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Links opened in a PWA don't open on main Firefox

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Description

Any link clicked inside a PWA opens on it’s own window instead of my main Firefox window.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Go to any PWA app
  2. Click on any link
  3. Observe it open on the same app

Additional Information

Not even CTRL + Click works

Affected Websites

All of them

Environment

  • Operating system: Arch Linux
  • System architecture: x86_64
  • Desktop environment: Budgie
  • Installation method: AUR (binary)
  • PWAsForFirefox extension version: Don’t know. Latest.
  • PWAsForFirefox native version: Don’t know. Latest.
  • Firefox version: 98.0.1

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:12 (6 by maintainers)

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filips123commented, Apr 2, 2022

You can currently open links in main Firefox if you right-click on them and then select “Open Link in Default Browser”. Alternatively, you could open a link in PWA Firefox and then use “Open in Browser” widget (available from the customization panel) to reopen it in a default Firefox.

However, if you just want to open non-PWA URLs in the main Firefox, I think it would be easier that you enable “Open out-of-scope URLs in a default browser”. This way, any URL that does not belong to the PWA will automatically open in the main Firefox. However, if you’re using PWA that uses SSO for login (such as most websites by Google, Microsoft and some others), you will also need to add their SSO page domains to “Domains always allowed to be opened in the PWA browser”, otherwise, you won’t be able to log in. For example, for Google you would need to set “accounts.google.com”.

Adding keyboard shortcut to links is a bit harder, but I’ll try to add an option for this.

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filips123commented, Dec 8, 2022

There is a wiki page which lists most available options. But yeah, I agree that documentation should be better and easier to find. I’ve been thinking of creating a documentation website for a while, but I don’t know when it will be done.

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