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From: Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Browser calls app to access website
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:26:16 +0100
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On 17/10/2024 13:05, Theo wrote:
> Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Thanks, Dave. That was it.
>>
>> Firefox has it in Settings | Advanced | Open links in apps - set to
>> Always (default)
>>
>> Vivaldi has it in Settings | Content Settings| Stay in browser - set to
>> Off (default)
>>
>> So doing the same thing but in completely opposite ways! I'm note sure
>> exactly what Brave does. In Settings it has:
>> Open external links in Brave:
>> Opens links from other apps in a Brave webview. Note: Brave must be set
>> as your default browser.
>> That setting was set to Off (default). Brave isn't my default browser
>> anyway.
> 
> Note that you can change the settings the other way around too - if you go
> Settings -> Apps -> BBC News -> Open by default

I couldn't see an "Open by default" in my general Android settings or 
the browser settings. Which did you mean (and which version of Android? 
Mine's 13).

> there's a toggle of 'open supported links' and then a list of links it'll
> open (there might be things like *.bbc.co.uk and *.bbc.com in there).  If
> you unset the 'open supported' toggle or edit the list you can stop it
> detecting links to open.

I didn't see anything like that, but I could have missed it.

> That means you can re-enable 'open links in apps' on your browser and it'll
> still be able to open links in other apps if you want them to do that.

-- 
Jeff