Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed."

[ㅤㅤㅤ]

does the eshop also close after 20 mins? cuz from what ive known is the eshop browser based (which explains why it runs so poorly) when it doesnt close then there must be someway to disable the timer

[VGMoose]

@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.

[sakujapan384]

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...

[Nared]

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?.

[Nared]

For it to work though. You have to do an app takeover

[VGMoose]

@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.

[3STAR]

wait you can put videos on apptakeover

[ㅤㅤㅤ]

@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)

[VGMoose]

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.

[Nared]

@dan yea its pretty cool.

[TNAnimating]

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

[A Former User]

Youtube the app on switch doesn't pause-

[Austin 83789]

it can pause

[presley]

can you please change it to a hour

[melomelo06]

@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

[joemyson]

change the time to an hour

[melomelo06]

@joemyson OP cannot change the timer, I already said this

[VGMoose]

The 20 minute timer on this website is just for your own information on how long it's been. The actual 20 minutes for the browser to close and kick you out is enforced by the Switch OS.

We started a petition to Nintendo asking them to remove these limitations, although it seems unlikely at this point in the Switch's lifecycle that they'd do this.

[pusheen]

in 2017 in the browser it didn't close

[VGMoose]

yeah, they added the timeout around 2019, likely as a result of DNS workarounds to accessing it. It also used to support video for the first few Switch OS releases.