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connorhawke's avatar
connorhawke
Collaborator | Level 8
7 years ago

Force link to open in same browser instead of app

This is regarding a link on my site to my public dropbox folder. Is there a way to format the URL to open in the browser that the URL was opened from, rather than the DropBox app? For example, current...
Mobile
shared links
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Tim H.37's avatar
Tim H.37
New member | Level 2
6 years ago
Hi did you find a solution to this? I have same issue .
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Lusil
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
6 years ago

Hi Tim H.37, thanks for nudging us on this thread. 

 

When tapping to open shared links on a mobile device, you'll get a prompt asking you to choose how you'd like to preview them. 

 

Nonetheless, you can post this here, where other like-minded users can comment and upvote your idea.

 

Hope this helps to some extent!

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