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=== Configuration on gtk ===
=== Configuration on gtk ===
Edit .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini with:
Edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini with:


<source lang="C">
<source lang="C">
[Settings]
[Settings]
gtk-icon-theme-name = Gnome
gtk-font-name = Sans 13  
gtk-font-name = Sans 13  
gtk-cursor-theme-name = Numix
gtk-cursor-theme-name = Numix

Revision as of 09:23, 11 October 2018

This page explains how to make firefox usable in plasma-mobile.

Firefox 52

Install firefox-esr package from alpine. It is currently firefox 52.9.0-r1

Specific firefox config

Go in your profile directory (.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/) then exec:

echo 'user_pref("dom.w3c.touch_events.enabled", true);' >> prefs.js
echo 'user_pref("browser.gesture.pinch.in", "cmd_fullZoomReduce");' >> prefs.js
echo 'user_pref("browser.gesture.pinch.out", "cmd_fullZoomEnlarge");' >> prefs.js
echo 'user_pref("general.useragent.site_specific_overrides", false );' >> prefs.js
echo 'user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; Nexus 5 Build/LMY48B; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/43.0.2357.65 Safari/537.361");' >> prefs.js

And restart the browser.

Configuration on gtk

Edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini with:

[Settings]
gtk-font-name = Sans 13 
gtk-cursor-theme-name = Numix
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = Numix
gtk-cursor-theme-size = 0
gtk-toolbar-style = GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH
gtk-toolbar-icon-size = GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images = 0
gtk-menu-images = 1
gtk-enable-event-sounds = 1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds = 1
gtk-xft-antialias = 1
gtk-xft-hinting = 0 
gtk-xft-hintstyle = hintfull
gtk-xft-rgba = rgb
gtk-icon-theme-name = Numix

You may ajust Font size for your screen

Environment variables for starting Firefox

You can start firefox with:

MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 GDK_SCALE=2  firefox %u

You may ajust scale to your device screen size, but it may only be integers.

You can edit your desktop shortcut /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop :

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 GDK_SCALE=2  firefox %u
...

Upcoming versions

With upcoming versions (> 55) we will be able to use the multi-touch zoom extension to get fluid zooming. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-touch-zoom/