Firefox 88.0 - Hackdot

Re:Firefox 88.0 by pfranz on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:13PM (#26868056)

I remember creating a moderately large spreadsheet in Google Docs last year. Safari unloaded the page and forced a refresh every time I switched away. Firefox would hang recomputing formulas and only Chrome scaled well.

I'm looking to move to Safari by default. I just need to get over some UI differences. It drives me nuts that Firefox doesn't use the native context menus (I use "Look Up" constantly) and Text Shortcuts don't work. There's a bug for this filed literally 20 years ago.

Each browser has different trade offs and those may not change over time. I'm glad Safari fits your needs.

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Re:Firefox 88.0 by emptyparadise on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:47PM (#26869866)

With Google services specifically, it might be Google shenanigans at play rather than the other two browsers being genuinely inferior.

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Re:Firefox 88.0 by sdawg123 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:59AM (#26874764)

I just recently found out, you can use "Look Up" on Firefox for Macs, by tapping a word (or highlighted text) with three fingers on the trackpad.

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Re:Firefox 88.0 by pfranz on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:44AM (#26885817)

I found it! It's the "Look up & data detectors" setting under System Preferences > Trackpad. For whatever reason mine was set to "Force Click with one finger" which I never use and had trouble consistently activating. The other option is "Tap with three fingers."

⌘-^-D the keyboard shortcut also works.

Firefox has had some bugs around this.

https://superuser.com/questions/1138014/how-to-use-three-fin...

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Re:Firefox 88.0 by pfranz on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:54PM (#26880566)

Any docs or more info on this? Its not working for me.

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