Give Phosh a working browser

Neither Firefox or GNOME Web work decently well with Phosh at the moment. Firefox is apparently being discussed here and here. GNOME Web is unfortunately broken on Wayland at the moment. Given that the graphical phone UI use Wayland, and that a web browser is quite important, it's quite annoying.

Web:

• Investigate why it's broken on Wayland.

Firefox:

• Force the use of the Wayland backend on Phosh and Plamo. It works better on Wayland anyway.
• Try to move, if possible, buttons to the ">>" menu by default.

added help wanted type::feature ui-phosh labels

about forcing Firefox to use the Wayland backend, !1059 (merged)

By Antoine Fontaine on 2020-03-13T09:48:59

@afontain GNOME Web in Phosh seems to work (very slowly!) under qemu-aarch64 when I launch it from ssh: I was able to open example.org.

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/10000 epiphany "https://example.com/"

I haven't tried to start it from Phosh's launcher yet.

By Zhuowei Zhang on 2020-03-15T02:54:17

could someone assign me and Cogitry to this issue?

By Antoine Fontaine on 2020-03-18T09:34:13

assigned to @afontain

By Alexey Min on 2020-03-18T11:01:59

mentioned in issue #536 (closed)

By Antoine Fontaine on 2020-04-03T12:34:44

About Firefox the main issue currently is that in portrait mode the window is too large for the screen, and a part of it is invisible.(on pinephone). I did not find any config solving this problem.

Apart for that it works very well and smoothly for me, after a few configurations in about:config ( mobile useragent + enable pinch to zoom ). Maybe these config could be done by default?

By Pierre Parent on 2020-04-03T15:40:19

marked the checklist item Investigate why it's broken on Wayland. as completed

By Antoine Fontaine on 2020-04-06T22:27:45

@pparent the latest release of firefox has an issue with the giant address bar mozilla decided to introduce. I have gotten around this by removing firefox and installing firefox-esr which resizes to the mobile portrait screen. I added the instructions to the wiki.

By Anjandev Momi on 2020-04-23T07:07:28

@anjandev Ok thank's I indeed used firefox-esr in my video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjaJJ6o-mbM )

By Pierre Parent on 2020-04-23T11:00:01

that feeling when

midori

is touch enabled

By tallero on 2020-05-19T02:58:31

gnome web works fine if u disable webkit sandboxing lolz

By Raatty on 2020-05-30T09:08:50

We have firefox (!1396 (merged)) and epiphany (!1371 (merged)) working fine now, closing

By Oliver Smith on 2020-07-07T21:21:27

closed

By Oliver Smith on 2020-07-07T21:21:27