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Re:iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web bro... by lern_too_spel on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:18PM (#23608093)
This is possible on Android today and has been possible since Android launched. I use Firefox as my default browser, and Gmail opens links in there. It is up to iOS to provide APIs that make this possible.
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Re:iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web bro... by unilynx on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:23PM (#23608133)
iOS may not have a central browser setting yet, but apps can still invoke other apps directly. Gmail on iOS uses that to offer a choice between Chrome and Safari, and offers to save your choice.

It just tends to regularly forget that I told it to save my choice of Safari.

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Re:iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web bro... by lern_too_spel on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:40PM (#23609692)
On iOS, it also has no way of knowing that you have installed Firefox to give you that choice, which makes using Firefox on iOS even more of a nonstarter than it already is.
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