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Re: Firefox 86.0

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I watched YouTube regularly I would often have multiple videos going. Some people talk slowly and YouTube encourages filler in order to hit the 10 minute mark. When most of the videos are like this you can definitely have a couple monologues, some music, and something to read just fine.

You can speed up videos on Youtube. Both natively and with yuotube-dl then play locally with mpv or your (lesser) favourite player.

This was less clicks and faster.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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post #8

I wonder if the web engine development pretty much stopped, or developer notes are just less detailed over the last year or so. Those are a shadow of the former self, certainly.

They did let go of a third of their staff about a year ago.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.

Wow. I switched to Firefox around the same time I switched a Mac for work, and just assumed the lack of print preview was a weird macOS thing.

This makes me happy.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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post #17

> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.

I have a fitlet running a pygtk 4screen vlc showing me 3 news networks and a music stream on my 3rd monitor. I can click each one to mute/unmute, mousewheel up/down to change the relative volume, and the entire thing is compeltely separate from my

I can have 4 different sources on at the same time (music in the background - quiet, one of the news channels a bit louder if I'm waiting for something to happen, a corporate all-hands zoom call I'm half listening to on the main computer, and maybe a short video or meme, it's usually 2 or 3 though.

I don't use pip much as the one site I'd use it on (twitter) works hard to stop the video playing as you scroll down anyway.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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post #58
post #8

I wonder if the web engine development pretty much stopped, or developer notes are just less detailed over the last year or so. Those are a shadow of the former self, certainly.

Under "developer" section there's a link with dev focused changelog https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel... Note also that release schedule is now 4 weeks instead of 6 weeks. Hence each release might feel "smaller".

I was writing about those dev changelogs and not just this release...

Re: Firefox 86.0

#66

Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.

For those of us that prefer the OS print dialog, how can we stop this madness?

Re: Firefox 86.0

#67

Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.

For those of us that prefer the OS print dialog, how can we stop this madness?

There is an option to print using the system dialog on the right panel after you press COMMAND + P

Re: Firefox 86.0

#68

Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.

For those of us that prefer the OS print dialog, how can we stop this madness?

There's a link to the OS print dialog in the new print preview view (not perfect, but better than nothing if you prefer it)

Re: Firefox 86.0

#69

Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.

Wow. I switched to Firefox around the same time I switched a Mac for work, and just assumed the lack of print preview was a weird macOS thing. This makes me happy.

fwiw Firefox always had a print preview; it was just behind a different shortcut rather than integrated into the default flow.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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post #8

I wonder if the web engine development pretty much stopped, or developer notes are just less detailed over the last year or so. Those are a shadow of the former self, certainly.

it’s particularly aggravating that form fields have been largely stagnant over the past 20 years. so much repetitive development happens around forms (validations or date/time pickers, for instance) and yet very little effort goes into improving them.
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