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What files must I edit from Firefox's Github repo to add wireless keyboard support for mobile/AOSP? I waited over a decade for code that should take a half hour to write.

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Please help me help you. I will do all of the work for free, just tell me what files to start with. CTRL+S, CTRL+U, CTRL+S, CTRL+F, F5, resize shortcuts, nothing works.

Cheap wireless keyboards came out a decade ago, but mobile had no support, so I thought "okay, it will just take a few weeks." But weeks became years. Over a decade passed, still no progress. I will do it for you for free if you let me. If the problem was Firefox, I would just switch to Chrome, but building Chromium for Android is even harder and it also needs patched to get keyboard support.

Please help me help you. I will do all of the work for free, just tell me what files to start with. CTRL+S, CTRL+U, CTRL+S, CTRL+F, F5, resize shortcuts, nothing works. Cheap wireless keyboards came out a decade ago, but mobile had no support, so I thought "okay, it will just take a few weeks." But weeks became years. Over a decade passed, still no progress. I will do it for you for free if you let me. If the problem was Firefox, I would just switch to Chrome, but building Chromium for Android is even harder and it also needs patched to get keyboard support.

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Hi,

The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or developers. If you want to leave feedback for developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select either Share ideas and feedback… or Submit feedback…, depending on your Firefox version. Alternatively, you can use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

You can also file a bug report or feature request. See File a bug report or feature request for Mozilla products for details.

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The developers refused to add keyboard shortcut support to mobile Firefox. I asked as various forums, where I was told to write the patch myself if I desired it to work. Could you just tell me which files to start with? [code][*] All mirrors selected ~/lib $ gh repo clone https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android.git Cloning into 'firefox-android'... remote: Enumerating objects: 386709, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (785/785), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (341/341), done. remote: Total 386709 (delta 317), reused 719 (delta 290), pack-reused 385924 Receiving objects: 100% (386709/386709), 259.25 MiB | 3.24 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (212783/212783), done. ~/lib $ cd firefox-android/ ~/lib/firefox-android $ cd .git/ android-components/ focus-android/ taskcluster/ .github/ docs/ monorepo-migration//code

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Hi

This is a user support forum, for development help I suggest you ask the Firefox Android Community channel at chat.mozilla.org.