1850977 - Open links in apps does not have expected behavior

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: App Links, defect, P2)

Description

[eclaudiu64]

Attachment: mobizen_20230831_153249.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 11; Mobile; rv:109.0) Gecko/118.0 Firefox/118.0

Steps to reproduce:

With the setting set to "Never", the informative message still appears and there is also an error, with all 3 settings: "Never" , "Ask before opening" , "Always" , after entering the Play Store, after when I back out and go back into Firefox, the page with the address "about:blank" remains. Can it be solved and automatically return to the site from which I entered the Play Store?

Comment 1

[Roger Yang [:royang]]

Looks like some sites opens the link to external app through a new tab. We should investigate to see if we can determine that safely and close the blank tab.

Comment 2

[Roger Yang [:royang]]

Attachment: 96536680-1b567000-12f1-11eb-9d5b-6963e09b696b.png

Comment 3

[Roger Yang [:royang]]

Comment on attachment 9351083 [details]
96536680-1b567000-12f1-11eb-9d5b-6963e09b696b.png

attached to the wrong issue.

Comment 4

[eclaudiu64]

I add to this error that: When it is set to "Never", that informational message still appears, meaning it does the same thing as if it is set to "Asl before opening". This can also be seen in the video attached in this error. The "Never" and "Ask before opening" options have the same behavior and are seen on any site that asks to access the app, etc. You can check ?

Comment 5

[eclaudiu64]

(In reply to eclaudiu64 from comment #4)

I add to this error that: When it is set to "Never", that informational message still appears, meaning it does the same thing as if it is set to "Asl before opening". This can also be seen in the video attached in this error. The "Never" and "Ask before opening" options have the same behavior and are seen on any site that asks to access the app, etc. You can check ?

Comment 6

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I'll move this bug to the App Links component.