[HN Gopher] 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
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       17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
        
       Author : abridgett
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2021-02-24 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
        
       | clankyclanker wrote:
       | Good on them for actually tracking this feature request for over
       | a decade and not just closing it after three weeks for "lack of
       | interest."
       | 
       | Looking at you, every random GitHub project ever.
        
         | leppr wrote:
         | Having a revenue stream helps.
        
       | clarifier123 wrote:
       | Wow, that's a feature that I've been really missing since I
       | switched to Firefox from Opera.
        
       | brundolf wrote:
       | Wow, finally
        
       | dragosmocrii wrote:
       | If you're like me, and read the comments first, this change is
       | about giving feedback on the scrollbar for a search. In other
       | words, when you search for something, the scrollbar will give an
       | idea how many results there are, and where on the page rhey are
       | located.
       | 
       | On another note, the comment uses IntelliJ as an example. Wow,
       | that was 17 years ago! Happy to see my favorite editor be around
       | for so long.
        
         | smitty1e wrote:
         | > 17 years ago
         | 
         | "Nearly half my age," said Emacs.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | w-m wrote:
       | Not to get too greedy, but maybe do the 21 year old "Use native
       | context menus on Mac OS" next?
       | 
       | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
        
         | pseudalopex wrote:
         | Why is jira.mozilla.com private?
        
           | forgotmypw17 wrote:
           | Also, why is there a jira.mozilla.com at all, and why is
           | there a jira.mozilla.COM?
        
           | [deleted]
        
         | flukus wrote:
         | Maybe just do native UI's completely, especially now dropping
         | XUL has broken everything.
        
         | cle wrote:
         | Looks like it's in progress. Also native "rubberband" scrolling
         | in macOS is in progress as well. Excellent!
        
       | batisteo wrote:
       | I'd look for a ticket about the poor contrast of matches, either
       | green or magenta.
        
       | cassepipe wrote:
       | Fantastic. There's hope. (Greed incoming beware). What about
       | WebMIDI support for music web apps like Pianojacq?
        
       | nonbirithm wrote:
       | Obligatory dogpile, but I'm hoping for the day you can disable
       | Ctrl-Q to prevent accidentally closing the browser with a single
       | keystroke. It's impossible to do on Linux.
        
         | IshKebab wrote:
         | Yeah Chrome's "hold to quit" feature is genius. I wish VSCode
         | had it too.
        
         | scotu wrote:
         | I'm on mac, but I used to have the same problem also in other
         | apps: I use a system wide app that makes you long press cmd-Q
         | to quit any app (with an allow/block list): "SlowQuitApp". Just
         | in case you never thought to try to find something similar
         | (assuming ctrl-q is a common shortcut in linux, I forgot)
        
         | smartbit wrote:
         | On Fedora Chrome disables Ctrl+Q and Chrome can only be closed
         | by going through the menu. Maybe Chromium implements it too,
         | then you could find out the trick in the source.
        
         | graton wrote:
         | That has bit me so many times. Especially since Q is right next
         | to W. Trying to close a tab with Ctrl-W and accidentally hit Q
         | :(
        
         | FreeFull wrote:
         | It's partially fixed now, it'll show the "Quit and Close Tabs"
         | dialogue now if you check "Warn you when quitting the browser"
         | in the preferences.
        
         | nfoz wrote:
         | IMO this should be a feature of the window-manager, not the
         | application. But that requires a change in the interface
         | between window-managers and applications, to allow the window-
         | managers to be more heavy-handed. Which I've wanted for a very
         | long time.
        
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