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firefox (148.0.2) on linux, the preview for me is not working

tried them on chrome, it works fine, nice work


Great, let's see how it works out.

Firefox for Android has been killing it for me with the latest ux updates, I didn't expect major improvements there and was pleasantly surprised.


I don't see the appeal, it takes more "clicks" to do many actions and I had to disable the ridiculous new oversized "rectangle tab preview block" (whatever it's called).


yes exactly, their design was already better than chrome and condensed but now we have these outdated round and padding heavy toy controls again, just why?


I actually liked the previous UI much more, the new one looks like a baby toy and uses more space because of the control padding. completely unnecessary.


This UI is great but do you get this horrible thing where sometimes the browser is shows a white screen and you have to force stop the app? Happens all the time on the latest version for my Pixel 9a. And did on my Pixel 7 too before. It's really horrible and I can't pin down any rhythm or reason other than loosely seeming to happen more often when I'm in battery saver mode.


I don't have that on fenec and ironfox on my pixel 6a running graphene.

What I have always had with any firefox based browser on android is erratic behavior in text field. Most of the time it works well but sometimes on some commenting systems my input is duplicated/multiplicated/garbled, trying to select where you want to insert words in the middle of the sentence sometimes becomes impossible, always resetting to the beginning of the text field, etc.

On some websites it only rarely happens, on some it is much more regular. Never understod why but when I want to edit a comment I have to resort on a regular basis to copy the full comment to a note app, edit the text, and replace it in its entirety in the text field.

Super annoying but still less annoying than using a chrome based browser with no way to remove ads and have a bit of privacy control.


Happens to me all the time in PWAs. I get it roughly once in two days, sometimes a few times a day.


I have also noticed that it seems pretty common with PWAs so I more or less stopped using them (in the sense of installing them).


Are you using some weird extension ? Never had this on my pixel 6.


Only extension is ublock origin and most of the settings are default.


Not yet for me on a pixel 6a


Never


not happens on my Poco


Never. Using a Snapdragon phone. Sounds like an another isue with the Tensor SoC...


for me, the killer feature is that I can use uBlock Origin.


This and Violentmonkey which syncs with my desktop Firefox so I have all the same scripts. Wish it would also sync the script data though.


Which UX improvements in particular?


Agreed, was pleasantly surprised and didn't know how much I didn't like the old one until seeing the new one by comparison.


How do you make closing tabs from taking literally seconds.


Very cool, trying it out, I'm unable to make it do a search tho, on the experts it says it's deactivated on the settings but I couldn't find a setting for it, maybe it's model dependent and the default model can't do it?


Why offer a crappy default Spanish translation when you can just not?

- The name of the product is broken "Jelly Star Estrella" instead of Jelly Star

- "Descubrir Jelly Star Estrella" instead of "Descubre Jelly Star"

- "Jelly Star Estrella Presenta un diseño" consistently uppercasing the first word disregarding their product name in the sentence

- "Jelly Star EstrellaLa luz LED" or just not leaving spaces

- "Aparece en dos colores" instead of "Disponible en dos colores"

I got tired reading an IA generated translation not reviewed by one single human that spoke the language, that went through some quick copy and paste.

Concept looks cool, I just can't trust them on quality.


It's not perfect, but keepass does have keeshare, basically one or many sub-dbs on different files that integrates into the main one seamlessly, so in my home we have a 'shared' db each and we can read it and update it from our main dbs.


My company made us move to this from Slack, killed all online camaraderie that existed in the enterprise to save some bucks.

Hope at least now it's usable, would love to be able to enumerate things, use code blocks, etc... it's a bit of a nightmare for day to day work as it was, so I'm glad at least there is some movement, as we are basically captive audience.


> killed all online camaraderie that existed in the enterprise to save some bucks.

It's really true that Slack cultivates an online work community in a way that Teams just doesn't, and it's hard to explain to upper management who is much easier persuaded by the argument of "we're a Microsoft shop, so we'll use all the Microsoft stuff we get bundled in our 365 bundle."

The issue is that channels in Teams is so clunky and awkward compared to Slack's. It's not like a chat, it's more like a message board where you start new threads and people reply to them. They're also not easily discoverable nor easy to link people to. And maybe it's an org setting but at least at my work you can't make your own channels, so there won't be, for example, a small channel for people who like bubble tea so they can recommend restaurants or plan an outing to go get some at lunch one day.

The channels are also in a completely separate tab of the app from your chats where you spend most of your time, so people aren't aware when new conversations are happening in channels of interest to them. Unless of course you tag the channel, which gives a noisy ping to everyone in the channel, discouraging people from doing it. This is as opposed to Slack where chats and channels are all along your sidebar, so if someone is looking for help in the general dev chat or something, people in their own chats will silently see that the channel is bold, indicating there's new discussion happening there, and they might curiously click into there and see if they have anything to say.

Also while I won't argue the lack of custom emojis is some kind of productivity hindrance, they're a ton of fun and a great way to have in-jokes, either company-wide or in a small circle that help build camaraderie. At least they added most of the emojis to react a few months ago, as opposed for the 5 or so they had before.


Consider adopting an unofficial Matrix, Mattermost, Signal, or Discord room "for the express purpose of the lol's" (but also your venting about Pointy-haired boss).


Just be aware that you can't prevent your pointy-haired boss from finding out about it, or from potentially seeing the words being exchanged there.


Not parent but on pop-os, using sudo apt install zfz I got the same behavior, had to add it myself to .bashrc


Pretty much par for the course, Linux distributions don't do per user configuration of tools beyond appending to PATH or setting some essential environment variables using scripts in in /etc/profile.d/. They will most certainly not mess with login scripts.


Yeah sure, that makes sense. I'm surprised that the .deb doesn't install the stuff from `$upstream/shell` into `/usr/share/fzf` though. That's the sort of thing `/usr/share/$prog` is intended for.

Then it would just be (in bash anyway):

   source /usr/share/fzf/keybindings.bash


In debian:

  source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/completion.bash
  source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.bash


for 1) do look into the temporary containers extension.


https://sickmartian.com/trackendar/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sickmartia...

Trackendar, an habit tracking calendar app. Not currently monetized, got some initial traction, put ads which I promptly removed as they made the app look like shit and had some 'add ons' with which I made between 400-500 USD, I didn't get to see that money as getting an USD payment in Argentina was a PITA so the US has them now :/

All local data, so no cost except a lot of time learning 'old' android and constantly maintaining whatever google wants to change or deprecate + updating the date/time library with the latest TZ changes. Has more features that it needs or users want to learn to use like categories, themes, reports...


Really depends on where you are I guess, but I found no info about you in the link.. also the top right link that says how many spots are left sends me to google.


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