Closed Bug 1859180 Opened 7 months ago Closed 7 months ago

about:config is broken and just 1% of desktop addons install, can't even set Desktop Mode to default without about:config/useragent addons

Categories

(Fenix :: General, defect)

Product:
Fenix
Component:
General
Version:
Firefox 118
Platform:
All
Android
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1813163

People

(Reporter: eternalbluebullrun, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [qa-triaged])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. URL -> about:config
  2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=useragent

Actual results:

  1. No configuration
  2. No addons

Expected results:

  1. Configuration to allow Desktop Mode default (plus most configuration; Firefox for Android does not allow much configuration from the GUI, about:config is needed for almost all of Firefox's configuration)
  2. Addons to allow Desktop Mode default
  1. about:release is not enabled by default in release channel for now. See bug 1813163
  2. the ability to install any addons is currently only available on beta/nightly. also you can use collections in beta/nightly to include the desired addon. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/
  3. there're tickets about desktop mode persistent. bug 1807150 bug 1807151

I'll close this as a duplicate of Bug 1813163.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 months ago
Duplicate of bug: 1813163
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: [qa-triaged]

Fix: use Qemu to install desktop Firefox through Ubuntu

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/pull/544#issuecomment-2017301080

about:config is available in the release build of Firefox for Android (and Firefox Focus) through the following URL:

chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

With this can set "permissions.default.image" to 2 to block most images, but must also disable Javascript because it is not respectful of this

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