Where is Firefox?

dobey

There is no mobile native version of Firefox available for Ubuntu Touch. You can install the standard PC version of Firefox in a libertine container. If you want to see a touch friendly mobile native version for UT, then the best place to ask, would be the Firefox developers.

hummlbach

Guess @dobey wanted to say no ^^

flohack

@hummlbach Fixed xD

krogoth

@dobey That's a lot of type for no

jezek

@krogoth I like @dobey 's answer. Cause it's not a simple 'no'. It is accompanied by some hints, how you can try to approach the problem, if you want to solve it. Keep going @dobey , excellent work.

Giiba

I've been looking around a bit trying to suggest a mobile build for the emerging Linux phone segment; something multi-OS like PureMaps would be a real boon to the ecosystem. Using Chromium seems wrong to my 'foss sense'.

Thing is I have no idea how I would poke the developers... anyone know how that might work?

oxwivi

@dobey, can you point me to some guide on how to do the libertine container?

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dobey

@ell1e All Ubuntu Touch devices are not fully on Wayland yet. Also, nobody has packaged Firefox as a click with a sensible mobile optimized UI.

dobey

@oxwivi The documentation is on https://docs.ubports.com for it.

pixelated

does the android version of firefox ( or better still Focus) work with anbox? not tried anbox yet myself

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dobey

@ell1e No. Wayland is not on par with mirclient, and is not the default for hybris (Android based) devices yet.

You can install a deb inside libertine and launch it under Xmir still, though.

Of course, on upstream (mesa) based devices, Wayland is being used, though all Wayland protocols are not yet supported, so apps may have varying degrees of functionality or failure. Firefox may need to be run via Xwayland still. Also, as apt/snap/flatapak/etc… are not supported (either yet or ever, depending), one would still need to build a click packaged version of it to get something "native" to install.

TotalSonic

You can install Firefox 76.01 in a Libertine container directly from the UBports default reposotories, and it works ok in OTA-12 in my tests. Relative to the UT native Morph browser pages in Firefox load much slower and scroll with much greater lag. Also, there is no pinch to zoom in Firefox, although you can enable touch scrolling by adding the "Scroll Anywhere" extension, and setting it to use "Left Click" and "Grab and Drag" in its preferences. I suggest using the Libertine Tweak Tool app from the OpenStore to make gui scaling and scroll bars work better for it as well. One nice thing with Firefox is for dynamic websites it will display the mobile site in portrait mode, and desktop site in landscape mode.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

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TotalSonic

@oxwivi said in Where is Firefox?:

@dobey, can you point me to some guide on how to do the libertine container?

http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/libertine.html

GizmoChicken

@TotalSonic said in Where is Firefox?:

You can install Firefox 76.01 in a Libertine container directly from the UBports default reposotories, and it works ok in OTA-12 in my tests. Relative to the UT native Morph browser pages in Firefox load much slower and scroll with much greater lag . . .

Thanks for the info regarding running Firefox 76.01 in a Libertine container. Genuinely appreciated!

And I commend you on your marketing prowess demonstrated by the Total Sonic webpage opened in your Firefox tab.

jasom

@TotalSonic Thanks for your brief tutorial how to install Firefox on Ubuntu Tourch. I'm new to this system, so my question is: How can I access FF deb file alias where are "UBports default reposotories"? Some more detailed tutorial hot to install FF would be welcome

potet

@jasom It's easier not to use a deb file, but to install right from the repository.

Open system settings
Enter Libertine settings (the top hat)
Press "+" in the upper right corner and follow the steps
Wait for the container to be created (could take a while)
Open the newly created container from Libertine settings
Press the "+" in the top right corner, choose the top alternative (Enter package name)
Write "firefox" and press install
Wait while it finishes the install.

You can also search for a package in the archives if you're not sure about the exact name of a package. Then you just pick another alternative in step 6.