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Disable all in-app browsing while keeping Chrome as default browser

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In previous versions of Android, in-app browsing was facilitated using WebView (1) . Disabling in-app browsing system-wide could be achieved by uninstalling the WebView app (2) . Recently, an in-app version of Chrome, called Custom Tabs, took over the WebView app (3, 4) . This meant the previous trick no longer worked. How to disable in-app browsing has already been discussed previously (5) . However, the answers included uninstalling Chrome and, thereby, uninstalling Custom Tabs. Is there a way to keep Chrome as the default browser, while also disabling in-app browsing? Clicking on links in certain apps would, then, result in the full Chrome app opening and rendering the webpage.
Asked by LBogaardt (391 rep)
Sep 3, 2018, 07:08 PM
Last activity: Dec 19, 2020, 06:01 PM