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17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by chrisseaton »

ornxka wrote: post #97
chrisseaton wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their behaviour makes Firefox match other browsers - Firefox doesn't need to be different for the sake of it.

Their behavior makes Firefox unlike literally every single other program with a text box, except the singular other browser people actually use. Neither browser should be different for the sake of it.

Sorry not sure what you mean? This is exactly how Safari, Chrome, and I guess others I can't immediately test work. Seems good to work as expected from other browsers?

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by ryandrake »

IshKebab wrote: post #11
nonbirithm wrote: post #9

Obligatory dogpile, but I'm hoping for the day you can disable Ctrl-Q to prevent accidentally closing the browser with a single keystroke. It's impossible to do on Linux.

Yeah Chrome's "hold to quit" feature is genius. I wish VSCode had it too.

Uggh. I pretty much never use Chrome on my Mac, but when I borrow someone else's computer and want to quit Chrome I always get bit by this one! No other application have I seen that makes you hold down ⌘Q to quit, except for Chrome. This is not conventional on Mac apps! It's probably configurable but why make it the default?

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by a1369209993 »

gdrift wrote: post #45

One of the most voted for issues is closed WONTFIX: single click selects all in address bar and search box. I use Firefox exclusively and this is the single most annoying change they made for no apparent reason. So annoying. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?votes=133

> single click selects all in address bar and search box.

FWIW, this is fixed in Firefox 3.6; you should probably upgrade.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by pseudalopex »

jaas wrote: post #36
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, why is there a jira.mozilla.com at all, and why is there a jira.mozilla.COM?

It’s probably private because it is used for internal systems. It’s probably .com because it’s for Mozilla Corporation as opposed to Mozilla Foundation.

The issues with Jira links don't have obvious connections to internal systems. I think the FIDEFE project is UI related.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by dfgdghdf »

kovac wrote: post #67
function_seven wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just laughed when I saw your comment, and the bugzilla links are styled as "visted" (i.e. gray instead of black.) I hate that behavior. When I click in the address bar, it's because I want to edit the URL. If I want to go somewhere else, I'll open a new tab, or use a bookmark, or click a link on a page. In the rare case that I want to type a whole new URL, but keep the same tab, I can easily triple-click or [Cmd]+A…

That's interesting. In my case, I hardly edit urls manually in the address bar. Usually I end up on a site either by clicking on links or copying and pasting a whole url from elsewhere. So, when I click on the address bar it's almost always to copy that url. Exception may be if you are front end dev testing different paths on the browser in which case editing in the address bar could be common.

When I click the address bar it's because I want to use the current tab to visit a new page, so select-all is perfect.

I think they should make this configurable though, I can see both sides of it.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by pseudalopex »

ihuman wrote: post #76
w-m wrote: post #5

Not to get too greedy, but maybe do the 21 year old “Use native context menus on Mac OS” next? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572

Is that talking about the right-click menus, or something different? The right-click menus look and act native to me.

It's the right click menus.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by renewiltord »

function_seven wrote: post #56
gdrift wrote: post #45

One of the most voted for issues is closed WONTFIX: single click selects all in address bar and search box. I use Firefox exclusively and this is the single most annoying change they made for no apparent reason. So annoying. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?votes=133

I just laughed when I saw your comment, and the bugzilla links are styled as "visted" (i.e. gray instead of black.) I hate that behavior. When I click in the address bar, it's because I want to edit the URL. If I want to go somewhere else, I'll open a new tab, or use a bookmark, or click a link on a page. In the rare case that I want to type a whole new URL, but keep the same tab, I can easily triple-click or [Cmd]+A…

Huh, funny. I think I notice this on my phone. But on my desktop it's always Ctrl-L so I never realized.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by renewiltord »

clankyclanker wrote: post #10

Good on them for actually tracking this feature request for over a decade and not just closing it after three weeks for “lack of interest.” Looking at you, every random GitHub project ever.

Also Gnome. Always cracked me up. Like I'd make this issue with like all the details reported and everything. ESR would have wept. And then "Does this issue still occur in Gnome 3?" and closed a week later all while I'm on vacation. Homie, this sat here for like 5 years, surely you can be a little patient.

Anyway, that taught me not to report something that's not a game-ender. Which is probably what they want too, so I guess we're all in some sort of equilibrium.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by rjmorris »

chrisseaton wrote: post #86
function_seven wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just laughed when I saw your comment, and the bugzilla links are styled as "visted" (i.e. gray instead of black.) I hate that behavior. When I click in the address bar, it's because I want to edit the URL. If I want to go somewhere else, I'll open a new tab, or use a bookmark, or click a link on a page. In the rare case that I want to type a whole new URL, but keep the same tab, I can easily triple-click or [Cmd]+A…

Their behaviour makes Firefox match other browsers - Firefox doesn't need to be different for the sake of it.

It's more complicated than how you're presenting it.

The comments on the bug report point out that the new behavior makes Firefox on Linux different from other Linux applications, including some browsers. The devs said they want Firefox to be consistent across platforms, whereas the Linux users want Firefox to be consistent with the rest of their system.

The new behavior is also different from the behavior of text boxes rendered by Firefox.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by chme »

gdrift wrote: post #45

One of the most voted for issues is closed WONTFIX: single click selects all in address bar and search box. I use Firefox exclusively and this is the single most annoying change they made for no apparent reason. So annoying. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?votes=133

I use mostly Firefox, but that behavior change didn't trigger me.

However I can relate: When I tried to use chromium I got really annoyed that clicking and dragging the selection with the mouse up or down would not automatically select the complete text in front or behind the cursor in the url bar.

Firefox still allows to do that under Linux. Hopefully they will not change that as well.

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