Never realized that opening Google chrome in Samsung Galaxy Tab A, chrome does not show bookmarks bar. Every time use the three dots for options to select bookmarks. There is no access to chrome appearance section to show bookmarks bar.
Tried entering chrome://settings into Chrome's address bar, but does not take me to chrome settings.
It may be a simple solution, but I need help please
k4955 said:
Never realized that opening Google chrome in Samsung Galaxy Tab A, chrome does not show bookmarks bar. Every time use the three dots for options to select bookmarks. There is no access to chrome appearance section to show bookmarks bar.
Tried entering chrome://settings into Chrome's address bar, but does not take me to chrome settings.
It may be a simple solution, but I need help please
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I'm in the same boat
OK, I have a hack.
1) Synch your bookmarks to your desktop browser
2) On your desktop export the bookmark to an html file
--> Feel free to edit the html fle. Get rid of links you don't want. Microsoft Word will edit html.
3) Copy it onto your tablet
4) In your file manager of choice, select the file and create a shortcut onto your homescreen
--> I use Solid Explorer. If you select the file, click on the three verticle dots, "create shortcut"
5) Now, from the home screen, click on the short cut
So this works if you don't add to your favorites everyday. You can repeat this on a monthly basis. Or more or less often depending on your patience. I work at a semicontor factory, and sometimes need to VPN in to the factory to access the manufacturing system. I have a "Work Links" file that has all of the manufacturing links I use on a regular basis. It isn't something I need to update very often.
You can do the same thing with multiple html files.
I think, but haven't tried, that you should be able to go into Chrome settings and set the html file as your home page. That will be left up to you.
Good luck,
Joe
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I played with this myself.
So enter "file:///sdcard" into your Android Chrome browser. Navigate to the bookmark html file you created. Hard press the file and "copy link address". Now go to the homepage setting and paste the file link in.
My html file was in the main device memory, under "documents", "professional docs":
file:///sdcard/Documents/Professional%20Docs/Work%20Bookmarks.html
I pasted this into the homepage and sure enough, home opens the local file.
Joe
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One more update
So if you are synching with Google, you can request a data archive
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/chrome?pli=1
After it completes the backup, there is a link to a zip file. Download it. Inside the file is the bookmarks html file.
Still a hack, but you don't need the desktop.
Joe
Thank you for the descriptive explanation. I was able to get te bookmarks as my homepage.
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Just like many of you who have an e-mail account set up on their phone, I just hate clicking on the links that come attached to it because slow-a$$ IE will open it up and it takes forever. Well, here are some easy settings editing that will switch to Opera Mobile into being the default browser instead! I primarily use Opera Mini when browsing the web but Opera Mobile is great for e-mail links. *note: these setting edits can be done only in Opera Mobile and not in O.Mini from my own testing*
1. Open Opera Mobile.
2. In the address bar, type opera:config and press enter.
3. Scroll down to Install tab and click enter.
4. Check the box next to "Browse First Time Launch" and click Save.
5. Now, exit Opera and re-enter again for it to complete.
6. Enjoy clicking on e-mail links !
How to get the Favourites link to open Opera?
I have set Opera as the default browser and when I touched the Favourites link I was taken to the favourites saved in Opera....until today...when suddenly it will only open the favourites saved in Internet Explorer. I cannot find a way to set the Favourites link to open Opera. Can you help?
Hi,
The default / stock web browser in HTC Desire, is that it?
I found the user interface is not that good
- Is there any easier way to go to the bookmarks instead of pressing the "menu" button then bokmarks
- Is there any way to add FOLDER or GROUP in the bookmark?
Is this HTC limitation or Google Android limitation?
Its a No to all your questions really. What I do is have a folder on my home screen, and then create bookmarks for all my favourite sites and put them in the folder. Then I just need to open the folder and go straight to my bookmarked website. Its fast and easier this way.
Other option is to get Dolphin browser, an excellent browser. It`ll allow one tap of the icon at the top right to access your bookmarks. It uses gestures too so you can set one up for bookmarks.
Have used Dolphin since it was released and its always improving, but I still go back to the default browser as it does a better job of pinch/zoom.
Is there a way to open bookmarks without opening a new tab? My tabs fill up quickly and i dont see a quick way of opening my bookmarks without opening a new tab for each bookmark. Thanks.
I'm not sure what you're saying here? I just tested opening up a bookmark in my browser and it didn't open up in a new tab but the same tab I had open?
edit: do you mean you want to open like 3 bookmarks but don't want to have to go into the tabs and select a new one each time? If you have a certain set of bookmarks you want to open each time, I think you can put them in a subfolder and when you long hold on the folder you can open all in new tabs in one step.
i think he is asking how to get to your bookmarks without opening a new tab.
I will say that i have been pissed cause i couldnt find them and this helped a ton! LOL. And it syncs with chrome. sweet!
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.
m3meems said:
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.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
Attached a screenshot.
How do I get rid of them? They are not in the app list in settings and if I hold down on the icons, the only options are Select Item and Add to Home. If I just tap to open, it just says App does not exist.
I'm not rooted. This happened right after first setup.
Looks like a bookmark that you added to desktop, and then was restored from the cloud incompletely.
Did you use an alternate browser on your previous phone/firmware?
Do these sites appear on your current browser's bookmarks list? Maybe add those to the launcher to see whether it'll "overwrite" these old entries
felixdd said:
Looks like a bookmark that you added to desktop, and then was restored from the cloud incompletely.
Did you use an alternate browser on your previous phone/firmware?
Do these sites appear on your current browser's bookmarks list? Maybe add those to the launcher to see whether it'll "overwrite" these old entries
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From a fresh factory reset, before even signing in with my account, and before even connecting to WiFi, I did the de-bloating first. My guess is that something interrupted the process of setting up these shortcuts after debloat.
I never used the browser (chrome). Would these be related to the Samsung browser maybe?
Tried to clear launcher app data&cache?
I ended up just installing the actual apps in the play store, then immediately uninstalling them and that did the trick.