One of my primary online annoyances is having to maintain two Firefox installations because most of my favored extensions can't or won't be rewritten for WebExtensions and I find the practice of forcing users to keep currently open tabs above the bookmarks bar contemptuous.
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
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#442I 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 have a huge problem with tab clutter; every computer I have, every browser, has lots of open tabs, long-term.
I have no idea what to do with them. Even something as simple as "read them" is .. and then what, close and forget them?
No idea what I even want to achieve - integrate them into my life in some hoarder kind of "this will make me a better, more knowledgeable person" way?
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#443One web annoyance I have recently discovered is moving the current tab. So far only one website I know uses it, but that is really annoying... when you click on specific links on that site, it suddenly moves the ative tab to the very right of all open tabs. I don't understand the reasoning there, but it made me ponder learning Firefox addon development several times already... or is something like that also easily fixed in Firefox?
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#445> 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.
You know the other modifiers for history (^), favourites (*), and tag search (+), page title (#), url($), and suggestions (?) too. I use the first 3, they compound too (in a slightly strange way, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire... , see last few paras.).
After wondering why this doesn't work:
It's important that you type them AFTER the thing to search for, not before.
For example, `mytag +` instead of `+ mytag`.
I found that quite surprising.
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#446Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know the other modifiers for history (^), favourites (*), and tag search (+), page title (#), url($), and suggestions (?) too. I use the first 3, they compound too (in a slightly strange way, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire... , see last few paras.).
After wondering why this doesn't work: It's important that you type them AFTER the thing to search for, not before. For example, `mytag +` instead of `+ mytag`. I found that quite surprising.
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#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Exactly. Trying to find something you saw last week? Just sort "by date and site" and scroll down to its page title!
This kind of thing is why I leave tabs up.
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#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've pretty much entirely gone back to pirating because of those fucking auto-play trailers they have now (and this is on the Roku app, where Firefox wont' help me).
~~I've~~ A friend of mine has done the same, but only because they require him to install surveillance software on his machine, turn off his VPN, switch to a different browser, and at the end of it all they refuse to serve him video at more than 720p... Two clicks and he's watching the same episode at 4K on any platform he well likes, with no spyware running on his machine.
> turn off his VPN
I just gave up on Netflix because of this, but not because I actually use a "VPN." It's because my ISP doesn't provide native IPv6 support so I use a tunnel from Hurricane Electric's TunnelBroker service. A couple of years ago, Netflix published AAAA records in DNS and decided that HE's IPv6 service is a "VPN" so they block it.
I made do with forwarding *.netflix.com in my usual DNS server to another DNS server configured to not return any AAAA records but that only works about 80% of the time now and I've had to do even more drastic things (like forcing a DNAT rule for anything heading out on port 53 to be rewritten to my own DNS server to avoid the apps getting "clever" and just querying whomever they like in spite of my DHCP server's config) to the point that I gave up. Hulu and iTunes don't give me crap so I just use them.
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#449I love that we continue to refer to private/ incognito browsing as something mainly used "when you’re planning a surprise party or gift".
I use Incognito mainly to let my friends log into their accounts for a minute on my computer, if they desperately need to e.g. make a bank transaction or an Amazon purchase or something using some combination of my information and theirs, where I can type stuff in (e.g. my shipping address) and they can type stuff in (e.g. their login credentials.)
Porn browsing, meanwhile, is much better done with a secondary dedicated Chrome profile.
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#450I 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 have about 30 open on my phone.