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When clicking on a link in an external app, Firefox will open but the link will not

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Daksh Chauhan
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I am using Firefox Nightly 119.0a1 (2023-09-04) on macOS 12.6.8 on an Intel 15' MBP.

When clicking on a link from an external app (eg. WhatsApp, Teams, etc.) with Firefox not running in the background, Firefox will open up but will not open the link. I have to go back to the app and click the link again for it to work.

This has been an issue for me for a while now and it only happens with Firefox as other browsers will work as expected.

I am using Firefox Nightly 119.0a1 (2023-09-04) on macOS 12.6.8 on an Intel 15' MBP. When clicking on a link from an external app (eg. WhatsApp, Teams, etc.) with Firefox not running in the background, Firefox will open up but will not open the link. I have to go back to the app and click the link again for it to work. This has been an issue for me for a while now and it only happens with Firefox as other browsers will work as expected.

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  • 1818194 - Tab does not open when clicking on link in external application and Firefox is closed
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Paul
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Hi Daksh

Thank you for helping to test Firefox Nightly. I recommend that you file this as a bug for developers to look into. See File a bug report or feature request for Mozilla products for details.

You can discuss this on the Nightly forum at:

https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/nightly/237

cor-el
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  • 1818194 - Tab does not open when clicking on link in external application and Firefox is closed
James
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Paul said
You can discuss this on the Nightly forum at: https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/nightly/237

Another forum to hang out if you want to be a Nightly development channel Tester is in http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23

cor-el
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  • /questions/1423171 Firefox 117.0 ignores the argument URL when clicking a document or email link