I’ll start: Opening new tabs all the way to the right or bottom, rather than next to the current tab. Its especially disorienting on vertical tabs, I lose track of which (I changed the setting but its still annoying on blank Firefox profiles).
everything i disable are what makes Firefox money lol… like sponsored search and stories
The default search engine!
Ok it does make sense Firefox gets a ton of money from it but it still sucks. Come use our private search engine and escape from google, actually google is our default search engine there is no escaping (manacle laughter!)
Also I believe betterfox + ublock origin should be the default Firefox config. I have used betterfox for nearly 2 years now and I have NEVER had any issues with websites breaking.
“Multi-account containers” is an extension built by Firefox themselves, but you need to install it manually. It allows you to open tabs that are effectively separate “profiles” so that you can sign into sites with different accounts. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
Oh this is kinda cool honestly
There’s also ‘Temporary Containers’ that builds on the ‘multi-account containers’ to make essentially incognito tabs that are tabs instead of a window, can create several separate incognito tabs at once, and remain there after restarting the browser. (And can be converted into a permanent container.)
At one point I had a long-running incognito session on YouTube in these tabs to listen to some old music and not pollute the recommendations on my main account. Containers are dope as hell.
I hate that vertical tabs and horizontal seem to have their own order in relation to one another and yeah I constantly am annoyed i hve to grab a plugin or mess with settings to make new tabs appear to the right of the one im on.
- Making people opt-out of AI in Preferences, AI Controls (and using a double negative there), instead of having people install the AI stuff as extensions.
- Not recommending uBlock Origin at about:addons
- Having “Search for text when your start typing” disabled in Preferences, General, Browsing.
- Making people opt-out of all the garbage ads in Preferences, Home.
- Making people opt-out of “Show search terms in the address bar on results pages” in Preferences, Search. Jesus fucking Christ, UX rules 1-4 are do no mess with links, Back, Forward, or the address bar.
- Not including the NoAI or the Lite versions of DuckDuckGo in Preferences, Search.
Anyone know why LibreWolf isn’t in Debian repos? I know there’s a Flatpak, but I don’t know if it can be trusted since mintinstall says it’s by an “Unknown maintainer”.
Making people opt-out of AI in Preferences, AI Controls (and using a double negative there), instead of having people install the AI stuff as extensions.
They have to default “AI” into it, otherwise nobody would use it. e.g. Copilot. If it was good they wouldn’t have to force it.
I’d just check their website: https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/
Moving 2-3 (?) fingers on your touchpad to the left or right will get you to load the previous/next page.
Easy to do accidentally, no discoverability except in situations where you do it accidentally and get annoyed by it.
this is not just a firefox thing. im not a big fan of gestures.
That closing the last tab closes the window instead of leaving you with a blank tab. And that there is not even an option in the UI to change this, and you have to go to
about:config->browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab.TIL
Any and all AI shite enabled by default rather than the opposite with a prompt asking me if I want to enable it
There’s a toggle to disable all of it with a single click, why do I need to go fishing for it?
And why isn’t it extensions?
Who exactly do they think are the 2-4% of people who use Firefox? How big is the intersection of Firefox users, and users who want to use LLMs but don’t want to gargle Microsoft AI or Gemini integrated Chrome?
You can get an idea what interests the users here, on the platform made to collectively request features.
#3: Put the AI stuff into an optional add-on
#6: integrate Ublock Origin directly into Firefox
#8: Firefox ad-blocking in iOS FirefoxThe top rated extensions asking for AI have lower ratings, the biggest one came after AI was already integrated and was just a request to make it easier to get, and they’ve all been fulfilled… despite being much more recent than larger more popular requests
They’re doing it to try to gain market share. Anyone who wants to see those features aren’t going to install an addon for that.
The main toggle disabled translation, which apparently uses local AI. I don’t like that …
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Ctrl+Q closes Firefox (very easy to misinput due to being so close to Ctrl+W):
browser.quitShortcut.disabled = trueOh my god, one time I wrote a really long reddit post but lost it because I accidentally pressed CMD Q instead of W. This would’ve save my ass A LOT.
Now I use nix home manager to declare and auto-apply firefox config settings, I just added this one.
I dont find this an issue for me. And even if it was my firefox asks for confirmation before quitting for me.
I have no issues with ctrl Q. But for some reason cmd Q I hit all the time on accident on Macs.
Well I just a mac mostly as well and it’s not an issue… But yeah as the other guy stated turn on the prompt.
If you search up “closing” in settings there is a section that allows you to enable it.
Cmd+Q is the universal Exit command in Mac! Hopefully you add a prompt on exit to prevent losing your work.
Just now realizing I blocked them all out of my mind immediately after setting them
You know how many times I’ve tapped “bookmark this page” or the “tabs” button instead of the “Saved Bookmarks” button that I’m trying to hit?
Or the fact that I can’t open a bookmark from a “new” tab on mobile, I have to navigate to a random site first before I can access them (unless it’s a “pinned favorite” too).
I press share so often and I dont ever want to share anything like that. If I want to share its a link copy and paste.
There’s an extension for opening tabs next to the current tab, I forget what its name is
I uncheck “Show search suggestions before browsing history in address bar results” under the Search settings. I almost always want to visit a site that I’ve visited before, and disabling this setting makes it so much easier to do that. I think it would make most users’ experience much better, so I have no idea why it’s enabled by default.
Ctrl-Tab going to the next tab instead of the last used one.
For me it’s preferred the default way. I have plenty of tabs open, often switch between multiple of them and when I tried to use “switch to last used” I got confused almost instantly. I just kept losing track of where I was and what I wanted and what will be “last one” next time.
The default way I always see tab bar and know exactly where ctrl+(shift+)tab will get me and what is next/last.
It works just like Alt-Tab though. Are you sure it’s not just a getting used to it thing? Besides, you still have Ctrl-PgDn for next tab.
Ctrl page down is hard to hit. Either it’s two hands, or stretching your hand out. At least on my ThinkPad that’s not as bad.
Ever since windows switched to grouped windows I preferred alt tab being the last window. But when the tab is written out and not grouped? Yeah I want ctrl tab to go to the tab to the right.
I didn’t know about ctrl+pgdn, but even if I did, it’s impossible to do it left handed without lifting right hand from mouse or left hand from usual placement.
As far as OS goes, I barely ever use alt+tab. I almost completely switched to Meta+ number keys where I have pinned windows I use the most. Alternatively I do meta+tab to show KDE overview.
You can also use Ctrl-1 to 8 if you don’t have a lot of tabs open, that does work with the left hand. Point is, there are tons of ways to switch to next/previous tabs, both with the keyboard and with the mouse, but the only way to switch to the last used tab is disabled by default. Even though it’s much more intuitive IMHO because it aligns with the way most OSes switch between applications. I frequently switch between a few tabs and a few apps, so I use both Ctrl-Tab and Alt-Tab a lot on multiple OSes. If this had been the default from the start I believe everyone would just be used to it and find it logical.
Annoying as this may be for a subset of users, the option to enable it is nice. Forks inherit the capability. On Chrome and forks, this needs to be hacked around with an extension, or offered on a heavily customized (and usually just heavy) alternative like the closed-source Vivaldi.
Of course! Having it configurable is much better than not having it at all. In the really old days you needed an add-on for it in Firefox too, but luckily it’s been an option for ages now.
The huge title bar in windows. The 1s black screen when maximizing-minimizing a youtube video.
