The most annoying thing is that Firefox's tabs don't integrate with the normal A...

tacomonstrous · on July 19, 2017

To be fair, neither does Chrome. Not for the past year or so at least.

glogla · on July 19, 2017

That's probably because you can't do it without using special Google-only API - I don't know of any other Android app that could do it.

So this is a monopoly problem again.

veeti · on July 19, 2017

This is not true at all.

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/re...

BoorishBears · on July 19, 2017

It's true, Recents showing Task instances isn't the same as the integrated tabs feature

veeti · on July 19, 2017

It is literally the same thing. You can download a third party browser called Chromer that opens every link as a separate task and see it for yourself.

It's based on Chrome custom tabs, which is a pluggable protocol. Firefox is working on support for it as well [1]. There doesn't seem to be any ongoing work to support per-tab tasks in Firefox for Android itself right now [2].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208655

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1098543

BoorishBears · on July 19, 2017

Chrome custom tabs have nothing at all to do with the Tasks from the activity model. Chromer doesn't do what the tabs in recent option does.

Supporting being a provider for Custom Tabs has nothing to do with being able to have your tabs show up in Recents. Are you an Android Dev?

veeti · on July 19, 2017

> Chromer doesn't do what the tabs in recent option does.

Yes, it does. Which part do you not understand?

> Supporting being a provider for Custom Tabs has nothing to do with being able to have your tabs show up in Recents.

No, but if Firefox supported Custom Tabs, you could use it with Chromer.

BoorishBears · on July 19, 2017

I'm not asking if you're an Android dev to disparage you, I'm asking because the two features are outwardly very similar, but have internal differences. And you can use one to get a result that looks similar, but is not the same, as the other.

veeti · on July 20, 2017

> I'm asking because the two features are outwardly very similar, but have internal differences.

Prove it, then. What are these "internal differences"?

Let me reiterate: there is literally nothing that relies on a proprietary or private API in the former Chrome merged apps and tabs implementation. Any app can do the same thing using completely public API's.

I've already linked the API's required to do this. I've linked a third party app that provides the exact same functionality. Which part is unclear to you?