Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed."
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Randomly It Shut Off At 1:94 For Some Weird Reason
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the closed out timer is very annoying it's almost like if i'm written a comment one of my friends instagram post or something like that i have hurry write before the timer goes out which don't really like keep have to sign back in everytime when the timer closes
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I know, the timeout is awful! I usually have a phone or computer around, but SOMETIMES I just have my Switch and don't want to go to the other devices. For looking stuff up quickly it's fine, but the way it just pops up and everything you're doing disappears is adding insult to injury.
Our petition to Nintendo now has over 25,000 signatures! We want them to add:
- Cookies (no entering passwords every time / remembering logins and history)
- Video playback (the social applet has it, and the switch already has Youtube and a few others)
- Remove the timeout! (Pretty unlikely, as they likely added it just to make the DNS browser harder to use...)
And these would be great, but are obviously more development effort:
- An actual browser app instead of using a DNS redirect
- Tabs and bookmarks! Like on the 3DS, and Wii U browsers!
You can read other comments made by users that signed it here: https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-nintendo-expose-the-fully-functional-internet-browser-built-into-the-switch/c
I do think it's increasingly unlikely that anything will change on Nintendo's end, especially with rumors of a Switch 2 coming out in the future. The very least that they could do is unlock the DNS browser a little, or add an "Open web browser" area to settings (w/ their own landing page that links to Google).
For more info on the actual browser, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFront . The browser itself is licensed to Nintendo from another company, so it's possible part of the deal is that they don't allow the user to use it as a fully fledged browser, and that could be one motive for the timeout. Just baselessly speculating, though.
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@Dan see this post for the different browser types: https://browsedns.net/topic/359/browser-applets-and-why-videos-don-t-work
In short, the WifiWebAuthApplet (Captive-portal / DNS) is the only one is allowed to load any website, but doesn't support video, and has the timeout.
The eShop uses ShopN, which is hardcoded to only display the shop. You're right though about it running poorly due to being unoptimized css and browser-based.
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yea fr theyre basically acting like our parents... and some of us are even adults who DONT need parenting!
also wtf isnt nintendo part of japan, and if so then why do we have the japanese internet guidelines? the censoring of sites is just like it is in japan...
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For it to work though. You have to do an app takeover
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But let me get this straight. On a hacked switch. When i go to the browser via the homebrew launcher. There is no timer. How does this work?.
@Jared Yeeeeep! That's because BrowseNX can manually use a different applet that doesn't have a timeout, and can enable video playback too. Only the WifiWebAuth Applet (which is what the DNS uses) has those limitations (times out, no video), likely to discourage usage.
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wait you can put videos on apptakeover
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But let me get this straight. On a hacked switch. When i go to the browser via the homebrew launcher. There is no timer. How does this work?.
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Edited the original post to include a summary of information about the timeout, tips, the browser, and BrowseNX. This thread has a lot of views so I'm assuming people are coming in here from Google.
I can't really recommend installing homebrew just to access the browser, it's a pretty technical task and needs access to a computer or Android phone anyway to reliably use. It also comes with brick or ban risk. I mean, it's not that bad, but I don't think it's for most users.
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@Jared now i wanna hack my switch too but im too stupid to do so i probably just get my switch disabled (i have an oled switch)
@dan yea its pretty cool.
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i think i found a work around- if you use the youtube app, and press the x button when close to 20 minutes, it goes back to the main screen ad the timer refreshes. just what i found :p
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Youtube the app on switch doesn't pause-
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it can pause
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can you please change it to a hour
@presley OP cannot change the browser timeout. If you're asking how to change the timeout, you can open youtube instead of testing your network connection. If you're talking about the timer on this website, the timer is for security reasons
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change the time to an hour
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