1988888 - Android AppLinks fail to trigger after navigating away from and returning to redirect page

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox for Android :: App Links, defect)

Description

[Giorgio]

Attachment: Test server with return a simple page with button to redirect with AppLink

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to page with AppLink redirect (attached a simple nodeJs server)
2. Switch to another tab and browse to any page (e.g.: google.com, wikipedia.org)
3. Return to original tab with AppLink
4. Observe AppLink doesn't trigger

Actual results:

AppLink redirection fails, also not browsing to the target link, basically nothing happens. Please note, it looks the system intent is cached, as enter/exit the Settings menu do actually trigger the AppLink all of a sudden unblocking the issue until another tab is open browsing any page.

Expected results:

The AppLink should have worked as usual, opening the installed app with activity matching the AppLink

Comment 1

[Giorgio]

Attachment: firefox.logcat

Logcat filtering by "firefox" string. During the test execution the AppLink was triggered few times, to then reproduce the issue browsing with another tab and back to the original tab. I would be able to share a video, where issue was reproduced several time, including the unexpected behaviour where the AppLink is triggered exiting from the Firefox Settings menu

Comment 2

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

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:royang, could you have a look please?

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Comment 3

[Roger Yang [:royang]]

Thanks for reporting this, I'll investigate.