So I am using Chrome, and there are certain websites that it will not allow me to go to, I have tried Firefox, and Opera also, with the same results, so that leads me to think that it is a phone setting somewhere, does anyone know where this might be?
I came from a BLU Life View, and I didn't have any issues with them websites on it.
My first guess is your hosts file.
idbl_fanatic said:
So I am using Chrome, and there are certain websites that it will not allow me to go to, I have tried Firefox, and Opera also, with the same results, so that leads me to think that it is a phone setting somewhere, does anyone know where this might be?
I came from a BLU Life View, and I didn't have any issues with them websites on it.
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Hey not to go off topic, but I used to live in Stockton..27 years. Lived on yorktown ct, off of ben holt and herndon, by the marina market... anyways, that was all... back to topic on hand.
idbl_fanatic said:
So I am using Chrome, and there are certain websites that it will not allow me to go to, I have tried Firefox, and Opera also, with the same results, so that leads me to think that it is a phone setting somewhere, does anyone know where this might be?
I came from a BLU Life View, and I didn't have any issues with them websites on it.
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Try with/without data compression.
Primokorn said:
Try with/without data compression.
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That was it!! Thanks! I didn't have compression on, I turned it on, and BAM!
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How do I get to google without using this ridiculous crippled page for weak mobile devices? I want the full google search that leads me to full websites, rather than a crippled google search that leads me to parsed websites for use with eight year old Nokia browsers, so someone please enlighten me, as I can't seem to find the answer to this.
Xero said:
How do I get to google without using this ridiculous crippled page for weak mobile devices? I want the full google search that leads me to full websites, rather than a crippled google search that leads me to parsed websites for use with eight year old Nokia browsers, so someone please enlighten me, as I can't seem to find the answer to this.
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You can click on "Preferences" on the bottom of Google's homepage to change whether Google formats the results for your phone or not. Is that what you're looking for?
I checked, there's not even an option for that in prefs.
Xero said:
I checked, there's not even an option for that in prefs.
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Strange, I have that option. What browser are you using?
PIE.. wasn't too impressed with the performance of anything else.
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PIE.. wasn't too impressed with the performance of anything else.
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Okay, so here's where I think I might be confused by what you're saying. When I search using Google with PIE, I get every result I would normally get on my laptop/desktop. The only difference is that the resulting pages will be formatted differently to look a bit better on a mobile device, but the pages are complete.
The only thing I can see that you might be talking about is that there's an option on Google.com to search "Mobile Web (Beta)", under the search button, which does bring up limited, or "crippled" results. But you have to manually click that option each time you search.
I wish it were that simple.. when I go to google.com, it brings me straight to a mobile version of google, with no option of changing to a non-mobile version.
It's not so much that I have a mobile version of google, as it is that google wants to parse all of the sites I go to from the search results.
Xero said:
I wish it were that simple.. when I go to google.com, it brings me straight to a mobile version of google, with no option of changing to a non-mobile version.
It's not so much that I have a mobile version of google, as it is that google wants to parse all of the sites I go to from the search results.
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Well, yeah, I get taken directly to www.google.com/m rather than the standard www.google.com when I'm using PIE. Is that the same mobile site you're directed to? If it is, I might be at a loss on this one. I'm not getting the same limitations you are and I can't seem to replicate it either.
Most of the time I find their reformatted page better for viewing. However if you navigate to a link where you actually need to view the full page unaltered you can click the "view in html" link at the bottom and it will bring you to the unaltered page. Hope that helps.
I I just recently totally reformatted my hard drive because I thought I had a virus and couldn't find it. But after reinstalling everything and making sure that I didn't have anything I discovered that when I log into XDA and I stay on for some length of time all of a sudden I start getting commercials playing. How do I stop these?
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I I just recently totally reformatted my hard drive because I thought I had a virus and couldn't find it. But after reinstalling everything and making sure that I didn't have anything I discovered that when I log into XDA and I stay on for some length of time all of a sudden I start getting commercials playing. How do I stop these?
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Huh, I dont know what you are referring to. Screen shot perhaps? I assume whatever it is, it depends on flash and the easiest way is to disable flash. The browser I use lets you disable it per site or only enable when you click. I assume other browsers have something as an extension.
yareally said:
Huh, I dont know what you are referring to. Screen shot perhaps? I assume whatever it is, it depends on flash and the easiest way is to disable flash. The browser I use lets you disable it per site or only enable when you click. I assume other browsers have something as an extension.
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I dunno. I never have it happen on any other site. This is the only one. I don't see any ads. Its just audio. I've hunted it down and hunted it down but havent found where it is on here.
TDubKong said:
I dunno. I never have it happen on any other site. This is the only one. I don't see any ads. Its just audio. I've hunted it down and hunted it down but havent found where it is on here.
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Weird. If you get something like firebug or http headers extensions on firefox, they will let you find out what external links are loading. If you can get me some sort of dump or screen shot, I can tell you what to block in your host file. Chrome has the developers tools that show the same stuff or Opera has Dragonfly, so whichever you use.
Opera though, you can right click on the page → content tab → edit site preferences → turn off plugins. That's what I do at least or disable them on all sites and enable when I need them, just for better security.
Pretty sure the other browsers have flashblock, but last I knew and don't quote me on it, flashblock runs the just for a moment before it shuts off the flash since it's an extension. If the flash happened to be malicious, that could possibly be bad. Just semi off topic, but just something that was true and may still be.
If you don't want to deal with all that, you can use my hosts file that I use on my desktop, it's smaller version of the one I use for mobile thats posted with a script to install/update it in the developer's section of the forum.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24904191/hosts-desktop
rename it "hosts" and stick it in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows (must open notepad with admin privilages) or on linux/osx, it goes in /etc/hosts.
I wouldnt normally advocate for blocking ads on xda, but if they have anything that automatically plays audio, that draws the line for me.
TDubKong said:
I dunno. I never have it happen on any other site. This is the only one. I don't see any ads. Its just audio. I've hunted it down and hunted it down but havent found where it is on here.
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Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page you're on, it's on the right side.
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It's just a blank white space for me, but if you add the following line to your host file, you wont see it anymore, since it's one of these:
0.0.0.0 rt.liftdna.com track.netshelter.net cdn.viglink.com
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264778
Will flag again to the admin.
Hi, I have been getting this 'weird look' for the XDA-developer (dot) com homepage. I tried both (the latest stable) chrome and (latest stable) firefox. It has been like this for about a week now. All other pages (portal, forum, wiki, etc) look normal but just the homepage is seemingly broken.
The moment I signed up to answer the question, the homepage is back to normal now. It is now back to normal on firefox too.
What freakish sorcery is this? My intention with this query is more of curiosity. Why does this happen? It is also happening with the dell.com (worldwide) website. What is technically (possibly) going wrong behind the scenes here?
Thanks in advance. :good:
I have the same issue. I don't know about Firefox, but on chrome you just have to click the shield icon in the address bar and click on whatever option comes up there (I can't remember exactly what it says but it should be fairly obvious) and it should sort refresh the page in the correct layout. Annoyingly, AFAIK you're going to have to do this every time you visit the portal.
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I haven't been getting this issue, but I've seen it before.
I'm not a web developer, but maybe CSS style information not loading correctly ?
When I get this issue, refreshing the page usually works for me. I get it when our connection lags, too - and doesn't load everything (er, I think that's what's going on, anyway).
That fixed the error!
Nigeldg said:
...but on chrome you just have to click the shield icon in the address bar and click on whatever option comes up there (I can't remember exactly what it says but it should be fairly obvious) and it should sort refresh the page in the correct layout.
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Thanks! That fixed the error. Wow! So its cause Chrome detects xda-dev homepage having 'insecure content'. I hope xda site admins do something about this soon cause its super annoying!
infiniti4 said:
Thanks! That fixed the error. Wow! So its cause Chrome detects xda-dev homepage having 'insecure content'. I hope xda site admins do something about this soon cause its super annoying!
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+1, I think it may be something to do with one of the plugins I have installed, since on another laptop on chrome there seems to be no issue.
Excellent Suggestion!
Nigeldg said:
+1, I think it may be something to do with one of the plugins I have installed, since on another laptop on chrome there seems to be no issue.
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You were right. Its being caused by the 'HTTPS Everywhere' extension. When I disable, it, the page loads correctly. I had that installed on my firefox too. I hope XDA soon moves their complete website to HTTPS. The extension doesn't seem to have any settings where I can acknowledge an exception.
infiniti4 said:
You were right. Its being caused by the 'HTTPS Everywhere' extension. When I disable, it, the page loads correctly. I had that installed on my firefox too. I hope XDA soon moves their complete website to HTTPS. The extension doesn't seem to have any settings where I can acknowledge an exception.
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Of course, I have the same plugin installed I CBA to disable/uninstall it right now, but at least I know what's causing the issue.
Chrome+XDA Forum - Weird look
Since a couple of days I have the forum being displayed as following in Chrome:
In Firefox everything is as usual.
Hey guys,
I am using a stock browser (cause it's the only one that works smooth without crashing) and whever I shuffle a bit beetween different applications it happens to reset itself back to google, which is it's main page, which is annoying since I already launched a few pages on it before begining to shuffle and wanted to use them further on.
Do you know any solution to this?
(I am rooted with CleanRom Inheritance)
anachronis said:
Hey guys,
I am using a stock browser (cause it's the only one that works smooth without crashing) and whever I shuffle a bit beetween different applications it happens to reset itself back to google, which is it's main page, which is annoying since I already launched a few pages on it before begining to shuffle and wanted to use them further on.
Do you know any solution to this?
(I am rooted with CleanRom Inheritance)
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Not seen this behaviour. Are you using browser2ram?
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Not seen this behaviour. Are you using browser2ram?
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Yeah, i installed it while flashing cleanrom and recently I clicked on install now and did a reboot.
EDIT: In fact this issue regards also Kindle app, Polaris and Office Suite Pro. Every now and then they simply reset themselves to the previous state and I cant figure out why
Noone knows a solution? It begins to get really annoying
It's a long shot, but try fixing permissions using ROM Manager. Failing that, I would uninstall and reinstall the apps...
What do you mean by fixing permissions?
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What do you mean by fixing permissions?
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What he's saying is download Rom Manager from the market, and in the app you're going to find a feature called "fixing permission"(look in backup current rom tab), this will make sure all the permissions are correct for your rom.
I can't see how fixing permissions will fix this. Normally you'll have force closes that that helps with.
In this case it almose sounds like browser2ram is either recaching when it shouldn't or something else but that doesn't explain all the behaviour.
I'd reflash the rom without B2R first and see if that makes a difference.
I can reproduce this. Settings "background process limit" to "no background processes", after starting the browser and then using another app, the browser goes back to the start page. Using Browser2RAM at least, but that should not make a difference here.
Generally, when the browser's process is killed, its unsaved state is lost. Apparently the stock browser does not store its state on disk.
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I can reproduce this. Settings "background process limit" to "no background processes", after starting the browser and then using another app, the browser goes back to the start page. Using Browser2RAM at least, but that should not make a difference here.
Generally, when the browser's process is killed, its unsaved state is lost. Apparently the stock browser does not store its state on disk.
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Is there something you cannot hunt down, _that? Have you ever thought of going the digital forensics route?
MartyHulskemper said:
Is there something you cannot hunt down, _that? Have you ever thought of going the digital forensics route?
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Lol! So true! :laugh:
Hello XDA!
I come with a question. Being a human trying to make out the most out of my device, i tried countless of different browsers. Dolphin, UC, CM, Firefox, you name it.
There's something bugging me, though... Why does some of these browser ask for "strange" permissions? Such as writing/reading contacts, or caller ID, and the such.
I'm having an hard time finding a decent browser. Some of them are quite there, but not there yet. I'm looking for a browser with video player and adblock, nothing out of the ordinary. I've had Dolphin for a long time, but they screwed up the Jetpack app.
The one i tested and liked is the UC browser, but I am really concerned about all the authorization it asks, and somewhere in the net it has been tested and found positive to data leakage (i know, i made it sound like a disease, but you get the drift )
How about you, fellow XDA peers? Which browser are you using, and why?
g0ldb3rg said:
Hello XDA!
I come with a question. Being a human trying to make out the most out of my device, i tried countless of different browsers. Dolphin, UC, CM, Firefox, you name it.
There's something bugging me, though... Why does some of these browser ask for "strange" permissions? Such as writing/reading contacts, or caller ID, and the such.
I'm having an hard time finding a decent browser. Some of them are quite there, but not there yet. I'm looking for a browser with video player and adblock, nothing out of the ordinary. I've had Dolphin for a long time, but they screwed up the Jetpack app.
The one i tested and liked is the UC browser, but I am really concerned about all the authorization it asks, and somewhere in the net it has been tested and found positive to data leakage (i know, i made it sound like a disease, but you get the drift )
How about you, fellow XDA peers? Which browser are you using, and why?
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Use the Chrome, Google already know everything about you
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Stevica Smederevac said:
Use the Chrome, Google already know everything about you
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I am completely fine with google knowing me, i have nothing to hide.
But it doesn't protect me from unwanted ads
g0ldb3rg said:
I am completely fine with google knowing me, i have nothing to hide.
But it doesn't protect me from unwanted ads
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Adaway? More than protected
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