1805633 - firefox ignores default link settings and opens apps anyway

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android :: App Links, defect)

Description

[tristan.keating]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 12; Mobile; rv:110.0) Gecko/110.0 Firefox/110.0

Steps to reproduce:

Find steam link
Open link

Actual results:

Even with steam having default links disabled it opens the app

Expected results:

Firefox should have opened the link in browser instead of the app.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Which particular links? I am able to navigate around the steam store in Firefox.

Comment 2

[tristan.keating]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #1)

Which particular links? I am able to navigate around the steam store in Firefox.

I can view the store fine its just that firefox android ignores the settings i have enabled for default links in android and opens the steam app regardless of what i have set unless i turn off open links in app in firefox.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This sounds expected. Open in app will forward you to the app for any website that has an app defined in the page and you have that app installed. If you don't want to be sent to the app then you should disable the open in app preference.

Comment 4

[tristan.keating]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #3)

This sounds expected. Open in app will forward you to the app for any website that has an app defined in the page and you have that app installed. If you don't want to be sent to the app then you should disable the open in app preference.

The problem is unless this isn't a bug maybe it should be a feature request is that i like the open in app feature in firefox android but i don;t want it done with some apps like the steam app for example and that could be done if firefox used something akin to what chrome does where it uses the default links system that android has built in.

Comment 5

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Comment 6

[Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]]

Roger, I think this is fixed/working correctly. Do you think we should close it, if so?

Comment 7

[Roger Yang [:royang]]

Yes, this is an expected behaviour. To avoid redirecting to external app, the user can either set to "Never" open links in apps. Or set to the "Ask before opening" so they can make the decision when Firefox Android is about to open the links in the external app.