Gecko esr91 work (former "Flypig's gecko dev diary")

https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

It’s very important do know what happened inside your browser. So this is a point for the SFOS native browser architecture.
Sorry if this is OT for you.

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So this was introduced surely after ESR91 in Version 128.0 (Privacy-Preserving Attribution by Mozilla: what is it and what’s it for? | Kaspersky official blog).
Another good reason why not take the (greatest and) latest Sourcecode to port.

With this thread being impossibly long, are new releases announced here, making it enough to just keep an eye on this?

Opening links doesn’t work very often, and maybe relatedly, as a user of the SFOS Forum app, opening links in rhe web view and scrolling make things go haywire. Instead of scrolling the page, the overlay exposes the underlying forum(!)

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Does this 91 version have a huge power consumption? My phone often gets really hot and battery dtains rapidly. Latest SFOS .15 on 10 III

I’m seeing same-ish, especially since the UA update. But i guess it could depend on what you are actually doing.

Scrolling this forum ;-p

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Sorry it takes so long. I’ve put a few of the troublesome pages through their pages, and it now all seems to work well, so I think it is safe to say it was indeed an error on my part messing something up with the settings files.

Was it any particular site you experienced this with?

No, it was on every page. For my testing now with the working version I specifically also switched to desktop mode. It’s now working well in both mobile and desktop mode.

I have now also reported the zoom issue: [ESR91][regression] One-finger/single-hand zoom gesture doesn't work anymore. · Issue #1079 · sailfishos/sailfish-browser · GitHub
and one feature request: [ESR91][feature request] Make website navigation more responsive. · Issue #1078 · sailfishos/sailfish-browser · GitHub

Updated this morning - was straightforward and easy to follow for a newbie. But how can I tell if I actually moved to ESR91. Can I query the version somehow?

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Put
about:support
in the browser address bar

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It comes empty for me.

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Then you can file a bug, because it works with ESR78.

Could even be good… some pages limit you because they think your browser does not match requirements. Maybe they do not limit you if they dont know whats used.

I can now load many sites that were not working for me with the stock browser. Didn’t notice any issues so far. Thanks for your work, it’s impressive.

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Hi, overall huge improvement for most websites.
I still have one web service still not working Odoo webinterface and the second one used to work but not anymore SalesForce webinterface.
Is it worth sending a bug request or should I just use Fennec in the meantime?

Are 2 minutes of your time worth of possibility of fix?

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I think the question was if the problem is already known

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@flypig Thanks for your summary of browser structure & history. Great work!

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I did so after successful installation and half an hour browsing the net.
On loading about:support Browser crashed. On restart it reloads about:support immediately and crashes again and so I’m in a crash loop.

Q: Where is the list of open browser tabs stored? How can I edit this file to remove the about:support and be able to start the browser again without crash-loop?

Thanks for any help!