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177 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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Workaccount2 ◴[02 Sep 25 14:17 UTC] No.45103440[source]▶
I wonder if it addressed something practical and meaningful...like implementing a spell check that at least covers all of the English language. Maybe then they can start working on the 5 year trek to also make the spellchecker somewhat competent.

Or maybe we'll just keep packing features, because everyone here knows, features are what save products! Not usability!

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1. mrweasel ◴[02 Sep 25 14:29 UTC] No.45103595[source]▶
I should probably bug report this, but I don't even know where to start. For as long as I can remember "find" has been semi-broken.

Hit Ctrl+f to search for a word you know for sure is on a page and Firefox might not find it. You type in the first five characters and Firefox goes "Nope, can't find it", then enter character number six, and then Firefox sees it, enter another character and nope, lost it, can't find it anymore.

You look stare right at a word and find will be unable to locate it.

But yeah, there's nothing I really care about, haven't been in a while. Funny enough, given how Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix started, I just want a slimmed down browser without a ton of features. Tabs and an extension API, that's it.