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From: Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Browser calls app to access website
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:02:02 +0100
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On 18/10/2024 03:27, VanguardLH wrote:
> Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's strange. I don't remember seeing it, let alone change it (Fx
>>>> 131.0.3).
>>>
>>> Firefox 131.0.3
>>> Android 8.0.0 (yeah, pretty old)
>>>
>>> Firefox menu -> Settings -> scroll down to Advanced section
>>> Open links in apps = Never (my current setting).
>>
>> Thanks, but I had already seen that (see my first reply to Dave).
>>
>> What I was trying to say was that until /today/ I don't remember seeing
>> it. Do you know in which version of Firefox that option first appeared?
> 
> Unfortunately Mozilla's https://mzl.la/3dpdrJ2 article doesn't mention
> when this feature was first added in which version of Firefox.  I've
> seen discussions on this option going back to Jan 2020; for example,
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1276859.

I see in that support webpage that it was only in the nightly version, 
and that it was expected to be in a release version. I guess it appeared 
shortly after (I found refs to it in 2021).

It's a pity that Android Firefox updates don't have a "Release notes" 
link in the same way that desktop versions do.

-- 
Jeff