Issues with Hyperlinks in Firefox

[PorkishPig]

Browser, version and OS: 

Firefox Nightly, 81.0a1 (2020-08-21) (64-bit), Windows 10

Firefox (Stable), 79.0 (64-bit), Windows 10

 

Steps to reproduce/what were you doing before it happened?

Enter a URL into any content editor, continue typing after the URL.

 

What happened?

If you continue typing, all text, including spaces, will also be included in the hyperlink.

 

What did you expect to happen?

Match Brave 1.12.114 (Chromium 84.0.4147.135) behavior. Hyperlink should end after a space.

 

Link to a page where it happened, if applicable: 

All content editor instances.

 

Any other relevant details:

Issue occurs when using:

• Firefox Safe Mode
• New Profile
• New 79.0 Install

 

Firefox Nightly demonstration:

2020-08-21 13-25-25.mkv

Brave demonstration:

2020-08-21 13-26-27.mkv

[Ashleyyyy]

that's specific to firefox i assume, i use chrome 84.0.4147.135 on Windows 10 and i haven't had this problem.

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, PorkishPig said:

Steps to reproduce/what were you doing before it happened?

Enter a URL into any content editor, continue typing after the URL.

 

What happened?

If you continue typing, all text, including spaces, will also be included in the hyperlink.

This bug has been around for as long as I've used these forums. The workaround I use is to insert several spaces, then paste the URL between them. That said, yes, it is an annoying bug.

[PorkishPig]

Just now, Ashley said:

that's specific to firefox i assume, i use chrome 84.0.4147.135 on Windows 10 and i haven't had this problem.

Yes, it is.

3 minutes ago, PorkishPig said:

Match Brave 1.12.114 (Chromium 84.0.4147.135) behavior. Hyperlink should end after a space.

 

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, PorkishPig said:

Yes, it is.

i figured but i just thought to include it as info. google chrome is not brave, so..

Edited August 21, 2020 by Ashley xD
typo's

[PorkishPig]

2 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

This bug has been around for as long as I've used these forums. The workaround I use is to insert several spaces, then paste the URL between them. That said, yes, it is an annoying bug.

I end up just coping a space from elsewhere in the post, it's a real pain.

[sub68]

I just press enter after I paste a link

[wall03]

I didn't know this was a bug, I always thought it was an overlooked feature that someone wrote for whatever reason.

 

please fix tho

[colonel_mortis]

This is a firefox bug, tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1357365

[Ashleyyyy]

why i don't use firefox... does mozilla even listen to their community? 

 

[PorkishPig]

3 minutes ago, Ashley said:

why i don't use firefox... does mozilla even listen to their community? 

 

It's actually 14 years old. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339071

[Ashleyyyy]

3 minutes ago, PorkishPig said:

It's actually 14 years old. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339071

LMAO HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!!!! this is amazing. i thought microsoft was the king of not fixing problems for a decade or 2 but this is just gold. 

[WereCatf]

1 hour ago, Ashley said:

does mozilla even listen to their community?

Have you even seen the shitshow that is the newest version of Firefox for Android? No, they really, really don't listen.

[Ashleyyyy]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Have you even seen the shitshow that is the newest version of Firefox for Android? No, they really, really don't listen.

i'm an iOS user so no.

[LogicalDrm]

Another workaround is to line break after link. Like line break, add space and the remove line break.

[pythonmegapixel]

On 8/22/2020 at 2:03 AM, WereCatf said:

Have you even seen the shitshow that is the newest version of Firefox for Android? No, they really, really don't listen.

What's the problem with it? Except for the relocation of the URL bar to the bottom - which you can turn off anyway - it's really pretty decent.

 

On 8/22/2020 at 12:48 AM, Ashley said:

why i don't use firefox... does mozilla even listen to their community? 

 

I see your point... but this is a barely perceptible bug with tons of workarounds. Can you really blame them for prioritising other things?

 

I have my criticisms of Firefox, but what's the alternative really? Because yeah sure, google listens to its community. Chrome users definitely wanted not to be able to see the URL of the web page they are reading. And they definitely wanted changes to the extension API which have the potential to break extensions that people have been using for years. Sure.

(Sorry if it sounds like I'm reading into what you're saying. I'm more responding to the common arguments than to what you specifically have said)

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

Chrome users definitely wanted not to be able to see the URL of the web page they are reading. 

Safari did it first and it can be disabled. 

 

3 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

And they definitely wanted changes to the extension API which have the potential to break extensions that people have been using for years. Sure.

i'm quite heavy with extentions and everything i use still works even in the latest Canary build of Chrome. 

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

What's the problem with it? Except for the relocation of the URL bar to the bottom - which you can turn off anyway - it's really pretty decent.

• The landing-page was changed, with me now only getting one row of icons instead of multiple ones in the previous version.
• The icons are way too tiny and the text below them is too small to be legible
• The space that's reserved for the text below the icons is too short, meaning that everything gets shortened
• No access to about:config anymore
• Multiple websites are now broken
• The constant fucking push for me to save my open tabs as a "collection", including a big, white box on the landing-page demanding me to use "collections" and no way of removing this fucking box
• You previously got a thumbnail of what each tab showed, thereby allowing you to quickly recognize each tab just from the thumbnail without having to remember their order or reading what the tab contains. Not so anymore!
• The new tab-switcher takes WAY too much space for what it actually provides
• Extensions are broken
• No way of blocking all autoplaying video anymore
• A lot more that I can't even remember right now

[Ashleyyyy]

7 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

(Sorry if it sounds like I'm reading into what you're saying. I'm more responding to the common arguments than to what you specifically have said)

did you make this edit after what i posted above? regardless mozilla just makes bad choices and does not listen. google actually fixes issues relatively quickly when they come up. same with Microsoft tbh, i prefer Edge to Chrome as a browser just for the interaction i have with the team behind it. the community manager for Edge is actually active in the Microsoft Community discord and i have reported bugs to her personally and she and the team behind edge really do care. i've seen one of that from mozilla. 

[PorkishPig]

6 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Safari did it first and it can be disabled. 

Yeah, for now... Google removes options from chrome://flags whenever they feel like it, and usually without notice.

[pythonmegapixel]

5 minutes ago, Ashley said:

did you make this edit after what i posted above?

Nope... made it before, seems like Invision Community is being stupid again. Apologies for any inconvenience.

 

6 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

• The constant fucking push for me to save my open tabs as a "collection", including a big, white box on the landing-page demanding me to use "collections" and no way of removing this fucking box

Not seen that...

 

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• The new tab-switcher takes WAY too much space for what it actually provide

I actually prefer it, because (a) it doesn't take over the whole screen anymore and (b) more space for the website title

 

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• No way of blocking all autoplaying video anymore

Ummm... settings -> site permissions -> Autoplay (block audio and video)

 

Everything else I've not quoted is stuff I didn't use anyway though obviously that's no reason for you not to do so

[Ashleyyyy]

5 minutes ago, PorkishPig said:

Yeah, for now... Google removes options from chrome://flags whenever they feel like it, and usually without notice.

maybe so but i prefer it hiding the url so there's that. if i wanna see the full url i just hover my mouse over the address bar. 

[WereCatf]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

Not seen that...

Well, now you have:

 

The word "Kokoelmat" is the collections-thingy, with no way of removing it or the box below it. Also, do notice all the absolutely wasted space below it and the tiny icons above!

4 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Ummm... settings -> site permissions -> Autoplay (block audio and video

Only blocks videos with audio, so nope.

[colonel_mortis]

Bugs and Issues is not the place to argue about which browser is worse.