Welcome a new Fennec F-Droid

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.

crisalis · October 7, 2020, 1:50pm

Thank you very much.

GLLM · October 9, 2020, 6:59am

Thanks for your swift reply

crisalis · October 10, 2020, 11:07pm

I updated Fennec (81.1.1 → 81.1.3) but now it always crashes when opened. I had to downgrade to 81.1.1. Is it just me?

Edit: got it working with a clean install. I think it was related to an ongoing bug with custom search engines - in any case, the blame is on Mozilla.

Licaon_Kter · October 11, 2020, 8:59am

No crash here (try to get some logs of that crash)

But looks like my added search engine was added, yet doesn’t appear in the list, so I can’t use it or delete it. Can’t add it again since…it exists.

Hacking prefs.js next…

crisalis · October 11, 2020, 3:01pm

But looks like my added search engine was added, yet doesn’t appear in the list, so I can’t use it or delete it. Can’t add it again since…it exists.

Yes, same here.

Maybe this is relevant for the maintainer of Fennec F-Droid:

github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

[Bug] Adding a custom search engine doesn't work

opened 06:23AM - 27 Sep 20 UTC

closed 04:10PM - 04 Oct 20 UTC

ghost

bug todo

## Steps to reproduce ### Expected behavior I can specify a link in the sett…ings to make my default search engine, it will say added, and then I can choose it from the search engines list. ### Actual behavior The settings say that it has been added, but doesn't show up on the list of choosable engines. ### Device information arm64-v8a * Android device: 10 * Fenix version: Since a few pull requests ago, on my own build off the app with no modifications. I referenced in the specific pull it started to occur in, and the same thing is replicated with even the most recent pull requests merged locally and built.

But maybe Mozilla fixes it because it’s causing problems in Firefox too, judging by their issue tracker.

trymeout · October 11, 2020, 4:39pm

Did Firefox create a new browser engine called Fenix, or is this just a new browser UI?

And is Fennec F-Droid essentially now Fenix without the spyware but your keeping the name Fennec F-Droid?

I like Fennec F-Droid for web development testing on Android which I can get on F-Droid and is spyware free.

Licaon_Kter · October 11, 2020, 5:09pm

Fennec was the mobile codename iirc

Now it’s Fenix, on the Gecko engine.

Doesn’t really matter anyway, Fennec is dead, long live whatever. No matter the name this is the new browser from Mozilla, old one will stay old.

Regarding the search engine, I added the same several times on both F-Droid’s one and on the Play one and it just worked, on other devices and on this one during build testing.

DaarkWel · October 12, 2020, 9:23am

Is new Fennec support user.js file? It seems that in my case after update from 68esr version it doesn’t.

fdroidiordf · October 12, 2020, 10:11am

In the old Fennec F-Droid/Firefox, there where settings to disable the transmission of technical data, studies, crash reports, blocking dangerous contents (AFAIK transfers a list of content from Google to the browser), blocking dangerous downloads (AFAIK transfers data to Google) etc.

I can’t find this settings in Fenix/the new Fennec F-Droid. How to manage this settings? I know I can still access about:config, but I don’t know that the settings are named exactly for all of them.

The app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled settings is missing in Fenix.
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled is disabled by default.
I can’t find the setting for telemetry for technical information, neither in Desktop Firefox nor in ‘Fenix’ F-Droid.