Hi all,
Before I venture into getting Dolphin or some other browser, looking to see if there are a couple of things the stock browser can do. Is there no way to get a button to go to the homepage? I know you can make a bookmark and go that route but one click is better than two. Also, is there no easy way to actually shut down the browser so when opening it the next time it opens to the homepage? How about clearing history, etc. on browser closing sort of thing. Do other browser have these sorts of functions?
Thanks,
Ho'okani
Hookani said:
Hi all,
Before I venture into getting Dolphin or some other browser, looking to see if there are a couple of things the stock browser can do. Is there no way to get a button to go to the homepage? I know you can make a bookmark and go that route but one click is better than two. Also, is there no easy way to actually shut down the browser so when opening it the next time it opens to the homepage? How about clearing history, etc. on browser closing sort of thing. Do other browser have these sorts of functions?
Thanks,
Ho'okani
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I searched far and wide on the expansive Play Store with the home page issue. The closest you're going to get is Boat Browser (Play Store link). It has a customizable bar at the bottom, where you can place a home button.
You can have it "prompt on exit" where you can check "clear records" and "do not ask me again." It clears the history and will automatically start your home page when you open it again. Boat Browser FTW!
~Ibrahim~
Dolphin browser has the option to put the home button on the address bar - as well as the basic cache clear menu on exit.
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So i rom'd my phone with Warm Z 2.2. At the bottom of the screen there are three buttons at the bottom of the screen, All Apps, Phone, and Browser.
Ive started to Play with Miren Browser and i really like that browser. Anyway to make that button open Miren instead of Internet?
Well I don't know on the sense roms, but try long pressing it and see if you can change the shortcut. Also try opening the miren browser, then go to settings and set it as the default browser, then it'll open be default.
Yeah, neither worked.. But i do thank you for a quick response
You can try deleting the original broswer..
I believe this is what you are looking for:
Sense (Rosie) right launcher button now configurable through new application, "Rosie Z Settings"
Hi all, I'm currently using Dolphin Browser as I find it smoother than Chrome, and I also like how you can swipe from the left to get to bookmarks.
One thing I can't figure out though, is that if I close the browser from "Recent Apps" menu, the next time I open it again it'll just show a default page instead of the page I was looking at last. Is there a way I can set it up to show the previously viewed page? I couldn't find anything under Settings.
Jark89 said:
Hi all, I'm currently using Dolphin Browser as I find it smoother than Chrome, and I also like how you can swipe from the left to get to bookmarks.
One thing I can't figure out though, is that if I close the browser from "Recent Apps" menu, the next time I open it again it'll just show a default page instead of the page I was looking at last. Is there a way I can set it up to show the previously viewed page? I couldn't find anything under Settings.
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Well, when you think about it it's actually a good thing, when you exit dolphin it clears the cache and everything I use Dolphin to do my banking for that reason. So if you want to keep your things around don't kill the app.
Agh so I guess it's not possible then. Its just that sometimes I'll accidentally close it, in which case I'd lose what I was viewing.
I like the idea of the pop up browser, but would only use from time to time. For apps asking how to open up a link, I tell them to open using my default browser always because that's how I want to view most of the time.
Is there a way to call up the pop up browser on demand from links? I'm thinking if I could long tap a link or double tap a link, it could open the link in the pop up browser. Keep in mind the source of the link could be any app, another browser, G+, Facebook, etc.
I know there is a mod to launch a stand alone popup browser, but I don't think that solves what I am asking about.
The developers of Air Calc have had a floating browser for a long time. They are currently making it available for 4.0+ android devices, i believe. I tried to download it to my Note 2 but it is not yet available.
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I'm thinking if I could long tap a link [snip] it could open the link in the pop up browser.
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...or at least offer "open link in popup browser" as a choice...that would have been the right way to implement this, because heck if I'm going to leave the defaults off so that 99.99999% of the time when I click a link destined for a full browser I then have to select "Browser" and then press "Just Once" all to open a simple web page. At the very least they could have put in a checkbox in the app selector box that would select the tapped browser in "Just Once" mode the moment you tap, so you don't have to confirm each time.
Sorry, I don't have a solution, I'm just completely echoing your sentiment about this.
I have a bookmark on the home screen that is defaulted to the pop up browser.
It is the only way I know to get the pop up browser on demand.
I press and hold link, copy url, press home button, hit my bookmark (I renamed pop up), then paste the url.
Hope this helps.
You can set the pop-up browser as default and hit the button on the top left to open the page up in the regular explorer.
Only problem is that this will open the stock browser. Which is frustrating if you usually use a third party browser like me!
Does anybody know how to make the top left button in the pop-up browser open Chrome rather than the stock browse?
That would be nice because I have all my data synced to Chrome.
alijbara said:
You can set the pop-up browser as default and hit the button on the top left to open the page up in the regular explorer.
Only problem is that this will open the stock browser. Which is frustrating if you usually use a third party browser like me!
Does anybody know how to make the top left button in the pop-up browser open Chrome rather than the stock browse?
That would be nice because I have all my data synced to Chrome.
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Mine automatically opens in chrome when I click the top left button without setting anything up, I checked and there are no defaults set for either.
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Mine automatically opens in chrome when I click the top left button without setting anything up, I checked and there are no defaults set for either.
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How did you accomplish this? Is there a pop up settings menu to set your default browser?
For everyone, floating browser flux in the play store might be an option.
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Hi guys, right now when I click the full screen button on my Pop-Up Browser, it always opens up Chrome instead of stock Samsung Browser. I cleared defaults for Chrome, Stock Browser, Pop-Up Browser and even tried uninstalling and re installing Chrome but to no avail. Any dea which defaults I need to clear?
Thanks.
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boodies said:
Hi guys, right now when I click the full screen button on my Pop-Up Browser, it always opens up Chrome instead of stock Samsung Browser. I cleared defaults for Chrome, Stock Browser, Pop-Up Browser and even tried uninstalling and re installing Chrome but to no avail. Any dea which defaults I need to clear?
Thanks.
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Just try and uninstall the Crome that is what I have done. Run it a little while without installing Chrome and by default it will revert back to your default brower. After running it that way for a little while than install Chrome agian but me personally I have got rid of it because it uses mad data compared to the stock browers I have notice.
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Just try and uninstall the Crome that is what I have done. Run it a little while without installing Chrome and by default it will revert back to your default brower. After running it that way for a little while than install Chrome agian but me personally I have got rid of it because it uses mad data compared to the stock browers I have notice.
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The reason why I use chrome is that it syncs all my bookmarks and data with my desktops. Other than that, I'd stick with the default.
To the OP, uninstall chrome and run the a website in the popup browser (still with no chrome) and then load it full screen. It opens with the default browser, right?
Now install Chrome, and try the same process again.
What happened this time?
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Thanks for the answer fellas. That is really weird how you described that cornbread. Because when I uninstalled Chrome, the pop up will obviously use the stock browser. But when I install Chrome again even without setting any defaults, the pop-up browser will still full screen to chrome. I know there is a cultprit default behind this but we just can't seem to find it yet. Anyone?
On a similar subject, has anyone figured out how to set the default browser manually? As the OP browser stated, popup browser either defaults to Chrome or the Samsung browser when you maximize. I would love if it would open Boat Browser instead, but even if I set Boat to default, popup still only opens Chrome or the Android/Samsung browser. Any ideas?
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my rom came with this pop up browser mod installed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001818
i have chrome installed, and when i maximize the pop up browser, it opens my stock browser. i would suggest trying this and see what happens.
I've read a couple threads in which the people keep getting the popup asking you to switch to a certain browser once or always. I'm trying to use Chrome always and it keeps on popping up the same message. I'm getting this primarily when using my widget from Android Pro Widgets for bookmarks. I also get the same popups when using the chrome bookmark widget. How do I set Chrome or any browser to open every time without the popup asking me if I want to use "x" browser on every link?
Also, how do I change my gmail bookmarks which are saved to my phone? I've got lots of old or auto generated bookmarks I'd like to clean out and I've deleted them from chrome but they keep popping back up.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
polenz said:
I've read a couple threads in which the people keep getting the popup asking you to switch to a certain browser once or always. I'm trying to use Chrome always and it keeps on popping up the same message. I'm getting this primarily when using my widget from Android Pro Widgets for bookmarks. I also get the same popups when using the chrome bookmark widget. How do I set Chrome or any browser to open every time without the popup asking me if I want to use "x" browser on every link?
Also, how do I change my gmail bookmarks which are saved to my phone? I've got lots of old or auto generated bookmarks I'd like to clean out and I've deleted them from chrome but they keep popping back up.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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go to apps and select the internet app you dont want to use that is popping up and go to clear defaults. than next time you do something that triggers browsers it will give you the options you have installed. This works for any app's defaults such as launchers.