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How do you close the web browser?

I don't know if I'm doing this right or not, but currently to close the browser I just press the home hard button. Is this the correct way to close it or is there a proper way to do it? I find that my method always opens the last page I was on. Anyway to disable this?

Apps dont really close as such - they go into the background and Android closes them when it requires their resources.
Hitting home is what I do, and sometimes I go back to my default google window when i open the Browser but often its just where i left it.
This is fine - if i needed to search for something I hit the physical search button anyway. If i want to go to a different site then the bookmarks are there and can be put on the desktop as a shortcut if needed.

What mhewitson says is true BUT, if you use the BACK button instead of the HOME button, the app will usually close right away unless it's being used by something else.

if you hit back enough you get back to where you started, therefore you pick up there next time. Same as hiting home surely

Close all open windows then hit back.

OR if you always want it to open on a specific page/site just add a shortcut to that bookmark and use it rather than opening the Browser/internet icon.

The way i use, is download a task killer from the market like (advanced task killer) you you can pick which apps you want to close

oawalker said:
The way i use, is download a task killer from the market like (advanced task killer) you you can pick which apps you want to close
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Yeah i thought about using such an app too but i read somewhere that task killers arent a good idea.

shaliru said:
Yeah i thought about using such an app too but i read somewhere that task killers arent a good idea.
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I always used a task killer up until a few days ago because i thought leaving an app open would affect performance. Since i've stopped using a task killler i've noticed an increase in performance, and im not going back to using it.

If you are using the Dolphin Browser (Market app), then it has a specific exit action --- long-press the back button once.

Task manager in the status bar.

Hi guys, i was looking For some app that shows in the status bar the icons of all running apps like in the right side of windows o.s., i think it could be like a task manager but there isn't some like this or i wrong?
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get taskswitcher from the market.
one press on home: see all running tasks, switch to them, see recent task, start them again
one more press on home: homescreen showing up
perfect solution!
there are better looking task managers like itching thumb, but they tend to eat too much resources and crash every now and then. taskswitcher is free and stable

Nothink seems to Like me. i try task switcher But it's not precise, infact If i open task manager i could see more apps open, insted with use taskswitcher the risult are completly strange because onlt Fee Aids are displayed
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dadoda said:
Nothink seems to Like me. i try task switcher But it's not precise, infact If i open task manager i could see more apps open, insted with use taskswitcher the risult are completly strange because onlt Fee Aids are displayed
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works for me since i got my desire. when in taskswitcher, press menu for some settings. but no idea, why you have problems - i love it - its the best task switcher i found, and i tried some

Go Launcher EX does that

[Q] kill task whike swiping away

Question... Is there a chance to kill tasks while swiping apps away in Recent Apps menu.
Would be much more simple to swipe app and kill process at the same time. Is it possible to implement that in any rom?
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winrris said:
Question... Is there a chance to kill tasks while swiping apps away in Recent Apps menu.
Would be much more simple to swipe app and kill process at the same time. Is it possible to implement that in any rom?
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It does not kill apps. It just hides them from the multitasking menu.
I'm sure there will be custom ROMs that give you an "X" to kill them from the menu, but this is definitely not the case in the stock ROM.
Lets got get into this again but... you do not need a task killer for Android anymore.

winrris said:
Question... Is there a chance to kill tasks while swiping apps away in Recent Apps menu.
Would be much more simple to swipe app and kill process at the same time. Is it possible to implement that in any rom?
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It's possible that when you swipe apps away in the Recent Apps switcher, the apps swiped away are marked for the first ones to be killed when Android needs to reclaim memory. I think that would make sense - there's no immediate need to kill the apps you swipe away as long as there's free memory, but when more apps are opened in the future and some background apps need to be killed, the ones that you swiped away get killed first. Still waiting on someone to test this theory though.

It will "kill" apps in the "cached background process" category.. but not in the "running apps" category in my experience.
If you open the gmail app and hit the home button and you go to settings>apps>running apps>show cached processes you'll see gmail in the list..
From there, hit the "multitasking" button and swipe gmail away, as the screen is transparent, you can see gmail disappear from the list a second after you swipe it away.
I suspect it is more requesting that the OS terminate a particular background process.. more like a "Hey, the user doesn't want you open right now. Can you go ahead and leave memory?" rather than an outright killing of the process.
I'm thinking that if users believe they are killing unwanted processes by swiping them away that they won't feel the "need" to download a task killer.. plus, swiping is a fun gesture

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It will "kill" apps in the "cached background process" category.. but not in the "running apps" category in my experience.
If you open the gmail app and hit the home button and you go to settings>apps>running apps>show cached processes you'll see gmail in the list..
From there, hit the "multitasking" button and swipe gmail away, as the screen is transparent, you can see gmail disappear from the list a second after you swipe it away.
I suspect it is more requesting that the OS terminate a particular background process.. more like a "Hey, the user doesn't want you open right now. Can you go ahead and leave memory?" rather than an outright killing of the process.
I'm thinking that if users believe they are killing unwanted processes by swiping them away that they won't feel the "need" to download a task killer.. plus, swiping is a fun gesture
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Haha, oh wow, so it actually does kill apps. Can't believe everyone who's been discussing this feature has been wrong so far. Man, what are the odds that everyone has so far only tried to swipe away foreground, visible, and service processes, and you are the first one to try to swipe away background processes.

What does swiping an item up in "Recent Apps" actually do?

It would seem logical that swiping an app up not only removes it from the "recent apps" list, but should also close the app. However after swiping an app up I can still see it running in "Task Manager". So I'm not sure what swiping an app does at all? Any ideas?

Swiping from task manager is the same as closing it using the back button.
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joshnichols189 said:
Swiping from task manager is the same as closing it using the back button.
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You cannot swipe in the Task Manager. You can close the app by pressing the [X]. I'm talking about the "Recent Apps" list which is accessible by pressing the right hard button.

That's what I meant. Swiping in the recent apps list is the same as closing with the back button.
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I think it just removes it from the recent apps menu, but leaves the process running. Try playing music and then swipe the music app up in the recent apps menu. It continues playing.
I think it was designed to navigate quickly between apps, not to be a task manager.

maniacaus said:
I think it just removes it from the recent apps menu, but leaves the process running. Try playing music and then swipe the music app up in the recent apps menu. It continues playing.
I think it was designed to navigate quickly between apps, not to be a task manager.
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Actually, it does kill processes, you swipe the App away basically telling Android It's okay to kill it.
and it doesn't kill Music because that's an Ongoing process that you see in the Navigation Bar which must be exempted, it will just re-Appear in the list.

I'm quite sure it will kill the process instead of just remove it from the list.

I think it's just like the Task Manager , +the design and graphic things.

Pardon my blasphemy.
Anywho....i do wish they would revert back to the standard recent apps menu.

ozaghloul said:
It would seem logical that swiping an app up not only removes it from the "recent apps" list, but should also close the app. However after swiping an app up I can still see it running in "Task Manager". So I'm not sure what swiping an app does at all? Any ideas?
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Swiping offscreen in Recent Apps should close the app if it's running. But just being the Recent Apps list doesn't necessarily mean it's still in memory. The HTC Task Manager isn't really a good snapshot of the current applications in memory, some items, like Gmail, rarely show up. Take a look at the Tasks tab in "Android System Info" for a more accurate view of backgrounded apps.
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I think it just removes it from the recent apps menu, but leaves the process running. Try playing music and then swipe the music app up in the recent apps menu. It continues playing.
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Actually it does remove the Music app (UI) from memory, the player service is still running.
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Anywho....i do wish they would revert back to the standard recent apps menu.
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Yup, this is the thing I miss most from plain ICS (don't like the Settings in Sense either, but that's cosmetic). This task switcher wastes alot of screen real estate, and the canted screenshots reminds me of HTC TouchFLO from my old WinMo phones, looks out of place compared with the rest of the UI.

TommUK said:
Actually, it does kill processes, you swipe the App away basically telling Android It's okay to kill it.
and it doesn't kill Music because that's an Ongoing process that you see in the Navigation Bar which must be exempted, it will just re-Appear in the list.
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This, exactly. The music app along with other ongoing processes that you can see in the nav bar are exceptions, but other applications get killed.
How can you test this? Well, fire up Opera Mobile. Now swipe Opera Mobile up. Then fire up Opera Mobile again. You'll see Opera's splash screen again, indicating that it is starting up all over again, which it wouldn't do if it would've been running in the background.

my guess is that if you swipe it from the "Recent Apps" section Android waits for all its processing to complete before it runs its cleanup procedures
Though I would like to know what are all the apps that can be removed off the HOX so that I can get more free RAM space currently always sitting on 600MB in use
is there such a list?
cos I dont want to brick my baby

jinkira said:
my guess is that if you swipe it from the "Recent Apps" section Android waits for all its processing to complete before it runs its cleanup procedures
Though I would like to know what are all the apps that can be removed off the HOX so that I can get more free RAM space currently always sitting on 600MB in use
is there such a list?
cos I dont want to brick my baby
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RAM is meant to be used.
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Understandable, but I dont want to use so much.. I am still old school when it comes to memory usage and keeping as much free as possible untill needed
so I just want a list of BLOATWARE that is ok to uninstall

close apps

Hi there.
Is it possible to close apps, so they dont show up when i hit multitask button?
So my question is 1, can i close apps completly? And 2, can I remove them from multitasking?
I am using jelly bean
/ Christian

Christianfrank said:
Hi there.
Is it possible to close apps, so they dont show up when i hit multitask button?
So my question is 1, can i close apps completly? And 2, can I remove them from multitasking?
I am using jelly bean
/ Christian
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Yes. Open multitask view and swipe them away to remove them from the list. This will also close them.
Furthermore, some custom roms have an option that will allow you close an app by long pressing the back softkey.

Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps. There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment. They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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abtxpress said:
Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps. There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment. They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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But the swipe does close apps sometimes .
Just now I hit the home key and swiped away XDA. When I opened it again, I was the first screen again.
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Swiping them away only removes them from the recent apps.
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Not only. Try it yourself: open an app, tap home, re-open app. It will show the state it was in when you left it.
Now try this: open an app, tap home, open recent list, swipe it away, re-open app. It will start from scratch.
There is no real way to close apps in a Linux environment.
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Of course there is. But hardly relevant, because on Android apps don't run on the kernel natively.
They don't need to close. Your system will turn off apps on its own when and if it needs the ram. Android is not like a windows PC that needs more ram to run applications.
I hate when this question is asked. If your that dead set on closing apps then you should get a useless app call advanced task killer.
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That's true. There might be other reasons than performance related to remove apps from the recent list though.

Swipe away the app in the recent list, it closes the app. It closes activities but not services.