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I was saddened recently when I learnt they changed "View image" to "Open image in new tab". I loved the way "View image" worked, allowing you to maintain the i
by Svip 4y ago
I was saddened recently when I learnt they changed "View image" to "Open image in new tab". I loved the way "View image" worked, allowing you to maintain the image in full view while preserving tab history. If you wanted to open it a new tab, you could middle click it or ctrl click it. But since users were used to the Chrome behaviour they changed it to match, and thus Firefox lost a functionality. Unfortunately, since this is such a niche use case, Mozilla has little incentive to restore it. (Note: Extensions that restore the context menu item fails when the image loading relies on the REFERER header, since it actively re-requests it.)
There are numerous smaller items like this, that just flowed a lot better, particularly if you're heavily browsing images, like tab previews, that have been sacrificed either in the name of performance or to be more like Chrome. Fortunately, SeaMonkey still maintains these classic features, but is unfortunately a memory hog.
My daily browser has also been Firefox since around 2004. SeaMonkey remains a time pocket, when I long for the old days of yore.
- asddubs 4y agothe thing that's been driving me crazy lately is that they got rid of the undo history for the search bar. if you submit a search, it resets the undo history to be more specific. I expect by now so few people use the search bar that this is probably not going to be fixed any time soon, sadly.
- Semaphor 4y ago> sacrificed […] in the name of performance […] SeaMonkey still maintains these classic features, but is unfortunately a memory hog. I mean, there might be a relation? I went from IE to Netscape (edit: Or NS to IE?), to Firefox to Chrome, then tried every 1-2 years to switch back to Firefox and always returned to Chrome because it was so much faster. It was only 2-5 years ago (can’t remember exactly) when FF switched to fully multiprocess and stopped using their unique extension model, that I could finally start using FF again because the performance was finally on par with Chrome.
- Toorkit 4y agoI miss being able to long-press a link and clicking "send link to device." Now it only lets you send the page you're currently on, which is annoying. I send a lot of stuff to my desktop when I'm riding the bus.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agouse plasma integration to get that. it works 100% of the time
- coffeeling 4y agoAFAIK that's because the new tab behavior keeps web apps' state intact. When the web was more static, opening the image in current tab was fine. But nowadays you'd just lose your place on an app-site so the new tab option gets you your image in full view but prevents bungling up the app.