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Chrome For Android Now Lets You Save Web Pages For Reading Later (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the to-do-list dept.

Today, Google has introduced a series of improvements to Chrome for Android to make it easier to save content for offline access. The improvements will be made to the "Downloads" feature rolled out in December that allows you to save webpages, music and videos for offline access. TechCrunch reports: To download a web page previously, you would open Chrome's menu in the top-right of the browser, then tap the "save" icon that's located next to the star for bookmarking the site. You could then see all the content you had saved for offline access by tapping on "Downloads" from this same menu. Now, Google is adding more ways to save content, including a way to long press on a link the way you do when you want to open up a page in a new tab. The option to "Download Link" will appear on the pop-up screen you see after your press, below the options to open the page in a new tab or incognito tab. Google says this long press action will also work on its article suggestions on its New Tab page. This New Tab page will also include the articles you've already downloaded, which will be flagged with an offline badge.

5 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. Partying like it's 1999 by Robotbeat · · Score: 2

    I remember downloading web pages for display for later on my Windows CE Palm-sized PC Cassiopeia e-105 in 1999.

    Everything old is new again.

  2. bah! why with the spam always by Blymie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This has GOT to be an ad.

    What. The. Hell.

    "Hi, we've just added something that others have had for decades! We're the best (now for pay for ad placement)"

    At least in Seinfeld, that'd make an exceptionally overt joke about an ad placement.

  3. Re:bah! why with the spam always by bursch-X · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I submitted a story about the 1.0 release of our open source SDK for developing EC sites in Golang it was marked as spam, but this one isn't. GO FIGURE.

    --
    There are two rules for success:
    1. Never tell everything you know.
  4. Print by Hentes · · Score: 2

    The weird thing is that while you couldn't save webpages on Chrome, it did allow you to print them. I guess with OTG you could connect a printer to your phone, but why on Earth would you want to do that?

  5. Welcome to 1997 google by gitano_dbs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Netscape Communicator did this in 1997