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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.)

Last edited by Juhgu; 2009-12-28 at 05:29.