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> Does anyone actually care about loading speeds (apart from the necessary ad blocking)? It's kinda like money imo: You think you don't care about it until you
by RheingoldRiver 3y ago
> Does anyone actually care about loading speeds (apart from the necessary ad blocking)?
It's kinda like money imo: You think you don't care about it until you don't have it. The only time I've ever cared about loading speeds was when I stayed on LTS Firefox for 2 years to avoid switching to WebExtensions, because I wanted to keep using several addons that were discontinued in Quantum. And near the end...yeah I cared about loading time. Felt amazing when I finally did upgrade (although I'm still pissed af that they never re-added the ability for extensions to access tab-specific history & will never get over this unless they do one day add it).
So I do think it's important to pay attention to even when no one cares, just to make sure that no one starts caring.
- WillPostForFood 3y agothey never re-added the ability for extensions to access tab-specific history Curious, what was the use case for this?
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoIn MouseGestures extension, you can bind right-click scroll-up & right-click scroll-down to whatever you want. I bound this to back & forward (within this tab), respectively. So you'd get a little context menu at your cursor to be able to navigate however many ticks you wanted. Insanely useful, especially when websites bullshit autoredirected you once, so navigating away from them requires either super quick reflexes to go back twice with hotkey or mouse gesture, or actually moving your cursor all the way to the back button @@ I still actively get mad that I can't use this shortcut every single time I have to go to the physical buttons.