Option to open links in FF/iOS rather than MobileSafari

[ara4n]

Apparently this must be done in the app rather than the OS.

[a2sheppy]

Yes. Apps that let you send links to apps other than Safari do so by providing their own support for it. It's pretty easy to do. Ideally support would be in place for letting the user choose Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Yandex Browser, Brave, and maybe Firefox Focus and Opera Mini.

[aaronraimist]

Duplicate of #651

[m8nmueller]

I would really like to work on this; started to take a look at the project but I'm new to it so it could take some time. My first research showed to me that it is probably to be solved in the Matrix iOS Kit (around here). Those lines show code which is intended to do exactly that. But the setting seems to be a bit too simplistic to work with browser URI schemes which don't just expect the URL as value. But as I'm personally interested in this feature, I will continue to dig into the code.

[Mikaela]

I think iOS 14 has fixed this and #651, however changing default browser to Firefox seems to result to all links saying "Unable to open link" in a screen that cannot be rageshaked.

[m8nmueller]

Thank you for pointing this out - I was not aware of that feature. If support for older iOS versions isn't considered essential, this issue can probably be closed.

[a2sheppy]

Firefox will need to be updated to announce to iOS 14 that it's a browser in order for this to work, however.

[aaronraimist]

It already has been.