[HN Gopher] 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
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17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
Author : abridgett
Score : 52 points
Date : 2021-02-24 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
| clankyclanker wrote:
| Good on them for actually tracking this feature request for over
| a decade and not just closing it after three weeks for "lack of
| interest."
|
| Looking at you, every random GitHub project ever.
| leppr wrote:
| Having a revenue stream helps.
| clarifier123 wrote:
| Wow, that's a feature that I've been really missing since I
| switched to Firefox from Opera.
| brundolf wrote:
| Wow, finally
| dragosmocrii wrote:
| If you're like me, and read the comments first, this change is
| about giving feedback on the scrollbar for a search. In other
| words, when you search for something, the scrollbar will give an
| idea how many results there are, and where on the page rhey are
| located.
|
| On another note, the comment uses IntelliJ as an example. Wow,
| that was 17 years ago! Happy to see my favorite editor be around
| for so long.
| smitty1e wrote:
| > 17 years ago
|
| "Nearly half my age," said Emacs.
| [deleted]
| w-m wrote:
| Not to get too greedy, but maybe do the 21 year old "Use native
| context menus on Mac OS" next?
|
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
| pseudalopex wrote:
| Why is jira.mozilla.com private?
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| Also, why is there a jira.mozilla.com at all, and why is
| there a jira.mozilla.COM?
| [deleted]
| flukus wrote:
| Maybe just do native UI's completely, especially now dropping
| XUL has broken everything.
| cle wrote:
| Looks like it's in progress. Also native "rubberband" scrolling
| in macOS is in progress as well. Excellent!
| batisteo wrote:
| I'd look for a ticket about the poor contrast of matches, either
| green or magenta.
| cassepipe wrote:
| Fantastic. There's hope. (Greed incoming beware). What about
| WebMIDI support for music web apps like Pianojacq?
| nonbirithm wrote:
| Obligatory dogpile, but I'm hoping for the day you can disable
| Ctrl-Q to prevent accidentally closing the browser with a single
| keystroke. It's impossible to do on Linux.
| IshKebab wrote:
| Yeah Chrome's "hold to quit" feature is genius. I wish VSCode
| had it too.
| scotu wrote:
| I'm on mac, but I used to have the same problem also in other
| apps: I use a system wide app that makes you long press cmd-Q
| to quit any app (with an allow/block list): "SlowQuitApp". Just
| in case you never thought to try to find something similar
| (assuming ctrl-q is a common shortcut in linux, I forgot)
| smartbit wrote:
| On Fedora Chrome disables Ctrl+Q and Chrome can only be closed
| by going through the menu. Maybe Chromium implements it too,
| then you could find out the trick in the source.
| graton wrote:
| That has bit me so many times. Especially since Q is right next
| to W. Trying to close a tab with Ctrl-W and accidentally hit Q
| :(
| FreeFull wrote:
| It's partially fixed now, it'll show the "Quit and Close Tabs"
| dialogue now if you check "Warn you when quitting the browser"
| in the preferences.
| nfoz wrote:
| IMO this should be a feature of the window-manager, not the
| application. But that requires a change in the interface
| between window-managers and applications, to allow the window-
| managers to be more heavy-handed. Which I've wanted for a very
| long time.
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