Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by gitgud » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:54 PM UTC

airstrike wrote: post #221

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 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…

This is a good argument for empty place holders when loading dynamic content. Although some people don't like them, it is an easy way to prevent UX issues like this.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by m463 » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:55 PM UTC

bobbyi_settv wrote: post #414

I love that we continue to refer to private/ incognito browsing as something mainly used "when you’re planning a surprise party or gift".

I kind of wonder if it is even that private.

I use little snitch on mac, and I still continue to get Firefox connect dialogs for private tabs long after they were closed.

Safari on mac does not exhibit that behavior.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by dpcan » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:07 PM UTC

jessemillar wrote: post #129

> With this update, Firefox is introducing scroll anchoring, which ensures that you’re not going to bounce around on the page as these slow-loading ads load. While I love the idea of videos not automatically playing, I'm almost more excited for the scroll anchoring feature.

It appears to already be in Chrome. I have a site that I hate because their slider at the top always scrolls the site around, but that has recently stopped, and I've noticed that the page knows where I've scrolled to and adjust the scroll when the page changes above where I'm reading.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by megous » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:08 PM UTC

vbernat wrote: post #260

megous wrote: post #67

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Not sure why you're downvoted. It's a real problem. It would help if it would be possible to set an aspect ratio on the img tag, so that when it's scaled via CSS or whatever, it would maintain the aspect ratio of the loaded image despite it not being loaded yet.

It's possible and well-known: https://css-tricks.com/aspect-ratio-boxes/ . Also, for images, there is the simpler solution of specifying real width/height in the img tag, then use CSS with "max-width: 100%; height: auto" or anything similar.

It doesn't work in chrome. Try (test.png doesn't exist):

and you'll get 16x16px placeholder image. In Firefox, it works.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by chapium » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:13 PM UTC

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.

Firefox is very slow on 2014 macs and causes fans to spin up to mad speed. This tends to happen with html5 video players. Chrome seems to not have this issue.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by meruru » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:17 PM UTC

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #471

bobbyi_settv wrote: post #414

I love that we continue to refer to private/ incognito browsing as something mainly used "when you’re planning a surprise party or gift".

My main use of incognito mode is to prevent my YouTube recommendations from being filled with music videos or fringe news bullshit

If you forget to enter incognito mode, you can just clear cookies for the day as well.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by samirm » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:27 PM UTC

hexandcube wrote: post #469

samirm wrote: post #332

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I just wish FF Focus would let you sync your browsing history :(

But Focus doesn't store your browsing history.

Yeah I know, I'm just expressing my desire that it would.

It's nice, clean, simple and nowhere near as "bloaty" (for lack of a better word) as normal FF on android. I use it as my default browser on my phone, but (for some reason[1]) every now and again it dumps articles I leave open and then I am no longer able to find and read them :/

[1] I have a feeling it happens after every update.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by colordrops » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:32 PM UTC

meruru wrote: post #486

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #471

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My main use of incognito mode is to prevent my YouTube recommendations from being filled with music videos or fringe news bullshit

If you forget to enter incognito mode, you can just clear cookies for the day as well.

recommendations are not driven by cookies.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by notatoad » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 11:53 PM UTC

bobbyi_settv wrote: post #414

I love that we continue to refer to private/ incognito browsing as something mainly used "when you’re planning a surprise party or gift".

The couple of times i've actually used incognito mode for planning a surprise or buying a gift it's definitely put a smile on my face to realize i'm being a euphamism.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by pmoriarty » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 12:05 AM UTC

jessemillar wrote: post #129

> With this update, Firefox is introducing scroll anchoring, which ensures that you’re not going to bounce around on the page as these slow-loading ads load. While I love the idea of videos not automatically playing, I'm almost more excited for the scroll anchoring feature.

A similar annoyance: the browser insisting on switching focus once the page loads.

It happens nearly daily that I'll be typing in to an input field while the page is still loading, and Firefox will switch focus away from that input field when the page finishes loading.

The consequences of this are even worse for me, as I use the Tridactyl extension, which acts on vim-keystrokes when the focus is not in an input field. So if I'm in the middle of typing something in an input field and Firefox in its infinite wisdom chooses to switch focus out of the input field, what I type from then on will be acted on as commands to Tridactyl, which could do things like open, close, or reload a page.

Super, super annoying!