Opening xda links in Samsung browser? - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers

The Samsung browser is my default, with UC Browser as a swipe up in my Nova app drawer. When I attempt to open a link from the xda app, the Samsung browser opens showing "apicdn.viglink.com" in the url box and a message below, "This webpage is not available." Choosing "MORE" and "Unblock content" does nothing. What works is pressing on the url box, which reveals a longer url together with options, among others, to cut or copy. If I do that and paste into UC Browser, the xda link opens in UC Browser.
Is there a way to make Samsung browser open the link directly? Can someone explain, at least, what's happening.
TIA

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Opera start page

Is it just me that can't get the opera start page to change? I can set it in the settings to google.com (or whatever) and when I hit the home button it goes there, but no matter what I do I can't get it to open to that page when opera starts up.
Additionally, after I updated my music library with windows media mobile, when I launch opera from the programs menu it loads windowsmedia.com.
When I launch from the "Search the Web" shortcut in landscape tf3d, it launches the stupid yahoo search page.
Someone please help me, I'm pulling my hair out here. I won't both of the above to open opera to about:blank.
(I have searched but I didn't find any mention)
After setting it in settings, you need to make sure that you hit the check mark at the bottom. Don't just hit OK.

opera google results, not taking me to the right page when clicking the link

as the title says,
when i search on google in the built in opera, the browser does not direct me to the actual page, instead it takes me to google definition to the name I clicked on.
its not eve displayed in english.
anyone knows how to solve this?
Is that via the Google search bar in TouchFlo? That one takes you to stripped out versions of the web sites for mobile use and speed, which is annoying since Opera is fast enough already... If so then just use Opera to go to google.com and choose full HTML rather than mobile view, bookmark it/make it the homepage and search from there.

[Q] emailing a URL from browser

Maybe it's just me still being somewhat of an android noob, but is there a way to email a browser link from within the browser? Or at least a way to highlight and copy the link to paste within an email?
Great question. I would like to know how to highlight, copy, and past from anywhere.
mmracing said:
Great question. I would like to know how to highlight, copy, and past from anywhere.
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Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I do use an iPhone and would like to know how as well.
liquidcaffeine said:
Maybe it's just me still being somewhat of an android noob, but is there a way to email a browser link from within the browser? Or at least a way to highlight and copy the link to paste within an email?
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You can press and hold your finger over a link, and you will get a popup asking you to open, save, copy, share, etc link. If you select copy, you can then open your email and paste. If you select Share you then get list of options....bluetooth, gmail, twitter, etc.... Hope this helps.
You can't email link from browser unless the website designed a link to email you something, or you use the above share option.
From the desktop I can use Chrome to Phone with this gtab though and it works great. From desktop and from within a browser, you can send the link your viewing to your tab with one click.
mmracing said:
Great question. I would like to know how to highlight, copy, and past from anywhere.
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From anywhere I believe there is a menu option within the browser to select text, then you can drag your fingers to select the text you want, it gets copied and then you can paste it into anything like email. Not sure about other programs, but usually either press and hold, or menu option to select and copy text. In input boxes just press n hold to get menu to paste text.
raydog153 said:
You can press and hold your finger over a link, and you will get a popup asking you to open, save, copy, share, etc link. If you select copy, you can then open your email and paste. If you select Share you then get list of options....bluetooth, gmail, twitter, etc.... Hope this helps.
You can't email link from browser unless the website designed a link to email you something, or you use the above share option.
From the desktop I can use Chrome to Phone with this gtab though and it works great. From desktop and from within a browser, you can send the link your viewing to your tab with one click.
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Just tried the suggestion on another forum here at XDA with no success. Not sure if it matters, but I m on TnT Lite 2.04.
liquidcaffeine said:
Just tried the suggestion on another forum here at XDA with no success. Not sure if it matters, but I m on TnT Lite 2.04.
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So your saying if you press and hold your finger on a link you get no popup?
raydog153 said:
So your saying if you press and hold your finger on a link you get no popup?
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Correct. Nothing pops up at all.
liquidcaffeine said:
Correct. Nothing pops up at all.
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I'm on CM6.1B4, which has stock browser, don't know what browser in on TnT Light, but I think it may be different from what I read.
I can also use the Dolphin browser and I get the same popup. So maybe you should try to install a different browser and use that as your default like Dolphin HD.
raydog153 said:
I'm on CM6.1B4, which has stock browser, don't know what browser in on TnT Light, but I think it may be different from what I read.
I can also use the Dolphin browser and I get the same popup. So maybe you should try to install a different browser and use that as your default like Dolphin HD.
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Thanks, I'll try Dolphin and see how it works.
Dolphin did the trick, but now I screwed up ADW.Launcher by putting the Dolphin shortcut on the app drawer. Now that icon is missing, lol.
EDIT*** Thank goodness for backup and restore function in ADW! All better now with dolphin HD.

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On my browser I go to websites to look up scholarly articles in the forms of PDFs. Some times I'm able to tap and download them so that I can view it in various pdf viewers and other times I get directed to a *****in blank page.
I am not asking to view the pdf in the browser. Google isn't helping me neither is the search function. I just want to have the option/ability to download a pdf so that I can either view it then or save it to my dropbox.
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Its usually a setting in your browser.
whether or not to download or open file types
Check options in browser.
I've navigated through the settings and have not found anything to pop out at me as a solution.
"I've navigated through the settings and have not found anything to pop out at me as a solution."
Which browser do you use?

[Q] Saving web page as HTML?

Dolphin HD can save a web page as an HTML file, but it asks for the filename and supplies a poor default such as "index.html". I wish the default file name could be the title of the web page.
Are there any other browsers that can save a web page as HTML? I do not find this ability in the standard browser, FireFox, Skyfire, or Opera Mobile (unless I overlooked something). Opera Mobile does provide a save, but its in a proprietary format, not what I am looking for.
tk_xda said:
Dolphin HD can save a web page as an HTML file, but it asks for the filename and supplies a poor default such as "index.html". I wish the default file name could be the title of the web page.
Are there any other browsers that can save a web page as HTML? I do not find this ability in the standard browser, FireFox, Skyfire, or Opera Mobile (unless I overlooked something). Opera Mobile does provide a save, but its in a proprietary format, not what I am looking for.
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I think dolphin saves it with the actual filename of the page on the server and as index.html is generally what the web admins have it set to (it makes their life much easier)
By Title of Web Page, I am refering to the title shown to the user and found in the [TITLE] tag. That is how Safari saves a page on a mac.
tk_xda said:
By Title of Web Page, I am refering to the title shown to the user and found in the [TITLE] tag. That is how Safari saves a page on a mac.
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Yes i thought that was what you meant but that's not what browsers do, they only read the actual file name
When a browser pulls a resource from a server to save it locally uses the name of the file in the server (index.html, contact.php, about.aspx or whatever) because that's how it is identified.
Index.html, index.php, default.aspx etc are the first pages a server serves when a browser sends a request.
The page title you see in the browser's tab is coded in the html markup and is mostly used to identify the page if you have several tabs open but is not the name of the file.
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ar4l said:
When a browser pulls a resource from a server to save it locally uses the name of the file in the server (index.html, contact.php, about.aspx or whatever) because that's how it is identified.
Index.html, index.php, default.aspx etc are the first pages a server serves when a browser sends a request.
The page title you see in the browser's tab is coded in the html markup and is mostly used to identify the page if you have several tabs open but is not the name of the file.
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I understand all of that, but Safari on the Mac desktop actually DOES look at the TITLE tag to find a default file name when I save.
I checked the browsers and no, I didn't see a save option either. I suppose because being mobile builds they have to be lighter than the desktop counterparts. On desktop the standard behavior is the filename but some times a browser uses other convention.
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