[xg15]

I agree so much! I was puzzled when Google introduced that feature to android and even advised it as the recommended way for apps to open links.

Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind that feature?

I mean, I can sort-of understand that individual apps want me to stay inside the app as long as possible. But why would the platform vendor actively support or even push that pattern?

[Mindwipe]

I imagine it was that apps were doing it anyway, and it was better to use the system browser that might actually be up to date security wise than have the apps bundle their own which was was based on nine month old code and horribly insecure more often than not.

[exfascist]

It probably has to do with the (lack of) window management on mobile platforms and the coupling of which window is foreground to the (often also lack of) behavior of the application.

Man I don't miss owning a smartphone, this stuff is really pants on head retarded.