1954386 - (Open in) New tab pops up dialog wanting to open website in external application

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox for Android :: App Links, defect)

Description

[oset]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; HUAWEI VNS-L31) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.5790.167 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/77.2.4095.74586
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Opening website in new tab, whether from address or from link (Open in New tab)

Actual results:

pops up dialog trying to open in external app.

Expected results:

It should open page in new tab, without that dialogue.

Screen shot: https://postimg.cc/JHHMjCpP

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Fenix::Tabs' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[oset]

Here is screen recorded with this bug.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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

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Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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

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Comment 5

[Roger Yang [:royang]]

There are some use cases that requires the new tab redirect to external app to work. However, we should investigate if we can better filter those uses cases so not all new tab has to go through the redirect prompt.