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doc03

(37,265 posts) Fri Feb 24, 2023, 10:55 AM Feb 2023

I got a tablet a couple months ago, now suddenly within the

last week when I go to Yahoo the page turns 90 degrees to a cell phone view. That is the
only site that does that. I rotate the tablet and it will not rotate the screen. I can't figure what
made it change and can't find anything in the settings to correct it.

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I got a tablet a couple months ago, now suddenly within the (Original Post) doc03 Feb 2023 OP

Keywords may be: portrait vs landscape Tetrachloride Feb 2023 #1

Have you tried turning off and restarting the tablet? subterranean Feb 2023 #2

Good advice. That fixes so many things. Always my first thought. twodogsbarking Feb 2023 #4

Like the old "control,alt,delete". Remember that?? It fixed everything back in the day. 🤣 a kennedy Apr 2023 #6

Have you tried their mobile page? Lettuce Be Feb 2023 #3

Tried the above, nothing works. The home page is a horizontal view like on a laptop, but soon as doc03 Feb 2023 #5

Tetrachloride

(8,533 posts)

1. Keywords may be: portrait vs landscape

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2023, 10:57 AM

Feb 2023

any android people out there?

subterranean

(3,559 posts)

2. Have you tried turning off and restarting the tablet?

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2023, 11:04 AM

Feb 2023

Sometimes that fixes glitches like this.

twodogsbarking

(12,461 posts)

4. Good advice. That fixes so many things. Always my first thought.

Reply to subterranean (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 24, 2023, 01:13 PM

Feb 2023

a kennedy

(32,631 posts)

6. Like the old "control,alt,delete". Remember that?? It fixed everything back in the day. 🤣

Reply to twodogsbarking (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 28, 2023, 02:39 PM

Apr 2023

Lettuce Be

(2,339 posts)

3. Have you tried their mobile page?

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2023, 11:31 AM

Feb 2023

Not sure whether that'd be a difference but here's the link: https://mobile.yahoo.com/

doc03

(37,265 posts)

5. Tried the above, nothing works. The home page is a horizontal view like on a laptop, but soon as

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Fri Feb 24, 2023, 06:01 PM

Feb 2023

I log in it flips over to a verticle cell phone view. Somehow it recognizes me as being on a mobile phone. No other site does that.
There is also no x to close it even when I sign out. It won't go away to go to another site I have to open Chrome.

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