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They could ask.
And receive answers like, "A faster horse."
Telemetry can tell you which features someone uses. It doesn't tell you why.
Firefox 64 Released
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Yes but it isn't as good as google. Go to youtube. Right click on the youtube search bar. add a keyword for this search. choose your keyword (ex: yt) now you can type in the omnibar "yt my search" and it will do directly the search. It's not as good as chrome solution but it's the only thing for now.
Wow I actually like this better. Didn't know about these features in either browser though.
I remember first using this feature in IE6 back when that browser was new, and I've used it since then. I have "i" for IMDb search, "w" for WikiPedia. "g" goes to DuckDuckGo now after Google became malicious and evil, because of years of muscle memory.
Re: Firefox 64 Released
#383I really wish they would implement tab stacking, that is the feature that I really miss from the old Opera, here is a video of how it looks in case you don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpJvg8icmM I've tried to find an extension for FF that does this, but so far I was unable to find one.
The big issue here is that Chrome's extension API (which Firefox adopted) doesn't allow this directly, so any extensions trying this need to: 1. rebuild the UI from scratch 2. rebuild basic tab handling behaviour from scratch 3. build tab stacking on top of that 4. (ideally) hide Firefox's existing tab bar And there's two issues with the above steps: (a) 4 hasn't been possible with the new extensions API sofar (it wa…
Prior to quantum you could do so. You have always been able to do so with css in your user profile. You don't have to actually know css you just have to google and paste the text into a file.
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#384> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window. Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide…
I use Panorama View, it's a clone of the old tab groups functionality. Multiple windows is hard to save as a session. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...
I endlessly miss tab grouping
Re: Firefox 64 Released
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arrrr... what they don't realize when they review their telemetry data is that most people that use this feature have turned off sharing telemetry data. Combine that with the fact that they haven't advertised the feature in the past decade and it leads to devs thinking nobody uses it.
The usage stats from telemetry showed a 0.01% usage rate. Even if 99% of people that used the Live Bookmarks feature disabled telemetry that implies that 99% of Firefox users did not use the feature.
It's really weird to apparently be personally part of a 0.01% group. I feel that usage rate must be suspect- in some Firefox version they gave out live bookmarks by default, and surely more than 1 in 10,000 people still have those. Do we know what the telemetry actually measured?
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#386There's always been a look & feel problem for me with Firefox...something that seemed to be solved right out of the box with Chrome. I've not been able to put my finger on it, but I think this kind of small user-convenience stuff is part of it. It's not "features" per se, but more the feel of how the application works.
It reminds me of old platform video games before Super Mario Bros. (and for a while after) Superficially, they looked and played kind of the same, but there were a thousand little tweaks in how Mario handled that made it feel right.
I'm definitely going to give Firefox a spin and see how it handles these days.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
The big issue here is that Chrome's extension API (which Firefox adopted) doesn't allow this directly, so any extensions trying this need to: 1. rebuild the UI from scratch 2. rebuild basic tab handling behaviour from scratch 3. build tab stacking on top of that 4. (ideally) hide Firefox's existing tab bar And there's two issues with the above steps: (a) 4 hasn't been possible with the new extensions API sofar (it wa…
I'm not clear on why you would want TST as an extension rather than built into the browser chrome. It'd be like wanting the tab bar, or the address bar, to be an extension. Those things belong in the browser chrome; they're what the browser chrome "layer" is for . Just dig into the Firefox code and add TST to the browser itself. (It wouldn't be all that much work; it'd just be 1. adding "parent" and "children" proper…
It's pretty clear that people desire it as an extension because a good and functional extension exists whereas first party support in a browser does not. There are certainly good arguments for it being easier for it to be built in vs as an extension if you were building from scratch right this moment but such an argument misses multiple points.
An extension exists NOW that people enjoy using. Building THIS into firefox isn't a replacement for a robust extension interface unless you suppose that first party developers can think or implement all the good ideas that will ever come about.
People in truth give zero damns if its easier to implement or more elegantly done any more than they care if their tv is beautifully engineered because their priorities aren't yours. They care about functionality. Right now firefox seems to be lighter and even post quantum have better extensions. Throwing either of those out will cause it to cede more marketshare to chrome.
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#388Is this the version that kills Live Bookmarks? Some of us FF old-timers are hopelessly reliant on these things, and it's, as far as I have found, the fastest way to quickly scan lists of headlines from all your favorite sites at once. Seriously, one click and you can quickly mouse over the sites on your bookmarks toolbar to consume hundreds of headlines. I really, REALLY hate that they're killing this feature, but th…
I added Livemarks. It helps, but it's still missing a critical feature of the old extension- the icon showing which RSS links you've already visited. That'll be added at some point at least:
https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/issues/17
Still, this update felt particularly user hostile. My user experience was:
- I'm in the middle of browsing and open a tab to do a search, but the new tab shows the "Firefox needs to restart because updates are more important than you!“ page.
- I'm forced to restart. Manually, since the automatic restart is probably broken on my system. Tab state in some SPA tabs are lost.
- Now I have to migrate my live bookmarks. They converted themselves to regular bookmarks- I have to right click and delete those one by one. Then I install Livemarks, import the exported bookmarks data, and then drag those one by one to my bookmarks toolbar.
I'm half considering Chrome. If Firefox is going to be like this, why bother? Might as well start the Chrome dominance and stagnation part of the browser cycle.
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#389Is this the version that kills Live Bookmarks? Some of us FF old-timers are hopelessly reliant on these things, and it's, as far as I have found, the fastest way to quickly scan lists of headlines from all your favorite sites at once. Seriously, one click and you can quickly mouse over the sites on your bookmarks toolbar to consume hundreds of headlines. I really, REALLY hate that they're killing this feature, but th…
I upgraded and instantly regretted it, as usual.
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Scaled resolution option is so widely used that it might as well be broken entirely.
Do you have data supporting that claim?
Do you require a scientific study for any fact? If you bothered to do any googling, or whatever Mozilla equivalent of google is - this is in the top 3 results. https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/02/15-inch-macbook-pro-screen-re... Scaled resolution is defaulted on a huge amount of Macs.