Web Browsing
Some of the most popular browsers as in 2019 are Google Chrome – 1 billion downloads, Safari – 400 million, UC browser – 300 million
Let us start with Google chrome, connect your MOBILE to internet,
Now tap on the chrome app on your mobile, what you get to see is a screen with a search bar in the centre of the screen- which says “Search or type web address” in the left and in right side you see a mic symbol used for “ Search by Voice”,
A web address looks like, www.abc.com and if you don’t know or don’t remember the website, you may type the most relevant words , eg official abc website, or abc broadcasting website, similarly instead of typing you may Search by Voice, click on the mic and say = “www dot abc dot com” or the relevant keywords like; “ abc broadcasting website”.
When you type a complete web address the browser opens that specific website , but when you type a keyword the Chrome browser sends your message to Google search engine – which shows you a long list of most relevant websites, these websites most probably have the same words somewhere in its website title or inside the page content. Remember that the job of a browser is to connect you to a specific web address and not to perform a search task from the world wide web.
Now click on the three dots on top right and click new tab, now type www.abc.com , it will show you the website, now click another tab and type a key word “abc broadcast”. The search engine will show you a list. Scroll down and it further suggests you different Keywords under “ related searches”, You may explore them as well, or take and idea and mix up some new words with your previous keywords, eg, abc on demand latest.
Search Settings
At the bottom of these search results, you see a link of settings, from here you can manage search settings. Here you will see region for search results. You can change the country from available list.
Lets see if we have china. We don’t see China in the list because google search is not operative in China. Now let us try Japan and come back to search results, you may notice slight changes in the list of results from region to region.
Further in Browser settings, If you are using the Chrome browser but you want to replace the Google search engine to Bling or yahoo you can click on the three dots on top and select settings, click search engine, select from the options you want lets select bing, now lets open a new tab and now we see the bing search has replaced the google search box. From centre the search box now appears on top. Now type ABc broadcast in this box, we see that now the chrome browser has sent your message to bing search engine, and Bing shows you their list of search results. Their results will be somewhat differ compared to google. To change settings of Bling search click on top three horizontal bars, click on settings, click on Country/Region, click on Change your country/region, you see a list of most of the countries, here we can see Peoples Republic of China above Poland, select china.
Click for a new tab, again search abc broadcast, and now bing shows results of what china would most porbably see with that particular keywords. Similarly you may select different countries and get a variety of search results. Now lets quickly change to another country, type a keyword, click on 3 bars, click country, select India.
Also let us change the search back to google, so from top 3 dots, settings, search engine, google. And now select a new tab. Google is back in centre of your phone.
Click on the number in box it will expand all tabs, close which you don’t want or close all.
Auto-fill Payments and Manage Passwords
Click 3 dots, click on Settings lets quickly check the auto-fill Payments and Manage Passwords.
Click Auto Fill Payments, Click on addresses, here you may see multiple addresses , probably you might have used diff addresses for testing purposes, you may delete them or edit them.
in case you are doing online shopping but want to receive good in another address or send it to your parents or friends, you save them too, click on add address and fill the relevant information.
Click on Cards and add card, fill card details, under billing address you will find only those addresses saved in the Auto fill addresses.
You can add or edit addresses which are normally required in many of sites to sign up or deliver your online purchases. For example:
Under passwords, you can retrieve passwords if saved when you signed up for the first time in a particular App or website, so if you have enabled the auto sign-in the chrome browser will feed the password automatically in the site when you login again, or if you haven’t enabled and you forgot the password to login your amazon or paypal or any other app, you can find it here and retrieve it by using password of your Mobile phone.
Remember it is very important as not to share your mobile phone password with anyone you don’t intent to, else they can easily get your saved passwords and misuse them.
Why Bookmark, How to Bookmark a webpage or a video and Managing Bookmarks:
Why Bookmark,
There are millions of websites, pages and videos, it is necessary to organize your usefull information which you wish to refer again or share it with someone in future.
Eg.1 Click on new tab, Type or search for themeforest.net, in this website we see thousands of new layouts for websites on diff themes also you can find lot of free items, so if you like them and want to put them in future use you can bookmark that specific item or the website itself. So simply Click on 3 dots and click on star.
Let us do another Eg., click on new tab, open Youtube , search for a video on google camera app after you find a useful video , click on share, click on the copy link ,
Now open a new tab, and press your finger for a second , a paste button will popup, click on paste and will show the link of the youtube video, press go, the video page will open, now click on menu and click the star.
Now close all Tabs and open a New tab, Click on menu, click on the bookmarks,
You can edit the title of this website page to your liking, I suggest to keep it short and title it as how you can easily relate to that page when you want.
Google camera app, Indian curry.
Creating Folders in Bookmarks,
Open a new tab, click on bookmarks, you will see all the videos and pages we just bookmarked.
Now what if you 100 food videos , 20 how to do videos and 50 shopping sites and many other bookmarks.
We manage them in folders and sub folders.
Select menu of that specific link and select move. Now create a New Folder, and give a simple title easy to remember, Indian food. Similarly you may create new folders and move the links to respective folders.
Add to Mobile Home Screen:
When you are in really hurry and want to read blog or website , best is you can add to home screen, from menu, this will create an app like shortcut on your phone. Eg. Open abc.com, menu – add to home screen. Now close all tabs. Now we can see the icon created which will open that page directly. Note: this will not work with videos from youtube app.
Sharing: Having Bookmarks ready in organised manner, you can open a link any time, whether its an App, a website, a blog , a video you can easily open it and Share it from the menu – share option via your most used sharing app, be that whatsapp or fb, twitter or gmail.
Using Browsing History:
Click the Menu (3 dots in right top) next to address bar, and click history,
You will see a list of all the webpages opened in your computer,
to delete on or few webpages select them and click remove from history,
Or else click clear browsing data to delete the entire browsing history from your mobile,
Searching in History:
if you wish to search a webpage you had viewed a few months back and you have a very long list,
You may click on search icon and type the website name the browser will arrange all the pages from that website date wise which makes it easy for you to find the required page.
Private Browsing:
Click the Menu (3 dots in right top) and select – New Incognito Window
This opens a New Tab for Browsing in Private mode.
all web pages searched and viewed in Private mode will not be visible in browsing History, Nor the cookies and site data stored in your machine, neither information entered in forms will be saved in the Auto-fill Address settings as discussed earlier.
Anyhow the following might know if you have visited their website:
1] The website owner
2] The internet service provider
3] your company or school if your mobile is connected to a server
Now lets visit a website and check whether it appears in history or not, type www.bankofamerica.com in address bar in private mode, once the site is completely opened, close that tab and now open a new tab, and type www.paypal.com, now again open a new window,
Now click on history, we see paypal.com but not bank of America.com
as it was opened in private mode.
It is advised to do Online banking and financial related activities in private mode for a smooth and safe experience.
Installing Award Winning/ Early Access Apps for your Mobile:
Click playstore, Home – Editors Choice,
Scroll down at bottom you see two sections,
1] Android Excellence Apps
2] Android Excellence Games
Download if you find any useful app.
Secondly you can also browse through Home – Early Access,
where you can browse a variety of apps which are under development and yet to be officially launched.
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