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Add policies.json and prefs.js to configure Firefox (yes, you need both to be able to control all this): Mobile improvements: * Enable zooming with fingers * Mobile user agent (from tor browser for android) Privacy improvements: * Disable search suggestions, so URLs do not get sent to search engines as they are getting typed. * Disable Firefox studies * Disable Telemetry * Set DuckDuckGo as default search engine, not Google Uncluttering (screen space, remove broken features, less distractions): * Move all buttons to the overflow menu and remove spacers around the address bar * Empty "new tab" page (loads faster, no annoying "top sites" etc.) * Disable developer tools, so the hamburger menu fits the screen of the pinephone. These aren't really useful on phones anyway. * Disable "Firefox Screenshots": the feature did not work with the mobile resolution in Phosh. * No default bookmarks from Firefox * Disable First Run Page * Disable Post Update Page * Disable "User Messaging" (What's new, Extension/Feature Recommendations, Urlbar Interventions) Add a local html file that serves as lightweight default homepage. It links to the postmarketOS blog and wiki, explains that this is desktop firefox with mobile configuration and explains how to change settings and install addons (with a direct link to ublock origin). Users can override the homepage, new tab page, search engine, search suggestions pre-configured by this package directly in the UI. I chose Firefox ESR, because: * It fits the screen better: the "new tab" button is bigger, the menu opening when you click the top-right button actually fits the screen, with all its submenus. There are zoom controls in the same menu, which make the preferences pages very usable. * It's possible to override the default search engine with a policy file; that's not possible in non-ESR firefox (we'd probably need to change it in the sources). Related: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates Co-authored-by: Martijn Braam <martijn@brixit.nl>
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2.3 KiB
HTML
94 lines
2.3 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Welcome to Firefox on postmarketOS</title>
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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<style>
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body {
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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}
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h1, h2 {
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margin: 0;
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padding: 0;
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font-weight: normal;
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color: #555;
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}
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h1 {
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font-size: 1.8em;
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margin-top: 40px;
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text-align: center;
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font-weight: bold;
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}
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h2 {
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margin-top: 30px;
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font-size: 1.5em;
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}
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p, ul{
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margin-top:0;
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line-height:180%;
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}
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a {
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color:#009900;
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background: #eeeeee;
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border-bottom: 2px solid #009900;
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text-decoration: none;
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padding: 2px;
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}
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.top-links {
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text-align: center;
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margin-top: 20px;
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}
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.text {
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margin-top: 30px;
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font-size: 1.0em;
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}
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.text a {
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background: none;
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text-decoration: underline;
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border-bottom: none;
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color: black;
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padding: 0px;
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}
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</style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>
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Welcome to Firefox on postmarketOS
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</h1>
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<p class="top-links">
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<a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog">blog</a> -
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<a href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/">wiki</a>
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</p>
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<p class="text">
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This is the desktop version of Firefox, but with a
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<a href="https://postmarketos.org/firefox-cfg">
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mobile-friendly configuration</a>. Try zooming and
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scrolling with your fingers!
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</p>
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<h2>How to install add-ons</h2>
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<p class="text">
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Use the official
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<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/">add-on website</a>
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from Mozilla. Take care, some add-ons require a lot of access to your
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data and may not be respectful of your privacy. Here is a free software
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add-on that we trust:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin/">uBlock Origin</a>:
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a wide-spectrum content blocker, that prevents most
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websites from wasting <i>your</i> resources (time,
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traffic, battery, CPU and RAM).
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</ul>
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<h2>How to change settings</h2>
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<p class="text">
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Read on to set a different homepage, search engine or change other
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options. Tap the collapsed menu icon on the top right, then select
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<i>Preferences</i>. Tap the same icon again and decrease the
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<i>Zoom</i> level to <i>50%</i>, so the page becomes readable. Next,
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tap the category of the setting you want to change on the left —
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house for <i>Homepage</i>, magnifying glass for <i>Search</i>. Finally,
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change the desired setting on the right.
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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