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They're also deleting downloaded .pdf whilst in private mode. Yes even when I click save as. It gets downloaded to my downloads folder and then sometimes it's deleted when I close the browser. Sometimes.
That's really worrying. Can you reproduce it?
From the bug report: 1. Open https://www.google.com/ in a tab 2. Open https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/ in the same tab 3. Click on Go back button (or Alt+Left Arrow) 4. Click on Go forward button (Alt+Right Arrow) 5. Select some text 6. Right click It doesn't seem like it's a website doing something it shouldn't be and breaking RFC. It's really a bug in firefox. Also, the scope is very specific and kinda…
Not sure why this is big news, big enough to be in the #1 spot right now. From reading the comments on the bug, it seems to be an issue that's hard to reliably reproduce, and -- despite how simple it sounds from the editorialized HN title -- it involves interactions between different parts of the browser, and it's hard to track down and fix. Nonetheless, there are some proposed fixes, and I expect a near-future relea…
You say that like the unreliability is the result of some extrinsic influence like the weather or unfair portrayal of the project by journalists and not a strong sign that the project has unmanageable tech debt or does not have the human resources necessary for the difficult task of competing with Chrome.
From the bug report: 1. Open https://www.google.com/ in a tab 2. Open https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/ in the same tab 3. Click on Go back button (or Alt+Left Arrow) 4. Click on Go forward button (Alt+Right Arrow) 5. Select some text 6. Right click It doesn't seem like it's a website doing something it shouldn't be and breaking RFC. It's really a bug in firefox. Also, the scope is very specific and kinda…
I've recently switched from Firefox to Edge until they fix this bug. Every now and then I go back to Firefox hoping it'll be fixed, and then it bites me again.
I might argue that this is quite minor in the face of... well... a Microsoft controlled browser, but what do I know
I switched to Edge because of this bug.
"I got annoyed with the occasional inability to use the 'Copy' menu item and couldn't fathom training my muscle memory to instead use ctrl+c, so I switched to a browser that spies on me and actively ignores my consent." I really don't get how people work, sometimes. Stuff like this tells me the privacy fight is just completely unwinnable. It's not even that people don't care; people actively make choices that make th…
Mozilla has done so many things to weaken users' trust in it (like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166801) that at this point many regard them as the least worst (rather than best) alternative to the competition when it comes to privacy and the open web.
I'd like to hope that Ladybird will give us a genuine alternative, but Google has ensured that current web standards are so complex that even MSFT (another megacap tech company) threw in the towel on maintaining their own browser engine.
> I'm restricting comments to keep further discussion focused where it needs to be on fixing this bug and getting it into a shipping release as soon as can be reasonably done.
From the bug report: 1. Open https://www.google.com/ in a tab 2. Open https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/ in the same tab 3. Click on Go back button (or Alt+Left Arrow) 4. Click on Go forward button (Alt+Right Arrow) 5. Select some text 6. Right click It doesn't seem like it's a website doing something it shouldn't be and breaking RFC. It's really a bug in firefox. Also, the scope is very specific and kinda…
I am able to reproduce this but I noticed that Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V still work even though the `Copy` menu item was disabled. So it is a visual glitch, at least on my machine.