Samsung Galaxy S4: How to Add a Webpage Shortcut to Home Screen in Android 4.4 Kitkat

There are some options in the stock Browser app that will allow you to access your favourite webpage easier and faster, one of which is an option called set as homepage. This option will be more useful if you use it to assign your favourite webpage as the homepage because the webpage you've assigned as the homepage will be automatically loaded whenever the stock Browser app is opened.

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Aside from assigning a webpage as the homepage, there's another way that has a similar function with the homepage: create a shortcut to a webpage on the Home screen. By doing this, you can easily access to a particular webpage directly through your Home screen.


How to create a shortcut to a webpage in the stock Browser app?
There 2 methods available that you can do to create a webpage shortcut on the Home screen, from the currently opened webpage and from the bookmarks.

Method #1: From the currently opened webpage
This method will allow you to create a shortcut for the currently opened webpage. Here are the steps:

1. Open Internet app.
2. Open a webpage by entering its address or URL in the address bar and then tap Go.
3. Once the webpage is fully loaded, tap the Menu key then select Add shortcut to home.
4. A shortcut of the currently opened webpage will be created on the Home screen.

Method #2: From the bookmarks
This method will allow you to create a shortcut for the webpage you've already bookmarked before. Here are the steps:

1. Open Internet app.
2. Tap Bookmark icon located at the top right corner of the screen.
3. Tap Bookmarks tab to display all of your bookmarked webpages.
4. Long tap the required bookmark and then on pop up menu select Add shortcut to home.
5. A shortcut of the selected bookmark will be created on the Home screen.

FYI, by using these methods you can add webpage shortcuts as many as possible in condition that you have free space in your Home screen to place the shortcuts. So, how about you? Have you ever used this options?