(This is related to a +1 year old post so instead of necromancy about a somewhat related issue, started a new thread.)
TL;DR, in “Default browser” in Newsblur’s settings:
- I believe the text “Safari” should be changed to “iOS default browser” or some similar text, as this is the actual behavior of choosing the Safari option: links are launched in the user’s selected default browser.
- Specifically, while I have “Safari” selected it launches in my iOS default browser which is not Safari. (This is not a complaint, this is actually what I was hoping would happen because my default browser is not in the list)
- AFAICT (not an iOS developer) there isn’t a way to force Safari specifically as an external browser, because Apple doesn’t like it. (That is the topic of the linked thread, and I think the response for Safari specifically is correct.)
- If there is, it’d still be great to allow users to trigger the default browser (ie, the current “Safari” behavior) so that if a user is currently using an obscure browser it’s still fully supported if it’s their default iOS browser.
- (small FR) It’d be nice to add Vivaldi to this list, it’s semi-popular with power users as a highly customizable browser. Probably at least as popular if not more than Edge on iOS
Again I’m not an iOS dev but I’d suspect the custom URL scheme is vivaldi:// - It might be useful to clarify what the plain “In-app browser” means if possible; I didn’t fully get how that would be different than In-app safari. Maybe “In-app Newsblur browser”? But I don’t really know the difference to speak intelligently on this point, just that I was confused by the first two (the “reader mode” makes sense as a point of difference for the third)
- NewsBlur is really neat
I use the iOS app quite frequently, and recently changed to using a new default browser (from Firefox to Vivaldi). I noticed NewsBlur was still opening links in Firefox which initially was a user error because I had apparently selected it as my browser in Newsblur’s settings. Unfortunately the dialog didn’t have my browser and I was sad.
I was going to open a plain feature request to add it, but realized when I went to Settings → Support Forum… it opened in my default browser Vivaldi! This made me poke around a bit more hoping I could find a workaround.
Eventually I realized if I selected “Safari” in the default browser selection in NewsBlur (not to be confused with iOS’s setting), it was ACTUALLY using the default browser and not specifically safari. Which is exactly what I was hoping for, just didn’t think was possible because this was titled “Safari”.
Anyway: IMO it’d be good to just rename this option “iOS default browser” or something similar that’s more accurate to the behavior. I also listed a couple other nitpicky points/suggestions in the TLDR above.