How can I control which apps Firefox offers to open sites in?
The little Android icon (button to open the site in another app) in the menu bar appears on every single website I go to, so long as I have any other browsers installed. This feature is very useful for opening things like Google Play and Yelp in their native apps, but having the button show for every site just to allow me the option of opening the site in another browser is annoying. Is there some way to fix this without uninstalling Chrome and other browsers?
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Hmm, are you using Firefox on an Android tablet or phone?
On a phone, the menu shows a share icon, and the icon of the last application I shared to (email, in my case). Is that the one which is bothering you, or something else?
This is on a phone. I'm not talking about the share menu. I mean the context sensitive icons that appear in the URL bar. This is where the reader view icon shows when you are reading an article.
Hmm, I haven't seen the icon you're talking about. (Reader, yes; launch in another browser, no.) Hopefully another volunteer is more familiar with that feature. Or perhaps it is something being inserted by an add-on.
It's a little Android logo silhouette. Its purpose is to open a page on an external app. For example, it shows up whenever you go to an app page on the Google play store, and if you click it it opens the page in the Google Play app. In this context it is quite useful. But it seems to show up if there's is any app on the system capable of handling the current URL, and since a browser can handle any URL the icon shows up for every site if I have another browser installed.
Okay, I see it on Google Play (for the Play app) and on YouTube (for the YouTube app). I don't see it on ordinary web pages, so I'm not sure why it's showing up on yours.
I tried making Chrome the default browser, but that didn't change Firefox's behavior. Nothing obvious in settings. Must be something else. I can't figure it out.