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Oh hey, more fearmongering and horrible clickbait about Firefox, it had been a few hours without some! Firefox just dropped the single site browser feature. Th

Oh hey, more fearmongering and horrible clickbait about Firefox, it had been a few hours without some! Firefox just dropped the single site browser feature. The thing that was hidden under a flag for the executable, that you had to actually dig for quite a bit to find. The thing that didn't work that well to begin with. Link in your site that redirects to another site? Well, your window is now a... multiple site browser, because it's going to stay in there. But no, surely it's Firefox moving away from a key piece of the open web, and not because the feature never worked that well in the first place. Or that barely anyone used it.

paulgb 6y ago
Thanks for the context. I had trouble parsing the article because it was so blogspammy.
ballenf 6y ago
FWIW, I use a program called "flow" on MacOS that does this but using Safari. Use it for slack and a music streaming, and dev kanban board. Anything can be made to be stuck to front or back. Eliminates all the buttons, and gets a custom title. It could be better and I know the same exists and is more popular for Chrome, but I wanted the absolute lowest CPU possible for MacOS.
- ohgodplsno 6y ago
  But I take it that if you were to click on a link in one of those windows, your Slack window now becomes... a Gitlab window.
  - ballenf 6y ago
    That's a customizable setting in Flow. You can have it launch your default browser or open it internally. There's also the pros and cons of auth/cookie isolation. You'll need to log in to Slack again. But if you use it for, say, Facebook it will work like the isolation feature in FF.
- addicted 6y ago
  There used to be something like this built on Firefox. I'm not sure what happened to it.
  - FrontAid 6y ago
    Maybe you are referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism
- marczellm 6y ago
  Aren't you referring to Fluid? https://fluidapp.com/ https://fluidapp.com/

paulgb 6y ago

Thanks for the context. I had trouble parsing the article because it was so blogspammy.

ballenf 6y ago

FWIW, I use a program called "flow" on MacOS that does this but using Safari. Use it for slack and a music streaming, and dev kanban board. Anything can be made to be stuck to front or back. Eliminates all the buttons, and gets a custom title. It could be better and I know the same exists and is more popular for Chrome, but I wanted the absolute lowest CPU possible for MacOS.

ohgodplsno 6y ago
But I take it that if you were to click on a link in one of those windows, your Slack window now becomes... a Gitlab window.
- ballenf 6y ago
  That's a customizable setting in Flow. You can have it launch your default browser or open it internally. There's also the pros and cons of auth/cookie isolation. You'll need to log in to Slack again. But if you use it for, say, Facebook it will work like the isolation feature in FF.
addicted 6y ago
There used to be something like this built on Firefox. I'm not sure what happened to it.
- FrontAid 6y ago
  Maybe you are referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism
marczellm 6y ago
Aren't you referring to Fluid? https://fluidapp.com/ https://fluidapp.com/