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What's New with Firefox 142

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Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by dkdbejwi383 »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #8
wkat4242 wrote: post #6

That link preview bothers me a bit from a privacy standpoint. Hovering over a link will now hit that website. Hmm.

I was wondering about that, anybody know how that works?

If you click the “learn more” link it explains it.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by artemisart »

saagarjha wrote: post #5

> Link Previews show a snapshot of a page before you open it, helping you decide what’s worth your time. Just long press any link to preview and reduce distractions. On macOS there is a native affordance for this by using force click. It's kind of annoying that Firefox chose to not support this and instead made it click-and-hold only.

This seems to be exclusive to Safari, I can't get it to work in Chrome either (and didn't know about the feature before right now, the discoverability is terrible).

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by capitainenemo »

I wonder how the link preview will work on mobile. In the past, click and hold on a partially obscured URL on mobile basically worked like "hover" on the desktop and revealed the whole link (useful to see if the link was malicious, or had click tracking, or just didn't go to the site you thought it did).

I hope there's still a way to do that feature. If nothing else, by disabling the preview which I doubt I would find as useful.

edit just retested on mobile. click and hold is basically the context menu. If you tap on the first item in the context menu (the link ended in …) you get the full link wrapped.

So, more correct to say that click and hold is the right click context menu on mobile, even though I mostly just used it for that display whole link feature. Perhaps they could put the preview as a sub item of the context menu.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by giancarlostoro »

IshKebab wrote: post #14
wkat4242 wrote: post #6

That link preview bothers me a bit from a privacy standpoint. Hovering over a link will now hit that website. Hmm.

You have to long-press it, not hover.

You can set it to always do it on hover, which is actually more annoying (you toggle it by tapping shift) because I did not realize it was permanently on, so every link on HN became a link preview for me the other day.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by saagarjha »

artemisart wrote: post #13
saagarjha wrote: post #5

> Link Previews show a snapshot of a page before you open it, helping you decide what’s worth your time. Just long press any link to preview and reduce distractions. On macOS there is a native affordance for this by using force click. It's kind of annoying that Firefox chose to not support this and instead made it click-and-hold only.

This seems to be exclusive to Safari, I can't get it to work in Chrome either (and didn't know about the feature before right now, the discoverability is terrible).

It's that Safari implemented support for it. Firefox added their own version and chose to give it a different affordance

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by diggan »

gucci-on-fleek wrote: post #3
logicprog wrote: post #2

I really like those local AI features. It's tempting me yo move to vanilla Firefox over LibreWolf...

I'm still ambivalent on the rest of the AI features, but the AI translation is absolutely amazing . The translation quality isn't perfect, but being able to seamlessly translate 20+ languages 100% locally is amazing.

Agree, for us switching between languages all the time, with some of those languages being less known to us, it's a great tool!

My only wish was that I can force it to always allow me to try translating things, even if it doesn't identify it as some specific language. Sometimes what I want to translate is like 30% one language and 70% another language, and I still want to translate it to another language, but since the tool doesn't see it as "foreign enough" or something, I don't even get the choice of having it translated.

Besides that, it's a wonderful despite it not being perfect. Hopefully with time it'll only get better as they get more data. On that note, I'd be more than happy to contribute data if they added some way of giving "good translation / bad translation" feedback, but haven't seen that. I guess I had two wishes in the end.

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