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Re: Firefox bad design decisions?

From VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.firefox
Subject Re: Firefox bad design decisions?
Date 2025-05-02 05:16 -0500
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Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 May 2025 14:13:49 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
> 
>>> You do it a hundred times a day. 
>> 
>> I do not, and few others do.  *YOU* do, and why it is a nuisance to you.
> 
> When you run a search for "ACME widgets", how many hits do you get?

One at a time.  Even with you clicking on dozens or hundreds of
hyperlinks, YOU can only review then one tab at a time.  You've saved
nothing by opening hundreds of hyperlinks that you only see one at a
time.  So, open one hyperlink to review if it is pertinent, then move
onto the next.

> How many of those hits do you click on to see if they're what you need?

Just one at a time.  I nor you can view hundreds of tabs at once.

> Then, how do you get rid of the hits which were not useful to your effort?

I can close the tab as I'm viewing it for when I decide it is not
pertinent.  Why would you open hundreds of hyperlinks to close them en
masse without reviewing each of them?

> I'm happy. The solution of adding the menus back where every other web
> browser that I had tested puts them is a perfect fix to the problem.

But not as efficient as 1 click on a toolbar button.  You got a solution
on how to flatten a menu, but not on minimizing the clicking that you
lamented about.

> Do you only use one web browser?
> I use plenty.

Currently I use 4: Firefox, Chrome, Brave, and Edge.  But that is during
evaluation.  I have evaluated others, too.  Eventually I'll whittle the
list down to 2: Firefox and some Chrome variant (probably Edge or
Brave).  Even then I expect differences in UI design and feature set.

> The tool bar button that I saw was clumsily off to the far right, which is
> not where every other web browser puts their right-click tab menus.

With the context menu to tabs, it moves to match wherever is the
position of the tab.  It is not a fixed location.  Any marksman will
tell you that it is harder to hit a moving target than a stationary one.

If you don't want to move the mouse around, the add-on lets you hit
Alt+W to activate it to close other tabs.  No mousing at all.

> There is tremendous efficiency in having all the browsers work the same.

Never going to happen.  If all web browsers were the same, there would
be only one web browser.  You got *one* UI change to be the same, not
the web browser to be the same as others.  As I said, Vivaldi is
probably the most configurable, so why not use that?

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Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-04-30 00:54 -0400
  Re: Firefox bad design decisions? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-30 01:00 -0500
    Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-04-30 02:24 -0400
      Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2025-04-30 07:53 +0100
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        Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-05-01 02:24 -0400
          Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-05-01 09:25 +0200
            Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-05-01 04:39 -0400
          Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-01 12:35 +0100
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              Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-05-02 17:26 +0000
                Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-05-03 04:38 -0400
                Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-05-03 19:02 +0000
                Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-05-04 02:28 -0400
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              Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-02 08:30 +0100
              Re: Firefox bad design decisions? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-05-02 05:16 -0500
                Re: Firefox bad design decisions? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-05-02 05:18 -0500
                Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-05-03 04:38 -0400
                Re: Firefox bad design decisions? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-05-03 13:05 -0500
                Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-05-04 03:46 -0400
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        Re: Firefox bad design decisions? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-05-01 16:12 +0000
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    Re: Firefox “bad” design decisions? Wolf Greenblatt <wolf@greenblatt.net> - 2025-05-01 02:39 -0400
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