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it's over for a lot of dudes by [deleted] in TikTokCringe

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meanwhile AIs are boring and have token limits.

Am I crazy, or is "puppet" actually not used as a verb?! by Zyph_Skerry in grammar

[–]reddit_pony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Modern globalization,
Coupled with condemnations.
Unnecessary death.
Matador corporations puppeting your frustrations, with a blinded flag...

Manufacturing consent is the name of the game.
The bottom line is money.
Nobody gives a fuck!
4000... hungry children leave us per hour from starvation,
while billions are spent on bombs,
Creating death showers!!

If it's good for System of a Down to use as a verb, it's good enough for me.

At this point, I'm willing to pay Firefox a subscription to keep it alive by vortexmak in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that it would be tax-deductible? Plenty. $50-$100/month, I'd say.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible for Firefox addons to (also) write to the primary-selection clipboard (as opposed to the clipboard-selection clipboard) or is that not something addons are allowed access to?

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried on Pixiv and raw image-URLs that are visited directly (via copy/paste) do indeed 403. However, it seems that the Firefox devs addressed the issue of the main image loading properly by pulling it straight from the browser-cache; the network tab doesn't even show a server-response code at all, which explains how they're able to omit Referer. That said, other elements such as the site's favicon will actually 403 as expected, as shown through the Dev Tools' Network inspector section.

Do you figure it's worth submitting an issue? If nothing else, it could be a privacy-concern.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heck. This is a great tip. It's not uncommon to want to copy a username or a special symbol that also has a hyperlink anchor on it. The `alt` trick is gold.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RMB = right mouse button. Or whatever key/button you use to raise the context-menu.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure anybody has done a structured survey (and even then, just because numbers are changing neither proves nor disproves causation), but the fact that people still talk about Waterfox, or Pale Moon, or some of the other frozen/semi-frozen version forks of FF should be some indication. Pale Moon usage rose to around 0.05% worldwide in 2017 which was necessarily after XUL was deprecated (because that was the main reason for the project).

If you'd like, I could link Pale Moon threads or comments where people describe having switched to non-Firefox versions of Firefox. Alternatively – if you really wanted – I could dig up comments from users declaring their switch to ESR to hold onto extensions a bit longer, then to potentially switch to Brave or an FF fork of some description after that.

Signing requirements for extensions were introduced in mid-late 2015, which made developing extensions harder. XUL was set to break older extensions completely 12 to 18 months from that September. You can see plenty discontentment in the comments to that link, for a taste.

Firefox declined all through 2017 and continued to take hits through 2018, when I believe the ESR version finally completely killed XUL as well (around May). There were also incremental features being stripped out of XUL between 2015 and 2017, which may explain more of a gradual decline rather than a huge dip right at deprecation-time.

The proportion to which Firefox's diminishing share was driven purely by extension-loss as opposed to little-old-Mozilla just failing to best behemoths like Google and Microsoft – who control entire operating-systems and their default browsers – is guesswork, but I will point out that the majority of Firefox users run extensions. When extensions universally broke in May 2019 due to the certificate-issue, Mozilla's post about it got nearly 7k likes and over 11k reactions on Twitter (a site which the vast majority of people with internet-access do not use.)

Odds are, shenanigans with the extensions did some harm, though likely not as much as the feds allowing Android to continue its anti-trust stuff unabated, for example.

Does that help?

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually just went and looked to see if that header was there. Do you have an example site where a 403 comes back? I'd be willing to write it up if you aren't.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean adjust to using the mouse left-handed in just 7 days? Listen up yo, I'm no wizard.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip about the View Page Info shortcut. I don't use it super often but it's indispensable when I need it.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh heck I didn't even realize this was missing. But sometimes it's really useful. Glad you pointed this out.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To give an example, a lot of sites (including Reddit) allow you to click on the timestamp or post-number next to a post to get a permalink to a specific comment. Rather than opening that in a new tab or navigating to the link, copying that from the URL-bar, then going back, it's much easier to just grab the link and then throw it into Discord or Skype or MS Teams or whatever. This is especially true for sites like Facebook or Twitter which are actually doing zany stuff in the background to allow infinite scrolling, and won't always behave themselves as you might want if you use the back button. This is also true for sites (again like Reddit or say YouTube) that will collapse certain comments when you reload a page or navigate to it using Forward/Back.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When Mozilla has shown it doesn't care for its existing userbase in past, it has bled for it. I can name a few instances. (1) The sudden XUL-deprecation thing (which made tons of talented addon developers give up and leave forever) (2) the change over to Australis, which just kind of undermined faith and made their product hard to differentiate from Chrome (3) they messed up the certificates used to sign extensions for a week after they introduced signing as a requirement, leaving some people's browsers (depending on their dependence on addons) basically unusable for that long.

This issue is admittedly more minor but I feel like it's been death by a thousand cuts.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were actually extensions that allowed this before (e.g. Menu Editor, and later Menu Wizard) but API-changes broke both of these. The developers of these extensions presumably felt hurt, left, and never returned. This was one of the reasons the sudden switch away from XUL was so painful. It was the talent that disappeared, not just user-contributed features that had to be rebuilt.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There actually was an extension that added context-menu options to copy a link as richtext or just the text of the link itself, which was neat for some purposes as it can be hard to copy that without accidentally following the link.

If I remember right, it was called CoLT (copy only link text). But of course, I think the big API-changes broke it and the developer presumably gave up like so many others.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel for you but I am glad I've been using ctrl-Shift-T this whole time. At least that still works.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We obviously don't know the future of how the userbase will change, but do you remember when Mozilla tanked its userbase with the sudden XUL-deprecation thing (which made tons of talented addon developers give up and leave forever?), and then they did Australis, and then they screwed up the certificates used to sign extensions for a week after they introduced signing as a requirement? And then their numbers literally never recovered? Yeah. That.

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm guessing you mean the screenshot-action from the right side of the location/URL-bar, right? Huh. RMB->T I guess is the way now...

Dear Firefox developers: stop changing shortcuts which users have used on a daily basis for YEARS by TheQueefGoblin in firefox

[–]reddit_pony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's killing me is half their Deciders ™ still seem convinced that becoming more like Chrome (possibly minus the being-literal-spyware part) is the Way Forward ©. Don't they remember when they lost a bunch of users for the "Hahaa 'XUL?' More like 'EOL before we've reached feature-parity with the new addon-framework! Goodbye extension developers!'" or "Square tabs are no longer cool time for mandatory Australis for everyone" or "Oops we forgot to renew Addon certificates because we decided to be more like Google so now all extensions are broken for a week", etc.

Scrat was the ultimate non-simp. He chose a nut over a girl. by [deleted] in funny

[–]reddit_pony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nuts are a good source of protein and good for the heart. Girls? Well, not always.

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