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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Firefox, sharing a link in Android
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 19:30:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 15 May 2025 12:48:07 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :


>>> That's an idea, but I don't see the "copy" entry in the menu.
>> 
>> Share it from firefox to clipboard, swap into whatsapp and paste it, 
>> then (if it still appears) delete the unwanted firefox promo link?
> 
> Ah, yes, I see now the clipboard entry in the menu.

When I use a web browser on my phone, it's usually from a PC (where the
phone is mirrored almost two feet tall) and it's almost always incidental.

My phone is set up for privacy so there's no Firefox or Chrome but there is
the Tor browser bundle, Firefox Focus, Fennic, Bromite, Chromit, Epic, etc. 

One of those is my "default" web browser where links "just pop up" in it.
That's what I mean by "incidental" where I control that action, of course.

A classic case of incidental use of links popping up in a default web
browser is when I search for apps using the best search engine out there.

Skyica (the free fully functional version) will find the best apps using
the best search engine filters ever known on the planet - and it will send
an Intent to my privacy-based google play store replacement app to get it.

That is how privacy-based phones work because there is no Google Account
set up on the phone and no phone with a Google Account set up is private.

However...

Some times I want to archive the URL to the app that Skyica found and that
the open-source Google Play Store installed, perhaps to post to Usenet.

For that purpose of obtaining the specific URL to the app that was
installed off the Google Play Store repository using the open-source Google
Play Store app, Skyica will send an Intent to the default web browser.

Then the Google Play Store web site link shows up in my default browser.
I cut and paste that link - which is my incidental use of phone browsers.

In summary, on my privacy-based phone, the only thing a web browser does is
intercept URLs so that I can copy and paste them to threads like this one.