@capacitor/browser Check if there is a browser open before calling close()

[aleksandar-brkic]

Feature Request

Plugin

@capacitor/browser

Description

When calling the close() method while there is no capacitor browser window open, the console logs an error saying No active window to close! . When you open a deeplink from the capacitor browser itself, on some devices (particularly iOS) the browser does not close, as that link is already opened in the background (some url in the app page that actually started the capacitor browser). So we added that method on the deeplink open listener, but this then fires on every deeplink, not just that scenario, which causes the error (which does not affect the user or the code, just annoying in the logs).

Preferred Solution

It would be good if we had a method to check if the browser is open already. Eg if(Browser.isOpen()) Browser.close() which would stop the close method being called when not needed.

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