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  • This is a pretty dumb question - I would always expect a double-click to fullscreen, and a single click to pause/play on any video in any video player.

    The decision was probably made many years ago for the very simple reason that clicking specific targets is much more difficult, so enabling people to use scroll wheel and mouse buttons to do things is a very efficient method of control.






  • I was under the impression that ALL websites are basically a kind of webapp. Some (like Lazada) are what you’d call ‘Progressive Web Applications’.

    I use Webapp-Manager on Linux, which will set up a shortcut to launch any website/url as a Webapp… at the time of creation, you can choose Firefox or some other browser as the backend (works well for sites that dont work in Firefox).

    So for me, the BBC Radio website is a webapp, Overseerr and Sonarr are webapps too.






  • Ben@lemmy.worldtoFirefox@lemmy.worldTHE ONE THING that I hate about Firefox.
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    7 months ago

    That’s a Linux (and similar) issue. When Linux updates via it’s package managers it will update Firefox in the background even though it’s open.

    This is fundamentally wrong. If you are using Firefox on Linux, you would not update at a time when you’re working - because you KNOW that you have to restart it.

    It is considered a ‘User Error’ if they update their system and then complain later that they’re unhappy that they suddenly need to restart something.



  • Ben@lemmy.worldtoFirefox@lemmy.worldTHE ONE THING that I hate about Firefox.
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    7 months ago

    This is a completely ridiculous post.

    To compare spyware Chrome with Firefox is also a sign that there’s something lacking in this thinking processes…

    It seems very obvious to me that this cannot happen unless you specifically choose to update Firefox. Perhaps you have issues with your operating system and don’t understand what you’re doing?

    Windows users usually complain about having a ton of services running in the background, so I’d vote that you’ve opted to allow Firefox to run as a service, so even if you close the browser it’s still running there - and probably set to update automatically too.

    After updating, then you have to restart it, and there aren’t ‘all the logins and 2FA’ unless you chose to do that. After I restart Firefox, my session is returned to me - without ‘all the logins and 2FA’ because I didn’t set stupid protection to make it forget everything and log out of everything when it gets restarted.

    When I update the system, I do it when I’m not busy working - and that means I choose when to update Firefox.

    So it cannot interrupt me without MY permission. Then again, I wouldn’t enable any unattended or automatic updates, my updates are checked when I say they should be, they can be automatically downloaded in the background, but NOTHING gets executed unless I allow it.

    I suggest you learn to get a grip and learn to use your computer - or sit back and play patsy and allow the software giants completely control your life while you sit back whinging.


  • I was watching an interesting debate at Oxford University the other day - they pointed out that in countries where Religion is taken more seriously, the people are less happy and more corrupt.

    The best countries, Eurpean countries with great social care and low unemployment, are countries where religion dies out - people don’t care because they’re happy.

    USA is very special, the MOST religious (except for our famous Middle Eastern Muslim and Jewish countries) and the MOST violent (same exceptions).

    When Religion is high on the agenda, you know it means there’s a ton of trouble… and with the USA, the leader of the country is effectively the leader of the Religion also.