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From: Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com>
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Subject: Re: Firefox on Android [was: viewing local htm files on Android
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:37:53 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
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Malone <mslone@nospam.uk> Wrote in message:

> On Fri-26-Jul-2024 10:06 am, Dave Royal wrote:
>> Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> Wrote in message:
>> 
>> [long snip]
>> 
>> I tried to reproduce your case - Android 14 on a Samsung tablet.
>> 
>> I can send a local html file from the 'My Files' app to Chrome
>>   (but not to Firefox) using 'Open with' and it displays as
>>   content://media/external/file/1000015925. But I see no way to
>>   'Add to home screen' in Chrome (which I can do for an ordinary
>>   URL in both Chrome and Firefox).
>> 
>> But do see 'Add to home screen' in the 'My Files' app and the
>>   shortcut appears with a 'My Files' sub-icon. I suppose that's
>>   what you did. And that opens in Chrome, even though Firefox is my
>>   default browser. So My Files owns that content, and it seems it
>>   must open it first. I think my guess about it creating a Content
>>   Provider is correct-ish.
>> 
>> Neither Firefox nor Chrome will open a file:/// URI (by design -
>>   CVE-2015-7186).
>> 
>> Firefox will not open a content:// URI.
> 
> Yes, that's all consistent with what I experience. My Windows default 
> browser is Firefox and at the outset I put that on my tablet. But I had 
> problems with it, for reasons I can't remember, so got rid of it on the 
> basis that Chrome was probably more Android-compatible although I 
> consider it spyware.

I sure you're  right that Chrome is more Android-compatible, and
 this case is an example of that. I use Firefox because it runs
 addons, including my own, and Chrome on Android will not. [There
 are some Chrome-based browsers that will but they presumably lack
 Chrome's built-in advantage.]

Mozilla never gave any priority to tablets, and I've always found
 the tab handling terrible. But it's going to get better in v130.
 Finally the tab bar is back:
<https://www.cjoint.com/data/NGAgtfgaDws_Screenshot-20240726-071721-Firefox-Nightly.jpg>
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