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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by filoleg »

Scramblejams wrote: post #313
airstrike wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens to me every single day on the Windows 10 start menu and on my iPhone using the swipe-down search on the Home screen. Why in God's green Earth the developers who implemented these don't cache obvious local results (like app names) to quickly return them is beyond me, and why the position of the results has to move after the fact is even more maddening I typed "Arro" for an app I use last night, it took a…

Had the same problem on my iPhone. I turned off Siri for app search (Settings / Siri & Search / Suggestions for Search) and now the results are instant. (And local to my phone, so no internet-sourced results, but I’m fine with that.) How Microsoft managed to ruin the Start Menu, on the other hand, is amazing. I had to reinstall a computer because some Cortana corruption had made it impossible to launch apps from the…

Thank you for the Siri protip, that was one of my biggest frustrations with iOS (that + inability to take scrolling screenshots natively, similarly to how you can on Samsung Galaxy phones). For complete peace, I just wish there was a way to turn off all app suggestions in search at once, instead of flipping that switch in settings for every single app.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by fedups »

> Searching within Multiple Tabs – Did you know that if you enter a ‘%’ in your Awesome Bar, you can search the tabs on your computer?

This will be a big help for me. Makes me wonder how many more there are that are just too cumbersome to discover.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by Jonanin »

fimdomeio wrote: post #123

From the last 3 or so versions Firefox performance on my retina mac is indistinguishable from chrome (from a humam perspective not looking at ram cpu usage), so I'm very happy to be using firefox full time once again. At some point I knew it was time to close firefox when the fans started blowing at max speed. Does not happen any more.

One thing I love about firefox performance-wise is that closing tabs is instant. I can close a lot of tabs very quickly. Chrome lags quite a bit on tab close.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

abrowne wrote: post #27
ddavis wrote: post #17

On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.

AIUI, Mozilla is rewriting the address bar ("QuantumBar"), and you can now toggle it on in Nightly by setting browser.urlbar.quantumbar to true in about:config. I've only tried it on Linux, but it seems smoother.

When did the "Awesome Bar" become the "Quantum Bar", what's the difference, and why can't they call it the "address bar" (yes despite it being overloaded with other functions)?

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by cgb223 »

OrgNet wrote: post #382

Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the right direction

Is it?

Chrome is moving more and more towards controling their browser experience, and monetizing their existing web properties (example, there are now ads in the Gmail iOS App)

Apple is focusing more and more on privacy, especially for Safari.This is the best way that can fight back against Google's market share. They've definitely done their market research, so Firefox doing the same is probably in step with market needs.

I think longer term this is going to pay off big for Firefox

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Post by RussianCow »

OrgNet wrote: post #382

Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the right direction

We need to eradicate this myth that only power users use Firefox anymore. There are plenty of laypeople still using it that never switched to Chrome, or recently switched to Firefox for privacy or other reasons, and those people generally don't use many addons (if any at all) or change the settings from the defaults. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but I'm sure Mozilla knows the answer, and I'd be willing to bet that it's much more than half.

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Post by mklein994 »

fedups wrote: post #383

> Searching within Multiple Tabs – Did you know that if you enter a ‘%’ in your Awesome Bar, you can search the tabs on your computer? This will be a big help for me. Makes me wonder how many more there are that are just too cumbersome to discover.

I always forget them, so I have this bookmarked: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...

TL;DR:

Add ^ to search for matches in your browsing history.

Add * to search for matches in your bookmarks.

Add + to search for matches in pages you've tagged.

Add % to search for matches in your currently open tabs.

Add # to search for matches in page titles.

Add $ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).

Add ? to search for matches in suggestions.

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