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Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by tdkl »

abhinavk wrote: post #106
tdkl wrote: post #66

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Which is a pretty dumb shortcut to use one handed and compared to alt+tab.

I have never seen a keyboard which doesn't have a Ctrl on the right side.

Sure, but there's way more distance between Ctrl and PgUp then Ctrl+Tab (I'm taking a classic desktop keyboard in the account now). There are quite some more compact models where PgUp/Down are between the NumLock and - on the right side with the Numpad.

Not to mention you'd need to set the hand from one end of the keyboard to the middle, just to press something you'd otherwise move 1 key.

As I said, it's dumb.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by Manishearth »

nevex wrote: post #188
Manishearth wrote: post #146

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Aside from the fact that the regular URL bar in Firefox does this, Tab Center ( https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter ) puts tabs on the side with a filter-search at the top.

The search and hide/unhide function seemed interesting to me, but in my opinion the Tree Style Tab add-on is superior. Perhaps that is because TabCenter is aimed at a less technical audience [1]. Hierarchical tab structures are more valuable in my opinion, because it implicitly groups related tabs together. The structure in which tabs are opened reflects my workflow while opening them and allows me to e.g. close all…

Oh, yeah, I'm not pitching this as an alternative to Tree Style. I like Tree Style too.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by Manishearth »

scriptdevil wrote: post #186
Manishearth wrote: post #146

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Aside from the fact that the regular URL bar in Firefox does this, Tab Center ( https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter ) puts tabs on the side with a filter-search at the top.

This is brilliant! I wasn't aware of tab center. The best part is that it works really well with tabgroups too. However, I am unable to use it through the keyboard. The undocumented C-S-l seems to trigger a search over there. But there is no way of navigating to a matching tab without the mouse. Any tips?

Ctrl-tab seems to work for me.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by [deleted] »

ohstopitu wrote: post #80
bruce_one wrote: post #77

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It's all personal preference, but since Opera 12 I've been addicted to ctrl-tab for most recently used switching (Opera 12 had a nice tab switcher that made the interaction very understandable/manageable), and then alt-tab for switching in "physical" order. (I run a large number of tabs, and quickly switching between two (or a small number) that I've used recently seems to be a common interaction for me - but then be…

a feature that I've loved about Vivaldi (and vimium on chrome) is the spotlight like search for tabs. When you run a lot (~30-40) of tabs, that's an killer feature right away!

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Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by [deleted] »

ohstopitu wrote: post #80
bruce_one wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's all personal preference, but since Opera 12 I've been addicted to ctrl-tab for most recently used switching (Opera 12 had a nice tab switcher that made the interaction very understandable/manageable), and then alt-tab for switching in "physical" order. (I run a large number of tabs, and quickly switching between two (or a small number) that I've used recently seems to be a common interaction for me - but then be…

a feature that I've loved about Vivaldi (and vimium on chrome) is the spotlight like search for tabs. When you run a lot (~30-40) of tabs, that's an killer feature right away!

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Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by shostack »

cpeterso wrote: post #69
criddell wrote: post #53

I wanted to try reader mode, so I went to a random Atlantic article ( https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/better-of... ) and hit ctrl-alt-r. The graph related to the story was dropped. Would that be a bug, or is that how reader mode is supposed to work? I don't have the equivalent Evernote plug-in anymore (I'm trying to get away from Evernote), so I have nothing to compare it to.

You can report a bug in Firefox Reader Mode here. Identifying the "important" content on a page is a hard problem. :) FWIW, Safari's Reader Mode doesn't include the article's graphs or pictures either. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&c...

I've noticed this behavior with things like Pocket as well.

Is there any evidence you've found of any publishers intentionally trying to load assets in a way that would break with this because it is stripping some ad impressions?

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by Anthony-G »

govg wrote: post #183
elkos wrote: post #152

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I've vim keybindings on my Firefox through a plug-in... I almost forget I have a mouse

Is it Pentadactyl? Does it work on the latest versions of Firefox?

I use VimFx which doesn’t modify the browser chrome as much as Pentadactyl (apparently). It simply provides lots of convenient Vim-like keyboard shortcuts. I also use the ItsAllText! extension with GVim configured for editing text boxes. I'm not aware of any issues that either have with the new extension architecture.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by criddell »

shostack wrote: post #196
cpeterso wrote: post #69

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You can report a bug in Firefox Reader Mode here. Identifying the "important" content on a page is a hard problem. :) FWIW, Safari's Reader Mode doesn't include the article's graphs or pictures either. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&c...

I've noticed this behavior with things like Pocket as well. Is there any evidence you've found of any publishers intentionally trying to load assets in a way that would break with this because it is stripping some ad impressions?

I don't think so. Medium, for example, loads images on demand. So if you never scroll down, I don't think it ever renders the bottom of an article. I don't think it's malicious, just conflicting goals.
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