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Browser

Landscape-only display

Check to display pages in landscape (horizontal) orientation on your screen, regardless of how you are holding the phone.

Enable JavaScript

Uncheck to prevent JavaScript from running on webpages. Many webpages function correctly only if they can run JavaScript features on your phone.

Enable plug-ins

Uncheck to disable plug-ins from webpages.

Open in background

Check to open new windows in the background when you touch & hold a link and touch Open in new window. This is useful when you are working with windows that take a long time to download and display. Press Menu, touch Windows, and then touch the new window to view it. Uncheck if you prefer new windows that you open in this way to open in place of the current window. See “To switch Browser windows” on page 212.

Set home page

Opens a dialog where you can enter the URL of a page that you want to open whenever you open a new Browser window. If you prefer to open new Browser windows more quickly, by not opening any page by default, leave the dialog blank.

Privacy settings

Clear cache

The browser stores the text and images of the webpages you visit so that they open more quickly when you revisit them. Touch Clear cache to delete these temporary files.

Clear history

The browser keeps track of the webpages you visit, so you can quickly find them and open them again later. (See “To view your Browser history” on page 210.) Touch Clear history to delete this record.

Accept cookies

Many webpages store, read, and update files called cookies on your phone, for your convenience. For example, some password-protected

User’s Guide

T-Mobile G2

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