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Firefox nightly Android Keeps opening Play Store

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  • Èsì tí ó kẹ́hìn lọ́wọ́ Joergen

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Ever since the latest update to Firefox nightly on Android, whenever I try to open the browser I get a pop up asking me if I want to open it with the Play Store or the Samsung store. I went ahead and updated it and it continues to do this every single time I try to open the browser. It continually opens the Play Store as well. This must be some bug as it is happening on both of my devices that I recently updated Firefox nightly, both my phone and my tablet.

Ever since the latest update to Firefox nightly on Android, whenever I try to open the browser I get a pop up asking me if I want to open it with the Play Store or the Samsung store. I went ahead and updated it and it continues to do this every single time I try to open the browser. It continually opens the Play Store as well. This must be some bug as it is happening on both of my devices that I recently updated Firefox nightly, both my phone and my tablet.

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Right, it must be a bug. The team is looking into it.

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This happens on Firefox Beta as well to me. Incredibly annoying.

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Funny, I just tried installing Beta to see if that worked better. I'm not sure if it happens there, too. I discovered Beta STILL doesn't have a home button, so I uninstalled it.

As for the Play Store opening every time I open Firefox nightly (and Beta I guess?), if I close the Store out about 3 times, it stops for a while. Better than nothing for now I guess. If it's not fixed soon, I suppose I'll look for an earlier APK version to install and turn updates off again.

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Hi Kathleen

Thank you for helping to test future updates to Firefox for Android.

Please appreciate that the pre-Release builds in Beta and Nightly may have some unresolved issues. Do you experience the same problem in the main Release build available from the Google Play store?

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I resolved it on my phone by doing this. I am running the latest nightly.

  1. activate debug mode by settings, about, tap icon until you see the toast for enabling debug
  2. settings - nimbus experiments - (scroll to bottom) - tap enable custom review prompt - tap control

This disables that experiment which I believe is what is causing the issue. At least, disabling it resolved the issue on my phone.

I will note that in the secret settings I also disabled the tab manager "enhancements" just in case that is somehow relevant but I doubt it is.

Ti ṣàtúnṣe nípa metiscus

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Hi I have the same problem. I have observed the following: This only happens to me when Firefox Nightly is set as default browser. When the "regular" Firefox (143.0.4) is set as default browser both browsers work as expected.

Added later: This only happens when Firefox is set to open "Homepage" as Opening screen. If Firefox i set to open "Last tab", there is no problem.

Ti ṣàtúnṣe nípa Joergen

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The latest update to Firefox Nightly fixed the problem for me.

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