gave firefox a try but what is up with the bookmarks? 4 clicks to get to them and the UI looks like something out of the 90s? am i missing something obvious?
Firefox 64 Released
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#412There's always been a look & feel problem for me with Firefox...something that seemed to be solved right out of the box with Chrome. I've not been able to put my finger on it, but I think this kind of small user-convenience stuff is part of it. It's not "features" per se, but more the feel of how the application works. It reminds me of old platform video games before Super Mario Bros. (and for a while after) Superfic…
Some of the dialogs seem clumsy, like when you want to clear cookies (level 1 dialog) and then a modal "are you sure" pops over the first dialog (now 2 levels of dialogs). Other places that could use some revamp are manage bookmarks dialog.
decent bookmark management is all thats keeping it from being my daily driver. id love to support moz but cant coming from opera which has fantastic bookmarking and speed dials
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Yes, scroll bars are already used to identify which operating system you are using as their width varies between systems.
Your user agent already does this.
Which is why many privacy-minded people change their user agent to match the most popular one, especially the OS part.
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You have no idea how excited I am for this. I use sway as my daily driver since it supports HiDPI so much better than i3, but the one caveat to that has been firefox and xwayland. Once this ships, sway will have nearly flawless HiDPI support.
I'm not. Wayland lacks a lot compared to X.[1] From the linked-to-post, it lacks: * Programmatic output configuration (xrandr, arandr, etc.) * CLI clipboard access (xsel, xclip) * Third party app launcher/window switcher (rofi, dmenu, albert, docky). * Clipboard managers (parcellite, klipper, Gpaste, clipman, etc.) * Third party screen shot/capture/share (shutter, OBS, ffmpeg, import, peek, scrot, VNC, etc.) * Color…
If thats what wayland is lacking then its ready to use for me and the majority of users.
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#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not. Wayland lacks a lot compared to X.[1] From the linked-to-post, it lacks: * Programmatic output configuration (xrandr, arandr, etc.) * CLI clipboard access (xsel, xclip) * Third party app launcher/window switcher (rofi, dmenu, albert, docky). * Clipboard managers (parcellite, klipper, Gpaste, clipman, etc.) * Third party screen shot/capture/share (shutter, OBS, ffmpeg, import, peek, scrot, VNC, etc.) * Color…
I'm happy someone is using it however, as that will encourage many shortcomings to be addressed.
Its the default on fedora so a lot of users have been using it for a long time now.
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#417I really want bookmarks with a specified container. I have a dedicated container for each of multiple Google apps/G Suite accounts I have and my personal Google account. It would be great to be able to specify what account to use along with the bookmark when saving a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet instead of manually opening the correct container first.
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"I realize autoplay gets a lot of flak due to large corporations using it to further their aggressive marketing campaigns" Not just because of that, although that is the most egregious example. Personally, I find any autoplay at all to be objectionable. It doesn't matter if it's an ad, a YouTube video, or anything else.
I respect your opinion but sadly my service just does not work any other way. You don't go to a theater and choose when the projectionist starts the film, or when the actors start playing, or when the musicians start their concert: the venue / director / manager determine that ahead of time. You don't go to a party and choose what music the host plays, though obviously one hopes the host would value your input should…
As far as I can tell, you've described livestreaming. Streaming sites seem to do just fine without autoplay.
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#419In other news: The march toward Firefox becoming another Chrome knockoff continues unabated.
What do you mean by that. Seems like a bit of a troll comment. They both have totally different codebases so the only real thing thats the same is they are both browsers and they both support the same web standard. Would you like them to fork html/css/js and make everything incompatible?
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#420Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.
Thank you so much, this is excellent!