

Does Waterfox (or any of the other forks people are proposing) have apps for iPad OS and Android, and account syncing to enable bookmarks, extensions, and tabs to transfer between devices?
Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Does Waterfox (or any of the other forks people are proposing) have apps for iPad OS and Android, and account syncing to enable bookmarks, extensions, and tabs to transfer between devices?
Honestly I can’t even figure out how to get that alpine-chrome image to work. I edited my Dockerfile to say
FROM zenika/alpine-chrome:with-puppeteer
instead of
FROM node:22
I tried changing USER node
to USER chrome
. I removed all the apt-get dependencies that were needed to get Puppeteer working in Docker on my PC in the first instance, and added --chown=chrome
to my COPY package.json
line, all as described in the with-puppeteer example. I also added the ENV
lines from that. (I also tried various combinations of some of the aforementioned changes but not others.) Now I get an error with the npm install
step.
15.44 npm ERR! code 1
15.44 npm ERR! path /usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas
15.44 npm ERR! command failed
15.44 npm ERR! command sh -c prebuild-install -r napi || node-gyp rebuild
15.45 npm ERR! prebuild-install warn install No prebuilt binaries found (target=7 runtime=napi arch=x64 libc=musl platform=linux)
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info using node-gyp@8.4.1
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info using node@20.15.1 | linux | x64
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.11.10 found at "/usr/bin/python3"
15.45 npm ERR! gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/node-v20.15.1-headers.tar.gz
15.45 npm ERR! gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/node-v20.15.1-headers.tar.gz
15.45 npm ERR! gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/SHASUMS256.txt
15.45 npm ERR! gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.15.1/SHASUMS256.txt
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn /usr/bin/python3
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'binding.gyp',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-f',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'make',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas/build/config.gypi',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/home/chrome/.cache/node-gyp/20.15.1/include/node/common.gypi',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dvisibility=default',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_root_dir=/home/chrome/.cache/node-gyp/20.15.1',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_lib_file=/home/chrome/.cache/node-gyp/20.15.1/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dmodule_root_dir=/usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_engine=v8',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--depth=.',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--no-parallel',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--generator-output',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'build',
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Goutput_dir=.'
15.45 npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
15.45 npm ERR! Package pixman-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
15.45 npm ERR! Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pixman-1.pc'
15.45 npm ERR! to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
15.45 npm ERR! Package 'pixman-1', required by 'virtual:world', not found
15.45 npm ERR! gyp: Call to 'pkg-config pixman-1 --libs' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/src/app/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:259:16)
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28)
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12)
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 6.10.14-linuxkit
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/src/app/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /usr/src/app/node_modules/canvas
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v20.15.1
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v8.4.1
15.45 npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok
15.45
[+] Running 0/1A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/chrome/.npm/_logs/2025-02-18T01_04_35_846Z-debug-0.log
- Service node Building 18.9s
failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c npm install" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
I don’t actually care what backend engine is used (in fact, I have long argued that Mozilla would be better off maintaining a fork of Chromium, and concentrating their effort on keeping good security and privacy features, rather than duplicating work rendering components and implementing JavaScript methods). I care about how my data is used and about the convenience of the experience with features like syncing. If I use Firefox/Waterfox only on my computers, but Chrome on Android and Safari on iPadOS, I don’t get synced tabs and bookmarks.