Quetion about android browser.

[confused1234]

Why is it when I go to the browser the last page I had up opens. Why set a home page. How can I set it to open the home page?

[agentaaron]

It depends on how you exit the browser. If you keep hitting the back button until you get back to the home screen then the browser completely closes and you will get your home screen next time you open it. If you exit the browser by hitting thehome button, you are not reallt closing it...only backgrounding it.

[NycTattoo]

When you exit the browser the app is still running, so technically when you go back in to the browser its not reloading the last page, it's still just there. You need to use a task killer app to completely close the browser. Then when you then open it, it will load your homepage.

Doh, missed the above reply. Yea,h what he said...

[Cryoflesh]

This is one of many annoyances with the browser. You would have expected a phone built for the internet with an OS from Google that the browser would have been practically perfect!

One of the main things I don't like about the browser is that it fails to empty it's cache when closing. Now this wouldn't be a problem if the G1 had more memory than your average cornflakes packet. If you run stock (and let's be honest, EVERYTHING should be disigned with stock in mind) and have a lot of apps installed this can become a problem. Just browse a few pages and then look at the cache (I use eRay). You will see that the browser cache is taking up 2-3 mb of memory (on a side note, you will see the same with the market (this should also purge it's cache on close). There isn't even an option to have them clear on exit.

Now I know that memory isn't a problem with rooted phones, but why should we have to root just to have some very basic memory management! And yes, rooted phones run faster, have more features & memory etc. They also come with Apps2SD. And let's look at that for a sec. A class6 SD card will take about 10k write cycles before it starts to fail. Apps2SD writes to the SD card EVERY time you open/use an app. Suddenly 10k writes will come around fast. Even with moderate use you can expect to hit this within 6 months. So that's another £20-£30 every 6 months for a new SD card, just so you can have root.

Pros and Cons.

I'm glad we have the option to root, but we shouldn't have to just to have some semblance of common sense!

**just realised this turned into a bit of a rant, sorry**