When you browse the Web, you may be on a mission of sorts—looking for a specific piece of information. You might be looking for a specific word or phrase within a web page, and you may even come across text on the Web that you want to use elsewhere, say in an email or a document.
The Droid 2 browser can do all that and then some. To do it all, when you’re on a web page, press the Menu button, and then select More from the screen that appears. You’ll find a menu of options that lets you do any of the following:
Add bookmark. Tap this option and then add the bookmark in the usual way (Bookmarks).
Find on page. Looking for text on a page? Tap this option, and a search box appears, along with the keyboard. Type the text or phrase you’re searching for, and the Droid 2 finds the text, sends you to its location on the page, and highlights it in green. To find the next time the text or phrase is mentioned, tap the right arrow. To find a previous mention of it on the page, tap the left arrow. To exit from search, tap the X to the right of the search box.
Add shortcut to Home. Adds a link to the page to your Home screen, as described on Customizing the Home Screen and Panes.
Saved pages. If you’ve previously saved a page on your SD card (Tapping Links), you can find it by tapping this button to see a list of all the pages you’ve saved. Tap any to view that page. You also have the option of saving the page you have open—simply tap “Save current page” at the top of the list.
Select text. Copies text to the Droid 2 clipboard. First navigate to the section of the web page where you want to copy text from. Then press the Menu key and select More→“Select text”. After that, the web page appears again. Drag your finger to select the text you want to copy to the clipboard. When you release your finger, the text is selected, and you get a notification that the text was copied. You can now paste it into an email, a document, and so on.
Page info. Tap to see basic information about the page—title and web address.
Share page. Tap to share the page via email or text messaging. You don’t actually share the page itself; instead you send a link to it. Selecting this option copies the URL to an email message or a text message. You can then select an address, and add explanatory text to the message as well.
Downloads. Brings you to the Download folder on your SD card. If you’ve saved pictures here, you see a list of them. See Checking Space on Your SD Card for more details.
Settings. Here’s how you can change countless browser settings, including the size of the text displayed, the default zoom level, and so on.
