On 28 Nov 2023 11:55:37 -0400 Wally J wrote:
>Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote
>
>>>>>> Pretty sure it worked in firefox/fennec
>>>>>
>>>>> I was going to help out by testing that fennec [snip]
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the thought. I downloaded it from f-droid but I haven't
>>>>played with it much yet.
>>>
>>>You can also download it from Mozilla's own archive. The latest version is
>>>68.11.0 I still have it on a phone which emulates Android 4.4.
>>>
>>>Not only does it accept the file:// method - so it will display your html
>>>bookmarklet file - you can set that as a homepage like on desktop. (I used
>>>to have a SED script which removed all the bloat - 'last visited etc' -
>>>from that file, resequence it, and fit it on a small screen. Probably
>>>still got it somewhere.)
>>>
>>>But Fennec lacks 3 years of security updates, so I wouldn't use it.
>>
>> Cross-posting that back into a.c.s.firefox as in the OP. Fenix/Fennec
>> handling of file:// is discussed in more detail there.
>
>Thanks to Dave Royal for adding the Mozilla developers because this is
>almost certainly an Android Mozilla bug (as the "Open With..." bug only
>shows up in Mozilla-based browsers & not in Chromium-based browsers).

There _isn't_ a bug in Firefox for Android (Fenix) or in the way Firefox
uses intents and fails to allow html files to be opened. The reasons have
been explained in the part of this thread which stayed in a.c.s.firefox.

We may not like it (I don't) but it's by design.
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Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote

> There _isn't_ a bug in Firefox for Android (Fenix) or in the way Firefox
> uses intents and fails to allow html files to be opened. The reasons have
> been explained in the part of this thread which stayed in a.c.s.firefox.
>

What thread? Looking that up...

It's too bad there isn't an autoarchive for dejanews for this newsgroup:
<https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.software.firefox>
As in <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android>

If I had a Message-ID, I could use the HowardKnight lookup mechanism.
<http://al.howardknight.net/>

But maybe it's in the narkive?
<https://alt.comp.software.firefox.narkive.com/>
As in <https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com>

But that fails, for some reason (typo?).

> We may not like it (I don't) but it's by design.'

It is a bug. No doubt about it. You can't be claiming that only Chromium
browsers can open HTML files but not Mozilla browsers is not a bug.

The reason it's a bug is easy to figure out:
a. All the chromium-based browsers work this way
b. And everyone would want it to work this way
c. Plus, there's no good reason for it to NOT work this way

For a Mozilla browser to be incapable of opening up an HTML file is kind of
like what Apple does (e.g., it restricts everything the user wants to do).

I think if the Firefox people know about this bug, they don't have to fix
it as they may have higher priority issues to deal with (and that's OK).

But don't try to tell me it's a bug that you can't open an HTML file on
Android using a Mozilla browser (and yet you easily can do it with
chromium-based browsers).

I suspect the Mozilla developers just don't understand what is happening
(just like the App Finder & Aurora Store developers didn't understand it).

In summary, the fact you can't open an HTML file using Mozilla browsers on
Android, is a bug (nobody is gonna convince me otherwise of that fact).

Unless...

You have a _better_ way of opening an HTML file using Mozilla browsers.
That I would be willing to listen to.... as that wouldn't be a bug.

Opening up an HTML file on Android can either be done, or it can't be done.
a. If it can't be done, it's a bug.
b. If it can be done, it's a use model issue (that is done some other way).

Which is it?

On 2023-11-28 21:04, Wally J wrote:
> Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote
>
>> There _isn't_ a bug in Firefox for Android (Fenix) or in the way Firefox
>> uses intents and fails to allow html files to be opened. The reasons have
>> been explained in the part of this thread which stayed in a.c.s.firefox.
>>
>
> What thread? Looking that up...

This same thread. Just subscribe in Thunderbird and open it.

Oh, wait...! :-DD

>> We may not like it (I don't) but it's by design.'
>
> It is a bug. No doubt about it. You can't be claiming that only Chromium
> browsers can open HTML files but not Mozilla browsers is not a bug.

It is intentional. Don't conjeture, just read the other part of this
thread and find out.

....

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Carlos E.R.