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Browser Share Intents(?) from app list #532

@Ultrabenosaurus

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@Ultrabenosaurus

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I use the Fennec F-Droid fork of Firefox as my main browser on Android, and use a Mozilla account to let me sync tabs and share pages between devices. If I want to send a link to my home computer instead of read it on my phone, this means following several steps:

  1. Tap / share link to URLCheck from source app (e.g. discord, RSS reader)
  2. Confirm link in URLCheck
  3. Open in Fennec
  4. Tap menu
  5. Tap share
  6. Tap home computer
  7. Close tab
  8. Manually switch back to source app

Describe your suggested feature

I have no idea if it's possible at all, but it would be great if URLCheck could trigger or hook into Fennec's share intent / menu to let me send the link straight from URLCheck to my home computer without directly interacting with Fennec, essentially replacing step 3 above with "send to computer" and cutting out steps 4 to 8 completely.

Describe alternatives you've considered for your suggested feature

I have considered looking for a dedicated app I can share links to to send them between devices with no direct interaction, but I used to use Pushbullet several years ago and eventually decided I didn't want to multiple apps on all my devices to do something Firefox can do anyway, increasing the number of services that can see what I'm doing and potentially be hacked.

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