• smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    1056·
    1 year ago

    You could definitely have raised a bug report in the time it took you to make this

        • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          635·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know if Firefox is at fault. It could be Firedragon (the fork I’m using), it could be any of the desktop portals messing things up (looking at you, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk), it could be Arch Linux due to how packagers package each portal, it could be that I stepped on a landmine by switching from Sway to Hyprland - this is when the problem first occurred.

          Firedragon’s (and the Firefox flatpak’s) output doesn’t say anything, nothing stands out in their logs, same goes for both Sway and Hyprland - for all I know XDG portals don’t even have standalone logs, they just dump error messages to stdout in my experience (which, again, have not been dumped).

          I could send bug reports to everyone, and get told “this isn’t our problem, write a bug report to ${OTHER_SOFTWARE}”. But then, which logs do I provide? All of them? Sure, I can gather up logs and non-existent messages from several pieces of software, one of them being a glorified API.

          It would have taken me a good hour to find the relevant data, find the correct places to write reports to, word things in a quasi-professional manner, all for a small chance for any of the developers of something to answer something that is not a variation of “can’t help you bro, your logs are anorexic”.

          So, after reminiscing the days of writing Windows registry keys and seeing no results (by writing XDP hints all over the system AND rebooting), I took 10 minutes to vent and make a meme - NoScript was intefering with imgflip, otherwise I would have needed 3.

          I could not, in fact, definitely have raised a bug report in the time it took me to make this.

          • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
            61·
            1 year ago

            In that case you could maybe see if it works correctly for you in firefox installed via flatpak from flathub. Those are official builds and bug reports on them should go to Mozilla directly.

            It could be related to hyprland though. I think I read somewhere that one of those lightweight WMs (or whatever it really is idk sry lol) doesn’t ship a portals config file for x-d-p to exactly know which exact implementation to use. Maybe arch doesn’t have that issue though

            • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              41·
              1 year ago

              I’ve read through all the possible bug reports and forum help requests, and used the flatpak Firefox at every point I tried a solution.

              In the end I managed to solve the problem, though I’m sure it’ll pop back out at some point.

          • nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            4·
            1 year ago

            I stepped on a landmine by switching from Sway to Hyprland

            That’s 100% what it is. Changing desktop environments has almost always led to issues in my experience. If you want to use a different DE, make a new user account or reinstall the distro.

        • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          192·
          1 year ago

          As I said in another other comment to someone else, there is a quite noticeable difference in effort between typing sentences on imgflip and hunting bugs.

      • cm0002@lemmy.world
        1138·
        1 year ago

        Careful, the FF community here hates it when you point out faults in their “perfect” browser

        • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          241·
          1 year ago

          I disagree.
          Some months ago I had weird behavior with compose sequences, I went on the ff c, made a post on it, and there was a fruitfull discussion leading to pinning it on gtk doing compose sequences weirdly. No hate was experienced.

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    835·
    1 year ago

    Addendum: I reinstalled the GTK portal because I was desperate, now I can’t even use that UX abomination because who the

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    knows

    (As it turns out, the cause was a previous attempt to get xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser to work - I’m just going to sneak this edit in here and go die in a corner or something)

      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        121·
        1 year ago

        It’s not even that, I wanted to try using Ranger as the file chooser because Dolphin would freeze up if it ended up in a tmpfs mount point… which I can deal with if the only alternative is the default GTK file chooser.

  • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    1 year ago

    Had to nuke xdg-desktop-portal recently. AGAIN. Because they keep introducing a regression that causes all the GTK apps to run at a snails pace and totally ruins the desktop experience. I HATE xdg-desktop-portal. This has happened at least twice before. They can’t seem to get their shit together. I wish I could just be rid of it entirely.

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      While it is causing me a ton of headaches, I’m thankful that it gives the user a choice of desktop utilities… I just wish I didn’t have to hunt env variables and config files that may or may not be completely ignored.

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      I wasn’t planning on installing another browser (ignore the post’s title), and joining a Matrix chat for technical help is the last thing I would do due to me being socially awkward…

      I appreciate the advice though

  • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    110·
    1 year ago

    In Firefox, open a couple of tabs, snap the window to the left, now drag a tab to the right and try to snap it to the right edge.

    Now do that same thing w a chromium browser

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m mot sure what feature you’re refering to, but I’m not downloading a chromium browser until Firefox does manage to drive me insane

  • hottari@lemmy.ml
    126·
    1 year ago

    Join the Chromium monopoly it is the superior browser. Aside from not having tab containers, it beats Firefox is almost every other way.