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From: Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Browser calls app to access website
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:34:40 +0100
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On 18/10/2024 08:13, Dave Royal wrote:
> 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/>

Thanks for that. I must have seen something like it sometime, but 
forgotten it. I can't remember, but does a link pop up to release notes 
when Fx for android is updated, like it does in a desktop Fx?

Unfortunately the moz pages don't help that much. I tried to find a list 
of all release notes within the moz pages, but in the end it was 
Wikipedia which helped. It lists all FX Android release notes. I started 
with 2020, and moved forward. I found "Users can now choose whether to 
be asked every time they open a link that would open in another app." in 
112.0 (11 April 2023), which seems to suggest it was there earlier, but 
I didn't see it in 68.4.0 onwards.

-- 
Jeff