Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by brlewis | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

brlewis

>Chromecast support was one thing keeping me from dropping Chrome entirely

For me it's that and the printing UX. I use a printer almost every week and often open Chrome just for that purpose.

View on HN

For me, it's Google Translate integration.

Did you try extensions and not like them? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=firefox+t...

This is not quite as convenient, but if you have DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, you can put !translate at the beginning of the URL and it will redirect you.

If you don't want to use a third party, open the large version of the Firefox bookmarks manager (ctrl+shift+b) and make a new bookmark with URL https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto... and keyword "translate". Then you can just put the word "translate" before a URL and it will take you to Google Translate directly.

That's funny.

I print a lot, and I hate how Chrome does it. I use Safari (not Firefox) though.

What do you like about it?

Chrome shows me a preview of what's going to be printed and lets me fit to page or scale. Firefox gives a print dialog that doesn't even have a preview button.

In Firefox, if you select "Print..." from the hamburger-menu (not Ctrl+P), you get an interface similar to the one in Chrome. Not sure why it's not the default. (Or File -> Print Preview)

Thank you! User of FF since ever, never used that menu item, looks very very good with the preview.

Wtf! It never crossed my mind that that "Print" might be different from the "Print" in the File menu, or the "Print" triggered by "Ctrl-P". Why?!

I honestly think that UI was pulled from microsoft word/office. It's been about a decade since I've used microsoft products so I'm willing to be wrong, but my understanding was that the print button was a shortcut to print document now, and the file print would take you to a print dialog

That's exactly right. Ctrl+P or clicking the button in the toolbar has always been a "quick print" dialog, while going File->Print brings up all the options. I remember some applications skipping the dialog altogether on the second click and using the settings from your last print session.

But that's not what Firefox does!

Ctrl-P: quick print

File -> Print: Same quick print

Hamburger -> Print: Print with preview!

Maybe it's OS dependent? On my Mac all 3 of those do the same thing

Maybe. I'm using Firefox Developer Edition 65.0b12 (64-bit) on Debian.

The thing that drives me crazy about print in Firefox is that it is very difficult to turn off headers and footers. I don't want to leak information about my intranet or local filesystem structure (URL field) but the option for turning these off is to jump into dialog, a tab, and change six dropdowns. It doesn't even remember your selection. Are these ever even useful, or just a waste of ink and a security hole?

macOS has a nice native print dialog, so Chrome's custom one is an annoyance when you were happy with the system one.

If you're on Windows though, man is Chrome's custom print dialog an improvement.

Using the latest Firefox on High Sierra, the print dialog for me doesn't include a preview where I can see what changes when I change options. But then, I get the same print dialog from Firefox's hamburger menu, so maybe there's something different about my machine.

I'm not near my Ubuntu (bionic beaver) laptop at the moment. Hopefully the hamburger menu print option on Firefox is better there. That's often the one I'm printing from since it's for home.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com