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by autoexec 105 days ago
How about Firefox just not fill their context menu with bullshit bloat and ads for shit nobody asked for like google lens and make it fully/easily customizable so that most users are happy and power users can add whatever they want.

It's pretty damn easy to make everyone happy.
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OkayPhysicist 105 days ago
It literally already is fully customizable. between userChrome, about:config, and extensions, you can do literally anything you like to your right click menu on Firefox.
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autoexec 105 days ago
I'd argue that you shouldn't need third party add-ons plus modifications to both userChrome and about:config to do it, so it could be easier. A "Customize Context Menu" under Edit would be nice and easy for even regular users to discover and take advantage of.
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sfink 105 days ago
Why is my Edit menu so long? What is this "Customize Context Menu" thing that I never use, or will use at most once a year?

Just kidding, but it does illustrate that there's always a tradeoff with these things. (I would like to have the ability to customize the context menu too, fwiw, though it's not as straightforward as the other customizable bits of UI since the context menu is, well, contextual.)

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grayhatter 105 days ago
about:config where you need a search engine to find all the key strings does not count as easy in this context. And it's unreasonable to pretend it is.
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john_strinlai 105 days ago
>makes it fully/easily customizable so that most users are happy [...] It's pretty damn easy to make everyone happy.

considering that it is already fully customizable, yet you are still complaining about it, i dont think so

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autoexec 105 days ago
> How about Firefox just not fill their context menu with bullshit bloat and ads for shit nobody asked for like google lens and [...] It's pretty damn easy to make everyone happy
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john_strinlai 105 days ago
>shit nobody asked for

i use (or have used) most of them. other people in this thread have said they used all of them at one point or another.

just because you dont use it does not make it "bullshit bloat and ads for shit nobody asked for". thats why you have the option to remove them :)

whats the next complaint?

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autoexec 105 days ago
That's why https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-lens-s... exists. Google lens is exactly the kind of thing add-ons are for. Some people might like it, they should be able to install it, but it doesn't belong in the browser by default.

This is the same mistake they made with Pocket and I'm guessing it was done for the same reason (money) since they went with a Google product and not Bing Visual Search or for that matter letting users configure what service they'd like to use for image searches. This was pure bloat. It's no different from Windows adding candy crush to the desktop by default where the same argument "Some people play it and it can be removed!" does nothing to change what it is: bloat that nobody asked for.

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