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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by ilikepi »

childintime wrote: post #92

Disappointed. There is so much low hanging fruit in the GUI department: - have bookmarks/history stay on the page you open it on (and no other) - have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style - option to collapse tabs into a page (tab) - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a…

> - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a file (I now get a rather useless list of 100 tabs)

If you go to about:performance, you can double-click on a Tab entry, and it will jump you to that tab.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by matheusmoreira »

Y_Y wrote: post #69
jorams wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Especially on pages that block right-clicking Note that, in Firefox, you can always get to the context menu using shift-right click.

Thanks! This always bugs me. Maybe not disabling right-click has legitimate uses in things like games, but I only ever seen to see it used spitefully.

> I only ever seen to see it used spitefully.

God I hate it when sites do that. There's a service that I pay for which disables right click, spams copyright notice modals every single time I try to copy any text and replaces the text I copied with useless copyright messages. It's so incredibly obnoxious it makes me want to scrape their content off their website out of pure spite.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by viklove »

curt15 wrote: post #27

>Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported on Linux Glad that they're still looking after Linux users.

Unfortunately they still don't provide a PPA for their developer build, so I have to update it manually which is extremely annoying.

edit: I gotta say, why the fuck would someone downvote this comment?

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by baq »

dave5104 wrote: post #90
matsemann wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I first tried to use it, I knew of the feature but couldn't find it. They probably have metrics on it being underutilized so they want to bring it forward a bit or so. But I think the whole "page actions" button is too hidden. I think screenshot belongs there, and the issue is that most people don't know without being told that "page actions" is something that even exists. It's great btw to take screenshot of lo…

> the issue is that most people don't know without being told that "page actions" is something that even exists. I'm a daily Firefox user for quite a while now... thanks for telling me this exists! Never really looked into what those 3 dots were. (That being said, I always right click to trigger the screenshot option from the context menu.)

the right click screenshot is one of the most useful features i didn't know i need; it's super convenient to not have to precisely draw the rectangle to share a meme or report a bug.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by CameronNemo »

viklove wrote: post #123
curt15 wrote: post #27

>Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported on Linux Glad that they're still looking after Linux users.

Unfortunately they still don't provide a PPA for their developer build, so I have to update it manually which is extremely annoying. edit: I gotta say, why the fuck would someone downvote this comment?

PPAs are specific to one commercial distribution. Shouldn't they offer a flatpak or something similarly cross distro?

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by dandellion »

andrepd wrote: post #116
childintime wrote: post #92

Disappointed. There is so much low hanging fruit in the GUI department: - have bookmarks/history stay on the page you open it on (and no other) - have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style - option to collapse tabs into a page (tab) - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a…

Yes, I can't believe Firefox is still using a 15 years old bookmark/history dialog with atrocious UI. Completely unusable for anything but the most superficial inspection of your browsing history.

They recently removed bookmark descriptions and the justification I read was that it was old code and hard to maintain, so maybe we're lucky and they'll improve that UI next.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by dandellion »

jacobmischka wrote: post #59

Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed for release notes? I couldn't find one, and the usual adding feed.xml to the URL trick didn't work in any of the instances I tried.

I suspect if they cared about RSS they wouldn't have removed support for it from the browser...

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by Krasnol »

childintime wrote: post #92

Disappointed. There is so much low hanging fruit in the GUI department: - have bookmarks/history stay on the page you open it on (and no other) - have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style - option to collapse tabs into a page (tab) - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a…

> have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style

I would hate that very much because I don't see the necessity for a whole page.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by clumsysmurf »

childintime wrote: post #92

Disappointed. There is so much low hanging fruit in the GUI department: - have bookmarks/history stay on the page you open it on (and no other) - have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style - option to collapse tabs into a page (tab) - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a…

And vertical tabs ... I can't install plugins on my work managed machine like Tab Trees or whatever.

They also need some tab grouping thing like Chrome, which ironically they pioneered but abandoned.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by MikusR »

51Cards wrote: post #17

>The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. Odd, this is the only place I accessed it from. Not a big deal as it's still on the context menu and also can be added as a tool bar item but I am curious the rationalization behind this change. That seemed like a great place to have it to me.

Google pays Mozilla to make Firefox worse to use. An bring more people to Chrome.
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