If you're working on a website for a console that doesn't have a modern browser, or web dev tools, and can't figure out why something is broken on the console, the following HTML snippet can be used to display and alert any javascript errors:

<script>
   window.onerror = function(message, source, lineno, colno, error) {
      alert(`Error: ${message}\nSource: ${source}\nLine: ${lineno}\nColumn: ${colno}\nError object: ${error}`);
      return false;
   };  
</script>

This will only help for websites where you can control the source code. It displays whatever errored on the page, and the filename and line number that generated it.

Nintendo has not explained their reasoning. The Sony PS5 is in the same situation though, with a hidden kind-of usable Internet browser. Both systems also have M-rated games, YouTube, Hulu, Twitch, other streaming apps, and parental controls to manage them, so I don't think it's about user age.

It could be a platform security decision, as the Wii, Wii U, DS, and 3DS all have had browser exploits. Although, since the Switch does have a browser still, it's also still vulnerable regardless of it being accessible to the user or not.

Hi! Our SSL certificate had expired. I just renewed it and it this warning should be fixed now. This YT vid has more info on what SSL is and how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntVeD1sQDsg

This kind of security is also the reason if you're visiting any HTTPS site, even on the DNS, the web traffic can't be intercepted. A valid SSL connection is directly encrypted with your target website, so browsers will warn when these certificates expire.

Sorry, it should be fixed now. The SSL certificate expired and didn't auto-renew.

Welp I looked into this:

Fay of the Social Security Administration selected a record from the top of the first stack of 1,000 records and announced that the first Social Security number in history was assigned to John David Sweeney, Jr. of New Rochelle, New York. However, since the Social Security numbers were not assigned in chronological order, Sweeney did not receive the lowest Social Security number, 001-01-0001. That distinction belongs to Grace D. Owen of Concord, New Hampshire.

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number

It is done!

They could make further lockdown-related changes though to ensure it only works at hotels/planes, and not be able to navigate to any external websites.

I'm hoping that they'd allow third party browsers in the eShop. It doesn't seem like it's a big security concern anymore. (Last ~5 years of the Switch have had no successful web exploits).

Similar to Krita, but in the browser: https://www.photopea.com

Haven't tried it on Switch yet, but probably using it with the timeout and no file saving would be too frustrating.

Depending on the device, Photopea might work: https://www.photopea.com

It's photoshop-ish, supported by ads, and runs in the browser

Activity here comes and goes, you can check https://uk-central.browsedns.net/data/ to compare the total active DNS users against the forum.

Windows XP CSS Theme:

Classic stylesheets 2.1

(nielssp.github.io)

We gotta bring this aesthetic back!

Reminder that this feature exists too

@Raven I was looking all over for that!

I'm bumping this thread to reshare this old knowledge. Let's hope the Switch 2 has an actual browser this time around!

Er, I interpreted this as modding the browser to be more functional.

If you're talking about using the browser as a homebrew entrypoint, it's not going to happen due to both the security checks in the Switch, and updates to the browser that Nintendo makes.

The last web exploit was on FW 4.0 and since then they've added more checks and an ability to remotely disable the browser if it becomes out of date and exploitable. (Which is good btw, otherwise web viruses could be A Thing).

For modded Switches, the best you can do is https://github.com/crc-32/BrowseNX (supports videos, no timeout)

For unmodded Switches, it would be great to have a service like https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice although doing this at scale would be expensive and have privacy concerns. Running it locally, or having a cheap network device host it locally, is much more doable.

these dudes:

@sillysora99 That's a serious topic and it's not appropriate for these forums. Her position however absolutely was not "promoting murder". I'm going to consistently push back when these are the kinds of claims being made.

I'll not keep dragging on about Harris vs Trump, but I am so shocked to see how popular Trump still is. There's a reason he lost in 2020, and I feel like the country forgot how bad the division got.