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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Feature request: Option for internal browser for opening external links (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jdn3@beehaw.org to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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Most 3rd party Reddit apps supported this, and some other Lemmy apps do as well (e.g. Connect). Using an internal browser is nice because it doesn't take you out of the app, and also doesn't store browsing history by default.

EDIT: There are lots of comments pushing back on this...so I want to reiterate that I think this should be an option you can choose, not a replacement for the current behavior.

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[–] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

internal browsers are horrible, please for the love of science make it disableable if this is ever implemented. i am emotionally not able to use the internet witlout an adblocker and internal browsers probably don't have this. but any link that is purely to an image or video would be awesome to be displayed in the app

[–] Matth78@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What's the difference with using custom tabs? It already allows you to open link without leaving app. If it is mainly about browsing history I guess you wouldn't want to have history no matter which app you used and so you could set custom tabs to open in private mode by default. (At least you can with Firefox)

[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Agree only if the internal browser have ads and script blocked by default. Maybe even text-base only to reading websites.

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Please not! I'm happy that any link is opened using firefox so I can have my extensions enabled (uBlock Origin, Dark Reader), but using android's “custom tab” feature which doesn't take you out of the app.