Vimium add-on/extension is Firefox Nightly for Android installed and enabled but I cannot get it to work

[b9Joker108]

Describe the bug

I installed the Vimium add-on/extension in Firefox Nightly for Android from the .xpi file. Nightly says Vimium is installed and enabled but I cannot get it to work, as the virtual keyboard is always offscreen.

Browser and Vimium version

Firefox Nightly is produced by Mozilla. 134.0al (Build #2016056007), hg-108d038388ff+ GV: 134.0a1-20241113215256 AS: 134.20241109050310 2024-11-14T00:26:45.516647892

I installed Vimium with: vimium_ff-2.1.2.xpi

Vimium version 2.1.2 last updated 18 Nov 2024

• One UI version: 6.1.1
• Android version: 14
• Current version: X910XXS4BXJ7 / X9100XM4BXJ7 /
• Security patch level: 1 October 2024

❯ termux-info
Termux Variables:
TERMUX_API_VERSION=0.50.1
TERMUX_APK_RELEASE=F_DROID                                                                                        TERMUX_APP_PACKAGE_MANAGER=apt
TERMUX_APP_PID=6164
TERMUX_IS_DEBUGGABLE_BUILD=0
TERMUX_MAIN_PACKAGE_FORMAT=debian
TERMUX_VERSION=0.118.1
TERMUX__USER_ID=0                                                                                                 Packages CPU architecture:
aarch64
Subscribed repositories:
# sources.list
deb https://termux.3san.dev/termux/termux-main stable main
# sources.list.d/pointless.list
deb https://its-pointless.github.io/files/21 termux extras                                                        # sources.list.d/ivam3-termux-packages.list
deb [trusted=yes arch=all] https://ivam3.github.io/termux-packages stable extras                                  # x11-repo (sources.list.d/x11.list)
deb https://termux.3san.dev/termux/termux-x11 x11 main
# tur-repo (sources.list.d/tur.list)
deb https://tur.kcubeterm.com tur-packages tur tur-on-device tur-continuous                                       # root-repo (sources.list.d/root.list)
deb https://termux.3san.dev/termux/termux-root root stable                                                        # sources.list.d/rendiix.list
deb https://rendiix.github.io android-tools termux                                                                # glibc-repo (sources.list.d/glibc.list)
deb https://packages-cf.termux.dev/apt/termux-glibc/ glibc stable
Updatable packages:                                                                                               command-not-found/stable 2.4.0-51 aarch64 [upgradable from: 2.4.0-50]
gst-plugins-bad/stable 1.24.9-1 aarch64 [upgradable from: 1.24.9]                                                 gst-plugins-good/stable 1.24.9-1 aarch64 [upgradable from: 1.24.9]                                                openal-soft/stable 1.24.0 aarch64 [upgradable from: 1.23.1]
termux-tools version:                                                                                             1.44.3                                                                                                            Android version:                                                                                                  14                                                                                                                Kernel build information:
Linux localhost 5.15.123-android13-8-29539737-abX910XXS4BXJ7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 14 00:51:42 UTC 2024 aarch64 Android
Device manufacturer:
samsung                                                                                                           Device model:
SM-X910                                                                                                           LD Variables:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.local/lib/ollama:/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib:/data/data/com.termux/files/home/install/lib
LD_PRELOAD=/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/libtermux-exec.so
Installed termux plugins:
com.termux.widget versionCode:13
com.termux.x11 versionCode:14
com.termux.api versionCode:51                                                                                     com.termux.boot versionCode:1000
com.termux.window versionCode:15                                                                                  com.termux.styling versionCode:1000
com.termux.tasker versionCode:6

[philg-dev]

I mean... it's Android controlling the presence of the keyboard and there's not much you can do about that default behavior.

If you really want to use Vimium on your phone with a virtual keyboard, you could use a virtual keyboard that has a feature to make it appear regardless of the circumstances. I just tested Vimium on my Android phone with Hacker's Keyboard. I enabled the permanent Hacker's Keyboard notification in order to bring up the keyboard wherever I want and Vimium seemed to work just fine like that. I tested some basic functionality like scrolling with j/k, link hints with f, yanking the current URL with yy and everything worked fine for me. x to close the current tab worked, but X to restore the previously closed tab didn't work.

It's not the addon's fault at all that the virtual keyboard doesn't appear - that's not the addon's responsibility.

Slightly more "complex" features that involve tab management seem to not work on Android. I tested cloning tab yt or opening a link in a new tab F followed by typing the link hint and both didn't seem to do anything. Seems like anything that would normally create a tab doesn't work on my end.

From what I could see in the browser compatibility list, it seems like most of the relevant API functions should be available on Android - not sure, why some of the stuff I tested didn't work.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs#browser_compatibility