Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

Re:Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config by bityard on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:12PM (#47253916)

Yes. But also, lay users are not nearly as dumb/incompetent as UX designers allege when they rationalize removing features to "simplify things."

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Re:Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config by pixl97 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @08:19PM (#47256242)

Not a UX designer, but having supported systems for decades I don't agree with your statement. If you got the system down to a single button that said 'Do' the user would still somehow screw it up.

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Re:Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config by goodmythical on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @09:31PM (#47256759)

It's simple, when you really think about it. Just remove the user. All such pebkac and id-10t errors immediately resolved.

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Re:Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config by pixl97 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:48AM (#47261518)

>Just remove the user.

Clawbot: I understand what you need, drones dispatched.

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Re:Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config by cwillu on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:39AM (#47259193)

And the correct response to this knowledge is to not try to optimize for the user that will screw anything up.

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Re:Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config by pixl97 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:47AM (#47261511)

This only depends on how much money they have. If dumb users pay the most, then businesses will optimize for them.

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Re:Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config by stuaxo on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:21AM (#47261806)

Have worked on a help desk. Dialog boxes are close to this UI and nobody read them, come to think of it power users don't tend to either.

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