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Where to find reliable and old apk and ios with about:config #14616

Closed bksubhuti closed 4 years ago

bksubhuti commented 4 years ago

What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?

About:config has been disabled and I guess it is a big issue that has been clearly already expressed. I am a monk and developer of a firefox html app that requires security.fileuri... to be false in order to read internal Buddhist Text files.

Project is https://americanmonk.org/tipitaka-pali-projector/

How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?

It is clear the problem exists. The users cannot use the html app with out this feature

Who will benefit from it?

I don't want to refer the users to a third party website that serves older apk because I don' t know them and if they are trustworthy. The mozilla website has only desktop older versions listed.

Where to find the older apk and older ios apps until this issue is resolved?

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

bksubhuti commented 4 years ago

To make Firefox work you need to type about:config in the address bar to get the advanced preferences. The search for security.fileuri.strict.origin.policy and set it to false. Tablets and phones might want to set the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.5 to fit better in a smaller screen area.

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kbrosnan commented 4 years ago

http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/

Duplicate of #7865

bksubhuti commented 4 years ago

Thank you

bksubhuti commented 4 years ago

May I suggest you add this to the main website?

cadeyrn commented 4 years ago

May I suggest you add this to the main website?

Using old browsers is really bad for security and for other reasons like web compatibility. They should definitively not do this…

bksubhuti commented 4 years ago

I believe the older versions link is listed on the moz website for desktop, but there is no listing for mobile. I did not know it existed until now. This is the same "security issue" as desktop.

cadeyrn commented 4 years ago

I believe the older versions link is listed on the moz website for desktop

Nope. And security issue does really not belong in quotation marks, because it's a serious issue to use old browsers with known security vulnerabilities. You can use it at your own risk but it's a different story to make insecure versions more prominent.