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17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

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Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

#21

Obligatory dogpile, but I'm hoping for the day you can disable Ctrl-Q to prevent accidentally closing the browser with a single keystroke. It's impossible to do on Linux.

IMO this should be a feature of the window-manager, not the application. But that requires a change in the interface between window-managers and applications, to allow the window-managers to be more heavy-handed. Which I've wanted for a very long time.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

#25
post #22

Good on them for actually tracking this feature request for over a decade and not just closing it after three weeks for “lack of interest.” Looking at you, every random GitHub project ever.

Having a revenue stream helps.

Does it? It's not like you're paying GitHub per open issue.

I've literally had issues I filed that the maintainer verified as an actual bug be closed due to lack of activity. I can understand that an unpaid maintainer doesn't have the time or motivation to fix it, but closing issues you know are valid seems insane to me.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

#26

Obligatory dogpile, but I'm hoping for the day you can disable Ctrl-Q to prevent accidentally closing the browser with a single keystroke. It's impossible to do on Linux.

Good timing! I actually fixed this 21 year old feature request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821

You can set browser.quitShortcut.disabled=true in about config starting with Firefox 87.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

#27

Obligatory dogpile, but I'm hoping for the day you can disable Ctrl-Q to prevent accidentally closing the browser with a single keystroke. It's impossible to do on Linux.

I'm not sure if it's an option in the settings now or not but if you go to `about:config` in firefox and search for `browser.warnOnQuit` you can make sure that's set to `true`.

Another favorite of mine: `browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab` set to `false`. This lets me cmd-w as many times as i want but it won't close the window I have open.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

#28
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a revenue stream helps.

Does it? It's not like you're paying GitHub per open issue. I've literally had issues I filed that the maintainer verified as an actual bug be closed due to lack of activity. I can understand that an unpaid maintainer doesn't have the time or motivation to fix it, but closing issues you know are valid seems insane to me.

Is it a human closing it or a bot? If you run an open source project there's a natural tendency to install a bot to auto-close all of the issues which people open because they didn't read the docs, want you to do free consulting for their business, have an irreproducible bug report, etc. and since most projects are short on labor that makes it somewhat inevitable that someone will enable the bot first and never get around to configuring it to, for example, not close an issue tagged as verified.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

#29
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a revenue stream helps.

Does it? It's not like you're paying GitHub per open issue. I've literally had issues I filed that the maintainer verified as an actual bug be closed due to lack of activity. I can understand that an unpaid maintainer doesn't have the time or motivation to fix it, but closing issues you know are valid seems insane to me.

They meant Mozilla having revenue, not GitHub.

Re: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

#30

If you're like me, and read the comments first, this change is about giving feedback on the scrollbar for a search. In other words, when you search for something, the scrollbar will give an idea how many results there are, and where on the page rhey are located. On another note, the comment uses IntelliJ as an example. Wow, that was 17 years ago! Happy to see my favorite editor be around for so long.

To think I was still using Eclipse a scant 7 years ago...
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