Closed Bug 1162066 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Firefox for Android main activity doesn't categorize itself as a browser

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Android
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1204655

People

(Reporter: hwguy.siplus, Unassigned)

Details

Certain Android apps (especially apps that target Android TV as well as non-TV devices since it doesn't have a pre-installed web browser) may need to check whether a web browser is installed on the device, for instance, to hide web links when no browser is available. Android lets apps present themselves as web browsers to other apps by adding category.APP_BROWSER to their action.MAIN intent filter, thus letting other apps find them using PackageManager.queryIntentActivities. However, in Firefox's mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in, the main activity does not include itself in the category.
Component: Shell Integration → General
Product: Firefox → Firefox for Android
This was fixed in a different bug. The fix is in Firefox 43. https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in#141
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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