S60 Web Browser Shortcut Keys

November 22nd, 2007 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

The web browser on my Nokia Nseries phones is my most used application and up until now I did not know the list of shortcuts available. I knew they existed, but I pressed buttons not knowing what will happen. If you feel the same, here are the shortcuts as well as a request for the S60 web browser developers.

Shortcut Keys

  • Press 1 to open your bookmarks.
  • Press 2 to search for keywords in the current page.
  • Press 3 to return to the previous page.
  • Press 5 to list all open windows.
  • Press 8 to show the page overview of the current page.
  • Press 8 again to zoom in and view the desired section of the page.
  • Press 9 to enter a new web address.
  • Press 0 to go to the start page.
  • Press * or to zoom the page in or out.

Request

Add a shortcut that adds .com to the end of the URL addresses. You can see this on the iPhone’s keyboard. This is really useful and I’m sure many will agree. I submitted this request in the feature wishlist. UPDATE: If you like this request, add your name to the list to request “.com” shortcut in s60 browser.

.COM.com button shortcut on the iPhone’s browser.

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There are 20 comments so far. »

  1. Michael Hunt on 22 November 2007:

    Do you know if there is anyway of disabling this? Google Reader mobile is a great app and also has numeric shortcuts but they don’t work in the Nokia browser.

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  2. Mark Guim on 22 November 2007:

    No, I don’t think we can disable this.

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  3. weckman on 22 November 2007:

    I really wish there was such an option, because then I could finally turn it ON! Ever since I got my N95 all those wonderful and extremely useful shortcuts have simply not been working. Sigh! Well, at least this way I have had no problems using the Google Reader mobile shortcuts… :-)

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  4. Zach on 22 November 2007:

    Great post Mark - one more worth mentioning for all FP1 devices is that if you hold down the center d-pad key it will open the toolbar.

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  5. Kay on 22 November 2007:

    Thanks for the tips! And the Most Useful Post of the Month award goes to…

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  6. Mark Guim on 23 November 2007:

    Thanks for the reminder @Zach!

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  7. Reda on 25 November 2007:

    Regarding the .com there should be a “comma separated” setting that we can edit (like .com,.co.uk,.org etc) so that as soon as you type a dot it shows the possible addresses (similar to when you type an address, it shows the addresses from your history). This is already implemented in other browsers and I agree with you it’s a must.

    Also, I don’t know if this solution existed before from somewhere else, but I uploaded a light page to my site that can be used to open a new tab (and use more frequently the 5 button) ;-)

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  8. Xerxes on 27 November 2007:

    As another request for the developers, please give us an option to EDIT the current pages URL rather than having to type in a new URL from scratch.

    As an example if I visit finance.yahoo.com and then want to go to mail.yahoo.com I should only have to delete “finance” and type in “mail”. When you are using T9 every saved keypress helps.

    Look at Opera Mini 4 or IE Mobile if you need examples of how this can be done.

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  9. Elton Farquhar on 1 December 2007:

    Thank you! Interesting.
    Have you a nice day!

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  10. Them on 11 March 2008:

    wow, very good news. I like it.

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  11. bob on 3 April 2008:

    what is the short cut to finding ur number

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