How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Hey everyone.

Is it possible to reinstall the web browser that came with N900, and if so, how?

The reason I'd like to do this is because for some unknown reason it started hogging excessive amounts of CPU. Whenever I open a page (even if it's a small one), the browser starts using 100% cpu and becomes unresponsive for a few seconds (distributed between /usr/bin/browser and usr/sbin/browserd). It acts otherwise weird as well, for example the "open new window" menu occasionally takes several seconds to appear, sometimes links won't open, open link in a new window opens the window but not the link, etc etc. Scrolling/zooming is really jerky and the browser is just a pain to use in general.

I don't know how I managed to eff up the browser like that, I do have a couple of devel apps installed but I don't think I have anything browser-related except adblock. The phone works otherwise just fine (I don't see any cpu hogging by any other applications), so I'd rather just reinstall the browser than the whole phone, if it's possible.

(If this has been discussed before, could you just point me to the right thread? I didn't find anything relevant by searching.)

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

I try to ask the same question... before since my browser won't even start... and all I get is reflash.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Because thats really the only option.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

delete browser history. i have to do it every other day. hope they fix this

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Well, that helped quite a bit, thanks. That's quite absurd, it didn't even cross my mind that just the browser history could do something like that. Such a "feature" indeed needs to be fixed.


On a side note, it's also quite odd if the browser can't be uninstalled and reinstalled - isn't it just a separate piece of software and not an integral part of the system? Doesn't matter though, as long as it works.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

hahaha, go and try to uninstall Internet Explorer on a Windows computer.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Thanks for this. I thought I was going mad given how good the browser was to start with and how quickly it deterioated. hopefully a future update or the full release of firefox will fix this issue.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Same thing happened to me after installing fennec and browser switchboard. I uninstalled both and my browser started working again.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

instead of reinstalling/reflashing, you could also try only

rm -rf /home/user/.mozilla/microb

...

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

My default Web app has stopped working/browsing the net since I installed Adblock Plus. Any website I try to load just has the status bar going but nothing ever loads. I've uninstalled Adblock Plus since but the problem exists.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Yes, AdBlock Plus has some quirks that badly affect microB, specially 1.0.2 version which I found almost impossible to remove by conventional means.

rm -rf ~/.mozilla/microb will remove everything added to microB in the user space, basically reverting it to what it was when you first started it (you'll loose all the settings, bookmarks, passwords...) so you'll be starting with a clean state (unless you installed some extension that stores itself outside of the user space).

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Stop that.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378

Also, Google has 1.2 million hits over this and I myself have a few tricks up my sleeve. Don't confuse reinstalling with "removing all trace of web controls". IE can be reinstalled, as in, all settings reset, all histories erased, all associated files fixed/updated/restored, etc right down to the point where it's fresh as in out-of-the-box. Reinstall != uninstall + install.

Also, pointing out to another browser on another platform where you KNOW it's integrated and laughing is less than helpful.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

If you have browser switch...delete that and retry...I have a similar issue when I installed the browser switch app to switch default browsers...See if that helps

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

thanks dude, works great.

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

This worked for me.

i discovered that the browserd process seems to hang and consumes 99 percent of the cpu wich resulted in very fast battery drain. i removed the directory and it solved my problem

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Thank you for this, This has helped uninstall my addons!

Re: How to reinstall N900 web browser? (It's acting weird)
 

Thanks, this also worked for me. I was having problems with browser not processing cookies properly, and causing URL redirection error.

One thing: this does not erase browser settings and bookmarks, as was mentioned in another post here. Some of the browser settings are in

/home/user/.browser

and the bookmarks are in

/home/user/.bookmarks/

However, my cache size was changed to 5MB (from 20MB) when I removed the microb directory; everything else (settings and bookmarks) appears to be unchanged.