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Wanted: A Browser That Can Use Any Website a PC Can Use

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SoonerLater

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Is there any browser for Android which will load/display/use any website that a PC can?

I pay to subscribe to listen to football (soccer) matches of a team in England. The company that runs the site for my team also runs the sites for about 50 or so other teams in England, plus several hundred elsewhere in Europe. They're all cookie-cutter websites that look/act/feel exactly the same from team to team. I can login to the site on PC and on Android. I can watch video on both. However, when I click the "Live Matches" button in any Android browser, it just does not indicate that there are any live matches to hear, whereas if I do the same thing on a pc, it lists all of the live matches in England (at least, all the ones this company has the streaming rights for). I have Flash installed, enabled and working. I can manipulate the controls that on the site written in Flash and see their Flash video. The tech support people for the site say, "If your browser supports Flash and Java, you can use the streaming audio."

What browser (or set of browser settings) will let an Android device use/play/display everything that a PC's browser can?
 
Most of the browsers can do this. I have found that when I want to display a page just as it does on a pc I need to go into the settings on the browser and turn off the 'display mobile web pages' options. Once that is turned off websites should stop seeing your connection as a mobile.
 
Update: Ok... the "user agent" is whatever the browser tells the website that it is. I set Miren to use "Google Chrome" as the user agent (previously set to "default;" other choices were iPhone 3, iPhone 4 and iPad).

There is no change in behavior when using the "Google Chrome" user agent. I still don't see the available live matches.
 
I like Boat Mini, no clue if it will work, but I haven't found a page yet that won't open (other than some video that I need Skyfire for). Set UI in Boat has: Android, Desktop, iPhone, IE, Firefox, Safari, and iPad.
 
Opera Mobile is what I use.

Go into settings>advanced>user agent and select Desktop. Then it will always bring back the full versions you see on your computer And it can use Flash.
 
There are instructions somwhere about using the "about:debug" on any browser in an Android Smartphone... just google search "about:debug".

Beware though because switching off the useragent means on some websites using 3G it's much slower in rendering the page
 
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