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Also since Firefox for android removed one of its distinctive features a few years ago; once you could set it to ask how to open a link (send to another device,

by afiori 4y ago

Also since Firefox for android removed one of its distinctive features a few years ago; once you could set it to ask how to open a link (send to another device, share, copy to clipboard, open normally) when an app tried to start a browser; now you can no longer do that. I use different browsers for different things so I want to chose how to open external app links. I would install a shim browser that does just that if I knew of one.

commoner 4y ago
URL Checker is the shim browser you're looking for: https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker It also integrates ClearURLs functionality (https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls) to let you remove tracking from links before sending it to the browser or app. This feature is optional.
antifa 4y ago
I'm not sure if it will do everything you need, but I've had great experiences with "Open Link With" on f-droid. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tasomaniac.openwith.floss/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tasomaniac.openwith.floss/
- iggldiggl 4y ago
  "Open Link With" is indeed great for routing between different apps, but the problem remains that within Firefox you currently no longer have any choice of what to do with the link – it'll always open the full browser and open a new tab first. Previously, 1. you had the choice of activating the "tab queue" system for links opened with Firefox, i.e. the URLs would then only be saved in a list in the background instead of launching the full browser. 2. when sharing an URL with Firefox, you had the aforementioned choice of "actually open the link", "bookmark it", or "use Firefox Sync to send the URL to some other Firefox instance in your Sync account". The latter two choices happened in the background, so you didn't have to wait for the full browser UI+engine to start first, the page to load, etc. etc.

by afiori 4y ago

commoner 4y ago

URL Checker is the shim browser you're looking for: https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker It also integrates ClearURLs functionality (https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls) to let you remove tracking from links before sending it to the browser or app. This feature is optional.

antifa 4y ago

I'm not sure if it will do everything you need, but I've had great experiences with "Open Link With" on f-droid. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tasomaniac.openwith.floss/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tasomaniac.openwith.floss/

iggldiggl 4y ago
"Open Link With" is indeed great for routing between different apps, but the problem remains that within Firefox you currently no longer have any choice of what to do with the link – it'll always open the full browser and open a new tab first. Previously, 1. you had the choice of activating the "tab queue" system for links opened with Firefox, i.e. the URLs would then only be saved in a list in the background instead of launching the full browser. 2. when sharing an URL with Firefox, you had the aforementioned choice of "actually open the link", "bookmark it", or "use Firefox Sync to send the URL to some other Firefox instance in your Sync account". The latter two choices happened in the background, so you didn't have to wait for the full browser UI+engine to start first, the page to load, etc. etc.