L5 Firefox mobile view

Spoiler: The addon from epinez’ solution makes Firefox much more usable on L5

For fullscreen youtube-video in Firefox switch mobile mode off before going fullscreen.


Original question:

Using the L5 and obviously its mobile phone screen poses difficulties for me as the pages in a browser (especially Firefox) are rendered for desktop- instead of mobile view (having mentioned this, it’s kind of already “interesting” to create this forum post using the L5 as many optical elements fitting fine on a big screen are squeezed - hell, its a pain to create this post).

Did anybody make the same experience (questionmark).

Can anybody point me and others to a practical solution having firefox announce itself as run on a mobile device (questionmark).

Thanks in advance

I couldnt find a way to eg. say this forum or youtube that i’m using a mobile screen. eg. calling m.youtube.com always redirects to www.youtube.com with a get-param saying it’s a desktop-client.

Firefox at least goes fullscreen on youtube-videos and shows them. The standard browser doesn’t want to go fullscreen, shows artefacts - respectively suddenly stops and disappears entirely.

PS: My keypad obviously doesn’t offer a questionmark.

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Just install this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/mobile-view-switcher/ Worked really well for me.

I like GNOME Web in general (especially the PWA app install possibility) but Firefox is just much more usable with this addon.

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Which keypad are you using?

You’re my hero, mate! That plugin works like a charme. Thanks a lot.

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? & ! exist. My fault - couldn’t find them in expected spot on german keypad, but they are behind shift as it makes sense.

Great, you asked nevertheless. Thank you.

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Very nice addon! Thanks, it helped immensely!