Open links with an app

I have a Samsung S3, Android version 4.1.2 and using Firefox 25.
When I was using the default Internet app, every time I clicked on a youtube or play store link, it would ask me what program I would like to open it with.
But when I do the same in Firefox, it goes to the mobile site automatically. Can I change this?

hello Juiceman77, i think google would have to fix this on their server side and treat firefox on android as a mobile browser and send the right intent to open the appropriate android apps: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/961564#answer-444901

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Last edited by spacetekk (2015-01-04 11:41:53)

Tried BROWSER envar - doesnt help, and as i understand it must work only for cli apps.
Editing of ~/.config/mimeapps.list doesnt help eather:
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text/vcard=firefox.desktop
text/html=firefox.desktop
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text/vcard=firefox.desktop;
text/html=firefox.desktop
but maybe it's not correct.
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recvmsg(4, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\34\0.\331!\t`\2N\1\0\0\330\336\7\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 352
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stat("/home/user/.local/share//mime/globs", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/user/.local/share//mime/magic", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/share/mime/mime.cache", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/share/mime/globs", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/share/mime/magic", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/share/mime/mime.cache", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=115108, ...}) = 0
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access("/usr/local/bin/opera", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/bin/opera", X_OK) = 0
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stat("/usr/bin/opera", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=416, ...}) = 0
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access("/usr/local/bin/opera", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
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stat("/usr/bin/opera", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=416, ...}) = 0
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pipe2([20, 21], 0) = 0
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close(21) = 0
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