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Here we are with another article dedicated to an application that we think is very interesting even if it is certainly only useful to a niche of people. However, this does not mean that some curious people don't want to try it and discover something new! Open Link With is a simple application that can help you during your daily navigation.
Let's see how it works by translating directly from the page F-Droid Of Open Link With: has it ever happened to you? You click on a link (for example YouTube) and the system does not ask you anything and opens the link in the Browsers. And you are stuck on the YouTube webpage instead of watching the video in the native app. There are 2 options for you. Either you watch the video on the web or you remember the name of the video and search for it in the app. Well, not anymore: with Open Link With, you can share any web page with it and it will ask you which applications to open the link with.
Share links with Open Link With
As you may have understood, it is a potentially very interesting application. In practice it allows you to decide, for each individual link whether it should be opened on a specific one Browsers or on a certain application. You can also decide that this operation is always done or, even more useful, that you are asked every time.
As has been pointed out, this is an option already possible in previous versions of Android 11. In versions from Android 12 onwards there are some problems in this regard: it does not always seem possible to completely eliminate the Browsers default and, even when it is possible, it is not always very intuitive to do so (for example, you have to uninstall the Browsers default) 1.
This obligation not everyone likes it, especially those who like to try and use Browsers always different and with different characteristics. Maybe in a Browsers we know we have JavaScript disabled, in another of Private DNS (DOH) details another Browsers it still has an extension that cannot be installed elsewhere.
Always open links with Browsers different
To do this, simply share the URL you are interested in with the application Open Link With!
Another important feature is that of being able to share the link on any application: as explained at the beginning it is possible to open any link on any application available for that link. In our opinion, this application could become even more useful if, instead of only showing the available applications, it could be opened on any application present on Android and perhaps not recognized as suitable for opening those links. Maybe it could be a solution, for example, to open links of Lemmy directly from the application Jerboa for Lemmy (there is also for F-Droid).
In short, although it is certainly a niche application, it is a feature that risks being missing from Android and it seemed like a good idea to share it with you after you shared it with us on Telegram 2.
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