A decade ago I built a silly JS library for folding up DOM elements like paper [1] and I eagerly anticipated using element() instead of tediously cloning nodes for every fold. Here we are ten years later and this niche CSS feature has yet to be adopted by the other browsers. Similarly, I thought I'd soon be using the CSS custom filter spec from the same era (which allows custom GLSL shaders to be applied to elements), but it also has yet to pick up traction.
A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
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Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#12Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)
Yes. It reminds me of when there were rumours/(facts?) about open source sabotaging of FF. I see a lot of instances where pages worked fine on FF but now they don't, and sometimes I have to fire up another browser. I really hope that's not the case.
I use FF by default.
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#13What a shame that it doesn't seem to work recursively.
With Firefox and CSS background you can open a portal to another dimension
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#14Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)
I exclusively use firefox, have a pretty normal browsing pattern, and that almost never happens to me! Much less that once a month, maybe once every 3 months
Same
For whatever reason car manufacturers are the worst at it. Microsoft is also pretty bad (worse than Google).
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#15Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)
I exclusively use firefox, have a pretty normal browsing pattern, and that almost never happens to me! Much less that once a month, maybe once every 3 months
Finding one once every few months sound about right but usually the bugs impacting Firefox users are major PITA. Some I’ve had over the past few years:
* myADP had some kind of bug preventing firefox authentication that lasted months.
* Elan financial redid their credit card site for fidelity visa and had a CSS bug that hid the card total balance. This lasted for about a month.
* bitbucket (work required) had this bug that prevented pages rendering in firefox. It was some kind of JS client side bug and it impacted a bunch of people in my company. After months of support request they gave us some console commands that opted into an experimental feature which resolved the issue. This one was especially frustrating as they kept telling us to just clear our cookies and delete our profiles.
* Some random IRS system I had to use for either requesting a tax transcript or validating my identity just didn’t work.
It’s actually been so frustrating my coworkers joke anytime there is a bug I’m experiencing that it must be another Firefox only bug.
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#16Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)
I exclusively use firefox, have a pretty normal browsing pattern, and that almost never happens to me! Much less that once a month, maybe once every 3 months
Normally it's something else, like a plugin. To be honest I don't notice much, frequently I assume it's some tracking that's blocked which courses the site to not function and just move on.
Between blocking tracking, with DuckDuckGos privacy plugin, and using Firefox I'd say that blocking tracking breaks WAAAAY more sites.
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#17What am I supposed to see here? I’m using Firefox on Linux. All I see is a normal blog article about something called a minimap, but I fail to see any such minimap. Disabling the ad blocker didn’t help. What am I missing?
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#18Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)
I exclusively use firefox, have a pretty normal browsing pattern, and that almost never happens to me! Much less that once a month, maybe once every 3 months
The times it does happen I've found more often than not switching the user agent fixes it...
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#19What am I supposed to see here? I’m using Firefox on Linux. All I see is a normal blog article about something called a minimap, but I fail to see any such minimap. Disabling the ad blocker didn’t help. What am I missing?
Look in the upper right side. There is a mini snapshot of the page, with a blue outline showing the portion of the page that the browser can see. When you highlight text on the page, you can see it highlighted in the minimap.
Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
#20What am I supposed to see here? I’m using Firefox on Linux. All I see is a normal blog article about something called a minimap, but I fail to see any such minimap. Disabling the ad blocker didn’t help. What am I missing?
There's a minimap-type scroll bar for the article to the right. There's an image in the article of how it looks.