1y ago

I am THIS close to joining the Chromium monopoly gang

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You could definitely have raised a bug report in the time it took you to make this
- I cannot even determine the culprit, to whom am I supposed to file a bug report?
  
  At https://bugzilla.mozilla.org maybe? Or just look up "firefox report bug" online, I guess
  
  Everyone involved, worst case they just close them
  
  sudo bugreport "plz fix"
  
  root
  
  Careful, the FF community here hates it when you point out faults in their "perfect" browser
- this is so much better though

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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(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)
- Ah yes, something being broken because of your previous attempt to fix it.
  That's a certified classic.
  
  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.
  
  My recent DNS issue agrees with you. smh

My package manager has 400+ updates, but I can’t install them because some packages are conflicting, and I don’t have the willpower to untangle that mess.
~~I use arch btw~~. I use the arch-derivative Manjaro, btw.
- ~~First time?~~
  jdk-openjdk vs jre-openjdk? archlinux.org mentions it, although the workaround it provides is fake news and also results in pacman complaining about conflicts.
  I just removed stuff, abused pacman --nodeps and prayed that my backups would be sufficient to restore my inevitable fuckup (no fuckup happened, somehow). Try that at your own risk though...
  
  I think I’ll just switch to something more user-friendly again. When I installed Manjaro, I thought I liked tinkering. But since then I’ve started working and just want to get home to a functioning computer.
  I appreciate the effort, though.
  
  i just updated jdk-openjdk by it self then did the system update and it worked (endevaros/i3)
- I ran into this on Manjaro today too. Definitely don't have the capacity to sort it right now
  
  have a manjaro desktop (with cinnamon) at the office that gets used daily. haven't seen this here.
  
  Yay, I’m not alone. :'D
- Same - it is probably why I will change soon. Manjaro has been a bit too flaky I think. Still nice, but annoying with things like this.
  
  Join us in glorious GarudaLinux land. I swear they don't pay me to shill this distro every other day.

@OP, join us in Tumbleweed land. I tried arch btw but it drove me crazy. I don't have endless hours on end to spend on DIY when I am in a hurry to get things to just work™. Tumbleweed with KDE is a refreshing take on the bleeding-edge rolling release distro with sensible defaults and much less teeth gnashing. With arch btw I felt like the whole thing was held together with duct tape and prayers. And I'm certain whatever I did in arch btw, there's an "ackchyually, ..." guy who is going to say that that was wrong.
- Sigh... Another day on lemme, another distro to try lol
- Tried tumbleweed on my laptop, bog standard install with only defaults, first update with the GUI, completely deleted all grub configurations but gave no errors or warning on the GUI. Happened twice in a row.
  Updating for CLI with YaST had no issues. Wanted to love it, but got a bad taste literal minutes after install.
  I am fine on Arch, but I just wanted less hassle and ended up with more hassle. Maybe I will try again soon
- Yeah this is true. Arch has lots of small and weird package bugs and breakages it drives me crazy and I used to daily drive that shit (well, both arch and artix) for about 2 years. Changed all my machines over to Debian (used it as a server before) and my life quality has gone nowhere but UP!
- I'm the same way. I just started using Linux and Landed on Pop!OS. Tumbleweed is high on my short list of things to try, but I finally got everything working, and boy is it working well.
  I think the reason is my hardware profile is extremely similar to Pop!OS products, so I just happened to land on something per-optimized for my system out of dumb luck. I'm frankly shocked at how far linux has come. Lutro is what we've been waiting for on game installs for better than 20 years. Steam integration is of course nice, but I hate using game stores and hate being locked into that.
  Anyways, been a cool experience so far.
  
  Great stuff, welcome to the Tumbleweed club, we meet at the dumpster behind Wendy's every Tuesday. I tried Pop!_OS for a while and was quite impressed. However I have an irrational disdain for GNOME and Ubuntu so their derivatives are out for me. I hereby declare OpenSUSE and KDE the cool kids club. Tuesdays, dumpster behind Wendy's.
- i went the way of endeavor os back when grub broke and i'm really happy with it
- I just got Tumbleweed set up on my laptop after trying Fedora for a bit. Funnily enough, the thing that made me check it out is CentOS 7 coming up on end of life and needing to find a new distro to switch to for servers. Obviously, would use Leap on the server side, but the rolling release cadence of Tumbleweed was very appealing (have used Arch in the past, but had trouble keeping up with it...). Still feel like I am only using a fraction of what I can with it, though
- I never had a better system for KDE than Tumbleweed. Definitely my favourite "hasslefree" distro up until now.
  
  Tumbleweed KDE gang rise up!
- Why do I keep getting distro recommendations? I'm content with Arch, despite its problems.
  
  Ackchytually …

Also why for fucks sake does firefox do it's own mime type management and does not respect default applications set on system level!

I dont understand this. I just let it open explorer.exe
- At the expense of missing what could potentially be a deadpan ironic comment, I would like to divert your attention to the name of the community this meme was posted on
  
  I don't understand. I read this on edge.exe.

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.
- 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.

I love Firefox and it's my main browser on laptop and mobile.
But as a KDE user, seriously, fuck it. It's a mess.

Have you tried firefox-nightly?
\ Also, https://chat.mozilla.org
- Firefox nightie? What, did new merch just drop?
- 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
  
  My brother it's a matrix chat not a public speaking event

lynx superiority

Firefox is not a GTK application by the way. They use their own XUL/XPCOM framework and are in the long-running process of porting everything to HTML/JS/CSS.
- There must be GTK somewhere, gtk3 is a dependency on Arch and the GTK_USE_PORTAL env var strongly suggests GTK has something to do with the file chooser. If they're going to have to reimplement the latter, I hope it's going to be less horrible than the GTK one but knowing Mozilla I'm not that faithful...
  
  It does use the GTK file-open dialog by default (although distributions can swap that out).
  It also takes inspiration from the GTK theme for drawing buttons and whatnot, so they fit into the OS. KDE generates a GTK theme, though, so that's rarely a problem.

Weird, on KDE it uses a GTK portal by default but tha argument makes it use the KDE portal
- Perhaps Plasma automatically sets the various enviornment variables to enable consistent themes? I haven't used it in a while...

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
- 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

Join the Chromium monopoly it is the superior browser. Aside from not having tab containers, it beats Firefox is almost every other way.
- one word manifest v3
  
  Did you know Firefox has also adopted manifest V3.
- Yeah no tab containers is kind of a deal breaker, thanks for letting me know.

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