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Installing every* Firefox extension

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Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by walthamstow »

RussianCow wrote: post #22
walrus01 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you turn loose a completely untrained person to click yes/accept/download/OK/I agree on every type of user interface popup, particularly a person who has no ability to distinguish between a user interface question presented by the operating system itself and something inside of a browser window, that's what you'll get...

I have a vivid memory of once looking over someone's shoulder in the IE days and being horrified to see toolbars taking up about 80% of the available screen real estate, leaving only maybe 150-200 pixels of vertical space for actual web browsing. I have no idea how they got anything done, and my guess was they never actually used any of the installed toolbars and just thought that was normal.

You can see this today on macOS. I see people with this at work all the time. The defaults have quite inflated scaling and the dock at the bottom. The vertical space left for a website after the address bar is hardly anything.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by pndy »

lapcat wrote: post #7

> It turns out there’s only 84 thousand Firefox extensions. On addons.mozilla.org, but you can distribute Firefox extensions without posting on addons.mozilla.org. I do.

I'm pretty sure that there were much more XUL and XPCOM extensions back then +10 years ago before mozilla pulled out the plug for that platform and moved to WebExtensions

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by m132 »

gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

Loved the brutal realization that came when the seemingly broken Extensions button the author was mashing for solid 30 seconds turned out to be a fake, extension-supplied one. One... of three.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by Shadowmist »

walrus01 wrote: post #19
gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

If you turn loose a completely untrained person to click yes/accept/download/OK/I agree on every type of user interface popup, particularly a person who has no ability to distinguish between a user interface question presented by the operating system itself and something inside of a browser window, that's what you'll get...

You can just say AI

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by m132 »

Brings back the memories of using Internet Explorer when every other installer was fighting for toolbar space!

Every Internet café had at least 2, with Ask.com, Google, Yahoo and later on, Bing being the main contenders.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by xg15 »

> I did some research to find why this took so long. 13 years ago, extensions.json used to be extensions.sqlite. Nowadays, extensions.json is serialized and rewritten in full on every write debounced to 20 ms, which works fine for 15 extensions but not 84,194.

I'm slightly worried how they arrived at that debounce value. Which extensions need to write to extensions.json continuously, several times a second?

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by xg15 »

rented_mule wrote: post #8
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is the video, I scanned through and only saw still images.

It's inline. Search the page for (and heed): epilepsy warning

Also enable sound. I think that video might even be better to listen to than to watch it...

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by Avamander »

fulNamSexBoomer wrote: post #46

This obviously showcases that Firefox needs to work on their support for having all browser extensions at once. Users want and need this.

I would suspect that some of the slowdown that the author encountered does occur with even a dozen or so add-ons. Why else would Firefox bother you about resetting your profile if you haven't returned in a while?
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