Help In the browser widget, replace the little globe with Firefox?

[jseger9000]

So I've set Firefox as my default browser. On the browser widget, if I tap any of the little screen capped shortcuts, they open in Firefox. But if I tap the globe icon in the lower right corner of the widget (to return to the last thing I looked at if the browser is minimized for example), it launches stock browser instead. Is there a fix for that? Or a Firefox widget?

 

[Mrhelper]

I suspect that you may be confusing app shortcut icons with widgets. Widgets typically have some kind of activley updated content, such as time, temperature, etc. Shortcuts are merely used to launch apps, and do not change. The globe you refer to is likely just the shortcut to the stock browser. That explains why the stock browser starts whenever you press it. You can remove that from the screen with a long press and drag to the delete zone (X). You can replace the stock browser shortcut with the Firefox shortcut by long pressing on it in the app list, and dragging it into place on the screen.

 

[jseger9000]

No, this is the Ice Cream Sandwich Bookmarks Widget. It is a standard widget for Ice Cream Sandwich, not one I downloaded from the Play Store. If you go to the Widgets on your A500, you will see it.

Here is a screenshot of the widget I am talking about. This one is on a phone, but the one on my Iconia is exactly the same:

On this widget, if I tap any of the thumbnails, they open in my default browser, Firefox. Tapping the icon on the lower right corner of the widget opens the stock browser. I would like to be able to hit the globe icon and have it bring up Firefox instead. Useful for the times I minimize a Firefox session to check email or whatever and want to go back. (And if the globe icon could be switched to the Firefox icon, that would just be the cherry on top of this Ice Cream Sandwich!)

 

[Mrhelper]

That's the stock Android browser bookmarks widget. It is part of the stock browser, and was discontinued with the release of JB. The globe is just a button to launch the stock browser from its own widget. Whenever you use that widget, the stock browser actually runs in the background to manage it, where intents to browse bookmarks launch whatever browser you have set as default. I am not aware of any such widget for Firefox, but there is a Dolphin browser bookmarks addon.