SoftRatty: Changing the Homepage of your Built-in P1i Opera Browser

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Changing the Homepage of your Built-in P1i Opera Browser

2008-03-02 10:34:00 by xtream in Sony Ericsson P1i Blog

This is one of the main issues that I've always been ranting about to SE. And it's definitely an issue everyone should know about before going for a one of Sony Ericsson's flagship smartphones.

For a platform that should be user-friendly given it's cost for the business consumer, it's absolutely ridiculous how DIFFICULT it is to change your homepage on your browser. Yes - you're stuck with that annoying, sh***y page from SE, or one your operator has set - and NO, SE does not give you an option to change it on the Settings screen.

It's even worse when Opera themselves confirm the issue, and reply with the following answer:

There is no functionality for that, I'm afraid.

The home page is either the one pre-configured for the phone or a page set by the network operator.

So, you're probably hoping that there's a way around this. It's got to be a sick joke right? A fully fledged flagship, from one of the largest mobile phone manufacturers, doesn't have the measly ability to let its customer's change its homepage on the product?

I've scouted the forums for several months, and apparently there's 2 "miracles" around this issue:

Synchronise your bookmarks/favourites with your Windows ones. The top bookmark in your list will become the homepage, so take some time to configure and organise your bookmarks. I believe this is done via the PC Suite - I myself happen to be a fulltime Mac user, so I haven't had the chance to test this method out. For more information, you might want to talk to a few of the kind souls at Esato Forums.
Changing the settings via Swiss Manager. There just happens to be a feature in Swiss Manager which allows you specify the Start page to open when you use the web favourite. However, it doesn't mean that the change is made to the Opera browser - quite the contrary, you'll have to open the web browser from Swiss Manager each time to get that as your homepage on the built-in browser.

Hopefully the next firmware release will address this issue as well. It's been there since the beginning of time (the release of the P990) and, I'm afraid to say, if Sony Ericsson doesn't come up with a fix, it's going to be these little things that will force me to give up this excellent smartphone.