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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by jhauris »

ansible wrote: post #146
jhauris wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same capability is on the web at D&D Beyond: https://www.dndbeyond.com/

One thing to be aware of is that just the super-basic stuff is included in a free account. For example a 3rd level Rogue can choose a specialty subclass, and only Thief is available for free, other subclasses like Arcane Trickster you have to pay a couple bucks for.

Good point, but if you're in a group setting only one person needs to "purchase" access to sources to make them available to the group.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by pfranz »

sdawg123 wrote: post #196
pfranz wrote: post #175

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I remember creating a moderately large spreadsheet in Google Docs last year. Safari unloaded the page and forced a refresh every time I switched away. Firefox would hang recomputing formulas and only Chrome scaled well. I'm looking to move to Safari by default. I just need to get over some UI differences. It drives me nuts that Firefox doesn't use the native context menus (I use "Look Up" constantly) and Text Shortcu…

I just recently found out, you can use "Look Up" on Firefox for Macs, by tapping a word (or highlighted text) with three fingers on the trackpad.

Any docs or more info on this? Its not working for me.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by bscphil »

butz wrote: post #199
bscphil wrote: post #184

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> And as "megabar" update has shown, this new "tab" style will probably be reverted in future redesign. Did they really revert the megabar? I can't find anything about that with searches. (I fixed it to look exactly like the old design with usercss, so I can't easily check myself.) As a side note, anyone using TreeStyleTab is probably immune from Mozilla's awful tab style revamp, as the tabs in TST are styled using C…

There was this comment about removing large Urlbar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698656#c2

That's extremely funny, thanks. Kinda reminds me of what people have been saying about Google for a decade now - starting projects and sunsetting them with no coherent story or end goal. This case seems particularly ironic because they insisted on keeping the change despite widespread dislike.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by ansible »

jhauris wrote: post #201
ansible wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing to be aware of is that just the super-basic stuff is included in a free account. For example a 3rd level Rogue can choose a specialty subclass, and only Thief is available for free, other subclasses like Arcane Trickster you have to pay a couple bucks for.

Good point, but if you're in a group setting only one person needs to "purchase" access to sources to make them available to the group.

Yes, that's the best way to go. Everyone chips in and the DM gets the subscription.

It isn't expensive, it is just something to be aware of.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by pfranz »

sdawg123 wrote: post #196
pfranz wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember creating a moderately large spreadsheet in Google Docs last year. Safari unloaded the page and forced a refresh every time I switched away. Firefox would hang recomputing formulas and only Chrome scaled well. I'm looking to move to Safari by default. I just need to get over some UI differences. It drives me nuts that Firefox doesn't use the native context menus (I use "Look Up" constantly) and Text Shortcu…

I just recently found out, you can use "Look Up" on Firefox for Macs, by tapping a word (or highlighted text) with three fingers on the trackpad.

I found it! It's the "Look up & data detectors" setting under System Preferences > Trackpad. For whatever reason mine was set to "Force Click with one finger" which I never use and had trouble consistently activating. The other option is "Tap with three fingers."

⌘-^-D the keyboard shortcut also works.

Firefox has had some bugs around this.

https://superuser.com/questions/1138014/how-to-use-three-fin...

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by jacobmischka »

SimeVidas wrote: post #148
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.

There’s a feed for Nightly: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/nightly/notes/feed/

Exactly what I wanted, thank you!

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by butz »

bscphil wrote: post #203
butz wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was this comment about removing large Urlbar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698656#c2

That's extremely funny, thanks. Kinda reminds me of what people have been saying about Google for a decade now - starting projects and sunsetting them with no coherent story or end goal. This case seems particularly ironic because they insisted on keeping the change despite widespread dislike.

Looking at latest Firefox Developer Edition, where new tabs and menus has landed, sadly the megabar is still the same. Sorry, if I misunderstood initial message and gave false hope. But hey, at least context menu is back to text back/forward actions instead of icons. Everything keeps going in circle.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by djrogers »

bassdropvroom wrote: post #179
bassdropvroom wrote: post #93

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> Because companies were embedding Google Analytics into PDFs. Wow! This is daft. Thank the FLOSS gods for things like Pi-Hole because I never realised this. And if I hadn't blocked Google Analytics there, this would have been a sad state of affairs.

> Thank the FLOSS gods for things like Pi-Hole Can't edit my comment any more, but I realise this is quite dismissive of the work the real maintainers have put in. So I'll thank them instead!

That's not dismissive, you just called them gods!

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by cevn »

conradfr wrote: post #60

I'm not looking forward to Firefox 89 with Proton and its redesigned tabs. edit: I'm surprised people like them: https://mk0ghacksnety2pjrgh8.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload...

That's what this is? Wow, the new tabs are ... really big. Lots of wasted space it feels... and the inactive ones have no border between them..?
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