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Re: Firefox 76

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Post by gsich »

iknowstuff wrote: post #227
RandomBacon wrote: post #72

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They should just put a toggle for it under the Customization page. I think that would be the simplest way to placate peope that dislike it. (Yes I know you can about:config to fix it, but a toggle makes more sense.)

Ah yes the 90s/early 2000s way of designing desktop apps. https://windows-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/miranda-im_12....

What a time. Now every option is either a) not available b) hidden somewhere where you need the Internet to find it (chrome://flags, about:config, registry ...) and c) probably removed in the next update because "people didn't use it anyway"

The picture you posted is a positive example. An example on how to customize the software you use.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by skykooler »

chrismorgan wrote: post #260
kroltan wrote: post #254

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Hmm, seems to work fine for me.

I have no idea when it stopped working, because I scarcely ever used the affected buttons until very recently—I have a vague feeling it might have worked three or four years ago, but in the last couple of months it’s definitely not been working for me. uBlock Origin is the only extension that I have that could feasibly alter anything, and all it’s doing is blocking googleads.g.doubleclick.net. Nothing of interest sho…

I can confirm that uBlock Origin blocks the notification dropdown on Firefox. Does the dropdown get served by the ads server?

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by kroltan »

chrismorgan wrote: post #260
kroltan wrote: post #254

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Hmm, seems to work fine for me.

I have no idea when it stopped working, because I scarcely ever used the affected buttons until very recently—I have a vague feeling it might have worked three or four years ago, but in the last couple of months it’s definitely not been working for me. uBlock Origin is the only extension that I have that could feasibly alter anything, and all it’s doing is blocking googleads.g.doubleclick.net. Nothing of interest sho…

I use uBlock (and some others) and have no problems clicking either buttons

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by ConsiderCrying »

asadotzler wrote: post #109
ConsiderCrying wrote: post #104

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I sorely miss the ability to make my homepage a layout of the sites I visit daily. On Chrome I had this grid of most frequented sites that I set up myself, fine-tuned so I could launch Chrome and immediately open up any mail, read the news, check some of the blogs I read, etc. On Firefox, I've been using bookmarks but that's not as effective.

I could be missing something but in case I'm not. You can enable Top Sites and customize them to your liking by removing ones you don't want and pinning the ones you do.

Ohh, that's what I was missing. Thank you, this is a huge quality of life improvement.

Re: Firefox 76

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Re: Firefox 76

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Post by prophesi »

stan_rogers wrote: post #177
prophesi wrote: post #64

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It's just the HN effect; complain about the most minute details. Firefox simply wanted it to be more obvious that the address bar is in focus the moment you open a new tab.

If that was all it did, fine. It also does the suggestion list on focus rather than after you begin typing, obscuring the page. This makes click-and-copy to get the current URL a destructive action - you need to click outside of the address bar to see the page you were already on. The new "equivalent" is using the tiny ellipsis menu, a Fitt's Law fail.

Neither clicking on the URL nor hitting the keyboard shortcut to bring focus to the address bar is a destructive action. The URL is still in tact, and you're free to copy it immediately after either action.

Let me know if I've got the issue wrong.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by chrismorgan »

skykooler wrote: post #262
chrismorgan wrote: post #260

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I have no idea when it stopped working, because I scarcely ever used the affected buttons until very recently—I have a vague feeling it might have worked three or four years ago, but in the last couple of months it’s definitely not been working for me. uBlock Origin is the only extension that I have that could feasibly alter anything, and all it’s doing is blocking googleads.g.doubleclick.net. Nothing of interest sho…

I can confirm that uBlock Origin blocks the notification dropdown on Firefox. Does the dropdown get served by the ads server?

Ah hah! Figured it out: some cosmetic filter is killing the dropdowns. Unfortunately the effecting rule is not discernable in the dev tools, so figuring out which rule is at fault is tricky and slow.

Found which one, too: it was a rule of my own that I added almost a year ago to kill off some of the annoying cards they pop up at the ends of many videos, which hide the video content; turns out my rule was just a touch too broad for how they do things.

Mea culpa.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by [deleted] »

guug wrote: post #189
rad_gruchalski wrote: post #57

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Have you heard of "Check for updates but let me choose when to install them" option under about:preferences > Firefox Updates? I assume you did not.

To be completely fair, reading every option under about:preferences is not part of the average user's workflow.

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Re: Firefox 76

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Post by rad_gruchalski »

guug wrote: post #189
rad_gruchalski wrote: post #57

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Have you heard of "Check for updates but let me choose when to install them" option under about:preferences > Firefox Updates? I assume you did not.

To be completely fair, reading every option under about:preferences is not part of the average user's workflow.

True, it's probably much easier to search for "disable firefox auto update" using your fav search engine.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by ChrisRR »

kasabali wrote: post #249
ChrisRR wrote: post #248

And yet they still haven't added the feature to globally zoom, instead of per website. This is the only thing that keeps me using chrome

It exists since the very first Firefox version (and probably even before) After Firefox 3 (which introduced site specific zoom feature) you can set the below config option for old behavior http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.zoom.siteSpecific

I've tried that in the past but it never seems to take effect. I don't know if there's some other config overruling it

Edit: That doesn't look like the config I'm thinking of. That appears to change to zoom for the current active tab, rather than per site. The config I'm thinking of changes zoom for every site

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