No Firefox in Dex Station mode?

[slaapliedje]

Seems Firefox (my preferred browser) does not work in the DeX Station. Pretty weird since it specifically has a tablet mode and works pretty much identical to the desktop version on my Note Pro 12.2.

Anyone know of a workaround?

 

[calinormy]

Seems Firefox (my preferred browser) does not work in the DeX Station. Pretty weird since it specifically has a tablet mode and works pretty much identical to the desktop version on my Note Pro 12.2.

Anyone know of a workaround?

There are a lot of apk's that can extend to full screen any phone apk. Even in samsung own menu there is developer options under dex setting that alow any apk to run in full screen.
I guess that' your question about...
Search in.play store for dex

 

[slaapliedje]

Seems Firefox (my preferred browser) does not work in the DeX Station. Pretty weird since it specifically has a tablet mode and works pretty much identical to the desktop version on my Note Pro 12.2.

Anyone know of a workaround?

No such luck. The setting is Samsung DeX Labs, "Attempt to resize apps that aren't officially supported by Samsung DeX." and Firefox still says it wasn't designed for it.

"Firefox can't run in Samsung Dex. It is designed for phone touch screens." is the text that appears. I personally think they blacklisted it so that people would be forced to use their browser.

Though Chrome does seem to work.

 

[axelboydfoley]

i have the same issue .... dont know whats going on

 

[floaterD]

Seems Firefox (my preferred browser) does not work in the DeX Station. Pretty weird since it specifically has a tablet mode and works pretty much identical to the desktop version on my Note Pro 12.2.

Anyone know of a workaround?

Enable Developer Mode and it allows all applications automatically.

Go to settings -> Samsung Dex -> About Samsung Dex
Click the Samsung Dex logo 5 times. Launch Firefox!

 

[rabilancia]

Enabling "Developer mode" did not work for me--Firefox doesn'e even start. Any other ideas?

TIA,
rabilancia

 

[esummers91]

Going into the Developer mode worked for me. It didn't immediately, I had to take my Note 8 off the dock and put it back on. I wasn't even looking for it to work because I had tried without undocking it . After I redocked my note 8. I had a full screen baby !!!!!!!!!!. Thank You to the fella that suggested that. Hopefully we can work together and get some consensus going on what works for these issues. This Dex has a lot of potential and I want to take full advantage of it.

 

[jdrch]

Going into the Developer mode worked for me. It didn't immediately, I had to take my Note 8 off the dock and put it back on.

Solution works for Firefox Nightly on the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 9 also. Simply restart DeX by disconnecting it from and then reconnecting it to the external monitor for the dev mode change to take hold. Thanks!

 

[Preafectus]

Thank you the for information.

I now have FireFox Beta 68.167 running on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8, on the DeX station.

I followed the instructions in the previous posts above then took the phone off the Dex station, on replacing the phone on the Dex station I started up FireFox!

I will post further if there are any issues.

 

[jdrch]

Thank you the for information.

I now have FireFox Beta 68.167 running on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8, on the DeX station.

I followed the instructions in the previous posts above then took the phone off the Dex station, on replacing the phone on the Dex station I started up FireFox!

I will post further if there are any issues.

Try rebooting instead.

 

[passserby]

Same issue, can't open Firefox on DeX - strange though because I did have it working for a while. Now, can't get it to work despite developer mode, reconnecting HDMI, rebooting etc etc many times. Also tried complete factory reset before reinstalling FF & retrying.

 

[jpxsat]

Confirming that today, DEX on S9+ with Android 10/Windows 10, Firefox works.

Going into dev mode and activating Dex labs, unplug and replug. Trick is done.

 

[Tommy544]

How does Firefox browser work for you? I am running DeX on my Galaxy S10 and Firefox is basically unusable in full screen, as for some reason most websites are shown extremely zoomed in and I can't find a way how to zoom out. As en example, I open google webpage and the search bar spans across the whole width of my TV.

 

[iceepyon]

This could be an issue with Firefox not being optimized for use in Dex Mode

 

[Bionic88]

Turning on the Dex dev mode worked on my Note9. I restarted Dex and open the latest stable version without issues. Thanks for the tip!!

 

[Karl-Heinzchen]

Solution works for Firefox Nightly on the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 9 also. Simply restart DeX by disconnecting it from and then reconnecting it to the external monitor for the dev mode change to take hold. Thanks!

Doesn't seem to work anymore. Can you guys check/verify/confirm?

I'm on Samsung Note 9 with newest OS version.

Any ideas how to solve this?

UPDATE: To be precise about my status:

* DeX Labs is active, and I can't even deactivate it via Android Developer Mode.
* App Size Adjustment and "Reopen last opened app automatically" settings are active.

 

[Karl-Heinzchen]

Doesn't seem to work anymore.

Sry guys, all good. I just misinterpreted the post about "Firefox Nightly".

Solution: Firefox Nightly is currently not just about incremental improvements, but it is a whole new browser. Firefox Beta is also working on DeX - thus Firefox "Production Version" will be supporting DeX quite soon, definitely this year.