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Re: Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

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Post by timewarrior » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 11:17 PM UTC

xahrepap wrote: post #15

timewarrior wrote: post #13

Only reason I haven't moved to Firefox on my Mac is that I can't reassign keyboard shortcut for tab change (without using any external software). Firefox default is Cmd-Shift-[], which gives me pain in left hand if I use it too much. So I have used OS keyboard to reassign the tab change to Cmd-[]. Most apps seem to respect it, but Firefox doesn't. Does anyone have a better solution?

Ctrl+tab and Ctrl+shift+tab also cycles through tabs on macos. Note: ctrl, not cmd

One problem with this is that it’s a combination keystroke involving two special keys and tab. That is bad for your fingers especially if it something like tab switch that you use a lot.

With Cmd-[] you just use total two keys which are easy with two hands.

Re: Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

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Post by timewarrior » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 11:18 PM UTC

TheRealSteel wrote: post #23

timewarrior wrote: post #13

Only reason I haven't moved to Firefox on my Mac is that I can't reassign keyboard shortcut for tab change (without using any external software). Firefox default is Cmd-Shift-[], which gives me pain in left hand if I use it too much. So I have used OS keyboard to reassign the tab change to Cmd-[]. Most apps seem to respect it, but Firefox doesn't. Does anyone have a better solution?

I agree it's very annoying you can't change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. If you use the Mac trackpad, use BetterTouchTool to assign a gesture (I use tiptap left and tiptap right) to the switch tabs left and switch tabs right keyboard shortcuts. You can assign them per-app so it can send a different combo for Firefox than anything else.

As mentioned in the original post, I don’t want to install additional software. If I was open to that Karabiner would be perfect. Thanks!

Re: Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

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Post by iudqnolq » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

Enginerrrd wrote: post #28

nashashmi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a couple of websites that Firefox doesn't work. Same experience on mobile. But Chrome works all the time.

This is absolutely true, though I have still switched to Firefox and no longer use Chrome. I've taken to filing bug reports or reaching out on the "contact us" page of websites when I find a feature isn't working correctly on firefox.

Sometimes those are FF bugs (or "bugs", but FF wants to fix them anyway), and you can report them to the firefox-run https://webcompat.com through the menu.

> People expect websites to work regardless of the device or browser they are using. When a site works in one browser but not another, that is most likely a web compatibility bug that we want to know about.

I reported an inline-svg rendering bug in FF preview. It only took a minute or two, and a volunteer responding within a day that they had replicated the problem and moved it to a Github issue, which frankly amazed me.

Re: Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

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Post by iudqnolq » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC

svnpenn wrote: post #12

Dont forget that if you manually update, Firefox destroys your update settings: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576400

The Mozilla person who marked this wontfix summed it up pretty well, in my opinion:

> hi, the distribution folder is a way for third-parties to bundle/modify the browser - when a user is paving over a firefox installation with a setup file provided by mozilla, the assumption/signal is, that they want to receive the plain unmodified version of firefox. that's why the distribution folder is getting removed by default. this is the documented behaviour and if you want to keep the distribution in place when using an installer from mozilla, you'd have to run it with the /RemoveDistributionDir=false parameter: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/installer/wi...

> so i assume this bug is a wontfix...

Re: Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

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Post by xahrepap » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:10 PM UTC

timewarrior wrote: post #31

xahrepap wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ctrl+tab and Ctrl+shift+tab also cycles through tabs on macos. Note: ctrl, not cmd

One problem with this is that it’s a combination keystroke involving two special keys and tab. That is bad for your fingers especially if it something like tab switch that you use a lot. With Cmd-[] you just use total two keys which are easy with two hands.

I just noticed that CMD+Alt+left/right also work. You might be able to push CMD+ALT with one thumb and left/right with your right hand