https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA01249734.pdf
This link drove me nuts last night, until I stopped tapping the link in Jerboa and instead copy/pasted the link directly into Fennec web browser.
If this bug has been resolved in a newer version of Jerboa, well just let me know and I’ll make a point to update later.
This is an issue with android file handling, not jerboa. You linked something that has a pdf uri, but isn’t actually a pdf.
Nope, it’s not even that. My browser (Fennec) is configured to ask every time what app to use, but Jerboa triggering my default browser apparently bypasses that altogether and I never get any option as to which app to load the link/document with.
Other apps don’t do this, other apps give me the option of which app to open stuff with. Jerboa however just blindly goes forward, assuming it sees a PDF, it must be a PDF…
I’m not the only one, links from justice.gov aren’t working as expected via Jerboa…
https://piefed.social/c/asklinux/p/1733450/what-is-the-bash-reference-manual-doing-in-the-epstein-files
Go to android settings > default apps > opening links > and unclick wps office or whatever it’s opening in
No defaults even set, it’s Jerboa forcing that.
What about in Fennec. Does it have the “open links in apps” setting?
Oh wait wait, you mean Fennec settings specifically…
Well shit, that setting does actually exist. My phone is set to Ask Each Time, pretty sure my tablet should be set the same, but I’ll have to check later when I get back home.
Thanks yet again for being helpful 👍
Were you able to confirm your tablet’s settings for Fennec?
Yes, Fennec on my tablet is configured the same way, to ask every time.
I dunno what’s up, but there’s apparently a borkup between the link handoff from Jerboa to Fennec… 🤷
Jerboa link taps never ask…
What about other PDF links? Where does this appear to open in for example? Within Jerboa? Fennec? Some other pdf viewer interface?
Another approach, have you tried any other Lemmy apps? Voyager has a progressive web app if you don’t want to install something. Open that in Fennec. Does the original age verification link work there? What about my wonderland one above?
Try opening the links through voyager in your stock browser on both devices
This might seem trivial or a lot of work and that’s fine. But it you still wanna figure this out it will help me, and I don’t think anyone else is trying to figure this out right now.
Edit: I see you have already done some further digging that I missed. I am still curious what is going on with your device however. I didn’t mean to discredit your work @Binette@lemmy.ml
No. But I’m currently on my Android phone right now, a literal piece of shit compared to my tablet at home right now, so settings may differ. I’ll check the tablet later.
All I get in settings on my POS phone is ‘Browser App: Yes’ and ‘Install Unknown Apps: Allowed’, of course to sideload APKs…
Oh that’s fun, Android 11 doesn’t even have a Default Apps menu…
It might be a little different. Try Settings-> Apps & Notifications -> Advanced -> Default apps
On my Android 11 devices, I don’t have any overall Default Apps menu, I get ‘Open By Default’ in the individual app settings on a per-app basis. So yeah that makes configuring apps extra fun ya know… /s
Either way, Fennec is configured as my default browser, and WPS Office isn’t configured for default anything. Hell, I don’t even use WPS Office, the app is just there as it came with my tablet.
Ok. When I copy and paste the link outside of Jerboa, it works just fine and exactly as expected.
But to tap the link here in Jerboa, it finds their HTML redirect shit to ask if I’m 18 or over, but since it’s not actually a PDF document, it errors out and says Invalid Format.
This is NOT an Android issue, this is indeed a Jerboa issue, as I can simply copy/paste the link into a web browser and it just works, as expected.
But tapping the link within Jerboa tries to force-feed an HTML age verification page through a PDF link, which apparently messes up the whole show…