A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by sph » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 12:44 PM UTC

A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
stefanjudis.com

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by aetherspawn » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:05 PM UTC

Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by bogwog » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:08 PM UTC

This would be cool to have for an online code editor or similar, but otherwise I hate these types of custom navigation things on websites.

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by williamdclt » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:11 PM UTC

aetherspawn wrote: post #2

Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)

I exclusively use firefox, have a pretty normal browsing pattern, and that almost never happens to me! Much less that once a month, maybe once every 3 months

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by CAP_NET_ADMIN » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:11 PM UTC

I've been using Firefox for the past year due to some weird incompatibility between my GPU and Chrome's video decoding. It caused dropped frames and caused my YT quality to go down.

Haven't really noticed any issues on Firefox except the lack of actually good web translator.

-moz-element looks sweet, hope it comes to other browsers.

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by EspressoGPT » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:14 PM UTC

What a shame that it doesn't seem to work recursively.

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by jjice » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:15 PM UTC

aetherspawn wrote: post #2

Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)

Yeah it's upsetting the sites that I run into this on, especially since there's no excuse in 2023. On more obscure pages on Vanguard's website I've run into some broken stuff that results in console errors I don't remember, but switching to Chrome made it work :/

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by kevingadd » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:15 PM UTC

It's impressive how well the minimap works for bigger articles, I clicked around randomly and ended up at https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/should-responsive-images-w... and the minimap feels slightly magical since it appears instantly and updates synchronously if I do things like select text.

It feels kind of disappointing that I can't interact with it to scroll around like in i.e. Sublime Text, but I imagine that's a little harder to do as the author of a website. It's still very cool to me that you can do something like this on the web, and I wonder how much work it would be to support this complex CSS feature in Chrome or Safari.

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by drewg123 » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

aetherspawn wrote: post #2

Every day I hit sites that literally only work in Chrome.. it’s time to fight back :)

Speaking of that, I've had issues with Firefox (both on Mac and Linux) where some checkboxes just don't appear. I was checking in for an international flight last month on American, and could not manage to get through the checkin process until I discovered there was a checkbox I needed to tick that didn't even appear on Firefox (but which did on Chrome)..

Re: A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

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Post by Brendinooo » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:19 PM UTC

bogwog wrote: post #3

This would be cool to have for an online code editor or similar, but otherwise I hate these types of custom navigation things on websites.

Honestly I didn't notice it until it was pointed out by the article. Banner blindness has done a number on me.

Pretty cool thing here, just wish I could use it to navigate. That's the biggest reason why I keep a minimap on in VS Code.