There is some sort of built-in web browser on this phone and it's not good. It block access to 'unsafe' ports, so I cant login to public Wifi that has a landing page. Anytime there is a hotlink that needs a web page, this stupid browser comes up despite having other browsers set as default. Is there anyway to disable this system web browser?
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My school WiFi requires that you visit the website and login before you can have internet access. The problem is that the website doesnt always pop up automatically when I open my browser. I have saved the website to my bookmarks in the past, but even then It won't let me go to it manually (because there is no internet web browser access)
Is there a way to force access of the login page on these types of connections?
You could set up a shortcut to the log in page and make the shortcut what you use to open your web browser on campus.
I've never made a shortcut for a website on Android so I'm not sure if all browsers will support it. But I'm certain there is a way.
What you'd end up with is the log in screen ALWAYS being the landing page when you started the web browser using that shortcut.
Skipjacks said:
You could set up a shortcut to the log in page and make the shortcut what you use to open your web browser on campus.
I've never made a shortcut for a website on Android so I'm not sure if all browsers will support it. But I'm certain there is a way.
What you'd end up with is the log in screen ALWAYS being the landing page when you started the web browser using that shortcut.
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I used to do that, the only problem is that sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes I would go to that page and it wouldn't load because my device doesn't have access to the internet -___-
I need another option, like if there's an app or a way that forces the login page, not just tries to access the URL of said login. You know? It sucks I know -___- lol
Does anyone know how to stop the lapdock showing the mobile site of facebook rather than the normal one every time i enter wwwdotfacebbokdotcom it loads with m.facebook.com?
create a shortcut in the dock.
no, just tried that sill reverts back to the "m" site ?
are you using the lapdock's firebox browser? or are you using the phone's browser while in lapdock's?
Its when using the firefox lapdock browser or the lapdocks facebook shortcut
Have you tried Dolphin Browser HD? In the initial setup, you can choose what kind of device you'd like the browser to tell the website you're using. Like say for instance, android phone, desktop, ipone, or ipad.
I tried accessing the facebook site from my lapdock's browser and it sent me to the non-mobile site. I don't know what could be going on with yours.
sorry. :\
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The problem everybody is experiencing develops when the initial request is sent to the Facebook server and the "user agent" string is sent. By default, the user agent string is set to Android, but can be set to Chrome Desktop to allow a full website experience. Some website's written or optimized for a specific browser may still disregard this setting, but Facebook does not, and will display the full site ... I have the laptop dock and this works.
In the firefox browser, go to the add-ins page and search "user agent". Install one of them and select "firefox 4" from the new menu. Reload the page and it should show the full version instead of the mobile version of the page.
You need to use a user agent spoof add-in to tell the facebook server that you are a full web browser and not a mobile web browser.
I have tried the top 3 user agent programs and connot find the firefox 4 option.
You say you have to spoof the web page, when I first used it it worked fine, and other users all say theirs work fine too without messing with the settings.
I have also done a hard reset on the phone so its not that, it must be somthing in the lapdock, -
question can the lapdock be reset in any way, I know it has nothing inside as such but pehaps there is somthing in there?
Install the add-on called "User Agent RG 1.0" and then under Tools -> User Agent, select "Firefox 4". You have to make this selection every time you open the firefox browser in the webtop as the setting is not preserved.
I think this is phone browser problem .
Apple appears to have started a trend for Internet apps (because it lacks Flash) but I find using the Boat Browser in Desktop mode is better than using an app and there is no need to have loads of different apps for each Website.
For example, I use the Boat browser for email, BBC iPlayer, STV Player, TV Catchup, eBay, Amazon, etc in the same way as IE on Windows on my laptop.
I find the Boat browser Speed Dialer and Password Manager are great for loading and logging-into Websites and you get the full Windows desktop experiance.
Also, the Android home screen can now be used for just non-Internet shortcuts for the Internet shortcuts are saved in the Boat browser Speed Dialer.
You have already a thread talking about boat browser
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2068370
Please don't create redundant threads.
Thanks and thread closed .
Hello,
I have an ACER Liquid E2 running Android 4.2
I have installed 3 web browsers, and I can see that some websites are much better browsed with one browser than with another. But it is not the same browser which best browses all the websites.
So I want to have a shortcut which points to website A with Chrome, another shortcut which points to website B with Firefox, etc. The problem is that when I create shortcuts to a website on my desktop, it always launches the default browser. And if I do not define a default browser, I have to say which browser I want to use each time I activate a shortcut. It is boring, and I do not always remember which browser is the best for each website.
So here is the question: is there a way to create shortcuts which are browser dependant and would permit me to associate one website with Chrome, another website with Firefox, .... ?
Thanks for any help.
jimbaou said:
Hello,
I have an ACER Liquid E2 running Android 4.2
I have installed 3 web browsers, and I can see that some websites are much better browsed with one browser than with another. But it is not the same browser which best browses all the websites.
So I want to have a shortcut which points to website A with Chrome, another shortcut which points to website B with Firefox, etc. The problem is that when I create shortcuts to a website on my desktop, it always launches the default browser. And if I do not define a default browser, I have to say which browser I want to use each time I activate a shortcut. It is boring, and I do not always remember which browser is the best for each website.
So here is the question: is there a way to create shortcuts which are browser dependant and would permit me to associate one website with Chrome, another website with Firefox, .... ?
Thanks for any help.
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Only thing I can think of off the top of my head is using each browser's bookmark widget (Chrome, Dolphin, etc). Not every browser has them, unfortunately, but you should be able to find a generic bookmark widget that you can substitute.
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Only thing I can think of off the top of my head is using each browser's bookmark widget (Chrome, Dolphin, etc). Not every browser has them, unfortunately, but you should be able to find a generic bookmark widget that you can substitute.
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Hello es0tericcha0s,
Thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately, the shortcuts created from a browser bookmark seem to be nothing more than shortcuts to the URL. They do not seem to contain information on the browser to use. I have tried creating shortcuts from the standard Android browser as well as from Chrome, and they all behave the same: they use the default browser if it is defined, otherwise they ask which browser to use. The only difference is the look of the shortcut icon.
I was thinking that perhaps a one-line script could do the job. But I have not been able to locate the executable files for Chrome, Firefox, or the standard browser.
Could anyone help ?
Not sure if I’m on-topic here or not, but here goes... I am responsible for the setup/configuration of WiFi routers in various restaurants and venues. We are simply using the built-in splash page functionality of the router to, upon connection, present a simple marketing message and daily special offer via an extremely simple, static external HTML page, rather than the login page that many venues present (airports, coffee shops, McDonalds, etc.).
After connecting to our SSID with a PC or mobile device, users are presented with a customized splash page where our venue’s latest “offer of the day” banner ad is presented, which links via a standard hyperlink out to a PDF coupon for them to redeem said offer. There are also a couple of other simple items on the page, such as a menu with links to other offers, and an embedded Google Map to the venue in question.
All seems to be OK on PCs and iPad/iPhone devices. However, we are running into a problem on Android devices – specifically, Android devices using newer/more recent versions of the Android OS.
The problem is that Google has made a change to newer versions of Android so that WiFi connection login/splash/confirmation pages no longer come up in the default Web browser of the phone/tablet in question. Instead, they seem to come up in some kind of built-in notification window simply titled “Sign-in to network” – it does not seem to be a full-blown, feature-compliant browser, but rather a panel of sorts built into Android. And when our basic, mainly static HTML page loads within this alert window, none of the standard HTML features (such as hyperlinks) seem to work. A window appears with the title “Sign-in to network”, and our splash page appears on within it, but the standard HTML hyperlink from our special offer graphic (to a PDF file) does not work. Clicking it has no effect. Our menu underneath that does not seem to open (it’s automatically collapsed on mobile devices), and none of the links within it work properly, and our embedded Google Map does not appear at all. It’s as if this alert window or whatever we call it does not support the basic features of HTML pages in any way.
There appears to be no way for me to programmatically force the Android client to “escape” from this proprietary panel and open up a page in their default browser. I’ve tried placing various forms of client and server side “push/redirect” code on the page in an effort to escape from this alert window and cue the default browser to open, with no luck. No matter what I do, it seems that they Android phones always load the splash page within a “sign-in to network” notification page rather than a browser, and that this notification panel is not fully functional for even basic HTML features such as <a> hyperlinks, javascript, or embedded items.
It’s possible that Android’s proprietary “sign-in to network” panel is apparently seeking some sort of acknowledgement of a successful "login" in order to proceed with any subsequent browsing. But if so, I don’t know what constitutes “acknowledgement”. Perhaps there some way to force a hidden form submission or link click programmatically to force the Android device to accept/acknowledge the connection just as if the user had logged in normally, so that we can then proceed to subsequent Web browsing?
Has anyone experienced this problem, or have any ideas as to whether there’s a work-around or coding-based solution to this difficulty?
Thanks very much for your help in advance.
UPDATE: I've been in touch with the Google developers of the sign-in panel... they indicated that "captive portal sign-in pages are displayed in an Android WebView, which uses much of the same code as the Chrome browser. The sign-in app is very simple, you can see all of its source code here.
One second after each navigation (including the initial page load), the app probes to see if the user has successfully signed into the network. This probe is done by fetching a URL that should give back a 204 response."
Based on this, I am making the assumption that until captive portal sign-in app probes to see if the user is successfully signed in, all other navigation and many other features on the page are disabled, and that the full functionality of the WebView panel is restored after a successful sign-in to the network. But if so how can I successfully "signal" to the sign-in app that the user is, in fact, signed in (or rather, that no sign is in necessary or desired)? Is there something programmatically that I can do in the page code to ensure this, so that the viewer can then proceed to normal Web navigation within the panel, and so forth?
Any insight into how this works from anyone here would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!