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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Internet Shortcut
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 18:39:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 7 May 2025 14:36:22 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :


>> Can you drag-and-drop a shortcut there ?   I was not even aware of it.
> 
> Nono. Creating the shortcut in the phone uses a totally different 
> method. IIRC, it is a menu entry that does that.

Hi Carlos,

I haven't tried it for URL shorcuts but on Android, we "should" be able to
create an Intent with the URL opening up in Firefox being the intention.
 <https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-filters>

Oh, I just looked it up for the team. You can't choose the browser.
 Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
 Uri.parse(url)
 startActivity(browserIntent)
That will open up the URL in the default browser.

The Windows analogy to an Android Intent is similar to the action when you
doubleclick on a *.html file in Windows where it opens the default browser.

If you want to send the URL to a specific browser on Android, then I wrote
up a tutorial for that long ago using programs designed to do that task.

These are from my notes from a few years ago so caveat emptor.
 Shortcut To URL by Mio (free,adfree,rated 4.2)
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.miotti.ShortcutToURL>

 Shortcut Widgets by Hamed Nikbakht (free,adfree,gsffree,rated3.7)
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cemique.shortcutwidgets>
 
 Website Shortcut, by Deltac Development (free,adfree,gsffree,rated4.3)
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deltacdev.websiteshortcut>

What I had learned long after writing that tutorial was that if you delete
the shortcut-to-URL-creating programs above, then the shortcuts that you
made with that program all die. 

I found that out, by accident, when I wrote the tutorial for how to port
Android from one phone to another over USB without using the Internet,
where, for porting purposes, you need to take a couple extra steps to bring
over intact those web urls.

In summary, it's trivial on Android to create a one-tap shortcut that opens
up any desired web browser to any desired URL - you just have to know how.
-- 
F'up added Android newsgroup as my posts are research intensive, so the
energy invested is intended to illuminate & help very many others; but if
you feel you need to limit a reply to just the Firefox ng, I understand.