Ubuntu Touch Q&A 172 Call for Questions
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For newcomers like myself, could you share tips on best practices with browsers in UT for beginners?
I have discovered the Webber application, but several sites I normally use, including music streaming and my own Nextcloud server page, don't work or give warnings of being out-of-date.
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@theprivacydad Currently Morph browser is "out to date". Fortunately, an update is planned for the first quarter of 2026 : https://ubports.com/lomiri-roadmap
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@libremax Thanks. I have just learned about Libertine and am downloading that. Taking a while!
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@arubislander if I ever get so proficient with UT I will definitly contribute. Right now I am still learning.
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@RJDan Which is exactly the right time to make such a contribution. Discovering something as a new user and sharing that discovery, while probably not news to long time users, will be exactly what other new users would find helpful.
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U UBportsNews referenced this topic
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@libremax It therefore means if I understand correctly, that Morph-Browser will be outdated for a long time on the first stable versions of noble ... and that fortunately the super complementary work of @ChromiumOS-Guy on Uwolf should remedy this situation while waiting
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@theprivacydad Haha, Libertine is maybe not the best choice for installing a web browser. Please take a look at "uWolf" and "Mimi Browser" in the Open Store, before trying to install a web browser over Libertine. Graphical programs did not work great on Libertine, last time I tried it.
I think uWolf is currently the most versatile webbrowser for UT, but it maybe does not fit correctly on the screen of your device.As libremax said, the standard browser for UT (Morph) is outdated right now and it will take some time to fix this.
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Question about the future of Libertine in noble: Some time ago, it was discussed that Libertine will maybe not exist in a future version of UT, because most desktop programs could be installed as a snap package (and even terminal programs that are not available as a snap could maybe be installed with LXD). But I noticed that Libertine still seems to be in noble (24.04-X.X).
Was it just less work to not remove it for now (I totally understand if there are more important things right now) or has the strategy changed?
Some idea if Libertine will be removed in the future: Maybe it would be good to not directly remove the the settings menu for Libertine, but replace it with something like "Libertine is not supported anymore. Please try to install traditional desktop apps over snap [link to snap store] or click here to automatically set up a LXD container for you". Because there are still a lot of old forum discussions and documentations about installing desktop apps over Libertine. So people will maybe get confused, when they can not find Libertine on their device.
Thank you very much for all your work
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@johndoe Thanks, I have downloaded uWolf and will check out Mimi.
So snap packages can be installed directly into UT?
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@theprivacydad Snap packages are still work in progress and they will hopefully get better support in the next version (noble 24.04). I think upgrading to Mir 2.x in Q2 2026, could maybe fix a lot of graphical bugs.
Under the current stable version (focal 20.04) you can already try snap packages out with Snapz0r from the Open Store, but a lot of them will probably not work. I think it is more a proof of concept for now.
