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I use Firefox at home and Chrome at work, and I can't imagine going back to Chrome or Chromium at home. Firefox in 2023 is in great shape as a piece of softwar
by ravenstine 3y ago
I use Firefox at home and Chrome at work, and I can't imagine going back to Chrome or Chromium at home. Firefox in 2023 is in great shape as a piece of software.
Firefox could do some relatively small things to push it ahead of Chrome in some areas.
Bookmarks sorely need an overhaul. For instance, it'd be really nice if bookmarks could appear in a side-pane instead of a popup window, and allow the user to sort by chronological order. That would discourage me from keeping so many tabs open, which would be a good thing. Just having a dumping ground for interseting pages that I can easily access and search through would be a good thing. It would also be amazing if bookmarks, or something like bookmarks, could optionally capture and store the body text on the page for searching purposes or even personal archiving.
Searching tabs through the URL bar is pretty much broken and has been for years. Actually, I'm not sure that ever really worked. If I begin typing something that matches the title of a tab I have open, it rarely ever shows up as a URL bar suggestion. WTF? Is it really that hard to traverse a small array of tab titles and do a regex? I don't get it. What about full-text search across all the pages I have open? Can't do that either, apparently. Then again, who would actually want to do that? /s Ok, sorry for the sarcasm. Sort of. I mean this in the most constructive way possible. If I get time again, maybe I'll eventually fix these things in Firefox, but for now I hope someone at Mozilla reads this and decides it's worth fixing.
- abdullahkhalids 3y ago> it'd be really nice if bookmarks could appear in a side-pane instead of a popup window Ctrl+B on linux/windows or I guess Command+B does exactly this. > and allow the user to sort by chronological order This is possible in the main bookmarks window. There is a sort by last modified option which should do the trick. It would indeed be nice to have this option in the sidebar. The other features you mention are more appropriate for an extension. Edit: I just found out that you can open the bookmarks window in a tab by visiting chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml