Comment by Medicineguy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Medicineguy | Hacker News Reader

My two cents for FF about:config changes:

1. disable Fullscreen "XY is now Fullscreen" text. Set full-screen-api.warning.timeout to 0 2. disable Alt key: set ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses to false 3. don't select space after double clicking a word (together with auto highlight selection addon very nice for skimming code in browser like GH): set layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word to false 4. reduce forced wait when downloading a file (Download button in small FF-modal takes time to enable/activate, hard to explain, but annoying) : set security.dialog_enable_delay to 300ms 5. disable "This Connection is not Secure" Warning in (for pages like fritz.box together with XCkeepass very annoying) security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled

> reduce forced wait when downloading a file (Download button in small FF-modal takes time to enable/activate, hard to explain, but annoying)

I remembered reading something about this, and it looks like it's a security feature[0].

[0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/118077/is-the-s...

Yeah, it's to prevent click-hijacking (correct term?). I assassed the risk as very minimal.

Usually click hijacking is contracted to clickjacking, but you're correct.

Click-jacking seems like the correct term. Not sure what the word would be for the keyboard type of click-jacking though, where you unexpectedly present a dialog while the user is typing and they accidentally accept it by pressing certain characters...

those first four are things that i didn't even realize bother me but i feel like it'll be a massive QoL improvement to have them turned off. thank you!

> auto highlight selection addon

Can you provide a link to this addon. Couldn't find it.

I use "HighlightAll by Jerome Goudey". If you use this, you might have to tweak your addon preferences. I have set "Always enabled", "Native Highlighting" (without whitespace) and a minimum number of characters of 2. Nothing else is selected for me.

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