Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What We're Working on in Firefox

blog.mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

151–160 of 274 posts

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#151

Post by JohnFen »

cassepipe wrote: post #139
schmidtleonard wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the UI paradigm of browsers hasn't really changed for 20+ years (Checks calendar) ugh, it really has been 15 years since they ground up the url box + search box into the big mystery meat mash-up that mostly works but is so damn obnoxious when it doesn't.

I thought I would miss the search box when it disappeared but actually the "awesome bar" is pretty awesome : You can disable search suggestions and it will only search your keywords in history/bookmarks/opened tabs and then you just tab into the list, else if there's nothing of interest in the list you can always press enter and it will launch a search in your default search engine. All that power accessible with jus…

I dislike the "awesome bar" quite a lot. Fortunately, as you say, you can disable a lot of its "awesomeness" (enough that I can live with it), but not all of it. You do have to do a bit of research to find out the various magic "about:config" settings you need to change.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#152

Post by akdor1154 »

pleb_nz wrote: post #93
thwarted wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using multiple profiles in Chrome for years for keeping things separate… right up until my company started using Google's centralized browser/device management which infects the entire browser not just the single profile that is tied to my corporate Google account. Specifically, they forced a homepage setting browser-wide that can not be changed on a per-profile basis. So multiple profiles are seemingly dif…

Firefox does have profiles and has had for as long as I’ve needed them. For some reason they’ve always been hidden away and needed different args on start to change the profile being started, or the use of an extension to allow profile switching. I don’t use them anymore but from what I remember they worked well and were very isolated. Hopefully they’re using the current implementation and just making it more user fr…

As of a recent update, the Profile Manager is available as a startup option if you right click the ff icon (on gnome at least, i assume this was implemented cross platform)

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#153

Post by gravescale »

dralley wrote: post #87
luyu_wu wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's important to note here that Mozilla spends the majority of that money on non-Firefox projects (something that has pissed off people who have wanted to donate to Firefox specifically for ages). Firefox itself gets a sliver of that.

>something that has pissed off people who have wanted to donate to Firefox specifically for ages Get pissed at tax law, not Mozilla. Mozilla Foundation cannot legally funnel tax-exempt donations into the development of products for a for-profit entity (Mozilla Corporation). That would be a crime.

MoCo could start an OnlyFans for "donations", it's a pretty hot fox after all, what with being, y'know, on fire.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#154

Post by yownie »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13

> We’ve been listening to your feedback, and we’re prioritizing the features you want most. > Tab Grouping, Vertical Tabs, and our handy Sidebar will help you stay organized no matter how many tabs you have open — whether it’s 7 or 7,500. > Plus, our new Profile Management system will help keep your school, work, and personal browsing separate but easily accessible. Wow, that ... actually is what users have been aski…

Heeyyyy are we actually getting Tab Grouping back? Finally?

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#155

Post by mwcz »

blizdiddy wrote: post #5

> More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker Oh no, more of this. What about less used options? How much slower? How much less discoverable? Desktop applications are already for power users almost by definition, let’s not slow them down for the sake of reducing “clutter”. Absolutely annoying trend of the last 15 years or so.

If all actions and options were reachable from a fuzzy finder, then I'd be very happy with all UI components being hidden to reduce clutter.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#158

Post by strken »

Kye wrote: post #131
dralley wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The base of internet users was a lot smaller and more technically-inclined in 2004 than in 2014

Was it though? This was well after AOL and the Endless September. There were rows of Complete Idiots Guides and For Dummies books on using the internet in major book stores. You've Got Mail made a quarter billion in the box office a half decade before . This was the time of normies. All the @aol addresses still in use were minted here.

This is a great argument for why the average internet user in 2004 was less technical than in 1994, but it says absolutely nothing about 2014.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#159

Post by strken »

gamepsys wrote: post #14

As a Firefox daily user, this list makes me better understand why Firefox has such a low market share. Reorganizing menus or adding alt text to PDFs won't make any impact on user adoption/churn because users don't care. The alt text specifically sounds like resume engineering for some developers that want "on device generative ai" as a bullet point on this LinkedIn. Bullet points like this wouldn't be a problem if Fi…

The alt text thing sounds like someone who thinks disabled access to the internet is an Important Thing. I'm not sure it will end up being better than an extension or doing the image recognition in a screen reader, but it's not necessarily cynical resume padding.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

#160

Post by Kye »

strken wrote: post #158
Kye wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was it though? This was well after AOL and the Endless September. There were rows of Complete Idiots Guides and For Dummies books on using the internet in major book stores. You've Got Mail made a quarter billion in the box office a half decade before . This was the time of normies. All the @aol addresses still in use were minted here.

This is a great argument for why the average internet user in 2004 was less technical than in 1994, but it says absolutely nothing about 2014.

I thought that was just a given. How could the average be the same or more technical after going fully mainstream?
Post reply on HN