd file also change the stock battery meter on the status bar for some reason.
P.S. the correct link for the user agent is: http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23J by the way.
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Seems to be the Kk9 framework with the mods, so you loose your own mods

hagba said:
Please make it a bit clearer when posting modding application,with the GNote has come a wave of new Android users.as myself.
A simple question:Should my device be Rooted to do this mode?.
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You need to root and have ClockWorkMod on your Note to flash those files.
Here is the link on how to root and install CWM5. It's a long read but basicly you download the root programme, the correct modified Kernel file, extract the kernel into the root programme folder (do this 2 times until you get a zip file), then let the programme do the magic (takes 2 mins).
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Seems to be the Kk9 framework with the mods, so you loose your own mods
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I had the green stock battery icon. but after flashing the 2nd file, the battery icon was replaced with a numerical version.

Thank you.And does it also support the text reflow which is not working properly in the stock browser?,I am using the Opera but relutantly mainly for those two reasons.

I have another reason idon't use the stock browser.
You can't have the buttons that let you adjust the text size to the screen as much as you want.
At first i was convinced that it was a mistake on my part, but no, as hard to believe as it is they dropped something as essential as this, they did.

Could someone post firmware specific browser links?
I am for instance currently on XXKKA.

Yes, reflow would be very nice. I use Dolphin HD but reflow doesn't work there either. Rotating the display triggers text reflow though...
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Hmm, my Dolphin HD text flow works great... pull up site in desktop mode, double-tap screen, text reflows to fill screen.
Or else go to More > Settings > Dolphin Settings: Show pinch-zoom button

rockky said:
Still boggles my mind that Samsung manufactures the best screen displays in the industry then dumbs us down to mobile only displays with no ussragent settings option. (the Verizon Charge is the only Samsung device I know of that does have these options).
Manually putting in the useragent options a pain btw, so I've set the best third party option (that equals stocks speed) to do this: boat browser mini.
BUT... BUT...been waiting for this:
Thanks to padlad we have these options...that have stock android browser with full beautiful Note webpages functioning with its innate very fast accelerated zip.
Thanks Padlad.
Flashable from recovery:
User agent thanks to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23JBrowser stock no lags, thank to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/DP63H16VPC
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hmm? about:useragent works fine here.
all i do is type in about:useragent in the browser, and then bookmark it to my homescreen. then i just launch my browser from that bookmark, tap the address bar and 'about:useragent' will already be there. then just hit desktop, and ok.

Course cept you have to repeat that over and over. The if not using this id use boat mini. Text reflow works great... Faster than the others.
Souai said:
hmm? about:useragent works fine here.
all i do is type in about:useragent in the browser, and then bookmark it to my homescreen. then i just launch my browser from that bookmark, tap the address bar and 'about:useragent' will already be there. then just hit desktop, and ok.
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rockky said:
Still boggles my mind that Samsung manufactures the best screen displays in the industry then dumbs us down to mobile only displays with no ussragent settings option. (the Verizon Charge is the only Samsung device I know of that does have these options).
Manually putting in the useragent options a pain btw, so I've set the best third party option (that equals stocks speed) to do this: boat browser mini.
BUT... BUT...been waiting for this:
Thanks to padlad we have these options...that have stock android browser with full beautiful Note webpages functioning with its innate very fast accelerated zip.
Thanks Padlad.
Flashable from recovery:
User agent thanks to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23JBrowser stock no lags, thank to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/DP63H16VPC
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Hey! Thanks for the thanks!
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Hmm, my Dolphin HD text flow works great... pull up site in desktop mode, double-tap screen, text reflows to fill screen.
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Doesn't that also work for the stock browser?

why you guys not try firefox? reflow, user agent, plus the powerful adblock plus!

The reflow in stock works once...many third party browsers I can double tap a number of times for continual reflow.
The zoom icon allows continual reflow also but it's not available on stock.
If modded on it'd probably work well.
padlad said:
Hey! Thanks for the thanks!
Doesn't that also work for the stock browser?
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RomBox said:
why you guys not try firefox? reflow, user agent, plus the powerful adblock plus!
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Does Firefox allow flash yet?

Firefox is just slow. Stock is very fast bested only by boat mini browser. (btw text reflows only via he zoom icon... Not touch)
I use rightware's browser benchmark
http://browsermark.rightware.com/browsermark/index.action
Also use a 10 site download test.
Both corroborate the results. Opera mobile is in the money also.
This is speed of course not features.

Will this work on the new kl3... and do we have to flash both??

I don't think it works on the different build. Someone correct me.
I haven't tried.... went back to boat browser mini.

Give Opera a try. It's the only one that uses hardware acceleration.