Firefox should stay in landscape mode when the phone is rotated upside down on iOS
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(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)
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(Reporter: Arf.images, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU OS 14_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/29.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15
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Steps to reproduce:
Rotated the iPhone to be upside down - so that the home button is at the top and the earpiece and front camera are at the bottom.
Actual results:
Firefox rotates back to vertical/portrait orientation.
Expected results:
Firefox should stay in landscape mode when the phone is rotated upside down. Thie way Firefox presently does this is not the same as most apps and is not the same as Safari. Safari stays in landscape mode when the phone is upside down. The way Safari does it is a lot easier when reading while laying down.
Updated•4 years ago
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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I am not reproducing the issue on iPhone Xr 14.4 using Firefox v34.0 (4795) or release 33.1.
@Don could you please specify if you are still experiencing this issue and on what Firefox version. Thanks.
Updated•3 years ago
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Hello, just found out about this site :)
I can reproduce this bug on my iPhone SE (2020) on "Firefox Daylight 39.0 (6519)" with iOS 14.8 using the given instructions even after reinstalling the app and immediately loading some simple modern webpages like google.com, mozilla.org, or wikipedia.org.
The only exception I found is when browsing settings in the menu. The new pull-down popup menus of the new-tab and bookmark/library pages still allow upside down displays when the phone is rotated upside-down (button on top). But the settings menu (where the about info is located for example) only allows normal portrait and both landscape orientations.
For reference, Safari (and many other default apps with landscape orientation support) on the iPhone SE (2020) also works as the original poster and I expected. No upside down display.
I suspect that this bug/inconsistency is not reproducible (or present at all) on iPhones that have a notched display (e.g., most models after iPhone 8) due to what I'd guess may be a system-wide portrait orientation lock for upside down apps on those devices for the split info bar at the top as well as the swipe gestures to consistently make sense, but I can't confirm myself because I've only touched one of the notched iPhones once.
This bug has been my most frustrating experience with the app so far since it was introduced at least as far back as around the time this issue was opened (if I recall correctly that is). I hope this comment reaches the right people and proves useful.
(In reply to Simon Basca [:SimonB] from comment #1)
I am not reproducing the issue on iPhone Xr 14.4 using Firefox v34.0 (4795) or release 33.1.
@Don could you please specify if you are still experiencing this issue and on what Firefox version. Thanks.
Hi Simon,
Yes I am still having this issue on an iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 15.1, Firefox Daylight 39.0 (6519).
Thanks,
Don Atzberger
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