froh42

@froh42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Scripting - creating cross page macros, like you now can do with puppeteer etc. Have simple basic programming capabilities. Stuff like that now shows up with “AI” agentic browsers, but that’s too. much. I just want to set up macros, like “go to my timesheet page, click start, enter current time”. On a “Autohotkey for the web” level. (Power users instead of developers)

  Tab management - I’m working a lot with jira and other “wonderful” software. What would be nice would be showing multiple tabs at once (like opening several browser windows) , also maybe automatically creating a conceptual “tree” in the tab overview. That would require some configuration (on top of what normal vertical tabs do). For example confluence has a implicit tree, why shouldn’t the tab overview in the browser track that. A lot of web sites are ordered hierarchically. The only tab hierarchichy we currently have in the browser is a “i opened tab b from tab a” hierarchy

  History search - not using it is proof it doesn’t fulfill a desire. “Damn I recently was on a site that talked about how the confabulator works without causing wobbles in the swingmode arm” Trying to find that after you did open a few hundred other pages sucks. It would be nice to have positive and negative search terms, have a “near” operator etc. So that would be a full text search engine (which already exists) about pages I have seen in the past.

  Granular permissions: I only allow a page to enumerate the fonts it needs to use, not all of them so it can calculate a hash. I want to forbid it from accessing certain domains (Adblockers can currently do that) etc. You may/may not play video. The permission system is in place, but too coarse.

  And yes there are privacy containers, but not in a really helpful manner yet. They’d need to integrate with the above permissions, for example so I can put a web page into a jail of its own.

  All these aren’t well thought out features, rather I pulled them out of my butt. Still I feel there’s close to no innovation on the usability of a browser and we could need that. We still have the same interaction model as in the 90s with Mosaic - and while (of course) not every idea would work out in a good way, some things would be worth following up on. I’d expect that out of an organization like Mozilla (less so out of commercial browser vendors).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Progressive Web Apps Modern Tab Management Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”) Improved History Search Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting) Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)

  that’s just the first that I can think about in the first 30 seconds

  Interestingly other than what you say, under the hood improvements still benefit the user, but Mozilla axed the Servo Engine (fortunately that project is still alive, now outside of Mozilla). I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.

  I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.

  But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany to create ‘super–high-tech ministry’ for research, technology, and aerospace⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No it is the Superhochtechnologieministerium. Use the right wording, dammit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eww you have a random rotating 6 digit code to connect with your wife? Those are easily guessable.

  My wife and I have just agreed that we don’t properly authorize, so we will always refuse the connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hungry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The basic idea is not letting anyone nuke anyone else by making the consequences really really absurd.

  The doomsday machine isn’t for winning wars, it is for avoiding them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 80s there was a way to cheat phone booths in Germany: With a small tool that had an adjustment screw you could position the hook switch to an exact position where the phone booth had already connected the line but did not yet power up the rest of the machinery (including coin counters)

  You could then call arbitrary nunbers by pulse dialing using the hook switch (the rotary dial was still powered down)

  Basically a EU pulse dial version of phreaking.

  My father, who died this year, used this a lot too make “free” calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still hear every sound including the error at the end...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my, that dad is young. The bwong bwong bwong came later with the faster transmission speeds.