The article seems to imply that you need a desktop app installed to extract fully-qualified URLs from the open application. I wonder why a better alternative wouldn't be to embed an encoded URL as part of the webpage itself, have the phone extract the URL from the image? Essentially a steganography-meets-QR code approach.
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