Firefox community things [HELP]

https://lemy.lol/post/24667681 Firefox pwa isn't working

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Hey now, they'll build native features if it's something no one wants (Pocket).
- I legitimately do not get pocket. It's just rebranded bookmarks
  
  But haven't you ever wanted the opportunity to pay for bookmarks? Now you can!
  
  It was cool in 2010 when I was like 14 and had an iPod touch but didn't have wireless Internet access at home because my parents didn't understand the concept of a router and thought they would have to pay for it, plus christian concern over porn and corruption on the net. So I could go to like McDonalds or whatever, download all of these game review articles, web novels, and whatever else I was into at the time so that when I got back home I could still interact with the web.
  Nowadays, yeah I don't really get the point. Everyone's permanently plugged in so a regular bookmark is fine. Also in case anyone was concerned, my buddy eventually gave me his old router and I secretly set up WiFi in my house so I was good for the rest of the time I lived at home 👍
  
  Have never used it, but doesn't it download the whole article? So if source becomes unavailable, you still get an archived copy similar to other services like archive.org.
- I use it to sync long from journalism articles to my Kobo. It’s perfect for it.

Gnome*
- Yeah at least firefox without extensions is good :P
  
  Without uBlock Origin? Not really. Not Firefox's fault, the internet just transformed into a massive ad-infested shithole, but still, it's unusable without an adblocker.
- Haha gnome too
  
  I can't live without dash-to-dock extension.

Point out something that could be improved
Be told to just download an extension to fix the issue
Understand why regular people don't use Firefox
- To be fair you can have the browser with just features you want and nothing else that other people want that you don't need
- Chrome simps unite!
  People don't use Firefox because of trends, not because it's somehow inferior. Yeah, no one gives a shit about your extremely weird tab preferences
  
  We don't use it on the computer we share because profiles work like crap, when I posted about it there were a couple of people saying "Yep, Chrome's implementation is much better" and a lot of people saying "Just use this extremely convoluted way of half fixing the issue you have with it"
- example?

What are some examples of features rhat should be native but aren't?
I use a couple extensions but nothing that I think should be in the core browser.
- I think container tabs, which is currently an official Mozilla extension, should be native.
  
  It is native, isn't it?
- More UI customizations? A few simple settings could go a long way.
- Ublock origin
- Open urls in a container, by ñrepending them with something. Like, say I have 3 gmail accounts. Work, personal, and purchases. With official multiaccount containers I can either have gmail always open on one or manually open it on one.
  I have an extension where I can put something like "ext+container=Work&https://gmail.com" on my homepage and everything opens where it should.
  
  This is a great idea, and would make the issue with some extensions not being able to save tabs that are in containers moot.
  One could define a meta-url concept that holds the web URL as well as any additional tab context, this then could remove the need for extension to manage their own arbitrary per-tab store.
- A good way to visualize large numbers of tabs (like with tree or panorama tabs), an ad blocker (Mozilla is supposedly privacy-focused but doesn't have this), and a way to group tabs without having them in containers.
  
  Who are you people with more than like 10 tabs open at once? Do you guys just not close something after you're done reading it?
  
  They get money from Google, Google makes money from ads, if they start blocking ads, Google would probably end their deal with Mozilla

Hahaha python
They don’t even have math in the base language, you have to import numpy to do basically anything.
- Not many languages let you do advanced math with their base, usually libraries do the heavy lifting and in numpy's case it isn't even written in python.
- Do you never import math?
- Go parse JSON with standard library C++. Hahaha
  
  I'll start
  include regex.h

What's wrong with using extensions? Are you sad that your phone doesn't have features and you need to use the app store?
- Nah. That's why I use an android. Extensions go burrr on android firefox.
- I swapped back to Firefox a couple of months ago. I am of the opinion that all browsers ought use the same engine, but Google shouldn't be given more of a chokehole on the web than they already have. It's troubling enough as it is.
  That said, Firefox not supporting basic things like selectively turning off JS for websites, or vertical tabs without using wonky and inelegant third party extensions (and ui-chrome editing!) is honestly ridiculous.

Better tab management, workspaces and split-screen

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