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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Okay, that's about what I thought.
I use ^B to toggle the sidebar, and don't normally have bookmarks open in it. I use an extension called Group Speed Dial which replaces the default home page and lets me group sites I frequently visit in tabs for fast access. I don't normally need to access the bookmarks.
Yes, not having Control-key combos passed to sites that can use them is a pain, but it's mainly an annoyance here, and sites I visit have other ways to do that on selected text. (And I generally know the codes to embed in the text to do bold/italic/etc so I can insert them.)
I also use an extension called withExEditor. I used to use an extension called "It's All Text" that would grab text in a text box and copy it into my preferred editor ( Notepad3) for editing. Save the text in the editor and it got inserted into the text box. That broke in FF Quantum. withEditorEx provides a work around. It calls node.js to retrieve text into my preferred editor, then uses node.js to paste the edited text into the text box on the site. It's a bit of a chore to configure, starting with having to install node.js, but works once you have. The fundamental issue is that FF no longer lets you do that sort of thing locally. It has to be passed to an external server that can then upload it to the site. (I'm using it now to crete this reply.)
I'm mostly pleased with Quantum, now that I found WebEx extensions to replace core functionality of stuff I used to run, but the paranoia about security gets bothersome. I'm all in favor of security, but I'd be happier if the Mozilla devs could point to actual exploits of the capabilities they disallow instead of "This could be used for bad intent, therefore we won't let it be used."
But we are increasingly stuck with it. Current browser development is all going in that direction, and Chrome has just as many annoyances.
Now Mirosoft is ceasing development of Edge and shifting to the Blink rendering engine used by Google. Opera had already ceased development of the Pango engine they used and switched to Blink. MS is suggesting Mozilla drop Gecko and also switch to Blink.
I am not thrilled by the notion of "One rendering engine to rule them all", as we are all then stuck with whatever that engine is allowed to do, and that's being steadily cut back in the interests of security.
I'm sticking with FF as the best extant option.
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Dennis |
As I posted yesterday in the calibre plugin ideas thread, "Sometimes I wonder if we're regressing to Mosaic."
Since the latest update (v 65) to Firefox Quaintarse, this site is one of those where I can no longer use Ctrl+B and Ctrl/I for their time honoured purpose.
Added: I pin my frequently visited sites and use Ctrl+PgDown to get to them, IIRC the speed dial thing is too mouse centric.
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