Post by @mcc@mastodon.social

I begin searching for "eyes of laura mars" (apparently a movie released in 1978). As I am typing, for 1/10th of a second Firefox briefly prompts me to "Pick a colour", the prompt then disappears. I am immediately torn between 3 thoughts.

1. Why is Firefox prompting me to "pick a colour"?

2. I really don't want to know why Firefox prompted me to "pick a colour".

3. Wow, it sure is frustrating that there's literally no good way to communicate "My location is Canada but I use American spelling"

Searching in the Firefox "AwesomeBar" for "eye". Completion offers:

"eye --- search with kagi"
(picture of eyedropper) "Pick a colour" — Searching in the Firefox "AwesomeBar" for "eye". Completion offers: "eye --- search with kagi" (picture of eyedropper) "Pick a colour"

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@Optional@dice.camp 14 min. ago

@mcc I don't know why Firefox is prompting you to pick a color, but I guess the prompt is showing up in this specific case because the tool is often called "eyedropper" (e.g. in Photoshop)

Dohány Tamás

@iamdtms@mas.to 20 min. ago

@mcc 1. I like Kagi News, I do not have to add RSS feeds and can filter the content for free
2. I like Kagi Translate, a good translator especially fast it is

Tachibana Kanade

@h0m54r@mastodon.social 24 min. ago

@mcc 2, maybe because the colour picker tool is often called an “eyedropper”? No idea why Firefox has that as an address bar feature though.

Tom Schuster

@evilpie@hachyderm.io 22 min. ago

@h0m54r @mcc Yes, it's one of the aliases for that action: https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/rev/c72617c016491f426f33f84b8822aad7fdd532c2/browser/locales/en-US/browser/browser.ftl#340

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mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 20 min. ago

@evilpie @h0m54r However I also don't understand why firefox has an eyedropper as a feature, which means this does not explain to me why the mystery feature would have an address bar shortcut

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 23 min. ago

@h0m54r Presumably

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 24 min. ago

I'm not *really* complaining; I've heard of *much* more frustrating holes in localization configuration caused by "I am French Canadian and living in California".