force link to open firefox instead of safari in mobile

Question

Please forgive my english.

As you may know, Webrtc is not compatible with Safari IOS on iphone. So I need to force link to open firefox instead of safari.

I found solution for chrome:

googlechromes://google.com 

If I do the same for firefox:

firefox://google.com

It open firefox but doesn't load the url. It will just display firefox with the previous url I open on my last firefox session.

So I made a search and I found these:

Force link to open in mobile safari from a web app with javascript

Force link to open in Chrome

iOS Facebook App browser - force link to open in Safari

But none of these solutions answer to my specific question.

Can someone already faced same issue?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards

Gauthier

Answer 1

Firefox URL scheme to do that would look like:

firefox://open-url?url=https://google.com

There is an open in Firefox library that can help with escaping:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios-open-in-client

Firefox also has a bug open to add support in IntentKit

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399801

Answer 2

I have a couple of Safari bookmarks that I use for this type of thing. These are helpful when I am using Safari, but there is some formatting issue and so I want to quickly/easily open the same page in another iOS browser. HTH.

Safari Bookmark Name: Open In Firefox
Bookmark URL: javascript:location.href=%22firefox%3A%2F%2Fopen-url%3Furl%3D%22+location.href;

Safari Bookmark Name: Open In Chrome
Bookmark URL:
javascript:location.href=%22googlechrome%22+location.href.substring(4);