Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

Post by _dark_matter_ » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:17 PM UTC

ehsankia wrote: post #415

tzhenghao wrote: post #394

I think the core problem is still tab clutter. Every time I hop onto my iPad to do some light browsing, I have less anxiety. I don't keep many tabs open on mobile/tablet, but I'm already counting 8 opened here as I'm typing on my laptop. Sure, almost everything mentioned in the article is problematic. Then again, maybe it's just us programmed to hit Ctrl-T too much over a decade...

I like the experiment Chrome is running with "switch to tab" [0]. For most content, I would say it's probably faster to find the content again than search for it in a hay of tabs. I also like extensions like SimpleUndoClose [1] which let you search your recently closed tabs. This way, use my closed tabs as a way of "storing" tabs I may want to access in the near future again, rather than keeping them open. I would de…

Post by codazoda » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:18 PM UTC

arwineap wrote: post #408

I would love a browser, or extension that would prevent sites from hijacking or munging my clipboard. It's infuriating that a page can dictate what gets placed in my clipboard against my will.

Post by TheKarateKid » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:18 PM UTC

Scramblejams wrote: post #313

airstrike wrote: post #221

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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…

Post by PaulHoule » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:21 PM UTC

basch wrote: post #412

tzhenghao wrote: post #394

I think the core problem is still tab clutter. Every time I hop onto my iPad to do some light browsing, I have less anxiety. I don't keep many tabs open on mobile/tablet, but I'm already counting 8 opened here as I'm typing on my laptop. Sure, almost everything mentioned in the article is problematic. Then again, maybe it's just us programmed to hit Ctrl-T too much over a decade...

There needs to be a complete overhaul of "how i got here, back/forward, where i want to go, things i want to read, things i want to flip between, things i want cached so when i click they dont load, i want to purge the tab from my current workspace, i want to purge this site from the history." Navigation (forward/back), history, tabs, bookmarks et all are all trying to do various forms of the same thing, and their ov…

Post by codazoda » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:23 PM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #424

arwineap wrote: post #408

I would love a browser, or extension that would prevent sites from hijacking or munging my clipboard. It's infuriating that a page can dictate what gets placed in my clipboard against my will.

There's a setting in about:config to turn it off. The problem is that it messes up copying text in some tools like Google Docs and Sheets. Even if you turn it off Google hijacks the shortcut keys and right click. For some reason selecting Copy from the Edit menu doesn't work either.