Re: Browser calls app to access website

On 18/10/2024 08:13, Dave Royal wrote:

Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> Wrote in message:
 

On 18/10/2024 03:27, VanguardLH wrote:

Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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VanguardLH wrote:
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Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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That's strange. I don't remember seeing it, let alone change it (Fx
131.0.3).

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Firefox 131.0.3
Android 8.0.0 (yeah, pretty old)
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Firefox menu -> Settings -> scroll down to Advanced section
Open links in apps = Never (my current setting).

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Thanks, but I had already seen that (see my first reply to Dave).
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What I was trying to say was that until /today/ I don't remember seeing
it. Do you know in which version of Firefox that option first appeared?

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Unfortunately Mozilla's https://mzl.la/3dpdrJ2 article doesn't mention
when this feature was first added in which version of Firefox.  I've
seen discussions on this option going back to Jan 2020; for example,
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1276859.

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I see in that support webpage that it was only in the nightly version,
and that it was expected to be in a release version. I guess it appeared
shortly after (I found refs to it in 2021).
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It's a pity that Android Firefox updates don't have a "Release notes"
link in the same way that desktop versions do.
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 Settings, About Firefox, What's new...
If it's a bug release go back a bit, so 131.0.3 to 131.0
 <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/131.0/releasenotes/>

Thanks for that. I must have seen something like it sometime, but forgotten it. I can't remember, but does a link pop up to release notes when Fx for android is updated, like it does in a desktop Fx?
Unfortunately the moz pages don't help that much. I tried to find a list of all release notes within the moz pages, but in the end it was Wikipedia which helped. It lists all FX Android release notes. I started with 2020, and moved forward. I found "Users can now choose whether to be asked every time they open a link that would open in another app." in 112.0 (11 April 2023), which seems to suggest it was there earlier, but I didn't see it in 68.4.0 onwards.
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Jeff