Prologue

You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.

  • 1984
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s still innovative, and the only browser with total cookie protection and a large amount of other anti-tracking measures.

    In the nightly, they are working on allowing the user to get rid of all the “click accept for cookies” once and for all.

    It has much better plugins, much better ad blocking etc.

    What does chrome have?

    • 127001@fedia.io
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah the article is specific to a recent change. FF browser is still awesome

  • yoasif@fedia.ioOPM
    1·
    1 year ago

    Update to the bug I filed that was introduced in Firefox 116 - apparently, it isn’t a bug:

    I don’t think this is a bug, its a side effect of the behavior for the ctrl|cmd + shift + T shortcut changing in 116 to reopen the last closed tab or window, in the order closed.

    Technically, you closed a window when you dragged the tab out to a window, and then back to the original window. The exact same behavior happens if you use repeat those steps and use the ctrl|cmd + shift + N shortcut to reopen the last closed window.

    There’s an open needinfo for the author of the regressor, so I don’t have much of a comment, but… it is very clearly a bug and very clearly a regression - Chrome doesn’t do this (and actually has the newly claimed Firefox behavior) – and neither did Firefox before it regressed.