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Re:Firefox UI/UX History by kleiba on Sunday March 27, 2022 @03:57PM (#30823507)
Sure, UI/UX can be a whole science, but in the end, a lot of it boils down to preference. As you can see when reading through this comment thread.

My personal biggest pet peeve: I hate, Hate, HATE that they changed the default behavior of clicks into the address or search bar, from simply "put the cursor here" to "select all". Oh my goodness, do I hate this, even after all these months. It breaks a fundamental behavior of text fields since, I don't know, the beginning of time?

Even today, I don't know how many times I keep inadvertenly deleting the contents of my search bar when all I want to do is add another term at the end. My brain is probably just too old to learn something new, I guess.

Also annoying: with the new add-on system, you cannot even write a plugin to restore the previous sane behavior.

Re:Firefox UI/UX History by mtone on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:57PM (#30826646)
On FF desktop it doesn't bother me too much, but on iPadOS Safari I was having quite a challenge editing a URL param due to selecting all on touch with no obvious way to switch to cursor mode (!).

My solution: touch to select all, touch again to reveal sliders, drag the (only visible) left slider to the right to reveal some unselected text, touch the unselected area to get a cursor, touch+hold to drag cursor to end of URL, edit URL, profit! I've seen easier puzzles in puzzle games!

Re:Firefox UI/UX History by black7375 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:12PM (#30826332)
The default value is always necessary, so it is worth studying. However, I agree that the different preferences should not undermine the possibility of customization.