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Windows Phone * Protip

Add “Forward”, “Jump to top” and “Web page translate” options to Internet Explorer in Windows Phone (via bookmarklets)

 

Hi again, guys!

If you use IE on your Windows Phone, you would have noticed the lack of Back/Forward buttons. Although the previous/back funtionality can be replicated by using the ‘Back’ hardware button on the phone, there’s no way to navigate forward (ok, recent option is somewhat helpful, but doesn’t make up for a forward button).

Also lacking is a quick option to ‘jump to top’ of the page, if the webpage doesn’t have a link to do so (which totally depends upon the website developer).

So I would like to share a few tips/tricks that I found, which make use of bookmarklets to enable such missing functionality. You have to add these javascripts as Favourites in IE, and access from there whenever you want.

1. Forward Option:

  • Add a favourite from any page on IE. To do this, tap the “…” to bring up the menu, and tap “add to favourites”
  • Change the “Name” field to “Forward” (or to make it stay at the top of the list, use “! Forward”, or any name that you wish)
  • Change the “Web address” field to the following code:
    javascript:history.forward()
  • Now whenever you navigate back from a webpage and need to go forward again, just load “favourites”, and click on the one you created in the previous step!

 

2. “Jump to top” Option:

  • Same steps as in Point 1 to add a new favourite, with name of your choice, and following as the web address:

javascript:scroll(0,0)

This lets you scroll to the top of the page, but somehow the loading-bar gets active without actually reloading the page.

 

2. “Translate using Google Translate” Option:

  • Same steps as in Point 1 to add a new favourite, with name of your choice, and following as the web address:

javascript:location=’http://translate.google.com/translate?u=’%20+%20encodeURIComponent(location);

 

 

 

Hope these nifty things make your web-browsing experience even better on the already great IE10.

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