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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 smallbigfish »

krispbyte wrote: post #539
noglorp wrote: post #508

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Better yet is when you type "Ar" looking for "Arrow" and get 1) Arrow 2) Arboles 3) Area And then type another 'r' before you realize your result is there ("Arr") and as you go to select "Arrow" the auto-suggest results turn into 1) Array 2) Arrogant 3) Arrow Like, how does adding the second 'r' make "Array" higher probability than "Arrow"?!

Every time I click the share button in Android, the icons are in completely different order. Not last recently used, not alphabetically. Completely random.

That will teach you to pay attention. Heh!

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by raquo »

meruru wrote: post #536
colordrops wrote: post #488

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recommendations are not driven by cookies.

What are they driven by then? My youtube recommendations reset completely every time I clear my cookies.

Your user account, if you're logged in to google

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by jodrellblank »

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…

How Microsoft managed to ruin the Start Menu, on the other hand, is amazing.

My Windows 10 start menu lags. Press windows key or click on it, no response for a good ten seconds or more.

I have this on my work machine, a previous install, my home machine, a Surface Book, a remote desktop server on Windows 2016.

And yet, I've never seen anyone else talking about it. I can't believe I'm the only one who has this "my start menu has paged out to 5400rpm disk, then powered the disk down" experience.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by kkarakk »

mirrorlake wrote: post #520
tomatotomato37 wrote: post #471

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

I’m saddened by this aspect of YouTube whereby you’re afraid to explore the site without tanking your recommendations. I wish there was a site that focused on finding YouTube videos in a more focused way rather than some rogue ML algorithm that decides to spam you with weird topics. I don’t feel like I have any control over my YouTube account anymore.

Sadly this feeling is only going to get more common

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by kkarakk »

Jonanin wrote: post #384
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.

why would you ever close tabs?

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by jplayer01 »

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...

100 tabs open on my iPad. Probably a similar on my iPhone. Far more on my desktop. The problem is that nobody has come up with a decent way to handle tabs.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by arlens »

msravi wrote: post #538
noglorp wrote: post #508

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Better yet is when you type "Ar" looking for "Arrow" and get 1) Arrow 2) Arboles 3) Area And then type another 'r' before you realize your result is there ("Arr") and as you go to select "Arrow" the auto-suggest results turn into 1) Array 2) Arrogant 3) Arrow Like, how does adding the second 'r' make "Array" higher probability than "Arrow"?!

Your not accepting the 1st suggestion (Arrow) when you typed "Ar" decreased the probability that that was the term you intended. The next suggestion factored in that you were probably looking for something else and bumped up other suggestions.

That’s a bad assumption. People often type faster than they can respond to changes on screen. Typing speed & muscle memory means I’m more likely to type “arr” than just “ar”. But I’m also likely to be thrown off by the search reshuffling as it expands.

Once an item matches the search, it should stay in place unless it’s invalidated by further typing. Reshuffling just adds needless friction.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by Scramblejams »

jodrellblank wrote: post #543
Scramblejams wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

How Microsoft managed to ruin the Start Menu, on the other hand, is amazing. My Windows 10 start menu lags. Press windows key or click on it, no response for a good ten seconds or more. I have this on my work machine, a previous install, my home machine, a Surface Book, a remote desktop server on Windows 2016. And yet, I've never seen anyone else talking about it. I can't believe I'm the only one who has this "my sta…

Same here. Sometimes I’ll click on it a good five or eight times before it comes up. When people say Windows 10 is good, I feel like they’re living in an alternate dimension.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by anticensor »

vetinari wrote: post #115
mixmastamyk wrote: post #93

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It's never crashed on unix for me after an update. Sounds like a Windows problem however.

It used to crash under Linux, when you updated it while it was running, and then opened new window or a tab. Now it shows a message that you need to restart.

It was sometimes worse than crashing, and silently going unresponsive after an update. Only a SIGKILL would close that instance.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by bovine3dom »

pmoriarty wrote: post #490
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…

Have you tried `set allowautofocus false`? It breaks some fancy editors like CodeMirror but you can always re-enable it on certain pages with `seturl`.
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