Firefox "failed to read config file"

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I suspected. I was never good with terminal, I hope when I uninstall epiphany it doesnt try to remove the browser.

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Sorry you are having issues; these menus (and everything that pops up in Firefox) are difficult to get right.
I will try to land some improvements over the coming two months and try to put some extra focus on the context menu.

What makes context menus extra difficult is that they have different content depending on where you make them appear via long press, and as many extensions add extra items, it’s a major pain.

What you can try for now (aside from going back to Emma’s excellent config is:

Go into about:config and change “widget.gtk.native-context-menus” to true. The resulting menus don’t have the scrolling issue, but there’s one major draw back: They don’t just disappear by tapping somewhere else, you will have to choose an item on the menu to make them go away (which is why we don’t use these by default).

Also, you could try FuriLabs mobile-config-firefox fork, as they fix many issues with popups by adjusting/hacking the JavaScript code that places these on screen:

Regarding

I didn’t manage to hide the tabs bar with the potsmarketos

We don’t support that yet in postmarketOS / mobile-config-firefox · GitLab, and it’s not a goal right now. I aim to bring it to mobile-config-firefox as an option for landscape orientation (it’s in my next branch, but not ready to land), in portrait we IMHO don’t suffer from a lack of vertical space and fun stuff like the downloads’ menu can lead too far to narrow URL bars.

I can’t give an ETA on when that will land, as there’s a lot of time that needs to be spent on customizations that break due to Mozilla changing their user interface constantly (by shifting around class names, changing behavior, …). My first goal is always to make sure that the next ESR works as well as the previous did, and fixing daily usability issues. Improvements that go beyond that have a way lower priority; also because I have other projects to attend.

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It won’t as long as you don’t purge it

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Sorry FranklyFlawless,

it might be that i push ctrl on my small keyboard got a n or an v instead of a b and i thought one try did not match the truth.

It works here too on another try! Thanks for reply! Still kinda more short, instead of chance the keyboard layout and push the * … so thank you!

Chris

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Hi linmob,

Thanks for your work. No rush at all, please. BTW - kudos for your other project. I had a look around, it looks cool.

Closing the context menu when enabling the native context menus is easy, all I have to do is tap a separator. However, the menu items are not doing anything. When I tap, let’s say, open in new tab, the menu closes but nothing happens.

Any clues?

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@linmob is Great, and i appreciate that at least use the word GNU-Like in your weekly posts, so thats meaning that he is not a hardened Linux user.
Thanks :pray:

LINMOB

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it has been updated, I installed a clean byzantium recently and it applied the mobile config script while before it failed. maybe this has been mentioned before.

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