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Use WhatsApp Protocol to Prevent Brower Tabs

Currently the WhatsApp button in Dex opens a new browser tab each time the WA button of a contact is clicked.

Changing the URL to

whatsapp://send?phone=<number>&text=<url-encoded message>

Will avoid this. Therefore, no manual browser clean-up by the user required anymore.

I’ve changed this for all my applications with a simple search and replace fix and hope you can implement this change quickly.

It works seamless across platforms and browsers.

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