Ubuntu Touch Firefox mobile version

Mozillians
#1

Hi everyone.
I have recently managed to install Ubuntu touch (UT) in my smartphone. It is hugely disappointing that there in no option to install a working mobile Firefox version!

I just want to bring this to this community’s attention. Going all sorts of troubles to swap from android to a completely unknown smartphone OS in order to get free from google and all big techs is a big achievement for someone with novice experience with Linux.
Imagine now, after all these stressful and ambiguous novel, only to find out that there is no Firefox preinstalled and no package to do this manually at all.
Not even an independent guide.

If Mozilla really want’s to encourage and empower simple users to claim their privacy back, I think you should show a strong presence in UT now, before you lose the momentum.

Please consider this ASAP. I believe that more and more people like me will try to turn over to Linux to escape the Techno-feudalism and Surveillance.

Hope to hearing from you soon.

Humbly,

6MV

#2

Hey there i just found your post.

While your reasoning is understandable, this isn’t something that can be done ‘ASAP’, there’s a lot of pieces needed in a lot of places.

But if it’s of any consolidation: you aren’t alone in this. There is a work in progress packaging of firefox here: https://gitlab.com/debclick/ufirefox
There’s a bug tracker for building firefox for arm on mozilla infrastructure here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677963
And there’s a bug tracker to improve the interface for ‘mobile linux’ (one of the many missing pieces): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579348