<![CDATA[Is there a better browser somewhere?]]>I've installed UBports to my Lenovo M10 HD and it is snappy and I absolutely love the configuration options - the columnated menu upper right is fantastic and the Tweak app is super too.

I bought this tablet to install UBports on and to use 5e.tools and dungeonmastersvault.com. Both of these are browser-based apps for D&D.

But the two available browsers (Morph and Sapot) are weak sauce, laggy, and there is a terrible misalignment with the fonts over popup dialogs for instance. The font is some old over-sized terminal font or something. Is there a fix for this? Page elements are also misaligned, making it hard to use the widgets.

UBP installed beautifully and, as I wrote, the system itself is snappy and superbly laid out, design-wise. It's not so good on the suspend/battery thing but it's alright. No terminal-font issues anywhere but in the browser (that I've noticed so far.) Love the store.

New to UBP, so I'm unfamiliar with how to run android apps and if they're slow or too alien to the system. Particularly a browser? Getting Chromium or UnGoogled Chromium would be fantastic.

Advice welcomed.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10271/is-there-a-better-browser-somewhereRSS for NodeSun, 08 Mar 2026 03:45:35 GMTSat, 20 Jul 2024 20:31:21 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:22:15 GMT]]>said in Is there a better browser somewhere?:

@Fuseteam could you please give me a clue how to install uFirefox?
I downloaded several .click files from builds artifacts and tried to install them with OpenStore, but gives an error "the package could not be installed. Make sure it is a valid click package".
As well itried to install the from command line, but there are errors too

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Downloads$ pkcon --allow-untrusted install-local firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click
Installing files              [=========================]                                                 
Finished                      [=========================]                                                 
Fatal error: No such file /home/phablet/Downloads/firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click, or unknown or unsupported content type

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Downloads$ sudo click install --all-users firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click --allow-unauthenticated
[sudo] password for phablet: 
Cannot install firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click: Signature verification error: debsig: firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click does not appear to be a deb format package

This is resolved, please ignore the question. Somehow I really downloaded several files corrupted. Simple re-download helped.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87738https://forums.ubports.com/post/87738Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:22:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:48:50 GMT]]>@Fuseteam could you please give me a clue how to install uFirefox?
I downloaded several .click files from builds artifacts and tried to install them with OpenStore, but gives an error "the package could not be installed. Make sure it is a valid click package".
As well itried to install the from command line, but there are errors too

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Downloads$ pkcon --allow-untrusted install-local firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click
Installing files              [=========================]                                                 
Finished                      [=========================]                                                 
Fatal error: No such file /home/phablet/Downloads/firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click, or unknown or unsupported content type

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Downloads$ sudo click install --all-users firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click --allow-unauthenticated
[sudo] password for phablet: 
Cannot install firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click: Signature verification error: debsig: firefox.fuseteam_142_arm64.click does not appear to be a deb format package
]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87716https://forums.ubports.com/post/87716Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:48:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:30:03 GMT]]>No matter whatever the wobbly browsers for 20.04 we have. It is inexorable, 24.04 will arrive (very ?) soon ..
20.04 works very well (with a non fully functional browser) but is depreciated and we will have to take the big leap again.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84986https://forums.ubports.com/post/84986Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:30:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:10:49 GMT]]>@paulcarroty said in Is there a better browser somewhere?:

uFirefox is still far from having an android-style mobile experience

Still the best browser for modern websites on UT.

I wouldn't call it the "best" given how the settings pages aren't convergent xd

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84984https://forums.ubports.com/post/84984Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:10:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:25:21 GMT]]>

uFirefox is still far from having an android-style mobile experience

Still the best browser for modern websites on UT.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84959https://forums.ubports.com/post/84959Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:25:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:09:57 GMT]]>@uxes said in Is there a better browser somewhere?:

@domubpkm well sure, but not every latest build is allright
https://gitlab.com/debclick/uFirefox/-/jobs/7676432640/artifacts/browse this should be pretty ok

Oh wow this is really old, for clarity the latest artifact on the xmir-focal branch should be alright
here's for firefox 136: https://gitlab.com/debclick/uFirefox/-/jobs/9342376608/artifacts/browse/build/aarch64-linux-gnu/app/

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84942https://forums.ubports.com/post/84942Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:09:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sun, 08 Sep 2024 08:05:55 GMT]]>@Bolly Just saw it today, so I will give it a try.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81916https://forums.ubports.com/post/81916Sun, 08 Sep 2024 08:05:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:51:51 GMT]]>Hello all,

Another alternative has been born. 🙂

https://open-store.io/app/mimibrowser.fredldotme

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81915https://forums.ubports.com/post/81915Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:51:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:30:11 GMT]]>@Keneda uFirefox is still far from having an android-style mobile experience, although the work must be commended. As the developer said on Gitlab, there are many gaps to fill : https://gitlab.com/debclick/uFirefox/-/issues/1 .

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81834https://forums.ubports.com/post/81834Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:30:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:38:26 GMT]]>@uxes Thanks for the details. The linked version of uFirefox works impressively on my GS5 Pro.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81823https://forums.ubports.com/post/81823Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:38:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:46:40 GMT]]>That would be so good (u)Firefox to become the main Ubuntu Touch browser...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81822https://forums.ubports.com/post/81822Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:46:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:42:47 GMT]]>@domubpkm well sure, but not every latest build is allright
https://gitlab.com/debclick/uFirefox/-/jobs/7676432640/artifacts/browse this should be pretty ok

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81821https://forums.ubports.com/post/81821Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:42:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:38:35 GMT]]>@sven https://gitlab.com/debclick/uFirefox/-/artifacts

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81820https://forums.ubports.com/post/81820Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:38:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:05:03 GMT]]>@uxes Where can I find ufirefox?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81819https://forums.ubports.com/post/81819Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:05:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:14:13 GMT]]>ufirefox would be great if it has clipboard and content hub and all the integration, i am using it sometimes from the latest build that was 5 days ago

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81669https://forums.ubports.com/post/81669Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:14:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:27:03 GMT]]>@kugiigi the usability issues with Firefox currently don't really have anything to do with it running under XWayland/XMir (except the hardware acceleration).

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81654https://forums.ubports.com/post/81654Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:27:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:27:22 GMT]]>We need proper Wayland support for Libertine apps so we can maybe use Firefox 😄

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81651https://forums.ubports.com/post/81651Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:27:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:58:32 GMT]]>@kugiigi yes. It's a shame that we can't even view UBports' gitlab repos anymore! 😟

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81637https://forums.ubports.com/post/81637Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:58:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:29:12 GMT]]>@domubpkm Seems like it 😞
I'm still in OTA-4 though.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81633https://forums.ubports.com/post/81633Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:29:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:33:38 GMT]]>Just seen today. More annoying yet : we can't see issues with morph or Sapot on gitlab ! Confirmed ?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81630https://forums.ubports.com/post/81630Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:33:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Fri, 26 Jul 2024 04:26:53 GMT]]>@rogue_ronin said in Is there a better browser somewhere?:

Getting Chromium or UnGoogled Chromium would be fantastic.

It sounds more like these web sites just have problems, as QtWebengine, which is used in Morph/Sapot, is simply the Chromium engine, integrated into Qt.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81189https://forums.ubports.com/post/81189Fri, 26 Jul 2024 04:26:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:05:26 GMT]]>@ikoz said in Is there a better browser somewhere?:

Install a browser in Waydroid:
Install Waydroid from the Waydroid helper app. Then inside the android container install fennec (Firefox) from F-Droid or a chromium APK. Just use the browser you just installed.
It is really straightforward to install.

Thank you, I will try! And also thank you for the context and background. I was puzzled when the Jade Browser also had the same font problems.

Much aloha!

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81098https://forums.ubports.com/post/81098Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:05:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:58:14 GMT]]>@messayisto said in Is there a better browser somewhere?:

@rogue_ronin There is a new browser in development:
https://ubports.com/de/blog/ubports-blogs-nachrichten-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-144-3931, but it`ll take a while..

Thank you! I will read up on it.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81097https://forums.ubports.com/post/81097Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:58:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a better browser somewhere? on Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:53:16 GMT]]>Some background info about possible issues with browsers on Ubuntu touch:
All browsers on Ubuntu touch have the same web engine (Qt WebEngine), which is responsible for rendering pages, so all browsers from the store will be affected by an issue of the web engine. Ubuntu Touch is currently based on Ubuntu 20.04, Qt 5.15 and thus is a little outdated.
There is progress for 24.04, Qt 6 and a new browser with a WebKit (apple's) web engine, but until any of them gets completed, you can install Firefox (or chromium) preferably from Waydroid. From my experience it is really nice but can drain battery a bit faster.

Install a browser in Waydroid:
Install Waydroid from the Waydroid helper app. Then inside the android container install fennec (Firefox) from F-Droid or a chromium APK. Just use the browser you just installed.
It is really straightforward to install.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/81095https://forums.ubports.com/post/81095Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:53:16 GMT