Groan.
Clicking on URLs in my signal chats now launches some sort of weird google-based quick browser instead of my default installed Firefox app on my Android device.
Time to play everyone's favorite fun game: Who Fucking Changed What Fucking Thing
(I believe I updated Signal pretty recently and also I just pushed to Android 16 today. This version of Android apparently has something called "instant apps" relating to default links I think? Seems like yet another feature that no one asked for. Time to learn about whatever that is and try to figure out if that's what's breaking this.)
UPDATE: maybe this isn't the problem I think I'm having. It turns out that the person in my signal chat sent me a link using this service...
... which I've never really seen before but it appears to be some sort of oddball link handler which, at least on Android, routes around your default preferred web browser and instead launches a Google lite type quick view