- Navigating with Chrome
- Using Bookmarks, Recent Tabs, and History
- Browsing with Multiple Tabs
- Browsing in Secret with Incognito Tabs
- Customizing Browser Settings
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using Bookmarks, Recent Tabs, and History
Chrome enables you to bookmark your favorite websites for quick access, but it also keeps a list of the sites you visit most often so you can return to them at the tap of an icon. Chrome also syncs your recent tabs among your devices that run Chrome and sign in to the same Google account, so you can quickly pick up browsing on your Galaxy Note 4 exactly where you left it on your desktop computer, laptop, or tablet—or vice versa.
Manage Bookmarks
- Tap the Menu button.
Tap Bookmarks. Normally, the Mobile Bookmarks folder opens. If not, you can navigate to it manually.
- Tap Bookmarks to display the main Bookmarks folder. From there, you can tap a bookmark it contains or another bookmarks folder.
- Tap a bookmarks folder to display the bookmarks it contains.
- Tap a bookmark to display the web page it marks.
Tap and hold a bookmark to display a menu of extra actions you can take with it.
- Tap Open in New Tab to open the bookmarked web page in a new tab.
- Tap Open in Incognito Tab to open the bookmark in an Incognito tab.
- Tap Edit Bookmark to edit the bookmark. For example, you can change the bookmark’s name or move it to a different folder.
Tap Delete Bookmark to delete the bookmark.
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Create a Bookmark
- Navigate to the page you want to bookmark.
- Tap the Menu button to open the menu.
Tap the Bookmark star to start creating a new bookmark.
- Change the bookmark name if you want to. The default is the web page’s title; you might prefer a shorter name.
- Edit the address if necessary. If you went to the right page in step 1, you do not need to change the address.
- Select the folder in which to save the bookmark. You can create new folders as needed by tapping New Folder on the Choose a Folder screen.
Tap Save.
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Go to a Web Page Using the Recent Tabs List
Chrome’s Recent Tabs list enables you to go back to web pages that you have opened recently on either your Galaxy Note 4 or any other device on which you log Chrome in to the same Google account, such as your Android tablet or your PC or Mac.
- Tap the Menu button.
Tap Recent Tabs to display the Recent Tabs screen.
- Look at the Recently Closed list to see tabs you’ve recently closed on your Galaxy Note 4.
- Tap a sideways caret on a heading to expand the list of tabs the computer or device contains.
- Tap a downward caret on a heading to collapse the list of tabs.
- Tap Show Full History to display the full history of Chrome browsing on your Galaxy Note 4.
Tap a tab to display the web page.
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Go to a Web Page Using Your History
Chrome’s History list enables you to go back to web pages that you have opened in Chrome on your Galaxy Note 4. The History list contains both pages you have bookmarked and pages you have not bookmarked.
- Tap the Menu button.
Tap History to display the History screen.
- Tap Search History to search through your history using keywords.
Tap the button for the page you want to display.
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Delete Individual History Items—or All History Items
Given the nature of the Web, it’s easy enough to browse to a site that you don’t want to keep in your history. When this happens, tap the Menu button, tap History, and then tap the × icon on the right side of the button for the item you want to remove.
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If you want to get rid of all your history items, tap Clear Browsing Data to open the Clear Browsing Data screen. Check the Clear Browsing History box and tap Clear to delete your history. From the Clear Browsing Data screen, you can also clear other browsing data than your history; we’ll look at your options later in this chapter.