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Epiphany, GNOME's WebKit-based browser. Firefox doesn't resize small enough to fit on the screen.
by ptx 7y ago
Epiphany, GNOME's WebKit-based browser. Firefox doesn't resize small enough to fit on the screen.
- kgwxd 7y agoDoes that mean no extensions and thus no ad blocker? If so, do they have another ad block solution at the device level?
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoEpiphany has support for Easylist-based adblocking -- at least on the desktop version, I don't know about the mobile interface.
- gregknicholson 7y agoThere's no distinction between the "desktop" and "mobile" versions of GNOME Web. It's literally the same code (compiled for the appropriate processor architecture), just at a different window size.
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoSince I am personally unfamiliar with GNOME’s toolchain for compiling apps for both mobile and desktop, I didn’t want to speak too confidently about the matter above. So, all options shown in the preferences of the desktop version will automatically be shown in the preferences of the mobile version?
- seba_dos1 7y agoYou can test it by shrinking the Epiphany's window while running its latest version on desktop.
- TingPing 7y agoEpiphany has a built-in adblocker (using normal adblock style rules).
- pizzazzaro 7y agoSounds like someone needs to take some code from the Android version of firefox and put it into an arm version for Linux. Unless the screen is just that small?
- jancsika 7y ago> Firefox doesn't resize small enough to fit on the screen. What exactly does this mean? * I can make the FF desktop window super tiny * I can do browser zooming down to 30% * even if the chrome would obscure the webpage viewport I can go into fullscreen mode * FF itself has a responsive design mode and ships with Iphone and other small form factors in the dropdown I understand that it may be easier to tweak Gnome's browser for adding navigation gestures/url bar appearance, etc. But I can't imagine how FF wouldn't be able to display a web page in a way that fits the Librem 5 screen.
- seba_dos1 7y agoIt can display a web page, but there's a long way from that to making the UI pleasurable to use on small touchscreen.
- breakingcups 7y agoCan I ask what you mean by that? Firefox's core has been used on the mobile phone in multiple applications that function just fine and Firefox's desktop version is perfectly capable of resizing down to mobile phone sizes, even emulating a phone if you want.
- seba_dos1 7y agoThere's no mobile version of Firefox that would work on GNU/Linux. There was one, but got ditched when Fennec got rewritten into being a native Android app.