How to go forward in web apps saved by Bromite?

dexic · February 2, 2024, 10:45am

Hello!

iI have saved a couple of forums like the e community as an app. I know how to go back to a previous page, but how would I go forward to the page I went back from?

Thanks for the future insight!

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tcecyk · February 4, 2024, 2:55pm

kind of the same in Bromite/Chrome/Firefox - in the sandwich menu is a forward button.

I don’t know why they didn’t implement swipe-left-on-address-bar to do that too

dexic · February 5, 2024, 9:38am

Where is the sandwich menu? I can’t see any kind of button on that screen…

tcecyk · February 5, 2024, 12:00pm

uh sorry, three dot menu, apparently it’s named “kebab menu” TIL

https://www.bromite.org/assets/screenshots/ntp_home.png → the three dots to the right of the [1] tab-numbering icon
https://www.bromite.org/assets/screenshots/menu_items.png → there in the top part of the menu the right-arrow is that forward button you’re looking for

dexic · February 5, 2024, 3:06pm

Well, I have saved those pages as WebApps. This means that you don’t have any visible buttons any more. You can go back with that back button of the OS but not the back button in Bromite any more. And if I do so, how can I go forward?

Here is the screenshot of my FP4 with the whole screen Fullscreen with the web app for the community.

tcecyk · February 6, 2024, 2:11am

ok got it - I think with PWAs it’s up the authors to surface any buttons in theri UI that can make use of the History API. I’m surprised myself