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New Firefox mobile config, that works with >= 78 too

Administrator requested to merge mobile-config-firefox into master

Changes

New version does not just support Firefox 68 (firefox-esr in Alpine 3.12), which is going to be EOL soon. It also supports the new ESR 78 (firefox-esr in Alpine edge, soon also in 3.12, supported until ~2021-04) and 79 (current stable "rapid release" version; firefox in Alpine edge).

The source was moved to a dedicated git repo, so other distributions can also use it. Keep the distro-specific links here in a separate HTML file, so they can be modified without changing mobile-config-firefox.git.

New repository with detailed README.md: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox

My testing and screenshots

I have verified that this config works with:

  • Firefox ESR 68 (v20.05)
  • Firefox 79 (v20.05)
  • Firefox ESR 78 (edge)

And took screenshots of how each of these browsers looks like with:

  • the default config
  • the old config (postmarketos-config-mobile)
  • this new config

Most importantly, this fixes #701 (closed):

Menus in ESR 78 are fixed!

Note for testers:

Make sure you run /usr/mobile-config/bin/firefox after installing the package, or else the symlink to userChrome.css will not be created. This is necessary to make the UI tweaks possible. The wrapper path is added to PATH, so after installing this package, rebooting, and starting firefox via the usual desktop launcher, the wrapper gets executed automatically.

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