Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by newscracker on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:21PM
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Firefox is dead. Was dead for a long time. I won’t bother with it again after all these death-by-a-thousand-cuts changes and the way the CEO is handling things at Mozilla. I’m using <insert another browser name here>, and even though it has <insert several drawbacks and user hostile functionality here>, it’s not as dysfunctional or frustrating as Firefox is. Did you hear about that 17-year old bug that was fixed recently in Firefox? You gotta say something about Firefox and priorities.
/s (stands for sarcasm, if someone isn’t familiar with this notation)
Have I captured the essence of forthcoming comments above?
- Sincerely, a Firefox supporter who so far disagrees with some individual decisions but nevertheless will use and support its use
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by marakv2 on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:52PM
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Agree. But for fucks sake, Firefox I'll still use you, but each update I'm more disappointed. I still use you due to a lack of a better option. That's it.
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by pkamb on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:25PM
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How about a big, multi-line URL text field on mobile browsers?
Can't stand horizontal scrolling to the beginning or end of the line to change a domain or parameter. Let me edit in multi-line mode when I tap on the URL.
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by GekkePrutser on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:59PM
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This is indeed a problem. Especially the last character is really hard to target because it coincides with the end of the field. Or always takes me several frustrated tries.
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by StavrosK on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:38PM
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Haha but it barely just gets a border! Maybe because I use a dark theme? When you say "enlarging", do you mean the drop down showing? Or the extra border?
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by deft on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:58PM
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Hope so, that was a horrible update and I had to mess around with custom css to get rid of it. Not even sure the point, no other design system uses components like that. Click it and it gets bigger with a shadow like a floating window? What were they thinking?
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by jancsika on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:40PM
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> Yes but when the cake batter breaks something else its needs to be reported if for nothing else than to just bring attention to the breakage. many times little changes cause an issue and by the time its reported can be lost. to dismiss as invalid seems radical and defeats the purpose of having a dev build.
Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg punchline which I've probably used elsewhere...
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by zaphirplane on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:23AM
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What’s the joke, a bit of a fan of his style in small doses. There is video of one of his shows where he bombs out and jokes about bombing with the audience.
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by tweetle_beetle on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:49AM
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This always gets brought up, but if they do that their search revenue goes down. They're locked into competing over the mass market with Chrome, because that's where the money comes from.
How many power users use the default search engine in Firefox and willingly click on Google ads? I think it's safe to say it's a tiny fraction compared to the average user.
How many power users would be willing to fund a specialist browser out of their own pockets? That's a good question, but I don't think we'll have a scenario to find out any time soon.
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by maverick74 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:51AM
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I would - somehow... - integrate the URL bar (and a few buttons) into the Tabs themselves (not the tab strip, but into the tab itself) and get rid of yet another toolbar.
Re:Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
by thinkingemote on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:32AM
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Firefox also has a history of then saying "don't complain, we will replace this with a new API in the future, come back then" and then silently never does anything
/s (stands for sarcasm, if someone isn’t familiar with this notation)
Have I captured the essence of forthcoming comments above?
- Sincerely, a Firefox supporter who so far disagrees with some individual decisions but nevertheless will use and support its use
Can't stand horizontal scrolling to the beginning or end of the line to change a domain or parameter. Let me edit in multi-line mode when I tap on the URL.
I always find little quirks like this funny. Human minds ey.
e.g. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/forms/form-control/
Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg punchline which I've probably used elsewhere...
Man, I shoulda just said, "Yeah."
Specialise.
How many power users use the default search engine in Firefox and willingly click on Google ads? I think it's safe to say it's a tiny fraction compared to the average user.
How many power users would be willing to fund a specialist browser out of their own pockets? That's a good question, but I don't think we'll have a scenario to find out any time soon.
i would also move bookmarks bar above the tabs...
First, you are told, "It's too early to complain about this, it's not finished."
Then, "It's too late to complain about this, we are already committed."
Standard corporate management political tactics, promoted to your browser.