Everytime you select text in the web browser it has an option to quickly look something up on google, wikipedia, youtube, google dictionary, and google translate. I LOVE this, I do this quite often, I would love to access this without actually having to select text, is there a way to make a shortcut for this? There is an entry bar so you can continue to search, however I need a way to quickly access this app, thanks!
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[Q] Possible to force keyboards to show predictions even when in "search mode"?
This is my first post, so please be easy on me if I've accidentally violated any forum rules. I did search for this topic best I could but didn't find anything.
I find it very frustrating that Android Keyboards such as the default AOSP one and SwiftKey do not show predictions when set to "search" mode. It appears to be this way in all Google apps (Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Music, etc) and others that seem to specify that the input is for search, but not in others that may not specify input type (Facebook, Flixster, IMDb, etc).
I don't think I understand why you would want to prevent the predictions for search. Is there any way to get around this? Thanks in advance!
I can customize maps with both Google Maps and Mapquest, on the desktop, by dragging points. Does anyone know if there's any way to do this on my Note, using any of the following?
1. Android apps (Google Maps, Mapquest or something else?)
2. Desktop website through browser on Android
3. Mobile website through browser on Android
Mapquest offers the option to "click and drag" a point on a route, using their desktop website, but as I can't "click," this isn't terribly useful.
Any ideas?
As a related topic, when I do have a map in the browser and want to copy the URL using the link icon, I can select the link, but the copy/cut/paste options don't pop up.
In the firefox browser, if you type in a word and press enter in the url bar, by default it takes me to a dns error page. It looks like it tries to make the search terms a url. I want the search to directly search in google. I see that I can click the button below the url and it will do a google search, but I want to be able to press enter and have the term get searched in google. Is there a way to do this?
Is there an easy way to manage the internet bookmarks for either the Gear Browser or the Samsung Internet app from my phone?
Basically typing on the watch is not convenient and I would like to send a bookmark to the phone so I can easily open it.
I like the Samsung Internet app, but you can only put in a search term and not a web address directly - or at least that is what I have seen.
I am not trying to view a full webpage or anything like that, but I find it convenient to bookmark certain images like this http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/Radar/spi.gif to see the weather radar.
So if I navigate to a Web page using the Google search bar widget, and I'm writing a message into some random web sites contact page, I'll get like half way through writing some intricate message, and navigate away to go retrieve some needed info, and if I end up entering a new search inquiry into the Google search bar widget, get the needed info, and then return to the page where I was typing the message,
To my dismay, I immediately become extremely irked to discover that page I was on is now gone.
Of course I know how to access the recent pages list and navigate back to that web page, but of course that intricate message I was typing is now gone...
On the other hand, if I was doing the same task completely using the Google Chrome app itself, I am sufficiently aware that navigating away from a page will cause me to lose anything on that page, so I of course make sure to open a new tab and do my search there, and then return to the other tab to complete the text fields successfully.
However when I'm doing this when I have originally accessed the page from the Google search bar widget, and then initiate a new search from the widget, that page then is instantly lost.
Is there any way to enable a history with any text entered into forms saved for a certain period of time?
Or any way to force the Google search bar to initiate the search using the Chrome app in a NEW tab..?
I'm aware of the "open in chrome" option within the Google app, but this issue generally happens when I forget or don't realize I'm in the Google app, and then get totally f*d
This is already a long enough post, but hopefully you can follow my run on sentence structure and understand what I'm trying to ask.
Am I the only one who experiences this issue? Surely not right?
If anyone has a solution to this problem please share
Im super excited to say I think I answered my own question.
Open the Google app. (Not the Chrome app, but the Google app)
Click your account icon bubble(top right)
Click settings
Click general
Locate option "open web pages in the app"
Unselect/disable that option
Now when u initiate a web search with the Google search bar widget, as soon as you Click a link to any website, it will open as a new tab in your default web browser
Update:
Yes this definitely works perfectly, and if youre reading this and your name is Google,
I would highly recommend this be disabled by default..
what would be the reasoning for this being enabled by default?
I've been getting fked by that setting on AT LEAST a weekly basis for YEARS!
Woo hoo