Is there another menu that can be accessed in the newly released chrome browser where things like default zoom or user agent can be set? I have tried lots of about:* things and chrome://flags and such to no avail.
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Does anyone know how to configure other specific features of the MyZine widget?
Setting the folder and selections for slideshow in its settings is obvious. But how does one set the default browser + its webpage? Mine shows Yahoo and invokes http://m.yahoo.com even though my default browser is Dolphin HD and both stock ICS browser and Dolphin are set to open on a blank page. Also, anyway to resize some of the squares?
As others have mentioned, this could potentially be a descent widget if it wasn't so quirky...are there any other recommended apps / widgets that display similar contents??? # new emails...RSS/reader updates...weather...slideshow...without being resource intensive and looking descent (maybe w semi-transparent feature)???
Can anyone explain to me what forces a Web page to display in mobile view, especially if you have your User Agent set to Desktop view? Example, when I try to see www.news.com.au it always automatically changes to m.news.com.au which is built for portrait mobile phones, not landscape tablets which have enough screen size to display the desktop view.
Which browser? If its stock, how are you changing the UAString? Just tried that site and was able to bring it up without being redirected. I'm changing it through the hidden debug menu.
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Can change the UA in Dolphin browser.
Can't change it on the stock that I can see, and it auto changes to mobile.news.com.au
(I'm still on the stock ROM until camera works)
Many websites will read the user agent string and change the website view based on that
In the stock browser go to about:useragent
the settings don't usually stay in place though if I remember correctly.
Dolphin HD - More -> Settings and change the user agent
Firefox - about:config and change the string or download an addon that will allow you to change it in the preferences pane
ROMs - I'm using Task 14 which has everything working including the camera. Only ICS ROMs don't have working cameras. Overcome has a stock ROM that is much better than stock and very stable. Task 14 is even better. If you invest the time in reading about doing backups and installing a ROM you won't regret it. If I had my tablet next to yours you'd be blown away by how slow your stock version is by comparison. Battery life is actually better too and I have the Tab overclocked.
In the stock browser, type in about:debug and hit go once. It will look like nothing has happened but go into settings and you'll see an extra debug menu. You can change the UAString in there. The debug menus will disappear when you exit out but whatever you set the string to WILL keep. This about:debug also works on my S2 as well.
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Some websites display mobile versions if they find the word "android" in the browser id string, so it's not enough to change it to desktop. change the UA string to desktop windows or desktop mac os.
Sorry if this sounds a bit dumb, but is there a quick way to skip directly to the internet browser homepage (apart from creating a new window in the menu)?
I was expecting an icon to do it somewhere.
On my old HTC phone there was a menu command to do this directly.
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No.
HTC added that to their browser. Standard Android and even the Samsung browser do not have this.
Most 3rd party browsers too.
I'm not using touchwiz ATM, but I believe that you can just add a bookmark shortcut to your home screen. Then just use that shortcut to access the Internet and it will always open your homepage first.
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Thanks for the replies.
Yes, a bookmark to the homepage seemed an obvious workaround.
I was just thinking that I must have been missing a really obvious button somewhere!
The fastest way I've seen is inside the browser, open up the options and select New Tab. It will open your homepage.
I have a couple of questions to which I have not been able to find any answers to.
Is there anyway that the default search engine in Android can be changed from google to something else of my choosing, e.g. startpage.com? I don't mean the browser search but the google search in android.
How do I set the default browser to be something other than the stock browser, i.e. clicking on links within other apps (like e-mail) would open my browser of choice instead of the stock browser? I'd like to use FF as my default browser but cannot find anywhere that I can set it as default.
I'm using stock GB 2.3.4.
For the default browser question go to settings>applications and find the current default browser. Click it and you should see a "clear default" button at the bottom. Open up a link and then it will give you the browsers on which you want to open the apps with. Click on wet as default and select the browser of your choice.
Edit: Go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All
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The google search engine is a widget. So you should probably try searching if there is a widget available for your prefered search engine.
@ephraim033. I forgot about the default flag settings for apps in the settings menu.
@iamafrk. I didn't realise the Google search was a widget. You learn something new every day. Unfortunately a widget doesn't exist for startpage.com. I wonder what's involved in creating one. Something I'll look into when I have time.
Anyone know how to change the default browser to Chrome in Emui 3.0? [SOLVED - see below]
While the "Manage Apps" setting has a button at the bottom for "Default App Settings" and you can change the ones for things like the launcher, camera and email, there is nothing there letting you change the browser.
OK, looking further, with Go Launcher Ex, one can also try to change default apps, but I have discovered 2 things:
(1) The usual method in "Manage Apps" to clear App Defaults does not work - defaults are not shown there
(2) There seems to be something called AndriodHwResolver (yes, misspelt like that) which is somehow controling the default app process.
Thanks, Huawei, for breaking something else with this unnecessary piece of software which stops users being in control of their own phones.
Why did you change to EMUI 3.0 if you don't like it?
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Anyone know how to change the default browser to Chrome in Emui 3.0?
While the "Manage Apps" setting has a button at the bottom for "Default App Settings" and you can change the ones for things like the launcher, camera and email, there is nothing there letting you change the browser.
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I had to remove the browser altogether. Plus the stock browser seems linked to Baidu.com somehow..
If your rooted you can just delete \system\app\browser.apk and reboot, if your not i'm not sure you can do anything?
"Why did you change to EMUI 3.0 if you don't like it?" I do like it. I just don't like its flaws. And Huawei didn't exactly advertise:
"Warning, this system update will remove apps, break your ability to log into Google, and to run Google Maps / Google+, choose your own browser, etc etc etc."
When I have upgraded other phones (including other brands of Chinese phones, I might add) none of this stupid stuff happened.
OK, You gave me the hint I needed. I disabled "Browser" in Manage Apps. Then when I tried to open a URL, it gave me a choice of Chrome or Baidu. Choosing Chrome worked. I hope it doesn't break anything else...