Welcome a new Fennec F-Droid

heretoenhance · October 3, 2020, 9:33am

What happened to the effort by Mozilla to put build flags to all proprietary libraries to make it possible for f-droid to include it?
When that will be ready, is it gonna replace this build?

relan · October 3, 2020, 10:34am

What happened to the effort by Mozilla to put build flags to all proprietary libraries to make it possible for f-droid to include it?

Are you talking about flags mentioned in F-Droid · Issue #162 · mozilla-mobile/fenix · GitHub? That wasn’t Mozilla.

When that will be ready, is it gonna replace this build?

It’s on hold now (read the comments). Not sure what you mean by “replacing this build.”

If the question is “whether the upstream Firefox for Android will ever become free software”, I personally don’t believe that. Of course there are people at Mozilla who share free software values (they even helped us in the past), but Mozilla as a company is quite hostile to those values.

GLLM · October 3, 2020, 11:15am

Hello !
I’d happily try Fennec … sounds like a nice FOSS piece of software.

@relan Yet I have one question : do Mozilla Firefox account/sync still work ?
Indeed, I use it frequently to send tabs do other devices, and I think I currently cannot do without it !

Many thanks !
GLLM

relan · October 3, 2020, 12:16pm

do Mozilla Firefox account/sync still work ?

Yes.

andreicristianpetcu · October 3, 2020, 7:12pm

but Mozilla as a company is quite hostile to those values.

Mozilla is not hostile to Free software, it’s just not friendly to free software as we want. Microsoft is or was hostile to free software. Mozilla publishes code for everything it builds, it just does not remove some stuff that we don’t like. Hostile is a strong word.

eris23 · October 4, 2020, 1:40am

Dies the 81.1.1 version still allow the add-ons which 68.12.0 does?

Bubu · October 4, 2020, 1:41am

Not all of them. Only a very limited list (I don’t currently have a link handy, sorry) of addons is currently supported. More will follow in the future I think.

andreicristianpetcu · October 4, 2020, 9:12am

v83 Nightly supports all AMO extensions now. Expanded extension support in Firefox for Android Nightly | Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog

It will be beta on 20nd of October and stable on 17th of November. The fdroid project might need to patch stable to get this feature since it’s not planned for stable.

Bubu · October 4, 2020, 12:37pm

@relan Both abi versions of fennec are available now and seem to be working fine. Would you update the description and bump the CV?

(Also the maintainer notes would probably need some update as well, but that is not user facing so can happen whenever)

Morgoth · October 5, 2020, 5:28am

Does this version of Firefox have DNS over Https? I can’t find it.

Also, is there a way to prevent the address bar from being hidden when scrolling?

Thank you for updating Fennec, I like this version

linsui · October 5, 2020, 6:38am

You need to enable it in about:config. E.g. network.trr.mode

Morgoth · October 5, 2020, 7:15am

I checked earlier but there’s no such option in about:config

f_droid-anyone · October 5, 2020, 7:40am

github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix

DNS over HTTPS

opened 12:11PM - 07 Aug 19 UTC

closed 08:05AM - 24 Dec 22 UTC

jawadalkassim

feature request 🌟 🙅 waiting Feature:Privacy&Security

### Why/User Benefit/User Problem As a user i want to Protect myself while brows…ing the web From Man-in-the-middle attack and make sure Attackers cannot trick users into visiting a fake website by manipulating DNS responses for domains that are outside their control. ### What/Requirements: **Secure DNS**: To ensure your DNS queries remain private, you should use a resolver that supports secure DNS transport such as DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT). **DNSSEC:** DNSSEC allows a user, application, or recursive resolver to trust that the answer to their DNS query is what the domain owner intends it to be. **TLS 1.3 :** is Supported In Firefox Fenix 👍 **Encrypted SNI:** Encrypted SNI keeps the hostname private when you are visiting an Encrypted SNI enabled site on Cloudflare by concealing your browser’s requested hostname from anyone listening on the Internet. ### Acceptance Criteria (how do I know when I’m done?) Dns-over-Https option in the settings or in about:config like Fennec browser. You can test your browser here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/ ┆Issue is synchronized with this [Jira Task](https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FNXV2-12947)

github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix

Optimize gesture settings

opened 10:51AM - 02 Oct 20 UTC

closed 01:56AM - 06 May 21 UTC

Mugurell

needs:UX-feedback wontfix

As a followup up to #10240 and #13442, based on UX feedback the `Gestures` setti…ngs group should be phased out. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/13442#issuecomment-693027043: > An update from UX on this from @mheubusch: > 1. **Pull to refresh**: when it is ready it can go to release, NO setting to control it Pull to refresh is a default for many Android browsers. Here, we are shipping something to catch up to their feature set. Because it’s shipped with so many browsers, we think that people would not only expect pull to refresh to be a default behaviour. We also think that they don’t want to turn it off. So we should ship this gesture to Release, and not create a setting for it. > > 2. **Dynamic/Pinned toolbar**: when this is ready it can go to Release, with a setting under "Toolbar" section Hide address bar on scroll is a default for us and many other Android browsers. Some contributors wanted the address bar to always show, independent of scrolling. That’s fine. We can ship it on release, but we won’t make this persistent toolbar behaviour a default. It will be controllable under Toolbar Settings. > > 3. **Swipe toolbar up for Tabs Tray** #11862: this feature should stay on Nightly, but we can include a setting Other gestures control more advanced features. For example: swipe left/right on address bar to switch tabs. So far, we only received a signal that people want this feature through our contributors. But they’re not our general audience. So let’s hold off on shipping these other gestures, and keep them only in Nightly. > > 4. **Swipe toolbar left/right to switch tabs**: TBD (since it is already in release) ┆Issue is synchronized with this [Jira Task](https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/FNXV2-7772)

linsui · October 5, 2020, 7:43am

Morgoth · October 5, 2020, 12:47pm

okay im so dumb,nvm. Thanks

linsui · October 6, 2020, 6:49am

I encounter an issue. When I play video in Fennec it crashes regular. I didn’t see this issue in Firefox and Chromium. It happens about once ten minates.

relan · October 6, 2020, 9:29am

Could you file a bug with logcat at Issues · relan / fennecbuild · GitLab?

WGH · October 6, 2020, 2:04pm

FWIW, downgrading to 68 via adb install -r -d org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid_689420.apk mostly works. Cookies have been lost in the process, but open tabs, bookmarks, extensions have not. Didn’t check other data closely.

I was expecting I would break it completely, to be honest.

crisalis · October 6, 2020, 6:24pm

I think, yes. Please post a patch here.

I think it’s just a matter of changing val waitUntilPaintToDraw = Config.channel.isNightlyOrDebug to val waitUntilPaintToDraw = true inside fenix/app/src/main/java/org/mozilla/fenix/FeatureFlags.kt at 1adf4672489067c60ee5e369c169cecd33006ff8 · mozilla-mobile/fenix · GitHub

relan · October 7, 2020, 1:42pm

“Wait Until First Paint To Show Page Content” setting will be available in Fennec F-Droid 81.1.3.