Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by innerbits on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:32AM (#34640811)

Firefox is my primary browser at present but definitely has annoyances:

  - unable to close pinned tabs without custom extensions
  - unable to undo close open tabs after closing last window (also solved with extension)
  - pins itself to taskbar and install desktop icon on every install
  - I prefer how downloads' progress is handled in Chrome better
  - Not all settings are synchronized (esp. around privacy), making it very hard to configure computers the same consistently

Favorite extensions:

  - Vimium
  - Undo Close Tab
  - Shortkeys (using it specifically to move tabs around)
  - Aardvark Duex

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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by ectopod on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:30AM (#34642329)

On your second point the History menu has a Restore Last Session option (or something like that) when you reopen the browser after inadvertently closing a bunch of tabs.

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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by account42 on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:29AM (#34643359)

> unable to close pinned tabs without custom extensions

Middle click works and there is also a context menu option to close the tab.

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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by innerbits on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:11PM (#34645354)

I should've clarified that I meant closing using keyboard shortcuts

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