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by JamesSwift 1476 days ago
> I've no idea why it is so difficult for apps to open links in the user-selected browser. Isn't it just "xdg-open https://example.com/"?

No, theres implementation differences across API levels and the "shared cookie jar" implementation is newer and had some quirks. Its been a couple years since I was deep in this so it might have changed, but that was my experience back then.