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>Chromecast support was one thing keeping me from dropping Chrome entirely For me it's that and the printing UX. I use a printer almost every week and often op

>Chromecast support was one thing keeping me from dropping Chrome entirely For me it's that and the printing UX. I use a printer almost every week and often open Chrome just for that purpose.

geocar 8y ago
That's funny. I print a lot, and I hate how Chrome does it. I use Safari (not Firefox) though. What do you like about it?
- brlewis 8y ago
  Chrome shows me a preview of what's going to be printed and lets me fit to page or scale. Firefox gives a print dialog that doesn't even have a preview button.
  - maaaats 8y ago
    In Firefox, if you select "Print..." from the hamburger-menu (not Ctrl+P), you get an interface similar to the one in Chrome. Not sure why it's not the default. (Or File -> Print Preview)
    - ccozan 8y ago
      Thank you! User of FF since ever, never used that menu item, looks very very good with the preview.
    - antsar 8y ago
      Wtf! It never crossed my mind that that "Print" might be different from the "Print" in the File menu, or the "Print" triggered by "Ctrl-P". Why?!
      - arwineap 8y ago
        I honestly think that UI was pulled from microsoft word/office. It's been about a decade since I've used microsoft products so I'm willing to be wrong, but my understanding was that the print button was a shortcut to print document now, and the file print would take you to a print dialog
        olyjohn 8y ago
        That's exactly right. Ctrl+P or clicking the button in the toolbar has always been a "quick print" dialog, while going File->Print brings up all the options. I remember some applications skipping the dialog altogether on the second click and using the settings from your last print session.
        antsar 8y ago
        But that's not what Firefox does! Ctrl-P: quick print File -> Print: Same quick print Hamburger -> Print: Print with preview!
        Rebelgecko 8y ago
        Maybe it's OS dependent? On my Mac all 3 of those do the same thing
        antsar 8y ago
        Maybe. I'm using Firefox Developer Edition 65.0b12 (64-bit) on Debian.
    - chimprich 8y ago
      The thing that drives me crazy about print in Firefox is that it is very difficult to turn off headers and footers. I don't want to leak information about my intranet or local filesystem structure (URL field) but the option for turning these off is to jump into dialog, a tab, and change six dropdowns. It doesn't even remember your selection. Are these ever even useful, or just a waste of ink and a security hole?
- wlesieutre 8y ago
  macOS has a nice native print dialog, so Chrome's custom one is an annoyance when you were happy with the system one. If you're on Windows though, man is Chrome's custom print dialog an improvement.
  - brlewis 8y ago
    Using the latest Firefox on High Sierra, the print dialog for me doesn't include a preview where I can see what changes when I change options. But then, I get the same print dialog from Firefox's hamburger menu, so maybe there's something different about my machine. I'm not near my Ubuntu (bionic beaver) laptop at the moment. Hopefully the hamburger menu print option on Firefox is better there. That's often the one I'm printing from since it's for home.
bhaavan 8y ago
For me, it's Google Translate integration.
- brlewis 8y ago
  Did you try extensions and not like them? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=firefox+translate+extension https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=firefox+t...
- sp332 8y ago
  This is not quite as convenient, but if you have DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, you can put !translate at the beginning of the URL and it will redirect you. If you don't want to use a third party, open the large version of the Firefox bookmarks manager (ctrl+shift+b) and make a new bookmark with URL https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=%s https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto... and keyword "translate". Then you can just put the word "translate" before a URL and it will take you to Google Translate directly.

>Chromecast support was one thing keeping me from dropping Chrome entirely For me it's that and the printing UX. I use a printer almost every week and often open Chrome just for that purpose.

geocar 8y ago

That's funny. I print a lot, and I hate how Chrome does it. I use Safari (not Firefox) though. What do you like about it?

brlewis 8y ago
Chrome shows me a preview of what's going to be printed and lets me fit to page or scale. Firefox gives a print dialog that doesn't even have a preview button.
- maaaats 8y ago
  In Firefox, if you select "Print..." from the hamburger-menu (not Ctrl+P), you get an interface similar to the one in Chrome. Not sure why it's not the default. (Or File -> Print Preview)
  - ccozan 8y ago
    Thank you! User of FF since ever, never used that menu item, looks very very good with the preview.
  - antsar 8y ago
    Wtf! It never crossed my mind that that "Print" might be different from the "Print" in the File menu, or the "Print" triggered by "Ctrl-P". Why?!
    - arwineap 8y ago
      I honestly think that UI was pulled from microsoft word/office. It's been about a decade since I've used microsoft products so I'm willing to be wrong, but my understanding was that the print button was a shortcut to print document now, and the file print would take you to a print dialog
      - olyjohn 8y ago
        That's exactly right. Ctrl+P or clicking the button in the toolbar has always been a "quick print" dialog, while going File->Print brings up all the options. I remember some applications skipping the dialog altogether on the second click and using the settings from your last print session.
        antsar 8y ago
        But that's not what Firefox does! Ctrl-P: quick print File -> Print: Same quick print Hamburger -> Print: Print with preview!
        Rebelgecko 8y ago
        Maybe it's OS dependent? On my Mac all 3 of those do the same thing
        antsar 8y ago
        Maybe. I'm using Firefox Developer Edition 65.0b12 (64-bit) on Debian.
  - chimprich 8y ago
    The thing that drives me crazy about print in Firefox is that it is very difficult to turn off headers and footers. I don't want to leak information about my intranet or local filesystem structure (URL field) but the option for turning these off is to jump into dialog, a tab, and change six dropdowns. It doesn't even remember your selection. Are these ever even useful, or just a waste of ink and a security hole?
wlesieutre 8y ago
macOS has a nice native print dialog, so Chrome's custom one is an annoyance when you were happy with the system one. If you're on Windows though, man is Chrome's custom print dialog an improvement.
- brlewis 8y ago
  Using the latest Firefox on High Sierra, the print dialog for me doesn't include a preview where I can see what changes when I change options. But then, I get the same print dialog from Firefox's hamburger menu, so maybe there's something different about my machine. I'm not near my Ubuntu (bionic beaver) laptop at the moment. Hopefully the hamburger menu print option on Firefox is better there. That's often the one I'm printing from since it's for home.

bhaavan 8y ago

For me, it's Google Translate integration.

brlewis 8y ago
Did you try extensions and not like them? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=firefox+translate+extension https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=firefox+t...
sp332 8y ago
This is not quite as convenient, but if you have DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, you can put !translate at the beginning of the URL and it will redirect you. If you don't want to use a third party, open the large version of the Firefox bookmarks manager (ctrl+shift+b) and make a new bookmark with URL https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=%s https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto... and keyword "translate". Then you can just put the word "translate" before a URL and it will take you to Google Translate directly.