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Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by frizlab »

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 system-wide. chrome explicitly did not support it.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by tgv »

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.

But wouldn't that render the preview with Safari?

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by jffry »

diggan wrote: post #19
gucci-on-fleek wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

If you select a chunk of text in the page and right click there should be a context-menu option to translate the text. It's a popup with a textarea and not in-situ, but it's the same local model as far as I can tell

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by JohnFen »

AltF4me wrote: post #7
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.

It says you have to click and hold

Sure, but (I think this is what the commenter was asking about), it has to hit the page in order to generate the preview, does it not?

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by deanc »

I have found the majority of these relay services utterly useless. A large number of sites are using some kind of email verification service/API that detect all these relay/trash domains (mailinator etc.) and you can never sign up unless you have a legit domain. I'd be astonished if mozmail.com wasn't already on this list.

I'm not saying I don't value the idea behind this, but at least with Apple they are using their primary domain as a relay meaning it's too risky to block all the legitimate addresses.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by Vinnl »

JohnFen wrote: post #25
AltF4me wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says you have to click and hold

Sure, but (I think this is what the commenter was asking about), it has to hit the page in order to generate the preview, does it not?

Yes, but clicking also results in your browser having to hit the page. The concern is doing so accidentally, which is reasonable if it required a hover interaction (but luckily, it doesn't).

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by ErneX »

JohnFen wrote: post #25
AltF4me wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says you have to click and hold

Sure, but (I think this is what the commenter was asking about), it has to hit the page in order to generate the preview, does it not?

Obviously but you are triggering it, if you don’t do it it won’t do it.

Safari is exactly the same on iOS at least.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by clumsysmurf »

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.

They still haven't gotten correct fullscreen behavior on macOS and thats ~15 years ago.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by Vinnl »

deanc wrote: post #26

I have found the majority of these relay services utterly useless. A large number of sites are using some kind of email verification service/API that detect all these relay/trash domains (mailinator etc.) and you can never sign up unless you have a legit domain. I'd be astonished if mozmail.com wasn't already on this list. I'm not saying I don't value the idea behind this, but at least with Apple they are using their…

It's a risk, and it would be great if they worked on more sites, but "utterly useless" is too brash in my opinion - there are still a lot of sites that do accept them, and each one is one account fewer that can be linked to your others. I don't think I've had problems receiving concert or cinema tickets, for example - the one-time uses for which they are most beneficial. I just checked, and I currently have 385 email masks used. Certainly worth the €1 a month.

(Disclosure: I used to be on the Firefox Relay team.)

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