Samsung Internet for Gear VR

[robinchymeravr]

I am trying to launch other applications on touch / click events. So far I am successful in doing so with the below code snippet

String packagename = "<ApplicationID>";
startActivity(getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage(packagename));

This works for oculus home, oculus360Photos, a bunch of other games etc.

But, the samsung internet for gearvr crashes the application (com.sec.android.app.svrbrowser).

Does anyone know why? I am basically extensing the VrCubeWorld_SurfaceView example from the mobile SDK 
by adding the above snippet in the dispatchTouchEvent, dispathKeyEvent. In case anyone wants to recreate.