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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 chmod775 »

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

Are you a touchpad user? On a PC you get that behavior by simply clicking again, but accurate double clicks are somewhat hard on touchpads, so I get why that'd be annoying.

This may just be laptop/touchpad users complaining, and mouse users not comprehending what the big deal is.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by bhandziuk »

chrisseaton wrote: post #101
ornxka wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

They're saying, I think, that the textbox which is a URL is a special textbox but it shouldn't be. It should be the same as any other textbox in Firefox.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by userbinator »

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

IE, the first browser I started using and still use regularly now alongside others, behaves the same with single-click selecting all in the address bar (and it's NOT configurable AFAIK), so I'm used to that; but I also see the value in making it user-configurable.

Unfortunately, that dumpster-fire of a bug-report/thread is a horrible abomination that shows massive hubris on the part of the developers; and I say this as a developer myself --- and one who fights against this sort of thing far too often to count. Change the defaults if you really want, but never remove the choice.

(The argument that it has "costs" is stupid --- yes, everything has costs, but they actually have perceived value in this case, unlike working on something else, often of much greater complexity and cost, that your users never even asked for in the first place!)

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by userbinator »

wongarsu wrote: post #47
NoodleIncident wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please remove the link.

The link is good and insightful, if you copy-paste it into the browser bar. If you click it it redirect to a fairly tasteless image complaining about being linked from HN.

Turn off cross-domain referer sending: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by tux3 »

evilpie wrote: post #26
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.

Good timing! I actually fixed this 21 year old feature request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 You can set browser.quitShortcut.disabled=true in about config starting with Firefox 87.

Whoa, that is incredible, thank you SO MUCH! I don't think I can explain the extent to which this simple papercut has been vicious and painful to me.

So many times, I've started writing some long post in a text field and accidentally lost it due to pressing some wrong keyboard shortcut (oops, you pressed backspace outside a text field! oops, we bound this key to 'reload the page', oops you closed the form by pressing ESC!). It's always a particular type of sinking feeling to have to start writing all over again.

Now there are extensions for this, and some of them even work. But what's my natural instinct when I have data in a text field I really don't want to lose because I would feel terrible losing it?

Well, ^A ^C and go paste it in a notepad, maybe even finish editing it there.

... and then Firefox quits, maybe because my layout switched between AZERTY and QWERTY by accident, maybe because my finger slipped between A and Q. And I get to stare at my desktop, crushed and defeated, having lost my data at the exact worst possible time...

I was seriously starting to consider maintaining my own Firefox fork, and I _cannot thank you enough_!

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by teknopaul »

coding_lobster wrote: post #87
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…

Most of the times when I interact with the address bar it's either to go to a different site, google something or copy the url - in all of those use cases I interact with the entire address to either replace it or select it. I would wager almost anything that this is the case for the vast majority of regular users because most of the ones I've interviewed (N = 31) for a uni UX study didn't even know how to read URLs…

It's sad but true. Googling is probably Firefox's only feature left. After they trashed the dev ecosystem, removed file access, prevented 127. access and prevented ssl bypass for 10. and 192.168. broke markdown rendering, disabled CD access, made development painful, fsckd ftp, banned useful stuff on file:// removed anything useful from about: made developing inside Firefox a nonstarter, borked Web app, and generally broke any use case other than Googling/Shopping.

I doubt many people type much into the omnibar other than input for advertising platforms.

They should probably replace

http://

with

today I want to buy...

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by zem »

evilpie wrote: post #26
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.

Good timing! I actually fixed this 21 year old feature request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 You can set browser.quitShortcut.disabled=true in about config starting with Firefox 87.

oh wow!! that's amazing, i've been waiting for this one forever.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by ci5er »

NoodleIncident wrote: post #37
_jal wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I half-seriously suggested that a project I used to care about set up a cron job to delete requests older than a year automatically. The rationale was that they only did that sporadically every few years, when some other change mooted the issue. If they ignored feature requests on a schedule, it would better manage external expectations. See also, The CADT Model (but copy-paste the link in to your browser bar to avoi…

Please remove the link.

Why? You can just copy the link, open a new tab, past it in the URL bar and see the material...

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by zbrozek »

wongarsu wrote: post #47
NoodleIncident wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please remove the link.

The link is good and insightful, if you copy-paste it into the browser bar. If you click it it redirect to a fairly tasteless image complaining about being linked from HN.

It seems to work perfectly fine either way for me. Not sure what the complaint is?

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by _peeley »

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

Interesting, I've always loved this feature. I guess in my use cases, whenever I go to click the URL bar I'm intending to copy/paste it more often than edit. Either way, it's deeply ingrained into my muscle memory by now to go click -> pause -> click to edit.
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