uWolf (LibreWolf)
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@Fuseteam With main menu I mean the hamburger menu with the three lines.
Made some videos for some of the things.
1: Solo USB key, it's supposed to turn blue when an auth request comes to it. Idk if it needs some kind of usb permission: https://youtube.com/shorts/EIjAkhwfOOw
2. Drop down boxes in the settings page, I think this might be related to the on screen keyboard because it starts working after a menu opens: https://youtube.com/shorts/o5OpgXKtTWk
3. Broken auto complete in the url bar: This time it seems to have learned not to auto correct "about:", but backspace still autocompletes quite broken stuff: https://youtube.com/shorts/Uc5UlPfpEXg -
@haagch couldn't help but notice this is on first boot without my custom chrome.
also suggestions work perfectly what you're seeing is the hard work of Maliit auto-complete its annoying as hell and you can turn it off in the settings this is not related to my app.
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@ChromiumOS-Guy I had first installed the old 0.4 stable version from open store, then I tried the click package from the github releases and noticed it didn't read my existing profile. I also downgraded to the open store version again, then installed the latest upgrade from openstore. I guess this was not a good thing to do.
I now uninstalled the app from openstore, deleted ~/.librefox and installed it again. The auto install script ran again and I now have the tabs at the bottom again. Your modifications solve my issue 2.: The main menu hamburger button is now visible and clickable in portrait mode. It also solves 5, a new tab button is always visible now. So disregard these, as these were my own fault I guess.
What I can't seem to find in your modification is a way to access extensions. In portrait mode I see none, in landscape mode I see (unclickable because of 1.) icons for ublock, privacy badger and sponsor block but no overflow for further extensions, in particular I can't see a way to access the bitwarden extension at all. If you could manage to squeeze the extensions container (the puzzle tile) icon somewhere in this UI that would help a lot I think.
"Word suggestions" seems to be the name for auto complete, I disabled that for now, thanks. I know just a little bit about input/completion with virtual keyboards and I guess in x11/xwayland it'll always be a bit broken (I'd think currently it just fails to send an appropriate amount of backspaces before sending the "completed & corrected" word). But even on wayland the protocols aren't great. I remember being in the audience of this fosdem talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2972-wayland-s-input-method-is-broken-and-it-s-my-fault/
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@ChromiumOS-Guy Just to account for the investment: how many hours of work did it take you from 0 to reach 0.7.16?
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@domubpkm
I'd estimate the total time spent to be around 110-120 hours.Here's a breakdown of how it was spent:
- The first 5 hours were completed a couple of months ago building version 0.1.0, which involved creating a setup script for running LibreWolf with no modifications, @Fuseteam helped a lot with this considering his experience with uFirefox.
- The remaining work was done over the course of 2.5 weeks, with daily work sessions averaging around 7 hours, and some days going up to 12 hours.
- To avoid burnout, I took a few days off, roughly every 3 days, which helped to maintain productivity.
- It's worth noting that a significant amount of time was spent exploring and testing different ideas, many of which were eventually scrapped, which made the work more time-consuming, especially in the beginning.
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@domubpkm also kinda not related but genus level move, I moved the settings menu (3dot button) to the bottom left where the tabbar starts, this frees just enough space to make the XUI work with almost no other modifications.
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@ChromiumOS-Guy Thank you to you and @Fuseteam . It is good to realize in a concrete way all the investment time that this requires voluntarily to obtain an app which will make great service to all. It takes a lot of skills of course, but also above all a lot of passion for that.
And this comment is of course valid for all developers who spend number hours to develop apps for UT.
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@ChromiumOS-Guy Thanks, extensions are accessible now. Form filling from the browser's saved passwords doesn't work, I guess it's because of copy&paste not working? But the bitwarden extension can fill form fields so it's good enough for me.
For my point 9. I found the privacy settings and that by default it deletes a lot of stuff on exit. Might be good to call these defaults out in the readme.
Not sure if this is for location access https://github.com/ChromiumOS-Guy/uWolf/commit/c27cf41b4b3bd9d1e84519ca0c7abe17637ac19c#diff-9f6e9f7df1d5f0a60e077fa35efd7d122e78595f3852769e59834397b9860c07R3-R5 but still only the browser itself asks for its internal location access permission, it still doesn't ask the OS. I think you should be able to test this far even without the smartphone actually being able to get a fix, right?
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@haagch im currently working on the nix-manager project + in between somethings, so it will take me a while to test.
- LibreWolf is secure by default like that and i will not change it, maybe a call out that this is an extremely hardened version of firefox.
- location is not something i can fix, this is something for librewolf devs/ ut devs to work on.
- UI bugs relating to clipboard are due to xwayland and will be "fixed" by running under wayland when subsurface support is introduced.