My wife and I have identical Verizon Ellipsis 10 tablets running Android 5.1. We don't have PC/laptop, only the tablets. Because we want to access our Hotmail account (and folders) from either tablet, we use OWA through browsers, rather than the Outlook app.
This morning, a problem arose, probably caused by the recent change to Outlook.com through OWA (don't know what all the changes were, but desktop view used to have Empty Now for Spam folder, now says Delete).
The problem is that with some browsers, mobile view is always shown regardless of browser Desktop setting. The problem seems to occur only if cookies are cleared; then the first login shows desktop view, subsequently loading the ste always shows mobile view (with or without a logout in between). I had a similar problem a few months ago and the workaround was to use the URL:
https://outlook.live.com/owa/?layout=full
Note that layout=light brings up HTML version for slow connections. I can't find any documentation for layout=full, but it used to work. Omitting layout=full used to bring up the desktop view with some browsers, but now that parameter seems to be ignored.
The browsers that always display the mobile view are:
Naked Browser Pro version 1.0 build 77
Chrome version 58.0.3029.83
Chrome Beta version 59.0.3071.82
Opera Beta version 42.8.2246.117704
The browsers that properly display the desktop view (with/without layout=full) are:
Opera version 37.0.2192.105088 (afraid to clear cookies)
Firefox version 49.0.2 (afraid to clear cookies)
Firefox Beta version 54.0
All the browsers properly display the HTML version with layout=light.
I've tried clearing cookies, browser cache, Android cache, as well as wiping cache Partition. Because I'm guessing the problem has something to do with Javascript, I also played with Javascript settings with browsers that support about:flags URL. The Opera Beta, Chrome Beta, and Firefox Beta tests were from a clean install.
Nothing worrked (a full system reset isn't practical for me, so I didn't try that).
Neither the mobile version nor the HTML version nor both together provide all features and option settings available with desktop view. Since we only have tablets, it's important we be able to get desktop view to access all features.
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