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Emacs and vi are used by programmers. Browsers are used by nearly every single person on the Internet. The threat model is completely different.
Time for a developers only Browser! Anyone wants to grab that? :)
Anecdotally I keep finding myself stuck in Captcha loops of Firefox and the same sites work fine on Chrome? Anyone else finding this?
https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-s...
It works 90% of the time for me.
Every new release of Firefox makes the experience better and better. I'm glad Mozilla has started focusing on the browser again, not just as an "open alternative to chrome" but as the "best possible browser", which I truly believe Firefox today is :) Every new release reminds me of this comic: http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/ As a tweet I read today[1] : "Mozilla seems to be under the assumption that ther…
> Half the developers on the Chrome team want Mozilla to win. Why aren't they working on Firefox then?
And anyways, I think by "win", they don't mean "make Chrome irrelevant". Competition drives innovation, and the Chrome team probably want to steal good ideas from Firefox, find the feature that will put them back on top, etc... They are likely to get more resources and a more interesting job than by staying alone on top.
The best part is that Mozilla and Google are not really competitors when it comes to browsers. Google doesn't make money from Chrome, it is just a gateway to their profitable services. But Firefox works too: and ad impression on Firefox is not worth less than an ad impression on Chrome.
There'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) Superfic…
Same here. I gave Firefox a fresh chance at v57 (Quantam), but I'm back to Chrome. It was fine honestly, no problems with performance or with what I could do. But Right after install, I spent several minutes in just fixing some very basic UI irritations. It had some extra-spacing on sides of the address bar, a 'heavy' looking menu bar, etc. (most users don't want to do that, and rightly so). I don't mind the differen…
I have several userChrome CSS changes to make it look exactly as I want. All these taming took me some time, but it's totally worth it because this is a software you spend a few hours every day on.
> 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…
This is one of those Chrome features that was keeping me on Chrome. I kept switching to Firefox and this would be a major reason why I would switch back. Super happy right now.
- Read about new firefox version
- "I should give it a try again"
- Update and start new firefox
- Open spiegel.de and youtube.com (note: with pi-hole active!)
- Fans of RMBP go crazy, scrolling a news article lags like it's 1999
- "Well, let's hope for a better/usable performance with the next update. I'd love to use it after all..."
:(
Always the same ritual: - Read about new firefox version - "I should give it a try again" - Update and start new firefox - Open spiegel.de and youtube.com (note: with pi-hole active!) - Fans of RMBP go crazy, scrolling a news article lags like it's 1999 - "Well, let's hope for a better/usable performance with the next update. I'd love to use it after all..." :(
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That's the point.. since you probably woulnd't argue for taking away background and text color, you already "trust" web devs with those. If a website is unreadable, the scrollbar doesn't matter. If it's readable, the scrollbar will look great, too. Also see other comment.
> That's the point.. since you probably woulnd't argue for taking away background and text color, you already "trust" web devs with those. I would, reader modes are a godsend that revert the web back to how it should have always been, with the client controlling the text and background color in a way consistent with the rest of the system. Content display should be up to the user, not the designer.
I never used them, but Opera had a few preset user stylesheets right there in the "view" menu at the top of the window, that was neat. One was "C64" IIRC. Silly, but neat ^^
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Alternative...
If styleesheets could have placeholders for some system colors (maybe even fonts?), that could be something.. turn nightmode on/off, or just generally change colors, and all programs and all websites fade! I would actually love "having to" make 3 stylesheets, one super fancy one, a print stylesheet, and a "system colors" one. Or don't even stop with colors, do it like Magic User Interface on the Amiga, let the user configure how they want all sorts of input and information fields to be formatted and behave... some people want material design (they're wrong of course, but if they must be wrong, I want them to at least be wrong and happy, rather than wrong and unhappy), others want gradients and bevels and shadows everywhere, let everybody set it how they want. Some people want lots of padding, others want tight padding and negative linespacing and tiny fonts, etc.
Awww, now I'm super excited about something that doesn't exist... I can taste it, it would be so awesome! This is the wrong timeline :/
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Time for a developers only Browser! Anyone wants to grab that? :)
Qutebrowser and next browser are both quite programmer-focused. They are WebKit based, however.