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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by L_Rahman »

I'm honestly surprised that we aren't talking about tab behavior here. Literally the only reason I keep using Chrome is that no matter how many tabs I have open, they're all visible at the top.

There's visual persistence of state. On Firefox, even with the trick of reducing minimum tab width, my tabs overflow and I have to click through to get different groups of tabs. It is utterly maddening and I don't know why every other browser refuses to do Chrome like tabs.

Why the continued choice to violate the first rule of UI design which is to keep things in the same place?

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by ilikepi »

Vinnl wrote: post #152
thatcherc wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox has a Container Tabs extension which does just this - the defaults are profiles for Work, Personal, Banking, and Social, and you can add more. You do have to install it but I think the extension is from Mozilla itself, so it's not exactly third-party. It's just features that are already in the nightly builds as I understand it [0]. Personally I've really enjoyed it so far! [0] - https://support.mozilla.org/en…

Additionally, the actual functionality is just built into Firefox; all the extension does is expose a UI to manage it.

The extension also allows you to set that a particular site be assigned to, and automatically open in, a given container. I don't believe this particular feature is built into Firefox.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by WorldMaker »

signal11 wrote: post #142
Vinnl wrote: post #123

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One thing that might make it easier for you that you might not know about: about:profiles

I currently go to about:profiles and click "open this profile in a new window", but this is very klutzy compared to Chrome's profile switcher next to the URL bar. Of course you can also create launchers/shortcuts for Firefox with "firefox -P profilename" but again that's work you have to do on each machine you use.

A classic solution is just one shortcut of `firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager` which semi-replicates one of the old Netscape-feeling behaviors in that such a shortcut will always create a new instance of Firefox and first launch the select profile window.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by tsukurimashou »

tsukurimashou wrote: post #114
maxheadroom wrote: post #76

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> While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category... If you're into privacy-conscious search engines and want one that's not susceptible to blanket FISA warrants[0], check out either Qwant[1] or SwissCows[2]. [0] - DuckDuckGo's address is in Pennsylvania - 20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, PA 19301. [1] - https://www.qwant.com [2] - https://swisscows.ch/

Qwant was proprietary last time I checked and didn't seem that privacy centered as they say Also >France

Downvoters care to explain? I was born and lived in France for 20+ years, I think I've a pretty good idea about the government, freedom and privacy in that country. I've seen Qwant being shilled countless times, starting from the french government pushing a "privacy focused search engine" a lot of school use this search engine by default. Despite all of that I have yet to see code or any actual proof they respect user privacy.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by cpeterso »

cpeterso wrote: post #241
icebraining wrote: post #186

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For some reason, your Firefox profile doesn't have a preferred language, but Qwant expects one. If you add one in the Preferences (option "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages"), it should work.

Seems like Firefox should fall back to the OS language of a preferred language had not been set in the browser. I wonder how that happened.

This is a Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1415146

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by _ph_ »

I love the Picture in Picture feature. There are too many web sites which leave you only the choice between a rather small video or full screen. With PIP I can choose the size which works best for my screen. Also, as it floats on top, it is never covered by other applications.

One thing would make this even more increadible: is there a way to set the default size and position? If the PIP feature would always start in my preferred size and position, this would be just so great.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by WorldMaker »

L_Rahman wrote: post #261

I'm honestly surprised that we aren't talking about tab behavior here. Literally the only reason I keep using Chrome is that no matter how many tabs I have open, they're all visible at the top. There's visual persistence of state. On Firefox, even with the trick of reducing minimum tab width, my tabs overflow and I have to click through to get different groups of tabs. It is utterly maddening and I don't know why eve…

Different people use tabs for different things. I have had browser sessions with 100+ tabs before as it can be a "spatial organization" tool more interesting than the History or Favorites lists because while I have to scroll through the tab bar, there are recognizable "neighborhoods" of tabs.

Firefox has a lot of options for tab extensions if you wanted to explore for something more to your liking.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by zipperhead »

L_Rahman wrote: post #261

I'm honestly surprised that we aren't talking about tab behavior here. Literally the only reason I keep using Chrome is that no matter how many tabs I have open, they're all visible at the top. There's visual persistence of state. On Firefox, even with the trick of reducing minimum tab width, my tabs overflow and I have to click through to get different groups of tabs. It is utterly maddening and I don't know why eve…

If you want to talk about tab behaviour, you might want to have a look at the Tree Style Tabs extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Tabs are placed in the sidebar, nested in collapsible trees, with a scrollbar. It's a major game changer.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by WorldMaker »

takeda wrote: post #243

For the love of what's holy, I think the versioning system adopted by all browsers is just crazy.

Numbers aren't exactly a finite resource [1] and there's no particular reason that version numbers have to "stay small" other than aesthetics.

[1] Mathematically positive natural numbers are infinite. Realistically, most systems traditionally implement version numbers as sets of at least 16-bit numbers and there are 65,536 numbers to choose from, not just the first ten or so.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by digitarald »

z3t4 wrote: post #100
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #8

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Are you a devtools user? How do the Firefox ones compare? I speak as someone who originally switched to Chrome (having been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days!) specifically for the devtools — it's pretty much the biggest factor in my browser choice.

I use Firefox as my default browser. But the dev tools is too slow, apparently someone thought it was a good idea to rewrite it in React, causing it to lag even on a few thousand console log messages on a fairly powerful workstation. And there is no search functionality, only filter. So I've started to prefix all my debug messages with whatever I'm working on just so that the logs can be found in the Firefox dev tool…

DevTools member here. We have been working on performance over the past release – is there anything specific that you can point out as being slower for us to focus on?
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