929680 - No helper app for Flickr/Yelp

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Currently on visiting Flickr with Flickr (application) installed, I am not seeing a helper Android icon in the URL bar.

i) Install Flickr for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.flickr)

ii) Visit http://www.flickr.com, click explore, nearby, welcome, etc


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Nightly (10/22) | Samsung Galaxy SIV (Android 4.3)

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

E/GeckoConsole(10961): Sending: {"type":"Intent:GetHandlers","mime":"","action":"","url":"http://m.flickr.com/#/home","packageName":"","className":""}

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

works for stock and chrome browsers I assume?

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I don't have access to stock anymore, nor did it have any such (switch from page to native app) feature neither does Chrome as far as I'm aware.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Yelp as well, I have the native client installed but am not offered the ability to switch over to it. What are the conditions?

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

So I see a helper app show up if I go to yelp with a desktop user agent. Though not for Flickr.

Comment 6

[Andrew Ducker]

There seems to be something that happens with internal redirects.

So opening https://twitter.com/andrewducker from Chrome opens the Twitter app.

Opening it from Firefox takes me over to Twitter, and then on Twitter there's an instant redirect to https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewducker - which _doesn't_ have an intent registered.

Which means that you never, on Firefox, have the option to open in the Twitter app rather than going to the web page.

I suspect something similar is happening with Yelp/Flickr.

To be honest, I think that when arriving on pages that have a helper app registered, Firefox should be popping up a "Continue with Firefox/Open Helper app" choice, with the option of "Once/Always".  Because I _never_ want to open Twitter in Firefox, I always want to use the application, and making me press extra buttons every time is going to get very dull, very quickly.

Comment 7

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