1434097 - Allow Open with... other browsers

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

via github - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/2074:

> I'd like to be able to open externally in chromium, chromium swe, chrome, or another webview based browser.
>
> I understand that maybe it's set to only allow opening externally in Mozilla based browsers when they're installed for market share reasons or whatever, but to be honest Firefox for Android right now is really slow and buggy.
>
> I'll do the pull request myself or maintain my own fork if someone tells me where to look to change this.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

The reverse (opening something in Firefox from Chrome) already works because of our share handlers, so I'd say it's up to those other browsers to implement similar share handlers if they want to offer something similar.

Besides, this is already easily possible by installing e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tasomaniac.openwith (https://github.com/tasomaniac/OpenLinkWith), so I'm not sure it's worth duplicating that effort for Firefox.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

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