@librewolf - Feature Request:
I’m not quite knowledgeable enough to know the best solution within LibreWolf, but opening the URL network manager opens to trigger public wifi log in pages doesn’t work. Somewhere between that URL and the prompt from the free wifi to agree not to look at porn or whatever, it just breaks. I’m sure it has to do with the fact LibreWolf insists (and rightly so) on HTTPS.
Don’t know about such free wifi. But I doubt it’s about https. The http only mode, allows for the user to opt for plain http. Would it be captive portal instead, which is blocked by Librrewolf by default?
That’s what it seems to be. The question is, can captive portal support be turned back on?
That was so long ago, haha, it’s governed by these:
// disable captive portal pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", false); pref("captivedetect.canonicalURL", "");The first can be easily changed to
truein~/.librewolf/librewolf.overrides.cfgor equivalent. The 2nd can be overwritten as well, but whether you look at FF to see what it has by default, or you use any more private site of choice for Librewolf to try to connect to, to test captive-portal. So yes, one can overwrite anything as long as you know what you’re doing…Thank you. I’ll take a look after work today, and give it another spin the next time I go somewhere with a captive portal, probably this weekend.
@librewolf I’m thinking a solution might be LibreWolf recognizes it’s the URLs to see if the network needs “log in” via that page, and does all that in a “relaxed” privacy (ie - spoof whatever needed, and allow http) window with no extensions. That little log in window being only to click that “Accept” button.
@librewolf Second idea, a setting that sends those specific URLs to another browser of my choosing, preferably with a dialog along the lines of “Public Wifi Gateway Detected. Send log-in page to Chromium/FireFox/etc?”
@librewolf Currenty, it’s a bit of hassle to first realize that’s the issue (as I’m usually mentally distracted when using free wifi), open another browser, and then figure out a URL that will trigger that page again.
Not having LibreWolf as my default would solve that, but of course, throwing my laptop in the dumpster would also remove that problem. LoL
