As an addition to the translation tool (context menu in Firefox) it would be nice to have a conversion tool for the conversion of temperatures and lengths. I know there are addons for this purpose, but last time i checked they weren't good or they were a hassle to use. Opera nailed it a few years ago with a little pop-up window when text got highlighted. It recognized when it was a SI unit. This is a feature that I have not seen in any other browser yet.
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I want browsers to not choke and die whenever you idle on a video for too long. I've noticed this with Chrome and Firefox both. If I leave a YouTube video on idle for longer than a half hour and I come back to it, I gotta refresh or sometimes copy the link, open a new tab, paste it there and go to the video to resume. Sometimes it doesn't even resume where I left off, gotta start from the beginning.
It's aggravating.
In part that's on YouTube and their bandwidth saving measures.
I wanted to make coffee. Not a coffee maker that has a web browser - a web browser that can make coffee.
Extension on HTTP 418 I'm a Teapot
"Would you like some cookies with your coffee?"
I want the old animated Netscape logo in the corner back
Them were't dairz
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Iโm still looking for the browser with the best tab design and management (sync across devices being a requirement). Arc was pretty good in this regard, but the AI stuff was too obnoxious for me. Now Iโm back to Safari.
Dark theme and accessible color contrast enforced by default.
If the site owner makes stupid choices, my browser should ignore them.
Edit: And an automatic switch to light theme if I decode to print something, obviously. I wasn't raised in a barn.
On android...Firefox refreshes the page any time you go to another tab or app and come back. That drives me batshit.
It rather sounds like too little free RAM or too agressive RAM management (frequent on Chinese phones) forcing Firefox to kill the tab as soon as you leave it.
Can confirm it's not a thing that's happening on my pixel and hasn't happened on any of my android phones so far.
For my own use RAM management shouldn't be a thing, i want all my apps to either stay loaded or just crash completely.
Blacklist-based ad blocking.
I don't mind ads when they're reasonable. If it helps fund your website at all, advertise away. But when there's a sticky banner plus an autoplay video ad reducing my mobile viewport to a ridiculous degree, and the X buttons are too small to click and ad loading completely breaks the search bar until it's done (hi fandom wiki) I want to be able to say "fuck these ads in particular"
Personally, I'd be happy with a web browser that doesn't make me jump through hoops to access a HTTPS site with certificate errors on a local IP address.
I don't care if 192.168.1.1 is using a self-signed certificate. I just want to configure my fucking router.
I want regex find. I'm fairly certain firefox used to have it, but no longer seems to.
I have a vague memory of this but it might have been an extension.
I'd like to be able to link a web app and its mobile app (lemmy.world and Jerboa for example). And to set a limit to the amount of time I spend on the pair. And have that sync across all my devices.
that's interesting, I'm not sure I understand the idea, do you want the browser to monitor the mobile app time usage ( Jerboa ), I'm i correct ?
I spend too much time on Lemmy. And I do use an app timer on my phone. I need the website to take away from that same timer as well. When I use the website on my phone and on my laptop. I'm happy to make this clearer.
- Tab-organisation features (e.g. stacking, trees)
- Synchronised history - so you can find something you were looking at on your phone on your desktop or vice-versa
- Containers (Firefox) are great
- Full-page screenshot (Firefox) is very handy
Synchronized favorites is pretty nice too.
About synchronization, one i've never seen is tabs, being able to open any tabs on one device to another. Maybe the clipboard could also be useful to share link/text to another device...
Containers?
'Multi-Account Containers': https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
With it, you can open tabs in different 'containers', which have their own set of cookies, etc.. So, for example, you can be logged into two accounts for the same website, just in different containers, or keep all your shopping accounts in one container (and set those sites to always open in that container) to reduce tracking and targeting.
Ah. Interesting. For work I log in to a bunch of AWS accounts and I'm only able to do two at a time. One in a normal window and another in a private window. But I can't open a 3rd private window. So this will be the answer, I think.
Thank you!
Data saving option for mobile netwerk , and website's RSS feed finder , webpage translation too .... As for what I don't want to see : big installation size , ugly design and tracking
website's RSS feed finder
On Firefox, the RSSHubRadar extension is useful for that.
The feature being available by default in browsers would be cool
background/defocused tabs are 'paused' by default.
paused meaning no runtime execution of scripts or anything else.
firstly, there's always some security and plenty of privacy mischief around focus.
secondly, it's almost always wasting cycles, so its just wasteful of resources and energy.
ofc with some option for you to eg. right-click on a tab and mark it as 'runtime in background' or something, for webmail or messengers etc which you do want runtime.
but it should essentially be whitelisted.
i've actually played with this in the firefox debugger and it essentially appears feasible so really hope this feature comes oneday - or i finally get some time to look into making an addon for it.
firstly, there's always some security and plenty of privacy mischief around focus.
Oh, how so?
i've actually played with this in the firefox debugger and it essentially appears feasible so really hope this feature comes oneday - or i finally get some time to look into making an addon for it
that's cool, yes a browser should stop using resources when you stop using it ( minimize it ), or using that particular tab by making it inactive, chromium based browsers behave like that if I'm not mistaken
how so?
check here for some basic examples. eg. it can be used to leak info from one context to another.
there's ofc legit uses for it too, which is why i argue for user intervention.
chromium based browsers behave like that if Iโm not mistaken
i may be wrong? but my understanding is they'll currently limit resources, but execution still takes place? that's definitely useful, but my argument is for for an option where CPU resources be limited to 0 in background (without user intervention).
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