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Qutebrowser and next browser are both quite programmer-focused. They are WebKit based, however.
qutebrowser uses QtWebEngine, which is based on Chromium/Blink - I wouldn't call that WebKit anymore ;-)
Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.
Would someone mind explaining how to set this for a user (ahem, myself), who've not set environment variables in firefox? A Kubuntu user.
To test it once you could execute:
GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox
If you want a more persistent solution you could add
export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
to your .profile or /etc/profile (if you want it for all system users)
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> Half the developers on the Chrome team want Mozilla to win. Why aren't they working on Firefox then?
Money, I guess. 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…
True, but Firefox might add more aggressive ad blocking, whereas Chrome might want to disable/discourage that.
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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.
Wow! I didn't know this worked on Chrome.
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I want to believe firefox is the best but Chrome's user interface is simply too smooth and clean and firefox has not been able to match that. There are some details that you will only notice if you have used FF and chrome in equal amounts for a long time, such as being able to easily merge two windows in Chrome (in one click vs two), or clumsy bookmarks and search history settings in FF, etc. Also there's a significa…
Firefox has tags for bookmarks, whereas Chrome doesn't. This can help in refining your searches. Firefox's Awesome Bar (location bar) is superior to Chrome's Omnibar. And this matters too when it comes to bookmarks, which are automatically searched. But when typing in your location bar, you can also limit the searches just to your bookmarks by starting the search with a "*" char. You can also use "^" to limit your se…
Also, note that you need a space after the character (so "% search query", not "%search query").
Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…
Firefox have a search bar for this purpose. Isn't Chrome sending everything you type in the omnibar, including urls and search queries, to Google? To search for "apples" on Youtube, press Ctrl-E to focus on the search bar, type "apples", click on the Youtube icon or press Ctrl-down/up arrow to choose Youtube, then enter. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?type=search
Also - too many actions in your example vs. very simple and effective tab-to-search or keyword search available in Firefox.
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I've been using TreeStyle tabs for a few months now. While I love the tool, it definitely has some rough edges with integration. It has the same problem Firefox Multi-Account Containers has: Trying to change internal UI for an internal feature by using an addon simply isn't practical (yet).
It was practical before they killed XUL extensions and went with a crippled Chrome clone that can't hide it's horizontal tab bar. It's time for Mozilla to embrace and extend that garbage.
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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.
> 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…
Yess, finally, I use this feature in chromium A LOT, and it's one of the things that stopped me from switching back to firefox as my primary browser. There's still a five year old bug where firefox thinks the window has the last size from the previous session when you restart it and save open tabs, when using a tiling window manager, but it fixes itself when you manually resize it, I can learn to live with this.
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> This is completely unnecessary It is completely necessary for me to have “move one page up on click.”
But, that is what PgUp/PgDown are for on the keyboard, no? When you are navigating in these discrete steps why use the mouse, which is excellent for continuous input. If I click on something, I want to go THERE, not in the direction of it. "But we have always done it in this (imo illogical) way" is just being stubborn.
For most longer texts, I hate "click to here" on the scrollbars. It's impossible to get it right. Them working as pgup/down makes much more sense.