Closed Bug 1953593 Opened 9 months ago Closed 1 month ago

Firefox doesn't recognize PocketBook as being able o open .epub files

Categories

(Firefox for Android :: Downloads, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android
Component:
Downloads
Version:
Firefox 138
Platform:
All
Android
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: parciwal2, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [fxdroid][group4])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Download and install "PocketBook Reader" by "Pocketbook International SA" through the Google Playstore.
  2. Open PocketBook at least once.
  3. open Firefox
    (Next steps are my specific steps, any epub download should do)
  4. go to " https://www.zamzar.com/convert/md-to-epub "
  5. convert any .md file
  6. download the .epub file and try to open it through the Firefox popup

Actual results:

It says "no App found that can open epub-files" (rough translation from German).
If I have another app installed that can open .epub files (e.g. T2S: Text to Voice/Read Aloud), it opens that.

Expected results:

It offers me the choice of which app to use, including pocketbook or opens pocketbook if no other app is available.

Additional Information:
The earliest and only other mention of this, I found, is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/oi32pu/ff_android_wont_show_pocketbook_as_an_option_to/

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:007, could you have a look please?

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Flags: needinfo?(nbond)
Severity: -- → S3
Flags: needinfo?(nbond)
Whiteboard: [fxdroid][group4]

Report, do you still reproduce this on the latest version of Firefox Android? We have changed some MIME type detection for epub MIME type due to bug 1906039 and bug 1947084.

Flags: needinfo?(parciwal2)

Redirect a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user to the triage owner.
:titouan, since the bug has recent activity, could you have a look please?

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Flags: needinfo?(parciwal2) → needinfo?(tthibaud)

Hey,
I can reproduce that but I get the same behavior with another browser or even a file manager. It is a bug on PocketBook Reader itself, that doesn't seem to expose an intent filter for epub files.

I'll close this bug as invalid.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 month ago
Flags: needinfo?(tthibaud)
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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