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by stephenr 5148 days ago
Explain to me how this is a good thing?
3 comments
gcp 5148 days ago
It's no longer a modal dialog. Seems like a simple GUI improvement.
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Aloisius 5148 days ago
On a Mac at least, the Preferences window is not modal. You can still interact with Firefox even though it is up. Is that not the case on other OSes?
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gcp 5148 days ago
On Windows it's modal. Dunno about the others.
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idleloops 5148 days ago
Not Modal on Nightly Linux.
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crazygringo 5148 days ago
Why does "no longer a modal dialog" = "GUI improvement"? This isn't obvious to me at all...
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gcp 5148 days ago
Because just looking at the preferences blocks everything else in Firefox? Given how important a browser is, this is quite annoying.

A trivial example is opening up preferences and then wanting to Google to figure out how to configure something. Not possible in the current design.

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mhansen 5148 days ago
It makes it easier for contributors to hack on if the code is HTML/JS/CSS.

It'll let them iterate faster - just change code and reload. No recompilation needed.

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ibotty 5147 days ago
you can search in your settings and so potentially navigate way faster.
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