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Author SHA1 Message Date
Oliver Smith
511f62ac7b
userChrome/urlbar: hide amazon icon (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
95710f0b98
autoconfig: don't suggest search engines in urlbar (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
f770c747d3
autoconfig: don't suggest topsites in urlbar (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
a5ccdf0ffe
policies: disable UserMessaging/SkipOnboarding (MR 19)
Disable the last item in UserMessaging too. Onboarding messages look
like this:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1202153
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
559d48638e
Homepage: set to about:home (MR 19)
Use the standard Firefox homepage as default homepage. The information
on the previous homepage is mostly obsolete, and this makes it look much
nicer.
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
af7c250fe3
policies.json: configure firefox home (MR 19)
Disable everything but the search bar. This gives a clean page, of a
cog wheel on the top right where the user can adjust it as they want
(e.g. enable most frequently visited pages), then the FF logo and the
search bar.

I've considered enabling TopSites in order to show the most frequently
visited sites according to the browser's history. However, this also
enables built-in links to youtube, facebook, reddit, amazon, twitter.
And while it is convenient to have links you frequently visit available
(based on your history, not these built-ins!), getting an almost blank
page instead is actually a good idea to reduce the bad pattern of
opening a web browser and then forgetting your original intention until
it opens, and instead surfing mindlessly on the most recently visited
websites. The almost blank page gives the user a moment to think about
what they really want to do.
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
160a1056c2
policies.json: install uBlock origin by default (MR 19)
Here's something controversial. Install the wide-spectrum blocker uBlock
origin by default. This enables blocking of ads, trackers and malware
sites. I think these should be blocked for several reasons:

1. Performance on mobile devices

It's clear when browsing the web with this add-on, that there is a major
performance benefit in blocking advertising and tracking on websites. We
don't have these resources to waste on Mobile Linux.

2. Privacy

From uBlock origin's README.md:
> [...] it's important to note that using a blocker is NOT theft. Don't fall
> for this creepy idea. The ultimate logical consequence of blocking = theft
> is the criminalisation of the inalienable right to privacy.

> Ads, "unintrusive" or not, are just the visible portions of privacy-invading
> apparatus entering your browser when you visit most sites nowadays. uBlock
> Origin's main goal is to help users neutralize such privacy-invading
> apparatus — in a way that welcomes those users who don't wish to use more
> technical, involved means (such as uMatrix).

3. Manipulation

Modern advertising platforms are used to manipulate people in the scale
of influencing elections of world leaders. From Cambridge Analytica and
similar companies' perspective, one of the workflows is showing the user
an advertisement, then monitoring search queries to determine if the ad
was effective, then adjusting the ad to convince you better to vote for
a certain party, repeat. This has severe negative effects on society,
for people unfamiliar with the topic I recommend watching the movies
"The Great Hack" and "The Social Dilemma". The mentioned workflow is
described in the "Your Undivided Attention" podcast, episode 10, "Rock
the Voter" in an interview with a former Cambridge Analyticer insider.

Related: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Related: cab6a5076c/README.md (policiesjson-45)
Related: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
76dc2a742c
policies.json: remove most default search engines (MR 19)
Keep DuckDuckGo (still set as default) and Wikipedia. This part of the
json file was generated with contrib/extract-search-engines.sh.
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
654616ab46
contrib/extract-search-engines.sh: new file (MR 19)
Add a script that allows extracting the list of search engines enabled
in the current firefox build. There is no way to simply disable all
built-in search engines, so we need a list like this. Note that the
search engines can only be removed in the ESR version. I've briefly
tried to find such a list in the source code, but didn't find it without
spending too much effort. Besides, I'm guessing that in the source code
it's stored in almost the same format found in the "omni.ja" zip
archive.
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
445c1da339
CI: lint: detect indent errors in json (MR 19)
Lines in policies.json start with ".
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
7f5dddd387
policies.json: fix indent (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
fa65935111
CI: lint: fix not working as pre-commit symlink (MR 19)
Throw in another realpath, so TOPDIR works as expected after:
  ln -s $PWD/.ci/lint.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit
2021-12-05 11:45:42 +01:00
Oliver Smith
5b1ace4f24
autoconfig.js: fix indent (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
a8cbf4f950
CI: lint: show "src" in error message too (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
6f4285e957
CI: lint: check js, json too (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
0b38379d61
user-agent: update to latest tor browser's UA (MR 19)
As of writing (2021-12-04), the latest tor browser for android version
is 10.5.9 (91.2.0-Release) and has this user-agent.
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
3d3ef8a516
userChrome/editBookmarkPanel: new file (MR 19)
After a boatload of trail and error, here's a config that appears to be
working well with the editBookmarkPanel.
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
8759370c25
userChrome/appMenu: hide fullscreen button (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
4cc9e5f07a
userChrome/tabmenu: fix width for long titles (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
e7571365c1
userChrome/tabmenu: fix tiny height/jumping around (MR 19)
Apply a similar hack to the "all tabs" menu, as the appMenu has, so it
gets a proper height and doesn't jump above or below the "all tabs"
button, depending on the keyboard being displayed or not. With this
hack, it stays consistently above the button.
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
5f5cc3c09a
userChrome/tabmenu: always show "all tabs" button (MR 19)
Thanks to Peter Mack (linmob) for the idea and initial implementation.
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
af0073b014
userChrome/findbar: rework for FF 94 (MR 19)
Use multiple lines now, instead of making fonts tiny and hiding buttons.
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
eb890d187c
userChrome/urlbar: hide bookmarks toolbar (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
41e3f583ea
userChrome/appMenu: rework for FF 94 (MR 19)
Adjust the menu for Firefox 94, and for having the tab bar and search
bar at the bottom.

Getting the appMenu to look decent took me forever to figure out, here's
a notable alternative version that always uses the full screen height:

  #appMenu-popup {
        margin-top: calc(-1 * 100vh) !important;
        height: calc(100vh - 100px) !important;
        max-height: calc(100vh - 100px) !important;
  }

However with this alternative version, there's a bug when having the
keyboard open, then opening the menu (-> it will get spawned with about
half the screen size), and then closing the keyboard and opening the
menu again. The menu is cached (as one can see in the element inspector)
and still has the wrong height. The content inside the menu is
flickering between the full height and the half height.

By having a fixed size that looks good with both the keyboard open and
closed, we can work around this problem. The height of the keyboard was
adjusted for the PinePhone. If it doesn't look good on your device, add
a media query to make it have a different height based on the overall
height of the window (and possibly also width).
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
1a0ba21cc6
userChrome/urlbar: big search results on top (MR 19)
Cover the whole page, make it scrollable. Much more enjoyable to use.
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
3269089d1c
userChrome/urlbar: hide identity icon label (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
e2688f0e55
userChrome/browser: move nav bar to bottom (MR 19)
Based on MR 17 by plata-gl, thank you very much, and thanks to everybody
who answered the survey linked in that MR whether to make this default
or not.

I've left out padding-top since the additional 1px bar towards the top
looks like a bug, I've compared with Fennec on Android and it doesn't
have such a line. Also I've left out the inFullscreen lines from the MR,
not sure what they are for - we can still add them in a follow-up patch
if desired.
2021-12-05 11:45:41 +01:00
Oliver Smith
0a269b9ba0
.ci/lint_css.sh: add dead simple linter (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:40 +01:00
Oliver Smith
2547cd2c35
editorconfig: new file (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:40 +01:00
Oliver Smith
1143d383a3
treewide: format css files (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:40 +01:00
Oliver Smith
83017c32ba
src/common/header.css: make it more fancy (MR 19) 2021-12-05 11:45:35 +01:00
Oliver Smith
c35fa5afaf
mobile-config-autoconfig: update user-agent (MR 16)
In the Tor browser user agent, the "geckotrail" part has been changed.
Apparently following an upstream change in Firefox:
> From Firefox 10 on mobile, geckotrail is the same as firefoxversion.

Note: I'm simply running latest Tor browser on Android and visit
websites showing the user agent to figure out the latest one. I tried to
figure it out from the source code once, but didn't find a place where
it could be looked up trivially (since it gets built of multiple
components etc.).

Related: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent/Firefox
2021-07-18 16:52:30 +02:00
Arnaud Ferraris
bfa8376351
Makefile: add variable for config directory (MR 16)
For some distros (including Debian), the Firefox config directory can be
different from `/etc/firefox`. Adding a variable for this location so it can
be easily customized at build time.
2021-07-16 09:35:51 +02:00
Arnaud Ferraris
520fb81e16
mobile-config-autoconfig: allow user to change the user-agent (MR 16)
Preferences set with `pref()` can be changed by the user, but they're
then reset on each Firefox startup.

As users may want a different UA and keep it persistent, we should set
the default value with `defaultPref()` instead. This requires moving the
preference to the autoconfig file though, as `defaultPref()` isn't
recognized in the main config file.
2021-07-15 17:37:05 +02:00
plata
11bf740734
CI: archive complete package (MR 15)
To allow downloading the package directly from GitLab and not having to
run make install (e.g. to easily try a specific MR); also makes it
easier to check in a MR if make install works as expected.
2021-07-11 15:36:11 +02:00
plata
4a73ce6325
Add appstream data file (MR 14) 2021-06-15 01:04:29 +02:00
Danct12
92e1a26c54
src/prefs.js: disable sandbox for non-ESR (MR 13)
https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1236295#answer-1161622

Signed-off-by: Danct12 <danct12@disroot.org>
2021-06-04 22:36:02 +07:00
Oliver Smith
ef47ec8ff0
homepage: link to firefox PC addons page
Replace the generic addons links with ones that link to the addons for
the PC version of Firefox. Otherwise, because of the user-agent, we
would get redirected to the Android Firefox addons page.

Android addons are limited in their feature set.

Related: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/differences-between-desktop-and-android-extensions/
2021-05-23 12:57:43 +02:00
Anri Dellal
185b3be0b6
Change about:preferences style (MR 10)
- Remove policy container as it is misleading and not required to access policy
  preferences
  (see https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/merge_requests/10#note_581408851
  for more details);
- Move search bar to the left;
- Hide Firefox Mobile ad in #sync;
- Hide Sync illustration on small screens.
2021-05-23 12:45:17 +02:00
Anri Dellal
4f2204fdd7
Make about: pages more adaptive (MR 10)
Adds stylesheets for some "about:" pages, the pages were chosen depending
on importance for user.

preferences.css was moved to sidebar.css since changes in this file could
be applied for more pages and were related only to sidebar.

Adds copyrights
2021-05-23 12:45:07 +02:00
Oliver Smith
add285e514
treewide: bump copyright to 2021 2021-05-20 22:07:17 +02:00
plata
3a01c0e417
Save vertical space by drawing directly in the titlebar (MR 6) 2021-05-20 22:00:39 +02:00
plata
7bffd93c7b
Move header to common folder (MR 11)
Add the "do not edit" warning to both the generated userChrome.css and
userContent.css.
2021-05-20 21:56:48 +02:00
HenriDellal
f07fe00abd
Add dark theme for homepage (MR 5)
Adds @media query to set dark theme for systems with dark theme preference
2021-05-19 23:28:05 +02:00
plata
1a0bde9a5b
README: add link to FirefoxCSS subreddit as additional resource (MR 7) 2021-05-19 23:25:36 +02:00
Oliver Smith
58e38a543b
homepage: update text about changing preferences (MR 8) 2021-05-19 23:22:43 +02:00
HenriDellal
e940cac4e1
preferences.css: various tweaks (MR 8)
* center icons in sidebar
* make it adaptive
2021-05-19 23:22:43 +02:00
plata
0765d1a25f
Add CSS for about:preferences (MR 8) 2021-05-19 23:22:43 +02:00
plata
c77ba05450
gitlab-ci.yml: new file (MR 9) 2021-05-19 23:03:22 +02:00
Danct12
2bf6a4cf8b
README: fix capitalization of Tor (MR 4)
Only the first letter is capitalized according to Tor Project:
https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/.
2021-03-28 09:17:40 +02:00