1974753 - Mailto links only open the mail app the first time, if you hit cancel

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1847273

(Firefox for Android :: App Links, defect)

Description

[Polly [:polly]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 15; Mobile; rv:140.0) Gecko/140.0 Firefox/140.0

Steps to reproduce:

Try to open an external app intent from Firefox on Android:

• type "mailto:[e-mail]" in the address bar
• app intent launcher is shown
• click cancel
• type "mailto:[e-mail]" in the address bar

Actual results:

• app intent launcher is not shown

Expected results:

• app intent launcher is shown both first and second time (or some other ui which enables the user to proceed with the mailto action)

Comment 1

[Polly [:polly]]

Attachment: try and open mailto: link multiple times

Comment 2

[Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]]

As mentioned offline, the cancel stops showing future prompts to avoid abuse.

In prompts, we have the same problem and use the PromptAbuserDetector.kt so maybe a proposal would be to make the PromptAbuserDetector re-usable for prompts and app links - we don't need to create new or duplicate logic then on how to handle this behaviour.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

This bug has been marked as a regression. Setting status flag for Nightly to affected.

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

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Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I think this is basically a dupe of bug 1847273 (likely triggering the same 1-hour prompt-cooldown-period after canceling an external app launch dialog, as described there).