I’ve got a pretty new install here. Default installed version of Firefox. It’s working, a bit slow (which might just be the crappy mobile network I’m forced to use), but the issue with it is that I can’t interact with the very top part of Firefox to do things like open a new tab. Touch interactions do nothing and even a mouse click does nothing up there.
Sometimes I can manage to barely click on the Extensions button at the top, possibly from the very bottom edge of the button (maybe). But the extensions popup that tried to render didn’t show correctly, it kept flickering rapidly on and off.
I guess nobody else sees this because it seems like a pretty obvious problem. What could be the cause on a newly flashed Evergreen L5? Anything I can do to troubleshoot? I tried installing Librewolf to see if that worked any better, but apparently it’s just crashing.
I have the same problem but I just worked around it for a year. I think when I added extensions I did it from a dock, and when I want to use the menu to open a new tab, you may see, it is flashing, but then if you open the menu with the keyboard minimized, it is not flashing.
My understanding is that the user @Emma did some kind of great upgrade for this, but because I was extremely lazy and did not search up how to install the customization, it was always missing on my device. I think the improvements/customizations are included on Crimson by default, and notably when I recently installed Crimson it had absolutely none of these problems.
But it had other stuff totally broken, such as the device camera not working, so reinstalling to Crimson is not a solution for now. That probably means most users who care more than I do about it are using the Firefox configurational fixes from Emma.
I have the same problem. And once you open the settings menu you can’t get out it. You have to close and re-open whole Firefox to get back to your website.
I manage by using the Alt key (plus a corresponding letter) to get into the Menu Bar. Not ideal, I know, and I’m waiting for a real fix to arrive someday. I’m not using the L5 for much at the moment, though, so it’s not critical for me.
At sign Purism, it seems we are all in suffering from the tyranny of our common laziness despite the available of patches for our free software. And some of us are paying the monthly subscription for the operating system despite these common issues.
Maybe this can act as a reminder to patch up Crimson so it supersedes Byzantium?
Yeah, this is something that really needs to work out of the box. I thought maybe it was something I did or maybe there was an easy fix everyone knows. Thanks @FranklyFlawless and others for the suggestions I’ll look over that in detail later.
Strangely I’ve had a shortage of that lately regarding L5 at least. I’ll try and keep that going as long as I can (but as you can see with “I’ll look over that in detail later” I’m still having this issue haha).
sudo apt install git make
git clone https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox.git && cd mobile-config-firefox
sudo make FIREFOX_DIR=/usr/lib/firefox-esr install
