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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by addicted »

hbn wrote: post #401
addicted wrote: post #398

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I’m not sure why I should be thinking about whether my last active window was in the same or different app. In windows it doesn’t matter whether I switched from a Chrome window to a Firefox window or from one Firefox window to another one. The cognitive load is way less. Also, CMD+’ is way more ergonomically inconvenient to hit.

I guess it's a matter of preference. I use both Mac and Windows and I prefer Mac's way of doing it. Sometimes I'll have 3 IntelliJ windows open + my terminal, along with a dozen other apps that are on other desktops/workspaces that I'm currently not using. So it's nice that I can bounce between the IntelliJ windows for editing my code with Cmd+`, then when I need to hop into the terminal I do Cmd+tab, do my stuff, th…

It’s not just 1 row above. It’s also a smaller key.

If you do treat it like you would CMD+Tab, the odds are you would hit CMD+1 fairly often.

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by zamadatix »

bendhoefs wrote: post #390
gunapologist99 wrote: post #343

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Uninstalling software isn't the same as installing new, different software that didn't even come in your distribution's repositories. And, besides, a lot of people don't run Ubuntu, perhaps to get away from snap, perhaps to get away from systemd, or perhaps just because they can..

Do people still want to "get away from systemd". I thought most people had realized that systemd was a good thing by now :p. There's not a single popular Linux distro these days that isn't systemd by default. Even """hardcore""" distros.

Alpine is extremely popular for containers due to always picking lightweight choices like not using systemd. I don't think any of the Google distros (Android, Chrome OS) use it either but that shouldn't be particularly surprising. And of course hardcore classic Gentoo still lets you pick whether you want to or not. Void for a more traditional "user desktop" distro.

I like systemd and those are the only cases I remember being surprised the usual commands didn't work.

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by cybernautique »

medlazik wrote: post #221
arepublicadoceu wrote: post #210

Windows 11 was an absolute downgrade to my Windows 10 experience. To the point that I went back to windows 10 in less than a day of Windows 11. 1. I can't ungroup the taskbar windows. So now I have to hoover the taskbar to see multiple instances of the same software; 2. Who the hell thought it was a great idea to couple all the commands like WiFi, power energy, etc under the same menu? On Windows 11 I needed to click…

It's still Windows, we can tweak everything exactly how we want it. https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker-on-windows-11-wi... I've been using 7taskbar for years, it's rock solid. ExplorerPatcher is a new requirement, works great and adds tons of features.

Honestly, if you're going to modify Windows, why not just go Linux? Monkeypatching Windows into a good (useable?) OS seems like more effort for less return than just picking up a distro. The only advantage I've heard people claim for Windows is that "it just works." If it can't even meet your workflow, why bother?

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by nabakin »

mdoms wrote: post #429
nabakin wrote: post #419

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> Apple doesn’t even let you use alternate browsers Are you sure that's true? When I was using my MacBook a year ago, I used Chrome with no problems. Set as default and never had to look at Safari again. One of the points I've made against Microsoft doing this is not even control freak Apple goes this far.

You can't install different browsers in iOS.

You can't install different browsers at all? Or do you mean you can't set them as default?

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by tombert »

tentacleuno wrote: post #397
tombert wrote: post #254

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Actually, outside of having trouble disabling tap to click, I haven't had a ton of issues with the trackpad. I also haven't had the Firefox rendering problems, but I think that might be because for the last Linux laptop I had, I specifically sought out a graphics card that was likely to not have any issues. > I might learn C so I can look into making my own. I've thought about that too. If I weren't on Apple now I pr…

> Actually, outside of having trouble disabling tap to click, I haven't had a ton of issues with the trackpad. Ahh, interesting! Not sure why, but it seems that some people have a horrible experience with the trackpad on Linux, while others have a great time (from a quick observation, anyway). As a dumb guess, maybe it's due to different drivers being used? It's exactly the same on Wayland and Linux, so I'm guessing…

The trackpad was using the Synclient Synaptic driver. Don’t know if that helps.

In regards to the graphics card, it was an AMD card, in an Asus ROG laptop. I sold that laptop off a year ago so I don’t remember the card version.

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by rootsu »

nabakin wrote: post #464
mdoms wrote: post #429

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You can't install different browsers in iOS.

You can't install different browsers at all? Or do you mean you can't set them as default?

You can install different browsers and set them as defaults but all of the browsers on iOS must use webkit.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by SECProto »

josephcsible wrote: post #23
cronix wrote: post #22

So far in the last year or so, I've heard 0 reasons why I'd even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn't even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.

Unfortunately, there's one very big reason you'll need Windows 11: that Windows 10 won't get security updates forever. After October 14th, 2025, you'll need to "upgrade" to it to stay secure.

You can get 2021 Windows 10 LTSC IoT with 10 year lifecycle[1], so Jan 2032 for security updates.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by NoImmatureAdHom »

A lot of people complaining about Windows 11 here. I suggest giving Linux a try! It just works these days. Ubuntu, Mint, and Elementary are fun places to start.

"But can I use $MS_THING ?" Yes, if you insist. Just spin up a VM. But really, if work isn't forcing you to use a particular tool, there are better ways of doing that :-)

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by waterhouse »

stormbrew wrote: post #420
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #333

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Hmm, I find it pretty practical, cmd-tab from one app to another, cmd-backtick to toggle between windows, I mean, it's a different paradigm, sure, but you can still move around from the keyboard? I do find it a little annoying that there aren't consistent shortcuts for moving between tabs in everything that uses them, could be cntrl-tab, could be alt-arrows...

The problem is cmd-tab brings everything up. For example, if you have a terminal window and a browser window next to each other that you're flipping between, but there's a browser window under the terminal window, cmd-tab will obscure the terminal.

I use a free application called Spark, which lets me bind global hotkeys to arbitrary things, and in particular those things can be "bring up the topmost window of application X while leaving the rest where they are". I have it set up so that control-shift-h brings up Terminal, control-shift-c brings up Chrome, control-shift-f brings up Finder, control-shift-n brings up Firefox, etc., and for most of those I have "Bring [to] front the main window only" set. I use the hotkeys many times a day.

https://www.shadowlab.org/softwares/spark.php

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by hbn »

addicted wrote: post #461
hbn wrote: post #401

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I guess it's a matter of preference. I use both Mac and Windows and I prefer Mac's way of doing it. Sometimes I'll have 3 IntelliJ windows open + my terminal, along with a dozen other apps that are on other desktops/workspaces that I'm currently not using. So it's nice that I can bounce between the IntelliJ windows for editing my code with Cmd+`, then when I need to hop into the terminal I do Cmd+tab, do my stuff, th…

It’s not just 1 row above. It’s also a smaller key. If you do treat it like you would CMD+Tab, the odds are you would hit CMD+1 fairly often.

I'm really not sure why you think that would happen. It's like you're saying the Q key is in an inconvenient place because it's too small so "odds are you would hit W fairly often"

It's on the side of the keyboard. If you're on tab, you just feel for one key up.

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