Pinephone-mozilla.cfg/README.md

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How to Use:

These files has been designed exclusively for Firefox running GNU/Linux on Pinephone and Pinephone Pro.

Settings Protection:

Important settings are enforced/locked within mozilla.cfg, those settings cannot be changed by addons/updates/Firefox or unwanted/accidental manipulation; To change those settings you can easily do it by editing mozilla.cfg.

Installation:

  • Clone or download zip file and extract it
  • Locate Firefox's installation directory /usr/lib/firefox-esr/ or /usr/lib/firefox/
  • Copy the files contained in config folder to the install directory
  • Start Firefox and test if config was applied browsing to about:config.

Uninstall:

  • To uninstall, just remove the files you added to your Firefox's install directory; then restart Firefox.

Mobile view troubleshootings

  • Due to Firefox is a desktop browser and managing addons is complicated the easiest way to have mobile view is disabling privacy.resistFingerprinting and forcing Android UserAgent. Those changes are reversible, though.

  • Opening links in new tabs -> Select Ctrl and tab the link.

Known problems

Some breakage?

Try changing "network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy" from 2 to 1

Infinite loop loading some webs?

This is related to cookies. Block all of them momentarily changing "network.cookie.cookieBehavior" from 5 to 2

Thanks: