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.)

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

Because thats really the only option.

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

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.

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

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.

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

instead of reinstalling/reflashing, you could also try only

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

...

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.