I hope it's just a joke

I absolutely hate the redesign, having the new tab button in the middle makes no sense, the corner is way easier to tap, having the individual tabs be taller makes them take up more space while looking worse and the tab selector takes up the whole screen, so I can't see the tab I was on.

For context, this is what it was like before:

My Firefox add-on to download music and videos just got a big update!

Media Downloader Unleashed, a browser extension I made that allows you to download streams, videos and music files, recently reached a pretty big update! Maybe you can try it if you think it would be useful :

- Downloads media from thousands of sites
- Works on any platform, PC or Android, without needing to install a separate app
- Completely free, and open source.
- No data tracking!

You can get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/media-downloader-unleashed

Try it, and tell me if you like it!

Here is the source code : https://github.com/helloyanis/media-downloader-unleashed

@firefox @opensource @firefox_addons

#firefox #opensource #web #dev #foss #downloads #mediadownloaderunleashed

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/43538159

I used to pray for times like this. For me it totally flew under the radar—apparently details about this go back as far as last November—but hopefully someone here learns about this for the first time :) doubt it works on mobile for obvious reasons

Apologies if this is a bit hard to understand.

Some sites have a background that fills the screen... until you scroll. There's one on my work's intranet, so obviously I can't use that as an example. But I see the same thing on my Lemmy instance, db0 (not mine mine, the one I use). They made this thing, I think it's meant to be a black hole, heavily blurred, but when I scroll, the image scrolls away.

Is there some way to lock the background in place and let the content just scroll past it? Maybe with a setting, or more likely with an extension?

Anytime I say anything against Firefox, I get called a lot of really bad things, including suggestion to kill myself, so don't worry, I dont expect anything else this time. Thats not the reason Im posting this. This is supposed to be a constructive UX review from one user, thats me. I usually use Brave, but every now and then go test other browsers. Im wondering what kind of experience anyone has with the same situation. They are mentioned in the order I noticed them.

1. Tabs slide. I dont like it. I want them to become small. It feels more robust. I never use hundreds of tabs and Im sure people who do that, need sliding tabs and tabs that group, but I dont. I found online to go specific setting to reduce the minimum size in settings, but they still slide. I have never needed to search online for such a specific setting for brave.
2. When I try to rearrange tabs, some movement may produce groups which I dont like. Its not as smooth as in chrome. Not as smooth, not as precise, sometimes instead of creating a new window it puts a link on the tool bar, sometimes when you move, you dont know where you are. Sometimes when i Detatch a tab it doesnt show it, but it opens the window that is below. Its feels flimsy, not as robust, a lot of times I dont get the result I want with engaging with tabs.
3. Some websites have issues. Modals in the wrong place or content out of place. Yes I know, probably the websites fault, but that doesnt help me.
4. In Brave when I go to youtube I can quickly select the transcript or a part of it with the mouse. Cant do it in Firefox. I have to got ctrl+a which selects also the parts that I dont want selected.
5. If an image is missing, I dont see an image missing icon, but empty space.
6. When i go into folders on my bookmark bar and open a link in another tab, it closes the menu. So when I want to open a few links from a folder, I have to open the folder each time.
7. Cant paste an image from the clipboard into a web app, nothing happens when I try.
8. Today (like a week ago) it didnt open youtube videos: The message "This content isn't available, try again later." Dont know why. but even if I tried to open again, refresh, in a new window, it didnt work. Worked normal on brave. At this point I went back to Brave.

Mobile specific

1. It asks me each time whether to open the app for youtube and I cant choose, no - dont ask me again. I had to go into settings.
2. Youtube audio stops when i close the phone. Still works on Brave.
3. It often shows me ads on youtube. I never seen an add on brave
4. A website (shop) where i shopped previously doesnt opne at all, youtube sometimes doesn't load until I refresh the page. Slow to load after

Firefox will redesign toobar for Android in version 148

No Add blocker installed Enhaced tracking protection turned off

When using the built-in translation functionality I get horribly bad results for my use case (translate to German). So bad in fact that some texts become nearly unreadable gibberish. It feels like how machine translations were 20 years ago.

I know that Firefox’s translation system works with offline data only and locally on my machine, and thus is very, very, very limited compared to specialized systems like DeepL – and even the common LLMs.

But I wonder: Is there a way to improve the system? Can I feed it more data to make it better? Can I do more than just download the translations in the settings?

I know I can always use extensions for sending pages or text to the common online translation services, but since Firefox has that built-in I’d love to use it – but it needs to return better results.

Any ideas are welcome!

Thank you and vielen Dank :)

I unfortunately need to use Google Meet for work meetings. It generally works in Firefox, but I get constant random disconnects. Sometimes, it'll only happen once in an hour long meeting, other times it'll happen every few minutes.

I have tried disabling all extensions, disabling my pihole, using a fresh profile with no additional hardening/restrictions, making sure I am signed in to Google, and so on, but cannot resolve the issue.

When using chromium, I have no issues at all (even with pihole on).

At my previous job, I wrote our webrtc product and it always worked great with firefox, so I assume this is something google meet specific.

Unfortunately, there is nothing in the developer console about why it is disconnecting and retrying.

many channels pretend to be human-made, but are just AI slop.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/42202678

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Let me start off by saying that I adore FF. I had a period in my life where I used Chromium, but moved back to Firefox a few years ago and love what it represents and what it contributes to the community and world.

But I am concerned about the number of blatant usability issues that I've been experiencing with FF that have pushed me to the breaking point where I will have to give Chromium another go. But please help me not have to do that.

• Unable to drag a tab — Dragging a tab often causes the tab and address bar (but not the content) to become unresponsive and no longer flow properly (gets stuck) in the tabs list. Requires new window or restart to clear it up. Has been happening for a while.
• text cursor disappears sporadically with css scale down .— Open for 22 years, still sees sporadic reports, and still no resolution. Happens to me semi-often. Sometimes the cursor even goes to a random spot in the text and moves backward as I type at the end of the textarea.
• Random tab switching — Switching to another app and coming back to the FF window causes a given tab to re-focus, regardless of which one I was last using. Happens semi-rarely, started occurring recently.
• *edit: remembered another: FF often gets confused about drag-and-drop. In multiple web apps (Miro and eBay come to mind), I have to drag something into the FF window two times for it to be recognized by the app. It also sometimes randomly gets stuck in "drop" mode, requiring a non-committal drop for it to correct.

I only found that one Bugzilla report. Has anybody else been experiencing these? Especially the non-reported ones? Granted, I haven't opened reports on the others but ... they're all so hard to reproduce. If I'm alone then I understand why they haven't been fixed. But am I?

I'm currently on v146.0.1 as a flatpak on Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE Plasma 5.27.12 / Wayland). I am multi-monitor, one with fractional scaling.

*edit: Wanted to add that I have only one Extension in use: uBlock Origin

(Edited) Context: https://social.coop/@eb/115902323900229756

https://github.com/drive4ik/simple-tab-groups

Chromium also have option to show/hide tab group names in bookmark bar, is it something similar ?

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/41332347

On desktop-firefox, there are profiles in about:profiles and now there is a new entry in the menu with profiles but these profiles don't show up in about:profiles and the menu-profiles are like a sub profile of about:profiles-profile.

I can find this https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management/ but I can't find anything regarding the differentiation of them and are the old about:profiles-profiles going to be discontinued? what is the difference?

Hello I just noticed when I shared a link to a friend on WhatsApp from Fennec I got a little as message: "Shared with Fennec" and a link to Mozilla's website. Has anybody had this too? I would to disable if possible.

Does anyone know Mozilla's support email address? I'm locked out of my account and unable to sign in to support. Someone please help me. Thank you.

I have my default search engine set to noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s, but the search term in the address bar-function seems to be broken or unavailable. Is this a known issue or a bug?

I think I found that custom search engines do not work (yet) with this feature. Only god knows when this will be supported...

It's not yet perfect but it's a huge improvement for firefox. Firefox' ui development stalled for years.

There are even tabs now. It's not amazing but it is something.

I would like a simple way to download videos from the internet. For example, from YouTube, but also from social networks or, ideally, streams. Specific add-ons for YouTube exist, but I'm looking for something more general.

There are probably hundreds of Firefox plugins that promise to do this. However, many of them don't seem to be very good. Which plugin do you use for this?