I am on 4.0.4, AT&T rooted device. all stock. I installed the ICS Browser+ and love the features but the force clearing has finally convince me to use firefox since it is what I use in my desktop anyway. I have way too many bookmarks to just manually move them to firefox. I wanted to open up the file that this browser uses to store the bookmarks but I dont seem to find it. Seems "webview.db" could be the file but it will not open in SQLite Database Browser where the other DB files do. It has a "SQLite format 3" heading... I can open it up in notepad but it really looks more like a history file. anyway, any help in locating that file will be appreciated.
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Hi,
I've successfully rooted my branded Optimus 1, and removed some pre-installed apps. However, I cannot remove or delete any pre-loaded bookmarks in browser. Anyone knows how this can be done? Thanks.
I had the same problem and solved it using these things:
- a rooted Optimus One
- Root Explorer
- SQLite Editor
1. Using Root Explorer browse to /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/
2. Open browser.db and then the database table "bookmarks"
3. Change the values in the column "readonly" from "1" to "0" as you please
4. Now you'll be able to delete the bookmarks the normal way
Good luck
The solution works, though it seems to be a long way and a bit of effort I can now delete all the preloaded bookmarks. Thank you.
Procedure isn't that bad. SQLite Editor gives access without Root Explorer (assuming device is rooted). I ran the Editor, chose "Browser" as the application, then "browser.db", then "bookmarks", selected the cell under "readonly" (waayy to the right), pressed menu key for "Edit Field".
...one less trait of branding, without flashing a new ROM.
Thanks for this thread.
hi,
I don't want to start a new thread with the same topic.
After I modify the /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/ browser.db file the browser won't start, I get an error "the application browser has stopped unexpectedly"
If I delete the browser.db file the browser makes a new one with the preinstalled bookmarks, so I think there is a second place where the bookmarks and settings are.
So please, can someone help me get rid of the preinstalled bookamarks, because there are a lot of them and set as favorite .
EDIT: I tried to uninstall the browser and reinstall using this LINK but still same thing. there is something that verifies the browsers bookmarks or something like that...
Hi
Have backed-up all my Firefox bookmarks on the computer to a HTML-file and copied it to the E10i.
What I wanted was to use it as a start page on the Mini's browser.
But...
I can't get to work.
Astro finds the file and opens it in a HTML-viewer that only opens the links in the web browser.
Having the paid version of Astro file manager and the E10i's (latest FW, unrooted) original web browser.
Is there a way to open HTML-files from the browsers address field. So I can bookmark the file and select it as the start page?
Or is it time to move to other apps?
Would love some help as I really would love to have the same bookmarks in both the comp and the E10i. Also using all links in a HTML-file makes updating easy.
Acessing HTML files from stock web browser adress field
It's too easy. If you already have Astro installed, just point your browser to:
content://com.metago.astro.filesystem/sdcard/yourfile.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Now replace "yourfile.html" as you need. To use subdirectories, you just need to add before of "yourfile.html" the respective(s) subdirectory(ies) where is your file "subdirectory1/subdirectory2/yourfile.html".
I hope that helped you.
Sorry my bad english.
Verizon Galaxy Note 3, up-to-date, stock ROM, not rooted.
I have a 64gb MicroSD card installed, and put a copy of my photography website on it. I find I am unable to figure out a way to open it in Google Chrome.
I used ES File Explorer's FTP function to begin with, to copy files from my website to the card, and this worked beautifully. When I click on the index.html file on the card, the only options offered are HTML Viewer and some text editors. Chrome is not an option (Chrome is the default browser for my phone). I can try "Open as" and choose Chrome, but get the same error message as below.
If I long-press the file, and select Properties, I can copy the (full) Path for the file, but when I paste this into Chrome's URL bar, it won't open:
Access to the file was denied
"The file at file:///storage/extSdCard/PhotoWebsite/index.html is not readable. It may have been removed, moved, or file permissions may be preventing access"
I have searched quite a bit, and tried various addresses, including localhost, localhost/mnt, content:, etc., etc., but nothing seems to work.
Ultimately I want to have a Bookmark in Chrome where I can view my website offline when necessary, but this seems to be more complex than would appear necessary.
Any help appreciated.
Seriously? Is there no way to accomplish what should be a fairly basic task: for a browser to open up an html file???
While using root browser, I went to my web browser folders and noticed localstorage..in it contained files that looks like a web history. For example http_forum_xda-developers.com_0.localstorage
How do I open this file? Also some are called journal at the end..do I need to use SQL on my computer to open the journal?
Thank you for any help
Anyone?
Please help if you can. I have already searched a million times without luck...thanks
I have no idea on how to do that. I want to import them at my PC, anyway of doing this? Thank you!
There is a way to sinc your cookies through chrome on your phone then sinc it on the chrome browser for your computer as one way. Another way but not sure if it will work is to go into your "Android" file and into the "data" file and find the browser and open the folder. Navigate to the cookies folder and copy them to a USB or SD card that your computer can read and then place them into the browser cookie files on the computer by going through the AppData folder to the browser files, and eventually finding the cookie folder and copying the files over.
Using CM12.1 on my SGH-T999
If your phone is rooted you can find your cookies in data->data->com.android.chrome->app_chrome->Default->Cookies
It is an sql file and I couldn't find an easy way to get it into chrome. In my case I was looking to specifically move facebook cookies, so I was able to query the database with:
select * from cookies where host_key = '.facebook.com' or host_key = 'm.facebook.com';
the results are in the order:
0|creation_utc|INTEGER|1||1
1|host_key|TEXT|1||0
2|name|TEXT|1||0
3|value|TEXT|1||0
4|path|TEXT|1||0
5|expires_utc|INTEGER|1||0
6|secure|INTEGER|1||0
7|httponly|INTEGER|1||0
8|last_access_utc|INTEGER|1||0
9|has_expires|INTEGER|1|1|0
10|persistent|INTEGER|1|1|0
11|priority|INTEGER|1|1|0
12|encrypted_value|BLOB|0|''|0
13|firstpartyonly|INTEGER|1|0|0
The host_key and the value are the important ones. I was able to copy them into chrome using a cookie manager chrome extension and copy paste
I'm sure there are much more elegant ways to do it, but this worked for me
tell us in more detail, please