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Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by scubbo »

dragosmocrii wrote: post #12

If you're like me, and read the comments first, this change is about giving feedback on the scrollbar for a search. In other words, when you search for something, the scrollbar will give an idea how many results there are, and where on the page rhey are located. On another note, the comment uses IntelliJ as an example. Wow, that was 17 years ago! Happy to see my favorite editor be around for so long.

This comment just makes me angry to think about all the time I wasted using Eclipse without knowing that a better alternative existed.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by stuaxo »

dragosmocrii wrote: post #44
CivBase wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To think I was still using Eclipse a scant 7 years ago...

Oh wow, Eclipse.. That reminds me, I was using Netbeans eons ago (2010 more precisely xD). For this reason, I'm using the Netbeans key mappings in all my editors. I kinda feel bad for those editors, and I hope they still have an active user base, but oh well, it's survival of the fittest I guess.

Ah, someone else !

I live in fear they will be removed from PyCharm - every time I update one of the Jetbrains editors and the Netbeans bindings aren't there, I'm lost.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by tus89 »

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

A variation on this - Chrome also select the whole address bar, but if you then click a fraction of a second later hoping to position the cursor where you clicked, you find that the https:// appears at the beginning, meaning your cursor is several characters to the left of the position you were hoping for.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by SamBam »

dillondoyle wrote: post #94
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

UGH the recent Chrome update also adds on top of this if you select then hit left arrow it doesn't even go to start it starts after https:// soooo annoying I don't remember it doing that before but maybe i have a bad memory

Huh, just tried that on Chrome/macOS on Reddit and it actually went to the end of the www, no less.

So news.ycombinator.com it goes to the right of https:// and www.reddit.com it goes to the right of https://www.

Madness.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by graphpapa »

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

Using the shortcut CMD+L (changes focus to and selects the whole url) Makes this a non issue personally, your mileage may vary

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by zipperhead »

penteract wrote: post #100
kovac wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But the automatic single-click selection doesn't fill the X clipboard (meaning it isn't pasted by middle click), so when I want to copy it I have to triple click anyway. Since it looks like it's selected, I frequently forget to do so, which results in pasting something I didn't mean to.

Holy crap, I just realized this is why I've pasted the text instead of URL all these years!

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by jlokier »

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…

When I click on the URL bar I often want to edit it too.

But it's difficult to click the leftmost or rightmost character to position the cursor.

So after clicking, I usually tap Ctrl+A (Cmd+A) to "select all" anyway, and then tap left-arrow or right-arrow to deselect and jump to the chosen end of the URL.

Cursor keys only junp to the end if it's selected. My keyboard doesn't have dedicated home/end keys, but I'd probably use the select-all-then-arrow trick anyway.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by the_pwner224 »

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

Fortunately it can still be reverted if you are willing to compile FF yourself. I've been using Firefox Nightly for a few years (newer features + unsigned addons, and very stable) and recompile it every few weeks to update.

https://the-pwner224.neocities.org/compiling-firefox/

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by wongarsu »

zbrozek wrote: post #119
wongarsu wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I think it doesn't redirect if you have visited the site before. Otherwise you get redirected to https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Post by ripdog »

flukus wrote: post #6
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

Maybe just do native UI's completely, especially now dropping XUL has broken everything.

There's no way Mozilla is going to rewrite their entire UI layer for a single OS, much less a minority one.
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