Chrome For Android Now Lets You Save Web Pages For Reading Later (techcrunch.com) 46
Today, Google has introduced a series of improvements to Chrome for Android to make it easier to save content for offline access. The improvements will be made to the "Downloads" feature rolled out in December that allows you to save webpages, music and videos for offline access. TechCrunch reports: To download a web page previously, you would open Chrome's menu in the top-right of the browser, then tap the "save" icon that's located next to the star for bookmarking the site. You could then see all the content you had saved for offline access by tapping on "Downloads" from this same menu. Now, Google is adding more ways to save content, including a way to long press on a link the way you do when you want to open up a page in a new tab. The option to "Download Link" will appear on the pop-up screen you see after your press, below the options to open the page in a new tab or incognito tab. Google says this long press action will also work on its article suggestions on its New Tab page. This New Tab page will also include the articles you've already downloaded, which will be flagged with an offline badge.
Step 1: Invent "Save" - Step 2: Get on Slashdot (Score:2)
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Didn't opera have this feature years ago or was that only on iOS?
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Opera is like a Greek among barbarians: EVERYTHING other browsers have, or will have, Opera had it years ago...
Yes, you guessed it right: i am a Greek!
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"Opera is like a Greek among barbarians: EVERYTHING other browsers have, or will have, Opera had it years ago...
Yes, you guessed it right: i am a Greek!"
Ok, here' are a few Greek jokes then.
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What game did the Greek Gods play?
Hydra and go seek.
What did the Ancient Greeks wear on their feet?
Tennis Zeus.
How do Greek women get ready for a toga party?
With A Hera appointment.
Have you seen the movies about Greek Mythology?
No?, well you odyssey them.
What do you call a musician petrified by Medusa?
A rockstar.
Why do
Partying like it's 1999 (Score:3)
I remember downloading web pages for display for later on my Windows CE Palm-sized PC Cassiopeia e-105 in 1999.
Everything old is new again.
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I remember downloading web pages for display for later on my Windows CE Palm-sized PC Cassiopeia e-105 in 1999.
Everything old is new again.
However, unlike WinCE, it will actually work.
Google aren't claiming to have invented anything here, rather just introducing a feature that is new (to modern phone browsers). I can see this as being handy for people who commute, not just because there is little to no reception on the Tube (and spotty at best reception on the train to London) but because once you're in Bank, the towers are so overloaded and modern web pages so bloated that being able to load it from memory is much faster.
Iphone users, y
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I'd recommend a site, but I don't care to steer more ACs their way.
bah! why with the spam always (Score:3, Insightful)
This has GOT to be an ad.
What. The. Hell.
"Hi, we've just added something that others have had for decades! We're the best (now for pay for ad placement)"
At least in Seinfeld, that'd make an exceptionally overt joke about an ad placement.
Re:bah! why with the spam always (Score:4, Interesting)
Nobody Cares by Now (Score:2)
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I'm sure lots of People like pocket. Nobody objected to it as an addon.
People hated that it was added directly to firefox, because it made absolutely no sense to do that; even people that like pocket could really justify that.
Add? (Score:2)
Print (Score:3)
The weird thing is that while you couldn't save webpages on Chrome, it did allow you to print them. I guess with OTG you could connect a printer to your phone, but why on Earth would you want to do that?
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Does that include 'printing' to PDF?
Bonus: You're spared a website's JavaScript bullshit if you read it that way.
Missing feature (Score:2)
If Chrome on Android would let me read web pages immediately I would be happy enough. It's so bad that the other day I went to the Play store to see if Edge was available for Android.
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I would just be happy if they would allow you to make permanent the setting to view the pages in desktop mode not in mobile mode.
Firefox at least allows you to alter the user agent so on a large tablet you get the desktop page, not Chrome.
You have to click a check box and reload on every page to get the desktop view.
Prior art Freudian slip (Score:1)
Google: "Let's call it 'cash', I mean 'cache', and patent it."
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On the evilness scale, Google and MS are in the same neighborhood, although MS has a Yuuuuge pedigree.
Welcome to 1997 google (Score:4, Informative)
Netscape Communicator did this in 1997
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The last versions of Netscape (8 and 9) were based on Firefox. Firefox is on Google Play Store [google.com].
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In 1997 pages didn't change content while you visited them.
In 1997 pages didn't instantly appear on any mobile device anywhere you went whenever you wanted.
The number of scenarios that this applies to in the modern world is very limited compared to 1997.
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YouTube (Score:2)
Watch Later is a playlist (Score:2)
I thought Watch Later was just a playlist, and actual offline viewing were tied to the monthly subscription.
Kaspersky install (Score:1, Informative)
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I don't think GNU Wget retrieves required resources specified by scripts. A lot of sites nowadays use "lazy loading", where part of an HTML document doesn't download at all until the scroll position approaches it.