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Kind of takes the "Smart" out of Smart TV, no? Besides, I'm not asking it to do anything it didn't do before the "update".

Maybe LG doesn't really have any developers. Could be they farm everything out to individuals or other companies. You may have to find out who is really responsible for the software and pass the information to them directly, not LG.

Of course PDF files can't be downloaded, but the WebOS version 4.4.0-9 browser can't even display them! Previous versions of the bowser displayed them just fine. Now I have a bunch of browser bookmarks that are useless. Also, there is no way to rearrange the bookmarks anymore. So version 4 also killed bookmark management. And while I'm on a rant, I can no longer drag and drop text between tabs. I have to write down or remember things like URLs and retype them into the new location. That's something else that got killed in the update. I'm calling it a downgrade. Can I go back?

Usually, something that is broken this badly gets fixed quickly. We can only hope for a reversion to the previous browser (or something very similar with at least equal funtionality) while they try to straighten this mess out. I don't wish for anybody to get fired over this -- but LG needs to make sure this can never happen again. But if it turns out this crippling of the browser was done on purpose, in pursuit of some objective dreamed up in the marketing department, then maybe some heads SHOULD roll.

It's hard to believe the number of problems being reported with this new browser. LG could not possibly have run a proper test program before releasing this product. I guess we are all beta testers now... Or is this a purposeful downgrade dreamed up by the marketing department?

You can go to Settings (three dots upper right) and disable the "always show address bar" switch. Then the bar drops down when you point to top of screen.

The bowser no longer displays PDF files. Several online PDF files that were bookmarked in the previous browser version won't open now. This version just says "downloads not allowed". But I don't want to download (and save), I just want to open and display them. The previous version had no problem with this. So far. this newest browser seems to be a major downgrade... Does anyone have a workaround for this, or any of the other problems I mentioned before?

Now I can't figure out how to re-order the bookmarks. In the previous browser, you could just highlight a bookmark and then drag it up and down the list. Does anyone know how to manage the bookmarks now?

I used to be able to drag&drop text and links to browser tabs. Now tabs reject anything dropped on them. This function was very convenient. I could leave the cursor in one tab, navigate to another tab and pickup some text (or even an image), and drop it on the previous tab at the top of the screen. The previous tab would open and the text/link/image would be pasted where I left the cursor. It just doesn't work anymore. Anybody else seen this?

That's true, Don. It never really did what phone, tablet, and PC "browsers" do every day. Even secure sign-in is crippled on many sites. And I often get the "out of date browser" message -- even on Google. I went for many months without being able to sign-in to Amazon.com -- or even check order status. LG finally fixed that one. I'm hoping they will address this new Ebay problem too. Luckily, I have other (older) devices that work fine on both services.

I had trouble signing in to my Amazon.com account several months ago. But it has subsequently fixed itself -- probably with an automatic update from LG. However now I can't log in to Ebay. The webOS browser seems to have a lot of security-related bugs that interact in strange ways. All we can do is hope future updates will fix present issues without creating too many new ones...

All other devices on my network login to my Ebay account OK. But not the webOS TV. Login just goes to a permanent white screen. Anybody else see this?

I realize the question, posed in this arena, is rhetorical. But LG customer service was less than useless regarding their own "browser".

Please describe how this helps again. i'm not familiar with the Alexa skills. Are you saying that while you are signed in to your Amazon.com account on the Alexa , you can then sign in to the same account from the C9 TV ? Does it "stick"? That is, after you sign in that way once, can you sign out on both devices and then sign in again on the C9 without help from the Alexa?

I tried it with the keyboard. Same result.