Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 24, 2016 15:53 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: Firefox and cookie micromanagement

> The functionality was "unmaintained, bogus and not really nice to use on today's Web," he said.

Maybe they should take a look at Chrome's workflow for cookies (which they also use for Javascript); it has all the functionality one would expect from a browser that respects its users' privacy (and their right to not be forced to execute arbitrary code while web browsing).

After all, Google isn't an enemy or an evil thing, we should stop saying 'copying 20 more UI elements from Chrome each release is wrong...' — nothing wrong with that, it's just a better browser. ;)

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 27, 2016 15:40 UTC (Sun) by Seegras (guest, #20463) [Link] (6 responses)

It's not "a better browser" until fucking Chrome starts honouring the X selection paste.

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 27, 2016 17:30 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (5 responses)

Now I'm curious... what's it doing wrong? I've dumped other software over similar problems so I'd want to know if it was doing something stupid.

Also that tone is uncalled for. Chromium devs are *nothing* like the rockstar stereotypes of some “too big to fail” FOSS projects — if you could put forward your complaint in a reasonable way on their issue tracker they're likely to *fix* it; they certainly don't respond to anyone contributing their free time with the sheer rudeness I've witnessed elsewhere.

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 29, 2016 19:27 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

For a time, after Aura became on by default on Linux, middle-button paste was indeed broken: see e.g. <https://crbug.com/319011>. It was fixed literally years ago.

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 29, 2016 21:05 UTC (Tue) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (3 responses)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11612

Chromium was completely missing open-url-from-primary-selection-on-middle-click functionality. After some discussion they've implemented it when middle-clicking on ”new tab” button. It's half the fix – paste target was reduced from whole page into small button.

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 30, 2016 17:49 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm slightly irked that middle click does *nothing* on ambient page content in Chromium, but I've used scroll wheels for long enough to know I don't want it to behave like a misclick in a shell window. It's one of the antifeatures I immediately turn off in other *nix browsers.

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Apr 1, 2016 20:28 UTC (Fri) by lsl (subscriber, #86508) [Link] (1 responses)

You should probably get a decent mouse that doesn't confuse the scroll wheel with the paste button. Unfortunately, those can be a bit hard (or expensive) to get these days. Still, worth every penny IMHO.

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Apr 3, 2016 20:01 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Well now that you mention it, I could swap mouse3 with the mouse4/5 side buttons on this one... but browsers hardcode *those* to unload-this-page actions too. Maybe I'd be better off with a USB touchpad.