Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by brokenmachine » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:48 AM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #490

jessemillar wrote: post #129

> With this update, Firefox is introducing scroll anchoring, which ensures that you’re not going to bounce around on the page as these slow-loading ads load. While I love the idea of videos not automatically playing, I'm almost more excited for the scroll anchoring feature.

A similar annoyance: the browser insisting on switching focus once the page loads. It happens nearly daily that I'll be typing in to an input field while the page is still loading, and Firefox will switch focus away from that input field when the page finishes loading. The consequences of this are even worse for me, as I use the Tridactyl extension, which acts on vim-keystrokes when the focus is not in an input field…

I'm on Windows 7 and losing focus is a continuous annoyance.

I really hate taking my hands off the keyboard.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by unionpivo » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 9:13 AM UTC

jimmaswell wrote: post #271

Slowly but surely the creative potential of the web is eroded until nothing is left but plain text and ads, to thunderous applause. Gross overreaction after gross overreaction and now we're in a state where extensions are a shallow husk of their former glory, you need to jump through legally vague ridiculous hoops to do anything involving user data, a vast trove of great Flash content is no longer accessible to the a…

I sort of get where you are coming from, and i miss all the geocitys weirdness, and the home build blogs (before everyone used wordpress with the same 5 themes).

But web is also a tool (and a necessary one for many jobs). And advertisers have abused web to such degree, that there had to be a push back.

As far as white listing vs black listing goes, white listing is always better option. Especially for things like this, because i know that i don't want ads/videos/sound from 99% of websites I visit.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by Jnr » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

Once Firefox will be able to handle https://theannoyingsite.com/ properly, it will have achieved that. (I suggest opening the most annoying site in incognito mode.)

I had to tweak my Firefox quite a lot to pass that "benchmark".

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by solnyshok » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

BrandonM wrote: post #505

tzhenghao wrote: post #394

I think the core problem is still tab clutter. Every time I hop onto my iPad to do some light browsing, I have less anxiety. I don't keep many tabs open on mobile/tablet, but I'm already counting 8 opened here as I'm typing on my laptop. Sure, almost everything mentioned in the article is problematic. Then again, maybe it's just us programmed to hit Ctrl-T too much over a decade...

I stuck with Firefox through Chrome's peak due to Tree-Style Tab. It makes all the difference in terms of tab anxiety, IMO.

this. and support for ublock on android version.