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Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by copperx »

IndrekR wrote: post #137
bityard wrote: post #81

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Vivaldi is pretty good and though it's based on chromium, is the new opera in spirit.

No coincience. Vivaldi is co-founded by ex-CEO and co-founder of Opera. I quit using Opera after he did not keep his promise to swim across the Atlantic in 2005: https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-boss-starts-atlantic-swi...

> I quit using Opera after he did not keep his promise to swim across the Atlantic in 2005: https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-boss-starts-atlantic-swi...

Congratulations. This is the most persnickety HN comment I've read. And I've been here more than a decade.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by copperx »

eek2121 wrote: post #181
levymetal wrote: post #149

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And now we’ve come full-circle as 1Password 8 requires you to save your password prior to submitting the form instead of offering to save it after submission. Which is a huge regression as it results in this exact issue all over again. https://support.1password.com/save-fill-passwords/

Any person/company/thing that uses 1Password needs to take a look around. Bitwarden is where it is at.

I love Bitwarden, but I don't understand why it takes 10 seconds to search a database with 100 entries (Android app, when searching for a saved password). It's aggravating.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by paulschreiber »

jackpirate wrote: post #151
fimdomeio wrote: post #38

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I found a bug in firefox where the two letters of the weekdays appeared as 3 letters for portuguese (pt-PT). Eventually found that it was an error in the unicode standard, so submited the proposal for change. Probably there's dozen of people involved in this... but seeing it being changed brought me great joy. I was a tiny part in changing a tiny mostly irrelevant detail that was causing a slight inconvenience to mil…

Do you happen to have a link to the proposal I can see and share with a class? I'm teaching a few lectures about some "weird" stuff this semester, and this would be a great example.

I ran into a problem formatting numbers in the Italian locale back in 2014: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+...

It turned out to be a low-level bug in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797

It got fixed five years later, long after I had worked around it and left the job where I found the bug.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by RockRobotRock »

limelight wrote: post #173
mstade wrote: post #166

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Sadly, 1Password seems to just get worse and worse in terms of usability with each release. The latest incarnation has so many little annoyances that makes me seriously consider switching. The one thing it's got going for it that really is kind of a killer feature for me is SSH key handling. It's super nice being able to sign your commits with Touch ID. Everything else is meh at best.

It's truly baffling how they manage to consistently make the software worse every single release. I was a huge fan of 1Password many years ago (and have been happy to pay for it throughout), but each successive release is more confusing and less reliable.

Bitwarden is by no means perfect but I really appreciate their user engagement and excellent documentation.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by Zircom »

wallfacer wrote: post #89

If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it. I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing it. I really feel pain when I hear something terrible that I’ve already “liked” and consider the impacts to my algorithm. Please distinguish between “like” and “save.” A simple “plu…

They used to have a separate star button in addition to the like button that was exactly that, but they took it out years ago. It would also add the song to a separate list in your library called "starred songs".

When they axed the feature, all the started songs got automatically added to a new playlist called "Star" that I still use today as a workaround, I just add new songs I enjoyed to it to keep track of them, and just throw it on shuffle when I'm not in the mood for anything specific.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by behringer »

copperx wrote: post #202
eek2121 wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any person/company/thing that uses 1Password needs to take a look around. Bitwarden is where it is at.

I love Bitwarden, but I don't understand why it takes 10 seconds to search a database with 100 entries (Android app, when searching for a saved password). It's aggravating.

Something's wrong as I have many hundreds of passwords and have no noticeable lag searching them.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by oconnore »

copperx wrote: post #200
oliwary wrote: post #152

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Something I really miss from Opera is that the content of every page you visited was saved and stored for search! This helped me so often to find pages that I had visited, and remembered a few words from, but didn't bookmark or save otherwise. No idea why browsers today did not copy this feature.

Web browsers are strange. They are sophisticated pieces of engineering, but they refuse to implement the lowest hanging fruit features UX wise.

They are built by people who are excited about the web, so it sort of makes sense that anything off the critical path of: “make websites and web applications great” would be deemed less important. Why make local search when there is a web application called Google?

Ferraris probably aren’t know for having sufficient cup holders.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by Kerbonut »

thallavajhula wrote: post #61
spiffytech wrote: post #28

Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…

Opera was the most innovative web browser ever. They brought so many new things to the world of web browsing. Tabbed-browsing, mouse gestures, colored tabs, browser themes, in-built security integration with anti-virus software, an extensible browser - so many wonderful innovative features. It was a paid software initially, but then they made it free for everyone. I used to use it as my default browser, maybe 13-15 y…

Text reflow on mobile browsers. I still miss that feature and much prefer that with desktop mode vs crappy mobile mode sites.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by mhh__ »

WalterBright wrote: post #150
spiffytech wrote: post #28

Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…

If only Roku and Android TV boxes had a way to display pdf's on the TV! Hint hint hint!!! After all, they can display movies, pictures, and music. PDFs, please! I'd even pay for it.

I usually cast them from my ipad to the tv.

My ipad may be a very expensive PDF reader but it's bloody good at it.

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