1579392 - [meta] improve experience for mobile touch screens

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[David Heidelberg [:okias]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Goal of this task is improve handling of Firefox on small devices with approximatelly 6 inch screens and also low. res (approx. 720x1440 as present in Librem 5 and Pinephone) devices.

Inspiration can be taken from libhandy library [1], as can be seen on video [2].

[1] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKmRHQI35AY

Comment 1

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

David, is there a component that makes more sense for this meta than Untriaged?

Comment 2

[David Heidelberg [:okias]]

Attachment: LIBREM5firefox-1.png

firefox run in GNOME Boxes (qemu image from https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Development_Environment/Boards/qemu.html ). Resolution and handling should be identical to Librem 5 Phone.

Firefox must be started with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 to properly display itself.

Challenge is to adapt menus, bars, settings and all other elements, to fit to fullscreen window placed on mobile screen, while maintaining good touch handling.

Comment 3

[David Heidelberg [:okias]]

Attachment: LIBREM5firefox-2-settings.png

I presume, that settings will need CSS style sheet to fit mobile devices.

Comment 4

[David Heidelberg [:okias]]

Attachment: LIBREM5firefox-3-find.png

FIND bar should also adapt to limited width of screen while allowing to get closed.

Comment 5

[David Heidelberg [:okias]]

Scrollbar should be hidden, if touchscreen usage is detected (this is also valid for using touchscreen on laptops and tablets)

Comment 6

[russianneuromancer]

Also long bookmarks list opened via menu doesn't fit the screen, so the button that open library is not visible.

Comment 9

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) [:RokeJulianLockhart]]

Can confirm bugs, can edit any bug

Shouldn't we remove those permissions from [e-mail]?

Comment 10

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This meta bug is not doing anything useful at this point.