Can someone go to yahoo.com on their stock browser and tell me if it renders correctly? I can't seem to get it to look right. It worked fine on my EVO running CM6.
you are definitely going to the mobile version if you are just using stock browser. you will have to change your user agent to a desktop to get to the "regular" yahoo page.
using cyanogen gave you these type of options on your evo which is why you were able to see the regular version.
Go to your browser, in the address bar type: about:debug
Press go/enter
Now, press Menu/Settings, and go all the way to the bottom.
Click on UAString, From there you can set it to "desktop" "internet explorer" etc.
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Anyone using XSCOPE on the EVO? I have been a big fan of MIREN BROWSER but now found XSCOPE 6. I cant decide which one I like better.. any thoughts?
I think that miren is faster
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adrycast said:
I think that miren is faster
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Well, Ive been playing with both and I cant decide which one is faster on my EVO.. hmmm...
I prefer Xscope on my N1, because some websites (my stupid bank, for example) don't work unless they see "iphone" as the UA string.
Xscope allows you to set specific bookmarks to use a custom UA string, whilst allowing you to leave the default as "Android".
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I prefer Xscope on my N1, because some websites (my stupid bank, for example) don't work unless they see "iphone" as the UA string.
Xscope allows you to set specific bookmarks to use a custom UA string, whilst allowing you to leave the default as "Android".
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Where do you do this?
I've been defaulting to Miren because I like how it renders pages (particularly how it fits frames/tables and such to fit the screen) vs. XScopes algorithm for doing the same.
On the other hand, Miren's bookmarking system is (in my opinion) seriously in need of an overhaul. First, you have to press the menu button to get the address bar and only then can you press the star icon (for creating a bookmark) and once you do, you have no initial option to name the bookmark! Miren just takes the page title and uses that automatically.
Worse yet, once you have the bookmark and manually change the title, at some point it seems Miren does some kind of auto-update on the names and REVERTS the bookmark names back to the page titles.
Luckily for Miren, I like how it renders pages enough to get passed that bookmark "feature".
If you have not already read the XScope manual in full, be sure to give it a read. It's not lenghty and straight forward.
Once I read that and learned all that XScope can do that I didn't even know about, I didn't want to switch to anything else. But that does not detail things like changing the User Agent of the browser to iPhone or iPad in cases where you might need to do that. It also does not detail how the browser handles video and makes it easy to send an online video into full screen viewing mode. Just long press on the video, a box appears in the left corner, press it and the video is in full screen mode.
Also, take a look into XScope's settings within the app and see if other browsers offer so many options.
To change the browser's Agent setting, just go into Settings and in the "Web page" section there is a "User agent" value that can be changed to "computer", "Android", "iPhone" or "iPad".
To get into Settings, press the circle with a downward triangle in it, then press the icon that looks like a hammer and wrench.
In xscope 6, is there a way to open videos from youtube in the actual YOUTUBE APP? in MIREN, I go to youtube.com, click on a video and it then asks me what I want to complete the action with. I tell it YOUTUBE APP and it formats the video correctly. Any way to do this in XSCOPE?
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You Do Realize you've bumped a Thread thats over a Year Old right?
So, I've got my TB and have installed an earlier version of Swype (Evo).
I love that swype works great, except for the auto space with the stock SMS (Handcent FTW).
I've tried Dolphin Mini/HD, FF and Miren. I gotta say that I'm loving Miren, but because Swype auto space doesn't work at all, I'm back to the stock browser.
One of the things I love is being able to just type in search words in the browser bar, but I have having to erase the "http://www." everytime in the stock browser.
For example, if I want to search for "amsterdam", I go to the top, touch the browser bar, and see that everything is highlighted...EXCEPT for the "http://www."
So I need to manually delete/clear out the "http://www.", then go back and swype "amsterdam" to search from the bar.
Is there anyway to have the stock browser take out the "http://www." on the Thunderbolt as a default?
p.s. does Miren support swype auto space...if so, how?
I know what you're talking about and it's really annoying. On the Droid X, the browser would just clear out the whole bar. On the TB, i have forced myself into the habit of pressing the search button in browser when I want to search for something.
I must say I like the HTC browser much more than the Moto one, but the way it fills in http:// is just annoying as all hell.
I noticed that http bug in the stock browser as well. I'm sure it will get addressed soon (pardon the pun derp I couldn't help it.) As far as browsers not auto-spacing that's because those browsers use the address bar both for searching and for URLs, and there's no way for your keyboard know which one you are typing. I've been using opera for a while now, it's super fast since it's the only browser that uses hardware acceleration at this point, plus it has a separate address bar and search bar. Give it a try, you'll probably like it.
I don't think my browser does that. Then again if I'm going to do a search while in the browser I just hit the search button.
with the browser open, just tap the search soft key
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I would rather leave it the way it is. I think they actually put a lot of thought into how this works and intended it to be that way. It assumes that if you're tapping the address bar you wanna type an address. How annoying would it be if you had to type the http..... every time. Just use the search button.
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I would rather they bloody ask.. IE made options for that crap.
Check out the extra settings in the browser. It might be in there I would check for you but I don't have time. But I can direct you where to look. Go to browser> type in the url about:debug > hit enter or go whichever. It shouldn't do anything to the page but what will happen is if you hit menu> more> settings. It will give you much more edit menus. Give it a try.
Download and instal the aosp browser add on in the teslacoil rom thread, bak in the happiness!
I am running opera 11.5.5 and I need some help getting it set up. I'm having 3 major issues that is keeping this thing from being my only browser.
1. I can't change the homepage. I've set the homepage in the opera:config but it still takes me to the opera tiles page.
2. I'd love to be able to change the Google search bar to not use the mobile Google search. either by adding another search tool for normal Google, or better yet changing the settings of the stock search.
3. I have the hulu hacked flash v11.mumble installed, and the user agent set to desktop in the settings, but hulu doesn't work. (it works fine in dolphin and stock)
FWIW, I'm running revolver Rom.
can anyone help?
You might see what you can do in /data/data/com.opera.browser/opera, can't say that I'm very familiar with it in any versionn of Opera.
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Not just the "Home Page" but the default.
On Android 2.3.4, in browser setting->More->"Set home page",
I set my home page to google.com.
However, the default is modified by unknow app to searchmobileonline.com.
And I have no idea how to change it.
Anyone has similar problems?
Thanks,
Have you installed the app "Amazon Appstore -Notifier&Tips"?
I read that this app adds the same link as you have (sorry, I can't post outside links, but google this link with words 'android app' and you will find another results).
betterwang said:
Not just the "Home Page" but the default.
On Android 2.3.4, in browser setting->More->"Set home page",
I set my home page to google.com.
However, the default is modified by unknow app to searchmobileonline.com.
And I have no idea how to change it.
Anyone has similar problems?
Thanks,
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try going to setting, apps, manage apps, select browser, scroll down and clear cache;defaults; and data, then change your homepage. if that dont work I would uninstall the amazon app.
We all know the Nexus Player has a Chrome browser integrated in its firmware as it is used for some settings, google cast support, etc. However, it seems the browser can be somewhat user accessed and has a bit more capabilities than I expected, such as a desktop mode, mostly baked remote control support, ability to directly access web, image, map, etc search and so on. The interface for the browser seems close to having full remote control support. Amyone can sideload the actual Chrome from the Play store, however that one doesn't have a leanback interface like the built in one yet.
Here's how to find it:
Select settings at the bottom of the main menu
Select "About" from the first row
Scroll down and select "Ads"
Scroll down and select "Ads by Google"
Scroll down to "Ads Settings" link and select it
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select "Desktop View"
Now you can select from the top bar with your remote any of the quick links for Google services, such as "Search". Once you do so, you're brought to the standard Google search page... clicking in the search field brings up the standard software keyboard (or use your sync'd phone, otg keyboard, etc). The results are displayed in normal "Mobile" view as on a phone, but you can scroll to the bottom of that page and choose to view the results in "Classic" desktop mode which is preferable.
Once you visit a site you can scroll through it with your remote as well, however navigating and clicking links seems to be hit or miss depending on the site. Also, hitting "back" currently takes you back to the settings menu instead of the previous page. I'm sure there are other quirks as well.
The point of this is: it'd seem to be trivial for an enterprising developer to wrap the existing functionality in an app and expose this near complete built-in remote ready chrome browser for easy leanback web browsing on the NP. Or, of course, the obvious route of Google exposing this web browser to leanback itself. Interesting.
This is cool to know. Love or hate the old google tv boxes (the ones with honeycomb) that is one feature they had done really well was they had a really awesome version of chrome browser that was very similar to the pc version out at the time. Still one that is made to work with the NP is good too.
I was able to install Chrome Beta from the Play store, and after getting past the "I Agree" screen it works perfectly. I'm using a BlueTooth KB/Mouse.
I'm using ChainFire's Launcher to start it, as the Icon doesn't populate on the home screen.
Tried this but can't get beyond "Ads by Google". When I select this I get a black bar down the center of the screen (1/3 the screen) and it flashes some information but then goes back to black.
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Tried this but can't get beyond "Ads by Google". When I select this I get a black bar down the center of the screen (1/3 the screen) and it flashes some information but then goes back to black.
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I may be seeing the "I Agree" screen but it disappears pretty quickly.
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I may be seeing the "I Agree" screen but it disappears pretty quickly.
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Same happens with me. I read in another post Chrome will work (non-beta) but launched through the Chainfire sideload launcher. Also read Nova launcher works. Will test this weekend and update.
Strange. I still have no problem getting in to the built-in browser doing what I wrote above as long as Chrome from the play store isn't installed. If you instal Chrome from the play store, it supplants the built-in browser and the procedure above doesn't work anymore.
I also have Chrome from the play store installed... it works ok, but not as well as the (near hidden so useless) built in browser when it comes to the remote control support - with keyboard and mouse Chrome from the play store works perfect. I also don't like the Chrome from the play store defaults to its "mobile" UI in search, etc.
Hopefully Google will surface the built-in soon and provide an easy link in the main leanback interface.
I thought I got rid of the Chrome browser I had downloaded as a test but I hadn't. Once I did, the built-in now works except it does not fit the screen correctly (menu items at top only display half).
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I thought I got rid of the Chrome browser I had downloaded as a test but I hadn't. Once I did, the built-in now works except it does not fit the screen correctly (menu items at top only display half).
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Your TV is probably not in "just fit" kind of mode... it's probably over scanning or set to 16:9, etc. If you can change the aspect ratio through your TV settings that'll probably fix the issue. Most media content is designed for overscanning so won't be an issue, but things like web browsers, PC screens, etc are not.
I was able to get the built in chrome by just installing google search from the playstore..
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