How to Make Honeycomb Browser load Desktop, not Mobile

[bestbuystinks]

Cool article on how to make the Honeycomb browser appear as a Desktop version rather than a Mobile version. I will try this fix shortly and report back if it works:

How to make Android's Honeycomb browser load desktop -- not mobile -- Web sites - Computerworld Blogs

 

[Brandtmf]

I tried it, and it works! Great! pretty much type about:debug in your address bar and press enter. go to your settings and go to debug. In debug goto UASring. Select Desktop. Press back. once again type about:debug to get rid of the debug menu. bamn! easy as pie.

 

[m3lover1]

It works. I tried it before. I think I got the tip from xda forums

 

[Natai]

Works great, now someone needs to figure out how to set it so it doesn't change back at the next session.

Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

 

[JZambrano]

Works! Very awesome.

 

[DreamSTi]

When I try this, it just does a google search of type:debug. What am I doing wrong here?

 

[Brandtmf]

Works great, now someone needs to figure out how to set it so it doesn't change back at the next session.

Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

wow its a huge disapointment that it resets like that

 

[JZambrano]

Worked great, really suck that you have to do it everytime if you want it that way. :-\

Edit
After you change it to desktop the first time, any other time after that you just have to put in "about:debug" and hit enter (twice)

So about:debug - enter, about:debug - enter

 

[kingboarder]

Thank you so much - that fixes the only thing that really annoyed me!

 

[123guinness]

Fantastic! Thanks.

 

[MarqBland]

Hmmm what if you set that about:debug as the home page? Lol. That way half the battle is over when you go to the browser. Haha.

 

[farwest]

works great. Thanks.

 

[44thrilla]

I just use dolphin which lets you do it permanently

 

[toddjy]

Seriously? A tablet browser that loads mobile pages? Why the heck does anything load mobile pages. The whole point of smart phones is, like the original iPhone commercials "the real web".

 

[pearlmikejam]

I just use dolphin which lets you do it permanently

Did you by chance get a copy of Dolphin Pad? I have not been able to find it anywhere. Dolphin HD works OK, but freezes on my Xoom often.

 

[Joelist]

It is a head scratcher - why didn't Google simply code up a full version of Chrome for the Tablet Browser? That makes more sense than what they did.

 

[44thrilla]

Did you by chance get a copy of Dolphin Pad? I have not been able to find it anywhere. Dolphin HD works OK, but freezes on my Xoom often.

Dolphin HD is what I use. It works fine for me.

 

[bubbatex]

It is a head scratcher - why didn't Google simply code up a full version of Chrome for the Tablet Browser? That makes more sense than what they did.

Totally agree.

 

[alee]

It is a head scratcher - why didn't Google simply code up a full version of Chrome for the Tablet Browser? That makes more sense than what they did.

It is effectively Chrome.

The issue you're seeing is a side effect of there not being any official Android based tablets until the last few months.

Every browser contains a string called a user agent, which identifies the browser's make, model, and target platform.

In the case of the Xoom, the agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.0; en-us; Xoom Build/HRI39) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13

Most websites that have mobile sites use a bunch of rules to determine whether you're on a mobile device or a regular full fledged desktop browser. Until recently, all you had to do was check to see if the word "Android" was in the agent string, and that was sufficient to assume it was a phone, and safe to display the mobile site.

With the first official Honeycomb tablet out now, this logic will have to become more sophisticated and it will take a bit of time for sites to recognize this and make the necessary changes. Until then, the Xoom will need to fake the user agent. I'm surprised that Google didn't make it easier to change your agent, but then again the Xoom was definitely rushed to market, so us early adopters will have to sweat it out for a bit. This sort of fix is super easy though... wouldn't be surprised if the dev community creates a permanent patch before the Google folks do.

 

[moosc]

I still call it fake advertising! if my mini laptop can do real web the tablet should.