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 button shortcut on the iPhone’s browser.
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.
Mark Guim on 22 November 2007:
No, I don’t think we can disable this.
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…
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.
Kay on 22 November 2007:
Thanks for the tips! And the Most Useful Post of the Month award goes to…
Mark Guim on 23 November 2007:
Thanks for the reminder @Zach!
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)
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.
Elton Farquhar on 1 December 2007:
Thank you! Interesting.
Have you a nice day!
Them on 11 March 2008:
wow, very good news. I like it.
bob on 3 April 2008:
what is the short cut to finding ur number