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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 Kenji »

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 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.

If you have anxiety because your browser has 8 tabs open, you have issues that cannot be solved with computer programs.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by RussianCow »

joveian wrote: post #173
skykooler wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems problematic; even in your screenshot with just one tab, the title gets cut off after just a couple words.

IMO, the title isn't really helpful anyway. I did a userChrome.css thing a while back to make it just show favicons in the tab bar with one or two pixels of space and it works great. The tabs don't jump around when you switch tabs and you can fit a bunch more of them in the same space (I keep favicon bookmarks on the right side of the tab bar).

This is useless for sites that don't have favicons.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by 14 »

I love the page anchoring there is nothing more annoying, imo, then page jumping. More so on mobile but still am glad to see this addressed. I always felt like it was intentional on mobile, timed perfectly to when the average user would be expected to click the certain location then bam an ad pops up in it's place. Good riddance.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by tokyodude »

PaulHoule wrote: post #427
basch wrote: post #412

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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…

Even in current browsers you can do pretty well closing tabs whenever you want and looking them up in history. The situation could be way better.

I can't use history unless the browser searched by page content not just title

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by jordwest »

mushufasa wrote: post #196
brink wrote: post #153

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Same. Have you ever tried to click a link only to accidentally click something else because the page won't stop loading? It's infuriating.

this has been happening to me recently on Google search, as cards load with info about the top results. Anyone on Google reading this -- please either cut that out, or include css placeholders for content you expect your JS to load. Both waiting longer for content to load and having to go back from clicking the wrong thing detract from the raison d'etre of fast and relevant search.

I was hoping to find someone else who mentioned this.

This catches me out regularly. I would not be surprised if a team at Google implemented this and immediately saw “increased engagement” from users in an AB test, so they locked it in permanently and considered it case closed, the science is in.

Scientism at its worst.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by ilikejam »

codazoda wrote: post #429
driverdan wrote: post #424

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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.

Do you know what the option is called?

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by lewiscollard »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #69
ezekg wrote: post #61

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This would be a great solution, if everybody used the same screen size.

It would be nice if we could have a ratio rule in CSS for all block elements, so adjusting one dimension would automatically alter the other, preserving the ratio at all screen sizes. e.g.: width: 2000px; max-width: 100%; ratio: 16/9; Of course this gets tricky when width and height are both specified and they don't match the given ratio, but that just means that one needs to always override the other. Edit to add: O…

You (or others) may or may not know it is already possible in CSS as it is. To force 16:9:

  .DamnInteresting {
    position: relative;
    display: block;
  }

  .DamnInteresting::before {
    content: '';
    display: block;
    /* 16:9 shim! */ 
    padding-bottom: 56.25%;
  }

  .DamnInteresting img {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0; 
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
  }
Ugly, but it's easy to make a mixin (or similar) if you're using a preprocessor!

(The ::before element isn't stricly necessary; the padding can go on the .DamnInteresting element directly - just make sure .DamnInteresting is wrapped in a containing element of your desired width and you can even use inline styles for the padding shim.)

(Edit: a word)

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