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by dao- 11d ago
I do wonder if the admin thinks they did damage. He's talking to some claude bot right now that showed up on the wiki to help or research, or something: > The thing this wiki taught me, which that board has not learned: WillkommenI
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by dao- 1y ago
Drop the hyperbole for a second. It was a choice screen, a far cry from force-feeding. I'll grant you, somewhat wide adoption is almost a given when putting this kind of UI in front of all users, but that still doesn't mean that i
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by dao- 1y ago
> How much public opinion is worth burning for how much increased usage of a new theme feature? In my opinion, very little. I think we're squarely in the "very little" range here in terms of how much public backlash we saw
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by dao- 1y ago
There's for sure a lesson to be learned in here. The product owner who had decided and pushed for making it seem like colorways were ephemeral has long left Mozilla, so you're preaching to the choir at this point. I still don&#x27
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by dao- 1y ago
> People using colorways after the feature was removed? Well, that sounds like a failure of the feature then. > The whole crux upon which the colorways marketing rested, was they were temporary! You get to change your theme for a few
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by dao- 1y ago
No, that had happened about two years earlier I think ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678742 goes back to 2020). Alas, the bottleneck there was UX staffing rather than engineering.
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by dao- 1y ago
> Not surprising, since I believe Firefox gave everyone the Colorways screen when that feature showed up, Right, I assume that's what the parent comment meant by "force-fed to us." That screen was indeed the whole point: I
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by dao- 1y ago
> Don't forget colorways, the non-feature that still needed to be force-fed to us. I assumed people who wanted to change the color theme already could Most average users don't ever change settings or otherwise customize stuff,
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by dao- 1y ago
School chemistry means it was a ~20 year old prediction 30 years ago, based on known oil deposits 50 years ago. It would have been a hopeful prediction from today's perspective, as we would necessarily have stopped pumping and burning
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by dao- 1y ago
This is just not true. We're watching ocean currents collapse in real time. You're the frog getting boiled being angry at the thermometer. Wake the f- up.
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by dao- 1y ago
In climate science parlance it means it's a conservative guess and will likely happen faster than anticipated.
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by dao- 1y ago
> Was the biggest "tough on crime" person I've ever met. I think people with means don't understand if you don't have money you can't afford bail. Or maybe they do understand. This kind of politics ensures t
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by dao- 1y ago
Hmm, if I had to choose between not having Facebook and having React, I'd pick the former in a heartbeat. Not that this was a real choice, but it was nonetheless bitter to see colleagues join the behemoth that was Facebook.
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by dao- 1y ago
You could just set `browser.tabs.dragDrop.createGroup.delayMS` to a high value like 3000; that would mean having to rest the mouse for three seconds to group tabs during drag and drop.
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by dao- 1y ago
In about:config, try looking for browser.tabs.dragDrop. The createGroup... and moveOverThresholdPercent flags control the group creation behavior during drag and drop. If anyone finds values that make it less likely to accidentally create g
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by dao- 1y ago
> Do you know how do you move a tab group once created? It should work once you've updated to Firefox 138.
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by dao- 1y ago
We've implemented drag and drop of groups for both horizontal and vertical in 138 which presumably you were updated to today :)
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by dao- 2y ago
They have slimmer tires as well, right? I wonder though, do they deteriorate faster as their surface would carry more weight? edit: https://earth.org/tyre-pollution/ answers this, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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by dao- 2y ago
> player is aiming at the sky continuously Same here :( I'm guessing this wasn't tested (at all?) in Firefox? That's unfortunate.
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by dao- 2y ago
> His main objection seems to stem from the fact that Jack Dorsey's net worth is $5.6 billion. Fair. You do not become a billionaire without being a massive POS.
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by dao- 2y ago
Yes, they would still be opposed to them. A measure could well be somewhat effective on its own, but then it would require the industry to get creative and work extra hard to still get people hooked, which they will do, but they'd rath
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by dao- 2y ago
We're working on that.
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by dao- 2y ago
We'll at some point support the tabGroups webextension API, so it would be fairly straightforward for add-ons to do that. We're also looking at automatic grouping options though.
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by dao- 2y ago
I remember, I was around back then. :) Panorama was in some ways ahead of its time. The UI was nice visually but also somewhat heavy handed / not very beginner friendly to say the least, which contributed to it being used only by a rel
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by dao- 2y ago
Agreed. I work at Mozilla as an engineer for Firefox, and I'm generally happy to see this. I currently work on tab groups, and I'm curious to see what their implementation will look like or whether they'll try to fast-track o
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by dao- 2y ago
Here are Firefox about:config preferences they tweak for performance: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/blob/1eaf6e49ef8edd44... I also found this somewhat funny: # Edit: ok, ill remove it, goodbye t
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by dao- 2y ago
> I don't think you see "Cupertino said" when referring to Apple these days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41098886
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by dao- 3y ago
Except that's exactly what you want e.g. when you want something to stand out relative to its context. For instance, you want your headings to be 150% the size of surrounding text, so when you have an info box with smaller text and a h
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by dao- 3y ago
case in point: Fruits and vegetables are less nutritious than they used to be. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conserv...
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by dao- 3y ago
More than enough by what measure? That constant hammering hasn't yet translated to political will to actually turn the ship around.

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