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You can literally customise it to show the home button. I know because I have done this.
You can't set the home button to a custom URL in Firefox mobile... that "home" button forces you to use the Firefox start page. That's not really a home button. I need the home button to take me to my selfhosted dashboard because that's where everything I ever want to get to is and it's something I can control and customize to my liking. I shouldn't be forced to use Firefox's shitty start page... that's a start page button, not a home button despite what they call it.
Ah I see what you mean. Yeah I even had a quick look at the beta version where you are able to access the about:config and I couldn't find an obvious config setting for this either. Firefox on mobile definitely isn't perfect and especially if you have a specific use case. Just a suggestion that may be an alternative for you: if you press settings then add to home screen, does that hone screen shortcut work for you?
Yeah, but that's still an extra step to have to click home and then click on my dashboard shortcut that I don't want to do. I want to press home and be instantly on my dashboard which I spent a lot of time customizing for myself. I don't want to see Firefox's shitty dashboard/start page before I get to mine. Also because I do it all the time, dozens of times a day.
Kiwi works, I realize it's based on chromium. But it works perfectly and is far more customizable with far more extensions. But if Firefox ever adds a real home button, I'd likely switch to it.
There are also no extensions that allow for this customization of the home button. It's honestly fucked. I looked and looked for a way around it. There is no way to do it, it's a known problem.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807866
Yeah I understand. For something you use so actively you want it to be as seamless as possible. Maybe have another look at the "install to home screen" option though! I think you can do it on Chrome too btw. But I believe it should actually open as a seperate "app" on your phone.
So instead of having 1 browser app that contains whatever you're browsing + your dashboard, you could have 1 app for browsing + 1 "app" for your dashboard. It would allow you to even close down your browsing while always having an open dashboard. Maybe it doesn't fit your flow but it seems like an option worth considering if you haven't already.
That doesn't work for me, I need a home button in the browser to take me to the dashboard.
My workflow is open browser and I'm on my dashboard and I select something like my selfhosted paperless-ngx and now I want to get back to my dashboard again to go to sonarr. Right now that is one button press on home. Then I'm done with sonarr and I want to open my to do list, again just press home button. Every other method is more than one button press and less efficient. I shouldn't have to be less efficient because Firefox doesn't have a basic feature that every other browser has had since the beginning of time.
This has been a known problem with Firefox for 5+ years. And what's worse is that at one point in the past, Firefox mobile did have the ability to add a custom URL to the homepage but at some point they broke it. Which is why I stopped using it. And they have very little care to fix it. Just look at the comments in the github issue, plenty of people care about it.
Yeah it's incredibly annoying. I can't remember the exact details but a while ago they removed about:config from the stable build and I was using a setting in there. Okay well I can just use the beta build right? Except the beta build took away another different feature that the stable build had!