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== User agent == | == User agent == | ||
If you would like | If you would like to switch between mobile and desktop page editions easily, the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher-revived/ User Agent switcher] extension will allow for easy switching between different user agents. | ||
== Upcoming versions == | == Upcoming versions == |
Revision as of 18:42, 15 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-icon-theme-name = Paper
gtk-cursor-theme-name = Paper
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = Gnome
gtk-font-name = Sans 10
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
Make sure to install gnome-icon-theme and paper-icon-theme packages
You may ajust Font size for your screen.
Environment variables for starting Firefox
You can start firefox with:
MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 GDK_SCALE=3 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=3 firefox %u
...
User agent
If you would like to switch between mobile and desktop page editions easily, the User Agent switcher extension will allow for easy switching between different user agents.
Upcoming versions
With upcoming versions (> 55) we will be able to use the multi-touch zoom extension to get fluid zooming. https://github.com/haxiomic/firefox-multi-touch-zoom