[Q] How to close the stock browser?

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I'm trying to get used to the stock browser because Dolphin is still having issues with re-texting when you pinch to zoom, and I can't figure out how to close the browser. With Dolphin, you can hold the back button, and it will turn off, so that when you reopen it it takes you to your home page. With the stock browser, if you go back it just goes back all the way through all of the pages you've looked at, until you go through them all and it turns off. It's like it doesn't want to you to close the browser at all, but if you just go to home when you're done with the browser, it just reopens the last page you looked at instead of your home page. Am I missing something glaringly obvious?

Don't think you are missing anything, but it is a little annoying to me as well. Best thing I can suggest is to hit the home selection in the browser by hitting menu/more/home...not great, but it works (still extra touches though...more than necessary) It's nice if you want to multitask, but very limiting if you're just trying to end your session and have your next launch bring you to your home page..

a dev needs to create a quit/exit button for the stock browser; right now, the only way to close it is by keep hitting the back button until it closes and it takes awhile for that;

uh, the home key will get you out of the browser. maybe i'm misunderstanding...

Hitting the back button until it "closes" on the stock browser would be like hitting back button on your desktop browser, then hitting minimize when there are no more entries in history. The process will still stay until Android decides to kill it.

There are 2 issues being confused here:

1. If you want to truly stop the process, you can use one of the capable task managers to explicitly do so;

2. If you want to just have a window open the home page with no "back history" then hitting the back button will accomplish that. Sometimes the back history has too many entries for this to be practical. So, alternatively, you can:

- go to Menu > Windows
- hit the "+" to add a window
- Menu > Windows
- close out the previous window keeping the new one only
- back button to "close" the browser

Not as nice as other browsers, but hope this helps.

Originally Posted by spy_owl2

Hitting the back button until it "closes" on the stock browser would be like hitting back button on your desktop browser, then hitting minimize when there are no more entries in history. The process will still stay until Android decides to kill it.

There are 2 issues being confused here:

1. If you want to truly stop the process, you can use one of the capable task managers to explicitly do so;

2. If you want to just have a window open the home page with no "back history" then hitting the back button will accomplish that. Sometimes the back history has too many entries for this to be practical. So, alternatively, you can:

- go to Menu > Windows
- hit the "+" to add a window
- Menu > Windows
- close out the previous window keeping the new one only
- back button to "close" the browser

Not as nice as other browsers, but hope this helps.

What I was looking for was a more elegant solution to your 2 above (although that works too, I'll try it for a while and see how much of a pita it is) - I have no problem with it ruinnning in the background as long as it went back to the home page whenever I went back to it. I was hoping that there was a button I was missing that essentially took you out of the browser back to home and reset the browser back to the home page at the same time.

This is why I don't use the default browser.

Originally Posted by MrDSL

This is why I don't use the default browser.

I'd love to go back to Dolphin HD, but until they update to fix re-texting on pinch to zoom, the stock browser is just faster and smoother.