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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by teknopaul on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:18PM (#26258593)
It's sad but true. Googling is probably Firefox's only feature left. After they trashed the dev ecosystem, removed file access, prevented 127. access and prevented ssl bypass for 10. and 192.168. broke markdown rendering, disabled CD access, made development painful, fsckd ftp, banned useful stuff on file:// removed anything useful from about: made developing inside Firefox a nonstarter, borked Web app, and generally broke any use case other than Googling/Shopping.

I doubt many people type much into the omnibar other than input for advertising platforms.

They should probably replace

http://

with

today I want to buy...

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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by CompuHacker on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:15PM (#26259280)
Firefox 55 has all of those features! I just never updated.

Sure, these extensions and workarounds are dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love well behaved web browsers.

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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @11:35PM (#26259738)
Wow! Consider moving to Pale Moon at least, it will work with more sites and gets security patches.
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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by matsemann on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:40AM (#26260935)
What a load of bollocks and incredibly sad way of looking at things.
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