Firefox

postmarketOS ships the desktop version of Firefox as default in Phosh and Plasma Mobile, the mobile and privacy friendly configuration from mobile-config-firefox. To remove this configuration, uninstall the mobile-config-firefox
package.
Webapps
To create webapps for use with Firefox, the following shell script can be used. It generates a separate Firefox profile for isolation, and adds a desktop entry that opens the corresponding site as a single-site browser (without a url-bar).
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Create firefox profile
set -e
name=$1
url=$2
# Ugly, copy-pasted from SO
simple_name=$(echo "$name" | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sed 's/ //g')
echo "Creating webapp $name, using $url."
firefox -CreateProfile $simple_name
profile_dir=$(find ~/.mozilla/firefox/ -maxdepth 1 | grep $simple_name)
echo 'user_pref("browser.ssb.enabled",true);' > $profile_dir/user.js
# Create desktop entry
cat >~/.local/share/applications/$simple_name.desktop <<EOL
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=firefox -P $simple_name --ssb $url
Icon=/home/user/.local/share/applications/$simple_name.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=$name
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=firefox
EOL
# Get icon
wget $url/favicon.ico -O /tmp/favicon.ico
convert /tmp/favicon.ico /tmp/favicon.png
mv /tmp/favicon.png .local/share/applications/$simple_name.png ||
mv /tmp/favicon-0.png .local/share/applications/$simple_name.png
rm /tmp/favicon*.png
Save this script as /add-webapp.sh
, and mark it as executable.
Running the command ./add-webapp.sh "Hacker News" "https://news.ycombinator.com"
will create a launcher shortcut to Hacker News.
Harware accelerated rendering
To make firefox on pinephone/pinetab/pb/pbp smoother you need to change layers.acceleration.force-enabled
to true in about:config
.
To ensure that it kicked in check about:support
, graphics->compositing should become OpenGL.
See also
- aports#11141 Firefox was broken in Alpine on armv7
- pmaports!1445: configure firefox-esr for mobile and privacy (has more screenshots)
- pmaports!1492: new Firefox mobile config, that works with >= 78 too
- Firefox Add-ons