Samsung Browser Causing Pain

[Android Central Question]

I use the ATT browser icon as my desktop go to internet gate. I've added a lot of saved bookmarks under the ATT browser. Seems Samsung is jealous of ATT and replaces, without me installing, its own browser app icon on to the ATT icon. The Sam browser kills all of my bookmarks that I had under the ATT browser and I can't get them back. I then uninstall the Samsung app under applications manager and re-invent the bookmarks I had before under ATT. How do I stop the Samsung app from doing this? Is a pain!

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Which Samsung phone do you have? Are you saying there's a separate browser app from AT&T? The stock Internet browser on Samsung phones is typically from Samsung themselves, not from AT&T.

 

[Roy G1]

Welcome to Android Central! Which Samsung phone do you have? Are you saying there's a separate browser app from AT&T? The stock Internet browser on Samsung phones is typically from Samsung themselves, not from AT&T.

I never use the Samsung Internet connection app, what I do is use the browser ATT provides as a home page. I occasionally received on an update the Samsung Internet connection app which I don't install yet it kills my bookmarks I had set up under the ATT web browser. These phones seem to have three op systems, Samsung, ATT, and Google. Very confusing to me. My PC only has one system that controls it.

 

[B. Diddy]

It's not 3 operating systems -- the OS is Android. You're probably referring to 3 different browsers, but I'm still not aware of AT&T having their own browser app. The browser is an app -- not a home page. Are you saying that you're used to the browser opening to the AT&T website as your homepage, and that's where you have bookmarks set up?

Show us a screenshot of your App Drawer, with the what you're describing as the AT&T browser showing, so that we can see what you mean: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...ide-how-post-screenshots-android-central.html

 

[Roy G1]

It's not 3 operating systems -- the OS is Android. You're probably referring to 3 different browsers, but I'm still not aware of AT&T having their own browser app. The browser is an app -- not a home page. Are you saying that you're used to the browser opening to the AT&T website as your homepage, and that's where you have bookmarks set up?

Show us a screenshot of your App Drawer, with the what you're describing as the AT&T browser showing, so that we can see what you mean: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...ide-how-post-screenshots-android-central.html

Okay, what's happening is my connection to the net is with an ATT icon on my desktop and ATT is my home page on the net to browse with. Samsung who made the phone, on occasion updates their software and it overrides one of my ATT internet connection icons (there are two on my desktop screen) with their own and if I click on the Samsung internet icon (it requires a sign in which I don't do), and then go back to the ATT internet connection icon all of my bookmarks, I made from using the ATT web page, are gone and I can’t get them back. I always delete the Samsung internet connection from the Apps manager. The ATT browser I refer to is the web page I access using the ATT desktop icon.

I’m more of a PC user than a Smartphone expert.

 

[B. Diddy]

Ok, I think I understand the situation now. Your phone has the Samsung Internet browser (which is Samsung's own browser app, separate from Chrome). At some point, you created a shortcut icon on your homescreen (what you're referring to as the desktop) for the AT&T homepage (which can be done by opening the browser app, going to the AT&T site, then tapping the browser menu button, then Add to Home Screen -- this essentially creates a bookmark on your homescreen). If you tap that shortcut, you're still opening the Samsung Internet browser app -- it's just that it's automatically opening the AT&T homepage.

If you tap the Samsung Internet browser icon itself, it will open the browser app either to the last screen you were on, or possibly to the homepage that you set for the browser (which is usually found in the browser's settings menu). If you find a homepage option in the browser settings, you could set that to AT&T as well.

Keep in mind that if you routinely access your AT&T homepage by tapping the shortcut on the homescreen, it might open a new browser tab each time. If you have too many browser tabs open, then at some point, it'll tell you that you have to close some. To do that, tap the tab management button (usually next to the URL entry bar), which will show you all of your open tabs in miniaturized form. You can swipe them away or tap the associated X at the corner of each tab to close them.

 

[Roy G1]

Ok, I think I understand the situation now. Your phone has the Samsung Internet browser (which is Samsung's own browser app, separate from Chrome). At some point, you created a shortcut icon on your homescreen (what you're referring to as the desktop) for the AT&T homepage (which can be done by opening the browser app, going to the AT&T site, then tapping the browser menu button, then Add to Home Screen -- this essentially creates a bookmark on your homescreen). If you tap that shortcut, you're still opening the Samsung Internet browser app -- it's just that it's automatically opening the AT&T homepage.

If you tap the Samsung Internet browser icon itself, it will open the browser app either to the last screen you were on, or possibly to the homepage that you set for the browser (which is usually found in the browser's settings menu). If you find a homepage option in the browser settings, you could set that to AT&T as well.

Keep in mind that if you routinely access your AT&T homepage by tapping the shortcut on the homescreen, it might open a new browser tab each time. If you have too many browser tabs open, then at some point, it'll tell you that you have to close some. To do that, tap the tab management button (usually next to the URL entry bar), which will show you all of your open tabs in miniaturized form. You can swipe them away or tap the associated X at the corner of each tab to close them.

Okay, got it, thanks B. Diddy for the explanation. Cheers!