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Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] qwesx@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In current versions of Firefox you hover your mouse over a non-active tab [...] to see (after a small delay) a tooltip containing the web page title.

Uh... what is the point of that? If I am looking for a specific tab then:

I probably want to switch to the tab that I am looking for, so staying on the current one is not required
if there are a few tabs from different pages from the same domain the difference might be hard to see on a thumbnail (similar page headings with logos)
and most importantly: opening the tab is faster than waiting for the delay anyway

This sounds like a "cool" feature that's looking for an actual problem to solve.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tooltips are a standard accessibility feature. Just because you may not find them helpful doesn't mean others do not benefit. The delay is to ensure they don't get in the way unintentionally (but still allow usage) for those who do not need the accessibility benefit at all times.

[–] qwesx@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the vast overwhelming amount of cases tooltips show additional information that you cannot see from clicking on something or provide an explanation to an option that isn't available without scrounging through a manual. None of those apply here.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

The page title isn't necessarily visible on the web page that sets the title.

Clicking is not always a simple task.

I shouldn't have to leave my current page just to figure out what another tab is.

Again, just because you feel something is useless or easily avoided doesn't mean that all internet users feel the same.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

hover your mouse

gross

[–] Kallioapina@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Having Cloudflare work with Firefox would be much more useful. Having horrendous problems with CF+Firefox this past month, always get stuck in the infinite captcha loop.

Cloudflare has pretty much banned me using FF as of late and it sucks ass in a bad way.

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