Firefox 🦊: Interesting Changes and Pet Bugs

List of interesting changes in my favorite browser and pet bug list:

Open

• 2000-04-05 #34572: Use native context menus on Mac OS
  • Native integration into the different OSs Firefox runs on is the basis for user adoption. Otherwise you will feel like a cowboy showing up at a pyjama party: that is both inappropriate and shows a lack of care to detail. In its current form this results in context menus showing up in light mode, despite the user running dark mode.
  • Another major UX problem is, that Firefox is the only browser I know of which does not show the native macOS Services menu. While this may sound like a detail, it actually makes Firefox stick out like a red hering. Lets see if the fixes around the new Proton UI planned for version 89 will fix this.
• 2011-05-28 #660452: Firefox’s context menus do not include a macOS services submenu
  • Indeed Firefox is one of the very few apps failing at integrating the native macOS services menu in its context menu. There are various overlapping bug reports.
    • 2001-10-12 #104331: Add items to Services menu on Mac OS X
    • 2011-07-09 #670457: [META] Mac: text areas and text fields: contextual menu: add Substitutions, Transformations, and Services items
    • 2016-06-07 #1284890: Mac: text areas and text fields: contextual menu: add Services
    • 2017-01-05 #1328994: Services menu in MacOSX shows “no services apply”

Fixed

• 2004-09-15: #259640: Find Toolbar’s highlight mode should show matches next to or on top of scrollbar
  • Really great feature that you will not accept not having in a browser. Once you have used it you will not want to use a browser without it. If you search any term, this feature adds a mark to your scrollbar at the location where a search result is found. This is insanely useful and speeds up work tremendously. Kudos to Mozilla for finally tackling this 17 year old bug
  • Sadly this is not yet fully working on macOS, this will require someone (TM) to file some followup issues