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I am a pretty ardent Firefox supporter and prefer it over Chrome but some of the issues are still jarring and really affect the user experience. E.g. this 10 ye

I am a pretty ardent Firefox supporter and prefer it over Chrome but some of the issues are still jarring and really affect the user experience. E.g. this 10 year old bug which I still have to deal with multiple times every month where if you have couple of windows open with one having pinned tabs and close the other one first, the pinned tabs are not restored upon restart: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587400 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587400 Mozilla needs to shift focus, atleast briefly if not long term, to work on squashing such common issues instead of racing to add new features.

izolate 6y ago
Agreed. I'm tracking a 7 year old bug to support `<input type="month" />` that's probably an easy win, given the foundation work is completed by supporting other date input formats. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320
- clairity 6y ago
  yah, i would love it if mozilla focused on all kinds of form controls, bringing them to parity styling-wise, adding more hooks for things like validation/more complex interactions, adding common controls (like month), etc. basically, they should look at the various web ui toolkits like bootstrap and integrate all the controls and behaviors common across all of them. it would be such a major win for developers and users.
  - agumonkey 6y ago
    Maybe Mozilla should stop the features and branding for a little while and make a revamp sprint ?
- pjc50 6y ago
  I have a 20 year old feature request to support "if type is text/plain (maybe text/*) and firefox brings up the download box, add the option to just view it in the browser in the first place". https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342 (this has become less relevant in recent years as "everyone" uses github to present source to the world, and websites in general vanish in favour of social media)
  - pabs3 6y ago
    There is an extension to do something better: https://github.com/Rob--W/open-in-browser https://github.com/Rob--W/open-in-browser
satori99 6y ago
Oh wow, I hate this one so much. I try to avoid opening multiple FF windows because I always close the wrong one last.
- recursive 6y ago
  If you're closing all of them, you can just use Ctrl+Shift+Q.
- matsemann 6y ago
  Try restore the other windows with ctrl+shift+n
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
I doubt it will happen. Fixing bugs is not sexy, so modern developers generally avoid it at all costs. Especially if there is a UI makeover they could be doing instead.
infogulch 6y ago
Yeah I now quit all FF windows at once with Ctrl+Shift+Q or Menu > Exit, or if I'm closing because Windows is restarting (not uncommon on Win10) I just let Windows close FF and it'll reopen after restart.

izolate 6y ago

Agreed. I'm tracking a 7 year old bug to support `<input type="month" />` that's probably an easy win, given the foundation work is completed by supporting other date input formats. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320

clairity 6y ago
yah, i would love it if mozilla focused on all kinds of form controls, bringing them to parity styling-wise, adding more hooks for things like validation/more complex interactions, adding common controls (like month), etc. basically, they should look at the various web ui toolkits like bootstrap and integrate all the controls and behaviors common across all of them. it would be such a major win for developers and users.
- agumonkey 6y ago
  Maybe Mozilla should stop the features and branding for a little while and make a revamp sprint ?
pjc50 6y ago
I have a 20 year old feature request to support "if type is text/plain (maybe text/*) and firefox brings up the download box, add the option to just view it in the browser in the first place". https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342 (this has become less relevant in recent years as "everyone" uses github to present source to the world, and websites in general vanish in favour of social media)
- pabs3 6y ago
  There is an extension to do something better: https://github.com/Rob--W/open-in-browser https://github.com/Rob--W/open-in-browser

satori99 6y ago

Oh wow, I hate this one so much. I try to avoid opening multiple FF windows because I always close the wrong one last.

recursive 6y ago
If you're closing all of them, you can just use Ctrl+Shift+Q.
matsemann 6y ago
Try restore the other windows with ctrl+shift+n

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago

I doubt it will happen. Fixing bugs is not sexy, so modern developers generally avoid it at all costs. Especially if there is a UI makeover they could be doing instead.

infogulch 6y ago

Yeah I now quit all FF windows at once with Ctrl+Shift+Q or Menu > Exit, or if I'm closing because Windows is restarting (not uncommon on Win10) I just let Windows close FF and it'll reopen after restart.