Thursday 28 March 2019

Facebook and Messenger: how to open links in external browser

For a while now, both the Facebook and Messenger app have been opening links in their own, internal browser — a simple webview window, which doesn't support multiple tabs and is there to allow you to quickly interact with something on the web, and even allow said item to communicate back to your Facebook app instantly.

That said, a lot of people find the internal browser annoying. Why? Well, sometimes you just tap on a YouTube video only to be greeted by a webview window, which opens a desktop version of the YouTube site that you are not even logged into. Lame. Sometimes, you want to open ...

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