Firefox as default browser

Submitted by Rikudou_Sennin on Tue, 2015/12/01 - 19:48

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If you love Firefox as I do, this app is just for you. Please read the description carefully.

This app must (and will) run as root to do some things, which are:

Enabling adb
Moving default url handler to backup folder
Moving new handler to right folder
Creating new script that starts adb after restart
Updating database

You can easily restore the default url handler from this app, but you MUST NOT remove this app before disabling the Firefox url handler. Believe me, don't remove the app before disabling.

If the app does not respond while enabling or disabling, don't quit it, just wait a few seconds.

Contains English and Czech localization.

And you need Firefox for Android installed on your device (surprisingly).

If you like this app, you can leave me a five star rating or "thank you" in the comments :)

Updated in 1.0.2

- App now supports Firefox Beta

Updated in 1.0.1

- Cover now shows whether Firefox is default or not

You can view (and improve) source code here: https://github.com/RikudouSage/sailfishos-firefox-default-handle

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Application versions:

Attachment	Size	Date
firefox-default-handler-1.0.2-1.armv7hl.rpm	17.32 KB	01/12/2015 - 19:47
firefox-default-handler-1.0-1.armv7hl.rpm	19.42 KB	24/11/2015 - 00:00
firefox-default-handler-1.0.1-1.armv7hl.rpm	18.9 KB	25/11/2015 - 19:00

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Comments

tobru

Sun, 2015/12/06 - 20:40

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Thanks a lot for this app! Would be great to have an i486 build for the Jolla Tablet...

Rikudou_Sennin

Mon, 2015/12/07 - 02:18

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Well, here it is :)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8923820/firefox-default-handler-1.0.2-1.i486.rpm

Will you please let me know if it works?

I don't have a tablet so I cannot test it.

tobru

Mon, 2015/12/21 - 15:37

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I've installed the package on my Jolla Tablet:

Installation works
App starts
I can chose to set Firefox as the default browser and it then says that Firefox now is the default browser
But: When I tab on a link which should open Firefox: Just nothing happens, not even the Jolla browser is started

This is probably because of a different behaviour on the tablet, who knows =(

Rikudou_Sennin

Mon, 2015/12/21 - 19:23

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Do you have developer mode enabled?

If so, can you try opening terminal and running:

xdg-open http://openrepos.net

and write me the result?

It can be any address that starts with http or https.

tobru

Sat, 2016/01/02 - 17:22

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The message:

invoker: Invoking execution: '/opt/alien/system/bin/adb'
error: device not found

tobru

Sat, 2016/01/02 - 17:56

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Ok, got ADB working with 'systemctl start adbd'. But now:

invoker: Invoking execution: '/opt/alien/system/bin/adb'
/system/bin/sh: am: not found

Rikudou_Sennin

Thu, 2016/01/07 - 12:24

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It looks like the tablet does not have the ActivityManager... I'm not sure if I can do anything about it.

tobru

Sat, 2016/01/09 - 17:17

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I searched through the filesystem and it looks like it's there: '/opt/alien/system/bin/am'. But somehow not in the path?

mvuori

Thu, 2015/11/26 - 18:25

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For a user, the ability to perhaps sometimes modify something has no value. What counts is that someone _has_ _done_ the functionality. Big thanks - this is a long-waited utility for us Firefox lovers.

Some people may have favorites saved as "desktop" icons that for some reason need to be opened with Sailfish browser (for GPS for example). The .desktop files for those seem to be in /home/nemo/.local/share/applications and can be fixed by changing the type (currrently "URL") to "Application" and changing "URL" parameter to "Exec" with the value: "sailfish-browser <URL>"