While browsing I often open tabs in the background to read them afterwards. Mostly this works fine, but often, especially at the end of a page longpressing doesn't open the context menu but marks the text of the link.
I'm using boat browser, but it also occurs at others.
Any help for that or just have to live with it?
Edit: also happens when there are no open tabs in the background
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johnrangoo said:
While browsing I often open tabs in the background to read them afterwards. Mostly this works fine, but often, especially at the end of a page longpressing doesn't open the context menu but marks the text of the link.
I'm using boat browser, but it also occurs at others.
Any help for that or just have to live with it?
Edit: also happens when there are no open tabs in the background
Tapa2 desire s
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i have the same problem with boat browser, but only with boat browser....all other browsers always open tabs fine in background.
have you found any solution?
I pressed something and now google chrome opens as a window on my one plus one running the pac man rom. How do I get chrome to run full screen again?
The new update changed. So when you open a new tab it opens as a new activity. So you will see it in recent menu.
It's a bug in version 39. It has already been reported in Chrome Beta, now they rolled it out to everyone:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423685
We all know the Nexus Player has a Chrome browser integrated in its firmware as it is used for some settings, google cast support, etc. However, it seems the browser can be somewhat user accessed and has a bit more capabilities than I expected, such as a desktop mode, mostly baked remote control support, ability to directly access web, image, map, etc search and so on. The interface for the browser seems close to having full remote control support. Amyone can sideload the actual Chrome from the Play store, however that one doesn't have a leanback interface like the built in one yet.
Here's how to find it:
Select settings at the bottom of the main menu
Select "About" from the first row
Scroll down and select "Ads"
Scroll down and select "Ads by Google"
Scroll down to "Ads Settings" link and select it
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select "Desktop View"
Now you can select from the top bar with your remote any of the quick links for Google services, such as "Search". Once you do so, you're brought to the standard Google search page... clicking in the search field brings up the standard software keyboard (or use your sync'd phone, otg keyboard, etc). The results are displayed in normal "Mobile" view as on a phone, but you can scroll to the bottom of that page and choose to view the results in "Classic" desktop mode which is preferable.
Once you visit a site you can scroll through it with your remote as well, however navigating and clicking links seems to be hit or miss depending on the site. Also, hitting "back" currently takes you back to the settings menu instead of the previous page. I'm sure there are other quirks as well.
The point of this is: it'd seem to be trivial for an enterprising developer to wrap the existing functionality in an app and expose this near complete built-in remote ready chrome browser for easy leanback web browsing on the NP. Or, of course, the obvious route of Google exposing this web browser to leanback itself. Interesting.
This is cool to know. Love or hate the old google tv boxes (the ones with honeycomb) that is one feature they had done really well was they had a really awesome version of chrome browser that was very similar to the pc version out at the time. Still one that is made to work with the NP is good too.
I was able to install Chrome Beta from the Play store, and after getting past the "I Agree" screen it works perfectly. I'm using a BlueTooth KB/Mouse.
I'm using ChainFire's Launcher to start it, as the Icon doesn't populate on the home screen.
Tried this but can't get beyond "Ads by Google". When I select this I get a black bar down the center of the screen (1/3 the screen) and it flashes some information but then goes back to black.
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Tried this but can't get beyond "Ads by Google". When I select this I get a black bar down the center of the screen (1/3 the screen) and it flashes some information but then goes back to black.
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I may be seeing the "I Agree" screen but it disappears pretty quickly.
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I may be seeing the "I Agree" screen but it disappears pretty quickly.
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Same happens with me. I read in another post Chrome will work (non-beta) but launched through the Chainfire sideload launcher. Also read Nova launcher works. Will test this weekend and update.
Strange. I still have no problem getting in to the built-in browser doing what I wrote above as long as Chrome from the play store isn't installed. If you instal Chrome from the play store, it supplants the built-in browser and the procedure above doesn't work anymore.
I also have Chrome from the play store installed... it works ok, but not as well as the (near hidden so useless) built in browser when it comes to the remote control support - with keyboard and mouse Chrome from the play store works perfect. I also don't like the Chrome from the play store defaults to its "mobile" UI in search, etc.
Hopefully Google will surface the built-in soon and provide an easy link in the main leanback interface.
I thought I got rid of the Chrome browser I had downloaded as a test but I hadn't. Once I did, the built-in now works except it does not fit the screen correctly (menu items at top only display half).
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I thought I got rid of the Chrome browser I had downloaded as a test but I hadn't. Once I did, the built-in now works except it does not fit the screen correctly (menu items at top only display half).
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Your TV is probably not in "just fit" kind of mode... it's probably over scanning or set to 16:9, etc. If you can change the aspect ratio through your TV settings that'll probably fix the issue. Most media content is designed for overscanning so won't be an issue, but things like web browsers, PC screens, etc are not.
I was able to get the built in chrome by just installing google search from the playstore..
Sent from my Nexus 5
Is this possible? On earlier cm based roms, there was a green browser included. Just called browser.apk
This could sync my google bookmarks easy and even create a widget with them. I can´t get this to work with Gello browser. Is it possible or do i need to stay with chrome? Chrome has a big thing I don´t like. When pushing links zoomed out, chrome zooms in that area so I need to press it again. It´s really not necessary to do that. I have not found a way to turn that function of either. Do you know how to disable it?
lindahl85 said:
Is this possible? On earlier cm based roms, there was a green browser included. Just called browser.apk
This could sync my google bookmarks easy and even create a widget with them. I can´t get this to work with Gello browser. Is it possible or do i need to stay with chrome? Chrome has a big thing I don´t like. When pushing links zoomed out, chrome zooms in that area so I need to press it again. It´s really not necessary to do that. I have not found a way to turn that function of either. Do you know how to disable it?
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I don't believe that gello can sync the Google because as the developer says, it is still on. For stop chrome, you can go to the system/app/ and delete the whole chrome.
Hi everyone,
I can't seem to get my P40 Pro to set Waze as the default navigation application, or at least, the default handler for Google Maps URLs.
Does your "Default apps" menu look like mine? I want to start by double checking that I'm not missing a setting here.
As you can see in the "Open by default" screenshot, Waze should be opening all these Google links but it doesn't. When I click any URL like ""maps.google.com/....", it opens directly in the default browser (Firefox) without even prompting me to open with another app.
Any thoughts?