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Installing every* Firefox extension

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Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by BoppreH »

Sad that no real pages can load successfully, but I thoroughly enjoyed the writing.

> We turned on crash reporting on the way.

I haven't burst out laughing like this in a while! You'll probably make for some horror stories to a poor Mozilla team.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by RussianCow »

walrus01 wrote: post #19
gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

If you turn loose a completely untrained person to click yes/accept/download/OK/I agree on every type of user interface popup, particularly a person who has no ability to distinguish between a user interface question presented by the operating system itself and something inside of a browser window, that's what you'll get...

I have a vivid memory of once looking over someone's shoulder in the IE days and being horrified to see toolbars taking up about 80% of the available screen real estate, leaving only maybe 150-200 pixels of vertical space for actual web browsing. I have no idea how they got anything done, and my guess was they never actually used any of the installed toolbars and just thought that was normal.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by estimator7292 »

shakna wrote: post #20
Waterluvian wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is probably a good example of the opposite. It would be a mistake to design for the fleetingly rare case. If you’re dealing with a handful of extensions, a json file that’s rewritten is fine.

But the software already has multiple database systems built in. There's not exactly overhead to use what plumbing is already there, instead of writing to disk.

Easier for a user to edit.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by Evidlo »

stratos123 wrote: post #10
gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

My favorite part was the metal pipe sound effect. Wish the author investigated which extension does that.

Maybe it was this?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-metal-...

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by girvo »

walrus01 wrote: post #19
gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

If you turn loose a completely untrained person to click yes/accept/download/OK/I agree on every type of user interface popup, particularly a person who has no ability to distinguish between a user interface question presented by the operating system itself and something inside of a browser window, that's what you'll get...

I’m aware, that’s exactly what my grandfathers (rest in peace grandpa, I miss you) IE window looked and felt like in the early 2010s!

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by tech234a »

lapcat wrote: post #7

> It turns out there’s only 84 thousand Firefox extensions. On addons.mozilla.org, but you can distribute Firefox extensions without posting on addons.mozilla.org. I do.

Other examples I recall when looking into this: Zotero browser connector for Firefox, Chrome Remote Desktop for Firefox (I think it adds a few features for connections to remote desktops)
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