pesky mobile site workarounds

[flamand]

Pogue's review of the tab mentioned that there's no way to see some full versions of sites, specifically nytimes.com, cnbc.com and amazon.com. That can be annoying because a lot of information is missing. Here are a few workarounds I've found and the browsers they work in. If you have some others, please share them!

AMAZON.COM This one's easy. Scroll to the bottom of the mobile page and choose "Full Site". (This works in the stock browser, Dolphin HD, and Firefox beta 4.0 b2)

EBAY.COM Also easy. Scroll to the bottom and choose View Ebay in "Classic". (This also works in all three browsers.)

CNBC.COM use this address: cnbc.com/#. (This works in the stock browser only)

CNN.COM use cnn.com/US. All sections work except "Home" (This works in all 3 browsers)

NYTIMES.COM

In the Firefox beta, the full site is the default view.

For the stock browser and Dolphin HD go to this address: http://www.nytimes.com/section/#. This is an error page. On the second line of the page, choose a section from the drop-down list.

TIME.COM Use www.time.com/time/ (This works in all 3 browsers)

ESPN.COM Use espn.go.com/espn/ (This works in all three browsers.)

 

[mclarryjr]

I use Dolphin HD and have never had any problems viewing any full version site. I just cleared the cache and data in the stock browser before downloading Dolphin browser. Then in the settings in Dolphin I selected desktop in the user agent setting. Since then I haven't seen a mobile site.

 

[Dukins]

Pogue's review of the tab mentioned that there's no way to see some full versions of sites, specifically nytimes.com, cnbc.com and amazon.com. That can be annoying because a lot of information is missing. Here are a few workarounds I've found and the browsers they work in. If you have some others, please share them!

AMAZON.COM This one's easy. Scroll to the bottom of the mobile page and choose "Full Site". (This works in the stock browser, Dolphin HD, and Firefox beta 4.0 b2)

EBAY.COM Also easy. Scroll to the bottom and choose View Ebay in "Classic". (This also works in all three browsers.)

CNBC.COM use this address: cnbc.com/#. (This works in the stock browser only)

CNN.COM use cnn.com/US. All sections work except "Home" (This works in all 3 browsers)

NYTIMES.COM

In the Firefox beta, the full site is the default view.

For the stock browser and Dolphin HD go to this address: http://www.nytimes.com/section/#. This is an error page. On the second line of the page, choose a section from the drop-down list.

TIME.COM Use www.time.com/time/ (This works in all 3 browsers)

ESPN.COM Use espn.go.com/espn/ (This works in all three browsers.)

Yea thats what I have been doing and save the full sites as bookmarks. Not really fond of Dolphin Browser after two trys with it.

 

[Jahntassa]

The eBay app is actually fairly decent. Not sure if you can use it without having an account activated on it, but it's pretty quick, and runs full screen on the tab.

 

[Anev]

I switched to Skyfire for this exact reason. I've been playing with all the browsers on the market (that I could find - about eight) and so far Skyfire, though not pretty, seems to work nice and fast on the Tab (mind you, I don't use Flash and avoid it as much as possible - but I think it works slightly better than the built in browser for Flash). I like the looks of xScope but it seems as slow as Browser and Dolphin....

 

[gearjunkeez]

I switched to Skyfire for this exact reason. I've been playing with all the browsers on the market (that I could find - about eight) and so far Skyfire, though not pretty, seems to work nice and fast on the Tab (mind you, I don't use Flash and avoid it as much as possible - but I think it works slightly better than the built in browser for Flash). I like the looks of xScope but it seems as slow as Browser and Dolphin....

I too use Skyfire for full sites on both Tab and Evo.