![]() But the OS I am using right now (KDE Neon) doesn’t behave that way… so not only is their premise wrong, but it also denies me this supposedly important consistency between browser and OS. That’s why the warning about being careful is there.įinally, Mozilla claims that all OSes behave that way, so it just makes the browser behave like the OS, which they imply is an important thing. So everyone in the world has to have it permanently set to ON because there is a rare instance for a small handful of people where it misbehaves IF it is set to OFF? Would it not be better to suggest to those few people to leave the hidden pref in its default setting of ON rather than force it on for everyone? There are a lot of prefs in about:config that can mess up *fox if they are set incorrectly. Mozilla also claimed there was an edge case where Firefox would not behave correctly if the select-all was set to OFF. ![]() It’s a drop in the ocean, and a fairly straightforward one that is not likely to cause unexpected problems, so they’re just making excuses here. It’s literally one line of code, but they claimed it was removed in part to reduce the maintenance burden, when Firefox is a behemoth with 21 million lines of code. Most recently, Waterfox G6 also reintroduced the pref to disable the automatic firing of a select-all when the URL bar is clicked, which has been a pet peeve of mine ever since Mozilla removed it for rather spurious reasons. Mozilla refuses to fix this, for reasons known only to themselves, but Waterfox from Hawkeye has it covered. The Waterfox builds from the Linux repos run by Hawkeye/Venghan (also one of the mods in the Waterfox Reddit channel) also contain the OpenSUSE patches to integrate well with KDE Plasma. Waterfox G also has the rather interesting feature of allowing the use of Chrome and Opera addons alongside the Firefox ones. It gives the user the opportunity to place the tab bar below the URL bar, which was the way Firefox was prior to the “let’s copy Chrome” era began.While I did these with Aris’ stylesheets, having it native is much more appealing, and I won’t have to keep redownloading, reinstalling, and reconfiguring the Aris stylesheets each time Firefox changes and breaks something else. Waterfox-G has a native status bar, like the one Firefox had long ago. It works quite well, but if you were to say it’s kinda hacky… well, yes, but that’s on Mozilla for unceremoniously ripping out so many features. Specifically, it repurposes the bookmarks toolbar as a status bar, and if bookmarks toolbar functionality is needed, it adds that function to the bottom of the URL bar. After Waterfox Classic ceased to be usable on a number of sites, I switched back to Firefox proper, for which I used Aris-T2’s outstanding custom CSS (stylesheets) to reconfigure the browser UI. ![]() I have been using Waterfox G for a while now.
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