Re: Firefox on Android [was: viewing local htm files on Android device]

Malone <mslone@nospam.uk> Wrote in message:

On Fri-26-Jul-2024 10:06 am, Dave Royal wrote:

Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> Wrote in message:
 
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I tried to reproduce your case - Android 14 on a Samsung tablet.
 
I can send a local html file from the 'My Files' app to Chrome
  (but not to Firefox) using 'Open with' and it displays as
  content://media/external/file/1000015925. But I see no way to
  'Add to home screen' in Chrome (which I can do for an ordinary
  URL in both Chrome and Firefox).
 
But do see 'Add to home screen' in the 'My Files' app and the
  shortcut appears with a 'My Files' sub-icon. I suppose that's
  what you did. And that opens in Chrome, even though Firefox is my
  default browser. So My Files owns that content, and it seems it
  must open it first. I think my guess about it creating a Content
  Provider is correct-ish.
 
Neither Firefox nor Chrome will open a file:/// URI (by design -
  CVE-2015-7186).
 
Firefox will not open a content:// URI.

 
Yes, that's all consistent with what I experience. My Windows default
browser is Firefox and at the outset I put that on my tablet. But I had
problems with it, for reasons I can't remember, so got rid of it on the
basis that Chrome was probably more Android-compatible although I
consider it spyware.

I sure you're  right that Chrome is more Android-compatible, and
 this case is an example of that. I use Firefox because it runs
 addons, including my own, and Chrome on Android will not. [There
 are some Chrome-based browsers that will but they presumably lack
 Chrome's built-in advantage.]

Mozilla never gave any priority to tablets, and I've always found
 the tab handling terrible. But it's going to get better in v130.
 Finally the tab bar is back:
<https://www.cjoint.com/data/NGAgtfgaDws_Screenshot-20240726-071721-Firefox-Nightly.jpg>
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