when ever i do a search through the stock browser, i don't get a regular mobile google window. instead it looks like it's from the 90's. i have a screen shot to show what i mea. how can i fix it. also, can i set the setting some how that it always get the classic google instead of mobile? do you think it's related to the flash player software i have. i have the modified flash player for the hulu fix?
the link below is for the flash player apk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9502517&postcount=3
just saw that this only happens if i search through the address bar. if i type the search in the search field on google.com, i get a normal looking result, meaning the desktop version.
this only happens if i search through either the address bar in browser or press the search shortcut from the home screen. same thing happens in dolphin as well.
does anyone else running Vegan Beta 3 have this issue?
I see this as well. It seems like the Google search app sends that it is a mobile device along with the search query so Google shows a page formatted for mobile phones. If somebody writes or has written an app that responds to Google search intents and this is set to the default system search handler, maybe it could provide a workaround. (I am running vegan-tab beta 4).
It may because whatever browser you're using has user-agent set to 'mobile'.
The newer default browser in TNT 3452, xscope, and dolphin all have settings to set that, but not sure about Vegan.
Jim
In the URL window in the browser.....http://www.xxxxxx.com.....type "about:debug".
Nothing will change.
Tap the "Menu" soft key
Tap "More"
Tap "Settings"
Scroll to the very bottom and tap "UAString"
Select "Desktop"
I don't think these settings survive a reboot
I love my TF. I hate browsing the web on it. Such a shame that the job it is meant to do, is the job it seems to do most poorly. Perhaps its down to the browsers, since I have yet to find one that doesnt get in the way of my surfing. I would be happy if I could find one with a navigation bar that doesnt disappear every time I scroll down the page. I have plenty screen for it, why can't I at least have the option? Is there any browser with a static navigation bar? I'm not using a phone, so I'd like my navigation buttons to be accessable regardless of where on the page I'm at. I'd love to have my tabs static too! Why is this such a hard request? If firefox would just port it's pc interface over it's android browser(which i find stable but a crappy interface), I would be in love.
Oh, and I hate gestures. I like actual buttons with real text labels.
Please call me a noob and tell me what I'm looking for already exists. I will praise you for it.
Anyone else driven mad by the web browsing experience on honeycomb?
faithblinded said:
I love my TF. I hate browsing the web on it. Such a shame that the job it is meant to do, is the job it seems to do most poorly. Perhaps its down to the browsers, since I have yet to find one that doesnt get in the way of my surfing. I would be happy if I could find one with a navigation bar that doesnt disappear every time I scroll down the page. I have plenty screen for it, why can't I at least have the option? Is there any browser with a static navigation bar? I'm not using a phone, so I'd like my navigation buttons to be accessable regardless of where on the page I'm at. I'd love to have my tabs static too! Why is this such a hard request? If firefox would just port it's pc interface over it's android browser(which i find stable but a crappy interface), I would be in love.
Oh, and I hate gestures. I like actual buttons with real text labels.
Please call me a noob and tell me what I'm looking for already exists. I will praise you for it.
Anyone else driven mad by the web browsing experience on honeycomb?
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Just go to browser settings and go to the labs tab and then unchecked the quick controls box
I already have that unchecked. The problem is that when i scroll down, the back,forward,refresh,and home buttons disappear, along with the address bar. I want it to always be visible. from what i've seen, every browser for android does this, and it makes me batty.
just tap the screen and it comes back/ reappears.
I get that, but it's one tap and wait longer than I want to deal with. 5 browsers on my TF, and they all have this problem. I wonder if the ipad browser is any better...
have you tried dolphin mini? The addess bar stays on the top
faithblinded said:
I already have that unchecked. The problem is that when i scroll down, the back,forward,refresh,and home buttons disappear, along with the address bar. I want it to always be visible. from what i've seen, every browser for android does this, and it makes me batty.
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did you try the new little radial menu that comes when you swipe on the side? i prefer browsing with everything hidden, and just using that radial... it has bookmarks, tabs, close window, etc etc.
opera mobile
faithblinded said:
I already have that unchecked. The problem is that when i scroll down, the back,forward,refresh,and home buttons disappear, along with the address bar. I want it to always be visible. from what i've seen, every browser for android does this, and it makes me batty.
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opera mobile doesn't do that.
address bar along with 5 diff. buttons always stay on top.
try it out, I use it more than stock browser, only downside getting flash to work on it is a
hit or miss affair.
no1
no1_cdn said:
hey
opera mobile doesn't do that.
address bar along with 5 diff. buttons always stay on top.
try it out, I use it more than stock browser, only downside getting flash to work on it is a
hit or miss affair.
no1
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yeah, opera mobile is my primary browser for reading only. use stock browser when I need to access site with JavaScript or flash .
Thanks guys. I have Opera HD but hadn't tried the mini version. Will add it to my arsenal of browsers.
xufuchang said:
yeah, opera mobile is my primary browser for reading only. use stock browser when I need to access site with JavaScript or flash .
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Hi there, just wondering do you have problem with opera mobile displaying everything website smaller when compared to other browsers example stock browser. Every time opera will load the page with such small fonts it hurts to read. I tried to set the default zoom to 125% it looks better but problem is as soon as I click a link or open a new page, it will zoom out and gimme the small fonts again. Anyway to fix the zoom level?
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miata said:
Hi there, just wondering do you have problem with opera mobile displaying everything website smaller when compared to other browsers example stock browser. Every time opera will load the page with such small fonts it hurts to read. I tried to set the default zoom to 125% it looks better but problem is as soon as I click a link or open a new page, it will zoom out and gimme the small fonts again. Anyway to fix the zoom level?
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hey
type in the address bar:
opera:config
hit enter, you'll see a page with diff. settings open up.
scroll down to:
"user prefs"
tap it and it'll expand then again scroll down to:
minimum font size
change the value from default 9 to whatever you like then scroll down to the bottom
and hit "save" button then hit 'ok' in the pop up.
also to speed up opera even more try this:
find "performance" section
tap to open
then scroll down and change the following values:
Max Connections Server 6
Max Connections Total 6
Max Persistent Connections 6
after, scroll down and hit save button then hit 'OK' in the pop up.
you can experiment with diff. values for "connections" settings, however I wouldn't go over 8,8,8 or 10,10,10 as some websites might load slower than with default values (4,6,4)
my browser doesn't always keep the saved settings, sometimes it'll revert to default values...
so it's really a hit or miss, at least for me...
also, the 'default zoom', 125% or whatever % you specify, happens when you double tap the text on screen, it'll zoom that amount
and also reflow the text to fit screen.
no1
does opera mobile play flash?cause mine (ver 11) won't play,it shows big question mark,when clicked nothing happened
no1_cdn said:
hey
type in the address bar:
opera:config
hit enter, you'll see a page with diff. settings open up.
scroll down to:
"user prefs"
tap it and it'll expand then again scroll down to:
minimum font size
change the value from default 9 to whatever you like then scroll down to the bottom
and hit "save" button then hit 'ok' in the pop up.
no1
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The problem with increasing the Minimu font size from 9 to just 12, is it will cut off the right side of somw sites. Like on xda the search button on the top right get cut off if u increase the size. I don't think opera mobile is made for table.
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does opera mobile play flash?cause mine (ver 11) won't play,it shows big question mark,when clicked nothing happened
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Nope, not on honeycomb
thanks no1_cdn found out the font tweak last night and it seems to help in readability
will try your performance tweak soon! thanks again
miata said:
thanks no1_cdn found out the font tweak last night and it seems to help in readability
will try your performance tweak soon! thanks again
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you're welcome miata
try going through this page to customise more, opera:config settings explained:
www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/
although its for desktop version, settings still apply to mobile...
no1
dazz87 said:
The problem with increasing the Minimu font size from 9 to just 12, is it will cut off the right side of somw sites. Like on xda the search button on the top right get cut off if u increase the size. I don't think opera mobile is made for table.
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you're right.
I find 12 to be maximum size in order to avoid what you described above.
also I have to kill opera using 'task killer' for saved font setting to take effect.
no1
I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, it is to do with the XDA Developers' site.
When I used to click on a picture in a posting, the site would show a medium grey layer on top of the site and this would show an enlarged picture with a X button at the top-right corner. If you clicked on this button, then the layer would dissapear and everything was back to normal.
Now when I click on a picture in a post the site has a medium grey layer sitting on top of the viewable (but unclickable) site. I don't see any picture and there is no X button. The only thing to do is to hit the Back button.
I can view the picture if I right-click on the picture and select to open it in a new tab.
I am using IE8 in WinXP. There is no pop-up block on this site.
Same thing happens here, if it is any coincidence, I am also on XP (Sp3) and IE8.
I reckon it has only been doing it for a couple of weeks or so, any XDA System Mods want to fess up to fiddling with the vBulletin settings, or cascading style sheets?
I'll attach a window dump of one of my own image posts. I had clicked on the leftmost image, but in practice it wouldn't matter a damn which. Also, it doesn't matter what the style chooser is set to, 2010 or Classic, the results are the same.
I just tested to see what happened in Firefox. When I clicked on the above post's attached picture, it opened a new page with just the picture in it. I had to hit the Back button to get back to the postings.
This problem only happened a few weeks ago.
When I click an attachment, a grey semi-transparent layer shows up and then I'm redirected to the image's address in the same page.
I don't get any redirection (in both IE and Firefox). My only option is to go Back. When I do this, the Foward button isn't available.
Same for me. Also, if there is more than one attached picture you used to be able to click on one to get the larger image, and then you could cycle through them all from there. Currently you have to open one, back, open the next...etc.
Unrooted stock.
I cannot copy a link from the browser on this phone, neither the stock browser nor chrome. It just hangs and FCs.
Anyone else experience this? Any solutions?
I have used the share function in the past but sometimes the links are pretty messy like that.
TIA
I just copied and pasted the URL from stock and Opera browsers, then pasted them into new browser windows. No problems here - touched the URL to select, then long-pressed to do a Copy, etc.
- ooofest
ooofest said:
I just copied and pasted the URL from stock and Opera browsers, then pasted them into new browser windows. No problems here - touched the URL to select, then long-pressed to do a Copy, etc.
- ooofest
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Are you running stock? For me, chrome just FCs if I try to copy a URL and I just tried it again on the stock browser and it seems to copy but when I long press to paste I get a clipboard pop up under the URL bar and when I touch that nothing happens.
My other ICS device is the Sony Tablet S and this is not an issue on that device with any browser, eg stock, chrome, dolphin, skyfire etc.
Might have to give Opera another try, gave it up years ago but hopefully I can just use it for copy/paste.
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Are you running stock? For me, chrome just FCs if I try to copy a URL and I just tried it again on the stock browser and it seems to copy but when I long press to paste I get a clipboard pop up under the URL bar and when I touch that nothing happens.
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Sorry to hear that - I wonder if you are running something that possibly intercepts clipboard events? I'm running stock and once rooted (using the quick method) for making a Titanium backup, but unrooted later that same day - so, stock and unrooted right now on my Galaxy S III 32GB.
I did the copy/paste test in both the stock browser and Opera. I've moved to Opera as my default browser because it word-wraps page text dynamically when I zoom in or out (no pinching, Apple - don't sue me! NO PINCHING!!).
*ahem*
On the stock browser, I pulled down the URL bar and touched the URL once to select the entire address, then touched on that selection until the clipboard panel appeared below the notification pane. Clicked the Copy icon to the right of the scissors icon, then opened a new browser window from the Menu, selected the default URL text from a single touch, held down my finger on the selected text until the clipboard panel appeared and hit the Paste icon to the right of the Copy icon. Worked great.
Something else that's neat is if you select text and then touch next to that, you'll get a text selection arrow. Touch on the arrow itself briefly and a popup offers "clipboard" as one action - if you click that, your clipboard cache is shown in scrollable form at the bottom of the display.
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In Chrome for quite some time now, (a few months?), the web page no longer fits horizontally, creating the need for the appearance of the horizontal scroll bar? Previously, not only did the entire page fit, but there was also a supplemental info box with headlines and ads on the right most side of the page. This box is no longer present, yet still, the page expands horizontally much further than it ought. Is someone aware of this?
I just realized that if I switch to the 2013 beta version of this site or even the 2015, everything fits nicely on the page. Hope that helps someone out there...