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It would be good if Mozilla were to now fix other well-known bugs that have been in Firefox for decades. First, copying/pasting highlighted webpage text with C
by hilbert42 3y ago
It would be good if Mozilla were to now fix other well-known bugs that have been in Firefox for decades.
First, copying/pasting highlighted webpage text with Ctrl-C/V is unreliable (no text in paste) and copying via the context menu must be used if one wants it to work every time.
Second, selecting text with mouse is awkward and irregular in many webpages. Moreover, whether one selects text from the right or the left makes a difference (it's often much harder to select one way than the other).
Third, it is impossible to select only part of a URL in a webpage and only the full address is selected (and even then just selecting the address from other text is often difficult). One has to paste the full address into a text editor and select the wanted section of the URL from there. Why would one want to do this? Well, the URL may be a long address to a specific page on a website and before or after one visits that page one may want to visit its homepage so copying only the homepage section of the address makes sense.
Mozilla, your text selection capability in Firefox is essentially not fit for purpose.
Forth, entering dialogue into a box like I'm doing here on HN to post this text is always fraut with the risk of losing it before the text is posted. Accidentally refreshing the page often happens before posting and thus the text is lost irretrievably which is damn annoying if one has written a lot of text. Simply, there is no progressive save or UNDO in this situation. Why on earth not? Wordprocessors have had undo for decades so why not Firefox? (If I know the text is more than a sentence or two I edit with an external editor. Mozilla, this is unacceptable and you ought to be ashamed of the fact.)
The fact that Firefox does not have undo or that text selection is broken amounts to primitive and unfinished engineering (especially so after decades of Firefox development), thus one has to speculate what other important code is also so rough and ready and unfinished that we cannot see!
Mozilla, if any of you ever bother to read this then you ought to know how annoying these bugs are. (One has to wonder if you ever bother to use your own product—or perhaps you've never investigated how your users use your product.)
One can understand bugs and limitations in a new product but they all ought to have been polished out after several decades of development. If you want to recapture browser market share then you could start by fixing these annoyances. Moreover, it would be a good PR exercise if you explained why these bugs have been ignored for so long. (Incidentally, there are other issues I've not mentioned here.)
BTW, many of us have complained about these problems for years and we've never received an explanation as to why you've never address them (it's little wonder your market share has dropped).