[Freedombox-discuss] Cannot login to FreedomBox from phone: login fields are not visible.

[A. F. Cano]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 07:37:17PM -0800, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote:
> On 3/4/26 18:18, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 02:59:25PM -0800, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote:
> > > On 3/4/26 13:49, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > Well, that didn't do it.  Even before getting to the roundcube app, the
> > > > blue menu ("Select Language", "About" and "Log in") is down, covering the
> > > > first app icon (bepasty), and it cannot be pulled up.  Tapping on the
> > > > little square to the right with 3 horizontal lines does nothing but make
> > > > the border thicker.  The menu that can't be pulled up and doesn't
> > > > disappear after tapping "Log in" obscures about the top 1/3 of the
> > > > screen.
> > > 
> > > The menu I mentioned is not part of the web page or FreedomBox interface. I
> > > was referring to the Privacy Browser's menu. This will very likely work
> > 
> > Yes, I know.  That's where I set up all the items you mentioned:
> > Javascript enabled, Cookies enabled, DOM storage enabled, Form data
> > enabled (but I get the same result with Form data set to system
> > default), user agent: Privacy Browser.  Everything else is system default.
> > 
> > The menu I mention above, the one that is giving me trouble by hiding
> > everything under it is the FreedomBox menu.  Shouldn't tapping the
> > little square to the top right with 3 horizontal lines, collapse the
> > menu that's permanently down?  It doesn't.  All it does is make the
> > border thicker.  Tapping on it after that does nothing, not even
> > restoring the border to thin lines.  Privacy browser is version 3.17,
> > version code 73.
> > 
> > > because I have tested by installing Privacy Browser.
> > 
> > It doesn't need additional stuff, does it? I have stopped/disabled
> > everything google and a lot of other stuff I don't need.
> 
> As soon as I enable Javascript on the page, menu collapses and works as
> expected. The behavior you are seeing is as if Javascript is disabled. I
> don't know why you are seeing that with Javascrit set to enabled.

Then it must be something else.  The phone is old (galazy S6 and it has
android 7) and is not upgradeable (t's not rooted).  Maybe that's why.
Maybe the old javascript is buggy/incompatible.  I might try to upgrade
another (testing) phone that I have rooted and upgrade it to Android
7.1.1 (the last verseion available), but that's another project.

> This time I tested the Plinth interface also. Also, to get to roundcube you
> can manually type https://mydomain.example/roundcube directly in the address
> bar.

This worked!  Thank you!  I can now access roundcube without login to
the Freedombox.  Problem solved.

Augustine