Option to not close the Safari tab

[patrickrushton]

I use a redirect rule to open YouTube pages in Video Lite. Often I will search for something in Safari and open a link from the Google results. If that link is a YouTube video then I can’t get back to the search results because Redirect has closed the Safari tab.

[mshibanami]

Hi @patrickrushton, I believe it's because you selected the corresponding option on the redirection screen here:

You can disable it either on the screen above or on the following Edit screen:

Whould you please take a look?

By the way, there is an issue that the navigation history is cleared when opening another app using Redirect Web. This is caused by Safari and it's tracked in this issue.: #52

[patrickrushton]

I don't seem to have a checkbox "Close the tab automatically" on iOS. I also don't have the "Application" select box. I'm just directing to a videolite:// url scheme.

[mshibanami]

@patrickrushton I see. Then it must be the same issue as #52.
Yes, that option is only for macOS, and the tab you believe is closed is actually the same tab displaying a blank page bundled with the extension, which clears the history, making it seem like a new tab.

Currently, there is no workaround. Sorry for the inconvenience. However, as you can see in #52, Apple acknowledged this issue a week ago. So it could be fixed soon.

[patrickrushton]

Ah okay. Thanks for the explanation. Feel free to mark this one as a duplicate then.