1420550 - Firefox Android will not run in Samsung DeX Docked mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 845270

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[kenneth.fechter]

Attachment: Screenshot_20171124-230943.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/6.2 Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

With Galaxy Note8 Docked in the Samsung DeX Dock, I attempted to open Firefox 


Actual results:

Dex shows a toast messaging saying that Firefox will not work in DeX mode because it is set to require touch in the manifest


Expected results:

firefox should open as a windowed app with a resizeable window

Comment 1

[kenneth.fechter]

I am willing to test things as I have a DeX. I am also willing to pull the firefox android source and submit a fix.

Comment 3

[Atanas]

Workaround possible by enabling dev. mode in DEX:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/help/firefox-dex-station-mode-t3673189

But best would be still Mozilla fixes it natively.

Comment 4

[Judah Richardson]

(In reply to Atanas from comment #3)
> Workaround possible by enabling dev. mode in DEX:
> 
> https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/help/firefox-dex-station-mode-
> t3673189
> 
> But best would be still Mozilla fixes it natively.

This solution works on the Samsung Galaxy Note9 also. Note: you will need to restart DeX by disconnecting it from and then reconnecting it to the external monitor for the change to take hold.