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Yes, I had no luck even with QR reader integrated in Nightly Android [0].

Sadly, copypasting resulting URI as plaintext is most probably the only option for modern browsers, because any other way of top level frame navigation to dataURI document is blocked. (Besides existing bookmark, that is.) I keep forgetting this, sorry for hurried "in theory it must work great" shout out.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/scan-qr-codes-firefox-a...



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