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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I miss the days with Opera. Not only could it group tabs, but it had previews too. Mouse gestures. Keyword searches. Page link filters and batch operations. RSS-reader. Chrome didn't even exist back then, and IE and Firefox are still playing catch up. Kinda amazing to think about it.

Vivaldi is the spiritual successor, but having to use chromium rendering engine, it's so many concessions and steps back. Has the mouse gestures, tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Missing the days when developing a new browser was possible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The gestures were amazing. Some are ingrained in my muscle memory after all these years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same here. And the single-key shortcuts for switching tabs. Modern browsers don't even come close.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Brave has configurable keybinds, you can set any key you want to do anything.

However I still need to use the vimium extension to have proper keyboard only web navigation, because with the exception of qutebrowser none of the "popular" web browsers have the select link mode with the f key.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I never got used to the f-key navigation, if i can't use shift+arrows i fall back to mouse.

I don't know, maybe Brave has this, unfortunately some time before Opera 9 and now I became one of these annoying people who only use FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You can get the same in firefox (mostly) with the Gesturefy addon