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Firefox improves greatly in speed and features - I like that and don't want a long term release thing or a radical fork like the one discussed here. I can live
by darklajid 9y ago
Firefox improves greatly in speed and features - I like that and don't want a long term release thing or a radical fork like the one discussed here. I can live with some plugin issues on the desktop (web extensions being less powerful). But I refuse to use Firefox on Android without 'Share To Bottom' [1]. Feel free to link to xkcd's "you broke my workflow", but without this feature my blood pressure is constantly too high.
Whenever I long-press on a link I want either (80% of the time) 'Open in new tab' or (the rest of the time. No exception. Never anything but these two things) 'Copy link'. I never ever want 'Share', but some time in the past Fennec/Firefox for Android moved that option to the top of the menu. I filed bugs for that, got shot down rather quickly and stumbled upon the addon [1] as a workaround. The workaround is now broken and so is literally nearly every single (I rarely just click links, always long-press them. I have sometimes more than 90 tabs open on my Android phone) interaction with a link on the internet. The menu is annoying me with a prominent button that I never want, but press in error again and again (probably adding to Mozilla's heatmap, so that they'll conclude in the future that this was a very good change indeed! Lots of people click "Share"!).
So right now I created my own Firefox build and I'm trying to do this the nasty way (still searching my way around in this codebase, but I plan to completely remove the 'Share' menu item. A hardcoded 'Share To Trash' modification, if you will). I'll happily rebuild the browser for this change, for all eternity.
(Note that I never understood the 'Share' option in that menu in the first place. Everyone I see around me uses 'Share' from the page menu, i.e. the top-right … thing. To share the page you're _actually_ looking at. Instead of sharing a link to a page (via a popup menu) that you cannot see right now. So the version I envision still allows you to share stuff, just not from the context menu of a link)
1: https://github.com/miraks/ShareToBottom/ https://github.com/miraks/ShareToBottom/
- cesarb 9y agoI've used the "share" option on that long-press menu recently, to share a link through zxing's Barcode Scanner to another person's phone. Unfortunately, doing that seems to somehow have moved that rarely-used option to the top of the menu, above even the frequently used "open in new tab" option.
- darklajid 9y agoHmm. If that happened only because you clicked it once, then it should be reversible to "never wanted it in the first place" somehow, I hope.. Might be worth investigating..
- Santosh83 9y agoThanks! It's also disappointing that something as simple (functionally) as this cannot yet be implemented through WebExtensions. I really hope they beef up the API soon...