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[GUIDE] How to install Betterfox on Android Firefox using adb #240
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@gunir Do we check about:config in the browser or the phone? The tab will not load when I check it on my phone, so I can't really tell if it worked. I was able to do all of the steps though. |
Yes, but you need to use Firefox Beta/Nightly, Stable doesn't allow to open it for some reasons ? |
Thanks @gunir for posting and translating this mini-guide. Have you tried it yourself? Does it work? |
It worked for me using Firefox beta on Android. It might work on regular firefox, but you can't check about:config to verify. |
Just wanted to say, it is confirmed and working on Lastest Firefox Beta on Android today. All good! |
hey code newbie here, I recently managed to set up hardened firefox on my pc ^-^ just ran through this post today and decided to setup hardened firefox on my android phone as well, I followed the steps and used securefox.js on nightly. user above confirmed it was working, I'm not advanced enough to test that but it seems mine worked too ! thanks to all |
Can we please have this mentioned in the readme somewhere, i wish i would have find this earlier. |
How about writing a wiki post ? |
Will work but i was thinking we could rather a have a Betterfox user.js specifically for Android itself. Since not all the flags from desktop are present on Android, moreover there could be certain Android specific flags which could be benefited from. |
So far so good from what I've tested, using the base user.js on Firefox Android only improves speed and battery life, which is great because telemetry can be very battery hungry. I've seen no issues. |
Still works in 2024 on Firefox Beta. Hope this gets picked up by the dev and turns official |
Install adb: https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/
Connect your Android device to your PC using cable, if success you'll be able to see something like this if you type
adb devices
and Enter:Enable
Remote Debugging via USB
in Android Firefox's Settings:From Firefox PC, type
about:debugging
and Enter, you'll see your Android device in the list, choose Connect:And open your device and you'll see all the opening tabs:
Open
about:support
in your Firefox AndroidInspect the
about:support
tab from your Firefox PC, you will see this console screen:Paste this code to the console:
Now the final step, copy Betterfox's code, for example Fasterfox and replace
//paste your user.js file content here
then Enter.You're done. Check
about:config
to see result.This guide was written by a Vietnamese Firefox user with nickname @ndv92, this is the original post: https://voz.vn/t/tong-hop-nhung-addon-chat-cho-firefox-pc-mobile.682181/post-27739740
This Vietnamese thread is surprisingly deep about Firefox, but there's a lot of slangs so Google Translate won't make it.
None was written by me, I just translate it to English, literally.
Thanks for reading,
And thank @yokoffing for making and maintaining Betterfox.
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