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Links which can be handled by apps (e.g. YouTube or Reddit) won't open in the app but in Firefox instead. This is a show-stopper for me :/

• ealhad 9y ago
  On my phone (I use Lineage), I have control of what app opens what link.
  • jhasse 9y ago
    I mean a link inside Firefox. Search on google.com in Firefox for a YouTube video and click the result. It will open in Firefox, not the YouTube app.
    • wazoox 9y ago
      And playing it with youtube means you got the ads. No thanks. In fact, I convinced some people to use Firefox to watch youtube on Android precisely because of this: get rid of really annoying ads.
      • jhasse 9y ago
        I'm using NewPipe, so I won't get any ads. https://newpipe.schabi.org/ https://newpipe.schabi.org/
• commoner 9y ago
  In the current version of Firefox for Android (59), you have 2 options to open a link in an external app: 1) Long-press the link, and choose "Open in <app name> App". (This won't work if the destination is hidden behind a redirect, as in Google search results. Use DuckDuckGo, instead.) 2) Navigate to the address, and press the Android icon in the navigation bar.
  • jhasse 9y ago
    That's too cumbersome for me, as 1) doesn't work with redirects (as you said) and 2) only works when the page has finished loading.
    • tomcooks 9y ago
      I feel the pain, but given the alternatives I'd rather stick to open source even if cumbersome
      • jhasse 9y ago
        There are open-source alternatives were this works though :) For example Chromium or Lightning.