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From: Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com>
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Subject: Re: Browser calls app to access website
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:13:44 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
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Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> Wrote in message:

> 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.
> 

Settings, About Firefox, What's new... 
If it's a bug release go back a bit, so 131.0.3 to 131.0

<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/131.0/releasenotes/>
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