Can't pin bookmarks on start screen since kola nut

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Hi!

I’m using the default browser and since the kola nut update i can’t pin bookmarks on the start screen anymor. Does anyone have the same problem?

cheers

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I just tried here, and it does seem to work when adding a “bookmark” widget to a homescreen.
After draggin the widget in place, it asks for selecting the right bookmark.
What does it do there?

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Thanks for the reply,
I haven’t tried that. I used the opportunity to try out another launcher. There it’s working.

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I am also having this problem (with Firefox for Android though) and reported it to the FP team.

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This seems to be a general issue with quite a few apps that create icons/shortcuts on the homescreen.
Looks to me that the API which is used by the apps to create shortcuts is broken.
Firefox, Contacts & MTK Dual SIM Shortcut are examples of apps that offer shortcut creation which does not work anymore since 1.8. (I had a thread which was closed without providing a solution: Icons do not show up on the homescreen).

Creating shortcuts is only working when done through dragging a widget to the homescreen. This may be a workaround for contacts. But this doesn’t fix the issue; this is definitely an error and needs a solution especially for apps where no workaround is available and so become unusable with 1.8.

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In the Play Store settings I chose the Option “add symbol to start screen” for new apps. But this doesn’t work anymore as well with 1.8…

Hope the FP team will solve this problem with 1.8.1!

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Same problem exists with adding bookmark shortcuts from your browser to the homescreen. I believe it’s a known issue and I expect FairPhone will fix it for the next system update.