in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began.

since that time, there have been various other intrinsic and extrinsic threats. I do not see much panicking about beehaw. did the threadiverse survive beehaw? or is this only a shell of what we might have had otherwise?

When I join threadiverse (summer 2023), soon everyone was talking about Threads and how it was about to destroy the whole thing.

Then nothing came of it and the whole convo kinda vanished.

Why didn't threads destroy threadiverse already?

When I Find-in-page for a term using ctrl+f or "find as you type" with "Highlight all" turned on, all results will appear highlighted. But then much of the time several seconds (variable) later it goes away, as though I had hit esc. If I hit ctrl+g for "find again" it starts again at the top. So current place in page is lost.

This happens even if I take my hands away from keyboard/mouse. It is not some kind of input I am doing.

Does this sound framiliar to anyone? Is there a way to make the "find" results stay found?

Or is there an add-on which reliably implements Find?

I have problem on multiple devices, for a long time, and with linux, windows and mac.

I just learned:

https://github.com/ogham/exa the ls replacement has been replaced by https://github.com/eza-community/eza

the exa repo says:

exa is unmaintained, use the fork eza instead.
(This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable).

For the curious, looks like the story, contributor deliberations and conversations are here: [Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa

hope everyone involved is OK & on to other projects

both projects are MIT licensed and written in rust.

I'd like a keyboard shortcut to act in the same way as the toobar button "show sidebars":

• If the sidebar is open, it hides it

• If the sidebar is closed, it opens to the last used sidebar

This page, Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly only describes how to toggle individual sidebars. History, bookmarks etc. So depending what is open you have to use unique shortcuts.

Is it possible?

I <3 FF but they are really stingy about the keyboard shortcuts.

I can't believe how fast this addon was developed into something that is super useful.

A month ago I made a list of all the available addons to address this need. There were I think 4-5 of them and I actually didn't end up using any of them because they were too simple and didn't add much for my usecase.

In the intervening days (days!) this project has really fleshed out. I am impressed that you've managed to make an interface that makes sense. I wasn't sure if that would be possible because it is kind of an inherently complex situation.

And on top of that, it works. There are issues with federation which are network wide and not much you can do about that. But as much as the threadiverse is willing to cooperate, this addon smooths the experience.

Thanks, I really appreciate this.

Im sure theyre going to find the perfect mods

Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues.
Many QOL improvements without having to install a large extension with additional functions you may not need.
I have nothing to do with this person but I was impressed so thought I would share.

dev:

• Firefox developer User Profile for igorlogius
• github: igorlogius

extensions:

1. Access URL Parts: quickly navigate to aka. access parts of the current url (breakcrumbs) , by either draggin them into the current tab context or opening them into a seperate tab
2. Auto Close Tabs: auto closes idle tabs when not active, hidden, playing audio, highlighted/selected, pinned or contain visible text input field with text in them.
3. Automate Click: This add-on can automate click actions that users might have to perform when visiting a website. For example accept or reject cookie consent messages.
4. Auto Updating Bookmarks: auto updating bookmark on navigation in the same domain, for example to read webcomics and continue from where you left off
5. Block Suspicious Downloads: Block the download of files which contain suspicious substrings like ".exe" but allows to quickly make exceptions
6. Bookmark Branch Porter: Allows to import or export a branch of the bookmark tree as json or html
7. Bookmark Router: Place bookmarks into specific folders based on url regex matches
8. Bookmark Tabs: Saves selected or all tabs into a timestamped bookmark folder for later use
9. Close All Duplicate Tabs: Shows the total amount of duplicate tabs and allows to quickly and easily close them - Leaving the oldest ones open.
10. Close All Same Origin Tabs: Shows the total amount of same origin tabs and allows to quickly and easily close them - Leave only the oldest tabs open.
11. Close Other Duplicate Tabs: Shows the amount of duplicate tabs the current tab has and allows to quickly and easily close them
12. Close Other Same Origin Tabs: Shows the amount of tabs with the same origin as the currently active tab has and allows to close the others with one click
13. Copy Image as DataURL: This add-on adds a right click menu to copy a image as a base64 data URL
14. Copy Link Extras: Adds a link context menu quickly copy a link text, a link text with url and also allows copying the url with and without parameters.
15. Copy Tabs: Copy tabs as hyperlinks or as plaintext URLs, similar to MS Edge, but actually even better since this addons supports copying mutliple tabs at the same time.
16. Dont Open Duplicate Tabs: Addon, to prevent the opening of tabs with urls, which are already opened.
17. Double Click Dictionary: Double-click any word to view its definition in a pop-up bubble Fork of the "Dictionary Anywhere" addon initally made to make it usable for android but now adds a couple of more features/improvements
18. Export Bookmarks as Text: Export all bookmarks or a branch of the bookmark tree in a text only format
19. Fix Missing Bookmark Titles: Fix Missing Bookmark Titles
20. Get Tabs Infos: Get tab information in a user defined custom format string
21. Handle With: Run external application from the Context (Right Click) Menu
22. Image Control: Simple addon, to prevents the loading of images either via a black or whitelist based on domain (aka. origins ) It can help to safe traffic on mobile connections and might even make some sites more readable.
23. Import Bookmarks from File: Quickly import all urls inside a textfile into a bookmark folder
24. Indicate Bookmarked Links: Indicate on hover if a link has already been bookmarked
25. Last Visit Search: A "history" addon which creates a searchable table gallery with thumbnail images of visited sites and some meta information
26. Limit Active Tabs: Limits the number of active tabs by unloading older tabs
27. List Feeds: Detects and lists feeds (rss, atom, json) of a page.
28. Load Background Tabs on Select: Prevents tabs which are opend in the background from loading until they have been manually activated once
29. Load Tabs Sequentially: Load multiple opened tabs sequentially
30. LocalStorage Editor: Add, edit, copy, remove, export and import localand sessionstorage data
31. Mute Unfocused Tabs: Allows to manage the mute state of a group (or all) tabs to only keep the currently focused one of the group unmuted and mute the others. Quick-Change via Toolbar Button and permanent ex/inclusion via preferences
32. Notify on Events: tiny addon that can display a notification and optinally play a sound when a download starts, completes or fails, which is a little more noticeable than the default download icon change
33. Open in Sidebar: Open links, pages, tabs or bookmarks into the sidebar.
34. Open in Temp Container: Open a tab, page, link or bookmark in a new empty temporary container that removes itself, when the last tab it contains get removed
35. Open Right Beside: Open new tabs right beside their opener (aka. parent) tab or beside the currently active tab
36. Open Tabs from Clipboard URLs: Open tabs from the content of the clipboard, allows to open large number of tabs simultanisouly, by loading them in a discarded state, meaning that they will load the content only when they get selected
37. Open Tabs from File: Reads URLs from a text file and opens them as unloaded tabs
38. Open with Selection: Open Tabs with placeholder URLs and text selection
39. Origin Lock: Lock a Tab to the currently active origin. (proto+domain+port) If a navigation in the main_frame is triggered that doesnt target the same origin, the navigation will be canceled an instead a new tab will be opened with the target url.
40. Persistent Element Remover: This addon can remove elements (annoyances) which are inserted dynamically after pageload.
41. Quick Image Print: adds a context menu entry which allows to directly open the print dialog on images
42. Quick Save / Skip Save as: Direclty save elements without having to specify the name or save path. Skips the Save as Dialog
43. Save Website as Image: Simple addon, to save the full website of one or more tab as a png image either via a click on the toolbar icon or via a custom shotcut
44. Select Same Origin Tabs: Quickly select tabs with the same origin (protocol + domain + port) in the current windows to move, close or otherwise process.
45. Select Tabs Advanced: Powerful tab selection addon with a bunch of one click options but also allow the user to create custom selection rules, based not only on tab attributes, but can also incorporate site parameters and content.
46. Send to CyberChef: Adds a context entry to send selected text to a CyberChef instance for further analysis
47. Show QRCode: Displays the active url (or any selected link or text) as a qrcode for easy sharing between devices with a qrcode scanner like mobile/smart phones and tablets. Also allows saving and copying to the clipboard for pasting in other programms
48. Side Translate: Translate selected text in the sidebar with a translation history
49. Startup Tabs: Open a set of bookmarks as tabs on browser startup by simply selecting a bookmark folder which contains them.
50. Table to CSV: Save HTML Tables, CSS Pseudo/DIV Tables or Lists (UL/OL) as a comma seperated values (CSV) file which can be opened with any spreadsheet processor (e.g. excel, libreoffice-calc,gnumeric) for further processing and conversion (e.g. to xls or ods)
51. Tabs Media Controller: Control Audio and Video Elements from all tabs from the toolbar button popup menu
52. Tab Stack: Just another tab grouping addon. Since firefox has no native support to add something like a "stacked" tab group, this is the closes i could come up with.
53. Toolbar Countdown: Shows a custom countdown in the toolbar. Well technically it only shows the most significant part. (days) at least until none are left then it gradually drops goes to hours, then minutes and finally seconds.
54. Visits Counter: Indicates how often the open website has been visited before, by showing a visited counter on the toolbar icon
55. Youtube Bookmark Cleanup: Remove Duplicate Youtube Video Bookmarks from a folder

5 and a half years ago EA held an AMA so disastrous that it was unreadable as downvotes pummelling the answering producers and directors to the ground. Back then I made an overview for r/Games.

Due to the high interest and high chance of being a shit show of similar or possibly greater proportion, here's an easily readable overview for the spez AMA.

I will edit as it goes on.