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Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by aspenmayer »

everdrive wrote: post #53

I'm genuinely perplexed why people find link previews useful. The page image is too small to really see, and it's not as if rapidly opening and closing a tab actually takes effort. It may be faster than the long click depending how comfortable you are with keyboard controls. I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins? So if you loaded the web page, would uBlock Origin prevent tracking…

> I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins?

If it’s anything like Reader View in Firefox, I would expect it to ignore plugins, which is absurd in the Reader View case, and would be in the link preview case as well. So much for my browser being a user agent.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by samtheDamned »

captainepoch wrote: post #120

So... Nothing really useful or what users are asking for a long time... And we then ask why people aren't using Firefox...

Tab groups is pretty useful. My partner refused to try firefox in the past because it didn't have tab groups and now they're able to use it as their main browser.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by wonger_ »

NoGravitas wrote: post #115
everdrive wrote: post #53

I'm genuinely perplexed why people find link previews useful. The page image is too small to really see, and it's not as if rapidly opening and closing a tab actually takes effort. It may be faster than the long click depending how comfortable you are with keyboard controls. I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins? So if you loaded the web page, would uBlock Origin prevent tracking…

I quite prefer the link "peek" in Zen, which I'm led to understand is based on the one in Arc. Shift click a link, it opens up in a configurable-size floating modal (90% by default) on top of the current page, with controls to pop it out into a full tab or close it. It's only a small improvement over "open in new tab, switch to new tab, close new tab", but it feels nice. The new link preview in Firefox seems a lot le…

Sounds similar to Safari's link preview. I like it. A modal preview is less of a context switch than opening and closing a tab.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by righthand »

NoGravitas wrote: post #116
righthand wrote: post #79

> For users in the United States, article recommendations on your New Tab page are now grouped into topic sections like Sports, Food, and Entertainment to make stories more organized and easier to scan. You can also follow topics you’re interested in and block ones you’d prefer not to see, giving you more control over what shows up when you open a new tab. Ladybird cannot come fast enough…

It's trivial to turn those off. They are in the regular preferences, you don't even have to go into about:config.

Some times they release a new enhancement to an already existing feature I have to disable the setting AGAIN.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by wkat4242 »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #11
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 click and hold > Just long press any link It says right there on the page.

It said before you click, that's why. I missed that part.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by sudahtigabulan »

ARandumGuy wrote: post #110
tux3 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an idea that makes a lot of sense on Wikipedia, because every page there explicitly starts with a short summary, and often an image that can be pulled from the infobox. I'm not yet convinced it will work well on the rest of the Web.

But also that's been part of Wikipedia's website for years now, no special browser support necessary. And because it's tailored specifically to Wikipedia, it works great! Page preview seems nice in theory, but I'm unconvinced it'll be that useful. Web pages just don't have a the level of standardization necessary to automatically grab a useful preview. And I don't think Firefox has a big enough pull to make that sort…

I used to appreciate it (on Wikipedia), but too often it gets triggered by accident and prevents me from reading what I actually want to read. So much so that I had to find some way to disable it (probably by blocking JS via uBO).

Similar story with GitHub "hovercards". They were helpful, but someone recently decided they have to work in the Issues/PR lists too and, again, it just prevents me from reading the very thing I want to read. Had to disable them (everywhere, unfortunately).

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by mantra2 »

mdaniel wrote: post #100
mantra2 wrote: post #71

Does Firefox still block clipboard history apps from accessing private windows with no way to turn it off? Haven't used Firefox since that change.

Friend, do I understand that you're mad that private windows don't allow the system to introspect what content you're viewing in a private window? BTW, in the spirit of being helpful: if you're using private windows just for 'fresh session' behavior, Firefox offers two other knobs for that outcome: Profiles and Containers. In Chrome I'm with you that Incognito can be a very cheap way to login to a site multiple times…

I am, yes. It worked as I described up until I think October of last year.

I’m logging in and out of client accounts - often for services that don’t do delegate access - so private windows work nice for me to make sure that I’m always cleared out of what I was working on before changing to a different project. Often I copy things in private windows that aren’t secrets, it just happens to be how I used the feature.

Containers and Profile are great - but - I’m not trying to have 50+ of them at work, much easier to flip open a private window.

I acknowledge my usecase is unusual and for most I think the feature makes sense - I just want to be able to turn it off, an about:config would be fine.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by mdaniel »

mantra2 wrote: post #128
mdaniel wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Friend, do I understand that you're mad that private windows don't allow the system to introspect what content you're viewing in a private window? BTW, in the spirit of being helpful: if you're using private windows just for 'fresh session' behavior, Firefox offers two other knobs for that outcome: Profiles and Containers. In Chrome I'm with you that Incognito can be a very cheap way to login to a site multiple times…

I am, yes. It worked as I described up until I think October of last year. I’m logging in and out of client accounts - often for services that don’t do delegate access - so private windows work nice for me to make sure that I’m always cleared out of what I was working on before changing to a different project. Often I copy things in private windows that aren’t secrets, it just happens to be how I used the feature. Co…

If you haven't seen it, there's also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... (https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers MIT) when you don't care about the containers but do care that their browsing context is isolated. The screenshot even shows the handy "delete temporary container 15 minutes after the last tab closes")

Actually, sorry, it seems to be https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... and https://github.com/GodKratos/temporary-containers) based solely on the language present in the add-on and commit history

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by mantra2 »

mdaniel wrote: post #129
mantra2 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am, yes. It worked as I described up until I think October of last year. I’m logging in and out of client accounts - often for services that don’t do delegate access - so private windows work nice for me to make sure that I’m always cleared out of what I was working on before changing to a different project. Often I copy things in private windows that aren’t secrets, it just happens to be how I used the feature. Co…

If you haven't seen it, there's also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... ( https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers MIT ) when you don't care about the containers but do care that their browsing context is isolated. The screenshot even shows the handy "delete temporary container 15 minutes after the last tab closes") Actually, sorry, it seems to be https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US…

Last time I looked into it — last year - the only one I found was Temporary Containers and from what I read the developer unfortunately passed away.

Glad to see someone forked it though, I might give that a try again.

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