Extensions in Firefox 59

Post by anigbrowl » Sat, Jan 27, 2018, 5:35 AM UTC

kbenson wrote: post #104

anigbrowl wrote: post #89

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There doesn't seem to be an easy way to assign an open tab to a specific container.

You can't assign an already open tab as that would require cookie merging in a lot of cases, but there is a related solution. It took me a few weeks to realize what it was (but once I did, it all clicked, and works well now). You select a container to open a new tab, then open what you want in it (type/paste link). After you are on that URL in a container, the container control panel has an option to always open that…

Post by shabble » Sat, Jan 27, 2018, 6:05 AM UTC

amyjess wrote: post #68

kzrdude wrote: post #6

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I thought the gaining philosophy here was to make "destructive" operations easy to undo, rather than having warnings and confirmations before carrying them out? Quitting Firefox and then starting again and restoring all tabs fits well with easy to undo.

Forget confirmation, Ctrl-Q shouldn't exist in the first place. An keystroke that can close your whole session and is near-identical to another, very common keystroke is a design flaw, period. Same with the backspace key activating the back button. Using these keystrokes for these purposes should be considered harmful. Ctrl-Q is so harmful that I've long fantasized about hacking whatever driver in the kernel that con…

    tell application "Firefox"
	    set buttonStr to "Ooops"
	    set errMsg to "Close with ?-Q disabled. Use the menu."
	    display dialog errMsg buttons {buttonStr} cancel button buttonStr default button buttonStr with icon stop giving up after 5
    end tell

Post by pault » Sat, Jan 27, 2018, 7:26 AM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #27

Anyone working on this reading the thread? Can we ever expect an extension that will allow the far better tab management that Chrome has? Namely: Being able to scroll between tabs with the scroll wheel, and being able to select multiple tabs with shift/ctrl to drag them/merge them/close them/etc. It's crazy to me that Firefox's original selling point was tab management, and today Chrome's is so much better.

Post by foepys » Sat, Jan 27, 2018, 7:45 AM UTC

madez wrote: post #95

swang wrote: post #66

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don't bother to link to jwz from hn since he redirects you to (what i guess is) a nsfw image

The form is debatable, however their critique is not completely wrong. The diagnosis that at least a vocal part of the crowd here is finance-obsessed fits my experience. More generally, some of the people I regularly interact with face-to-face are strongly focused on how they can use things for their financial advantage, while others aren't. Some even want to speculate with cryptocurrencies, which I consider gambling…

Post by emmelaich » Sat, Jan 27, 2018, 8:33 AM UTC

classichasclass wrote: post #163

emmelaich wrote: post #154

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Would it be possible to implement ssh:// ? I know it's theoretically possible to make some browsers respect ssh:// urls. But to actually do so requires a lot of work. Presumably this is to avoid some security problem that I'm not immediately aware of. Or maybe just plain caution?

Theoretically? Yes. (You'd need to add it to the whitelist, but you could do that.) Practically, though, you still have the problem of actually making the connection; there's no API for that yet.