I've worked around this issue by installing "Open Link With" (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.tasomaniac.openwith.flos..., https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tasomaniac...) and setting it as the default browser. Unfortunately its mechanism for setting browsers as default on a per-domain level has issues (can't open Reddit images and threads in separate apps). And a few years back, this app got slower and randomly spends a few seconds preparing a list of browsers, though I never debugged why it started happening.