coolelectronics's comments

On: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Ch...

[coolelectronics]

i do wish! firefox has web features missing that i need on a daily basis, and their developer team seems wholly uninterested on working on them at all

[martin293 → coolelectronics]

Which features do you mean?

[wruza → martin293]

I don’t know whether FF lacks these features, but I’m using:

- webpage splits

- search by image

- go to non-<a> url in bg tab

- open in new tab in a virtual sub group rather than just to the right or at the end

- tabs retain width on close until mouse goes away (helps with closing series of tabs)

- bookmarks open in new tab by default

- last tab doesn’t close the browser

- gestures and toolbar customization

That’s in Vivaldi, I probably forgot a bunch of features that feel natural but may have no FF counterpart. Tbh, looking at FF settings, there’s basically none. You can’t miss features that you never had, I guess.

[cranberryturkey → wruza]

most people don't use those it would be silly to add them to firefox unless it was an extension.

[wruza → cranberryturkey]

Half of it is ergonomics so basic, that people wouldn’t even mention as a feature.

With this reasoning you could remove tab rearrangement, open in new window and similar “most don’t use” features.

[ClassyJacket → coolelectronics]

What features?

[stavros → coolelectronics]

Like what?

On: PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Ch...

[coolelectronics]

i would always tell them to install firefox. this is mostly for developers and tech oriented people who need to keep chrome around

[stavros → coolelectronics]

If I need to keep Chrome around for development, I'm not using extensions on it, and I'm only visiting the sites I'm developing.

[ASalazarMX → stavros]

If you use things like Apple Business Manager and you're not using a Mac, it only works on Chrome.

On: Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is ...

[coolelectronics]

why? firefox performance will always be worse than blink, if only because of spidermonkey

the last thing people want from electron is a worse version of it hogging more resources

[tadfisher → coolelectronics]

I don't think SpiderMonkey is the boat anchor you claim it to be: https://arewefastyet.com/linux64/benchmarks/overview

On: Boycott Xorg. It breaks everything

[coolelectronics]

it's satire

On: Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere

[coolelectronics]

really fucking cool! good job

On: Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to ...

[coolelectronics]

the ability to make "worthless trash games" is the only reason that the indie industry can exist at all. there are huge communities around sharing small lower-effort projects (which countless well-received games started out as) and gatekeeping an engine to enterprise customers only would be a far far worse decision than what they've already done

besides, the rates only kick in after your profit reaches 200k so it wouldn't do anything

[herbst → coolelectronics]

To be fair I am not talking about small indie games with creative gaming aspect.

Go to steam, sort any 3d category by price and be amazing by the amount of reskinned unity shooters, RPGs, whatever.

On: Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookma...

[coolelectronics]

https://github.com/pixelomer/discord-fs I know this exists, don't think anyone's done the twitter thing yet