Using Facebook on your Android smartphone or iPhone you will notice that now, when you click on a link, the web page opens on Facebook and not on your preferred default browser. All in all, the idea wouldn't be considered completely bad if it weren't annoying.
The integrated Facebook browser, in fact, is absolutely poor and lacking in all the essential features that apps like Chrome and Safari have instead.
It can be useful as a preview tool or to take a quick look at that link, but it cannot be considered as a substitute for the default browser.
Fortunately, on Android, there is an easy way to prevent this behavior (which the Facebook app sets for everyone by default), disable the Facebook internal browser and go back to opening the links published by friends using the normal browser.
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The problem is that web pages, the more complex ones, with heavy images or advertisements, take much longer to load on Facebook than they do in Chrome or Safari.
Opening the links on Facebook's internal browser can only be advantageous in old smartphones, where the app change is not managed quickly.
You can always open a link in the normal way, with Chrome, by touching the three vertical dots at the top right, but it would be better then to set this option as the default forever.
On Android, to disable the Facebook browser, open the Facebook application, then click the three lines icon in the navigation bar and scroll to the " Settings and Privacy " item and then press on Settings .
From the next screen, scroll down until you find Multimedia Content and contacts to find the " Open links outside " option and activate it.
The links will open with Chrome if this is the default browser or with any other of your choice.
Unfortunately, it seems that it is not possible to do the same on the iPhone and iPad where users seem to be blocked (for now) in using the Facebook browser.
On iPhone you can only touch the menu button and then on Open in Safari .
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