Windows caused the popup, Firefox just gave a notification. The best solution would be to switch to Linux. 2nd best would be a BSD. If you are unable to locate any install media then you can silence notifications.
Yo, fire fox what the fuck?
Submitted 1 day ago by stupidcasey@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the functionality is known as progressive web apps or PWAs. Did this notification come up unprompted?
You may need to switch of certain toggles in Firefox if so.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unprompted, unwanted, in the middle of a very intense game full screen, on a computer used as a game console I had to dig out a mouse to use.
running_ragged@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel like it’s the OS’s job to provide the means to mute or defer notifications in certain contexts, and the games jobs to enter that context in full screen.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m sorry that happened. I’ve never seen stuff like this happen but this is likely because I disable as much shit as I can every time I set Firefox up on a new system, but as you can see from the list of recs I pinked above, it’s a bit of a chore.
There are definitely smarter ways to go about it, like scripting the disablement of stupid shit in Firefox (or using a privacy respecting fork of the browser), but I like to do this / monitor this manually to keep track of any newly introduced anti features.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have a mini PC I use as a console, works great. I run Linux and don’t get this crap. This is unfortunately a windows “feature”, although it’s frustrating Firefox is making use of it. Presumably Firefox has an update and is “letting you know” about it’s features. Presumably this can be turned off within Firefox, but other apps may do the same from time to time. It’s crazy Windows allows this to be drawn over a full screen game.
FYI as an alternative Linux on a mini PC can be set up like the Steam Deck interface to be truely controller only. Windows games run great (I’ve completed Cyberpunk 2077 on mine for example), but one limitation is anti cheat games may not work. If that affects games you’d want to play then either stick with windows or dual boot Linux and Windows and switch to windows if you ever want to play an anti-cheat game that doesn’t work in Linux. But Linux in gamescope mode is perfect for gaming, with none of this type of nonsense.
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Recommend extensions as you browse
Recommend features as you browseturn these off.
if you had these enabled, you are probably running defaults most everywhere and have a dozen more settings in firefox to look at; plus a lot more in chrome or edge if you use those, as well as in windows itself.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ive kinda started liking PWAs tbh. I love the idea of a website being completely sandboxed and isolated from the rest if my browsing.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
PWAs are great. No more Electoron apps too! Also, Firefox has no way of knowing you are playing a full screen game, that’s the os’s job to squelch notifications. Now, mozilla really shouldn’t be using notifications to educate users on new browser features. That should be only on the post-upgrade webpage and/or the new tab page only.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Plus you get web extensions like ublock.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t use them for many things but in terms of UX, I can totally agree with that.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Imagine turning on desktop notifications
dodos@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It feels like they get re-enabled every update on my work pc.
ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m gonna go ahead and be the guy who recommends LibreWolf. Mozilla has been taking Firefox in an especially fund-seeking direction in recent years (and this fork avoids a lot of it). I haven’t seen PWAs appear in LibreWolf as of now.
CheerfulPassionFruit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I LOVE livrewolf!! It’s the only browser I know that actually gets out of your way, it doesn’t try do sell you anything, it’s just a terminal to the internet. It’s also really good for privacy.
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
wtf is wrong with pwas
ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Nothing, they seem like a good idea. I just don’t want my browser throwing new functionality at me without consent. I’d rather have a setting to enable PWAs that’s disabled by default.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Recent years? Like at least the last 15.
CabbageRelish@midwest.social 1 day ago
Firefox finally added PWA support in Windows so they’re announcing it, and for whatever reason Windows didn’t squelch it during a full screen session like it’s set up to do by default.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it that a popup notification occurred during your full screen game? Or that it’s Firefox making the popup? I’m confused what makes this dystopian.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 day ago
Yeah, seems like a "click no thanks and go on with your life" scenario. Some folks have an extremely low dystopia threshold.
ilikecats@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
OP commented above:
Unprompted, unwanted, in the middle of a very intense game full screen, on a computer used as a game console I had to dig out a mouse to use.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Counterpoint: you’re in Boring Dystopia, which usually for content that is dystopian but isn’t exciting nor civilisation ending kind. It’s boring, and it’s boring to kinda have unwanted popup interrupting fullscreen application.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
“Hello user, instead of viewing this information as a website that you can modify locally and adjust to your heart’s content, how about you view it as an app where doing anything like that is a felony with a jail sentence?”
vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
in my (albeit limited) experience, that isn’t how it works. for example, ublock origin should still filter content as yoid expect, and I’d imagine inspect element would work on desktops too.
this just renders a webpage without the typical UI chrome (tabs, address/omnibar). it can be handy on am android phone for webapps like pixelfed (which is the only thing I use as pwa so far).
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Sure but I consider coding your website to work correctly as a regular website to be a bare minimum requirement for me to want to use it. I’ve never used pixelfed and if their site doesn’t work well without being run as a pwa, I probably never well.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Dude, look up what a progressive web app is. It’s just a standards-compliant web page with some reactivity done locally using javascript. Some of them even work perfectly offline because the whole page is cached locally. No jail sentences needed.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
I know what a PWA is, let me curmudgeon dammit.
Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Silksong spotted :D
aeharding@vger.social 1 day ago
What’s wrong with this? The notification itself? Because desktop PWAs is a sorely needed feature!
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
I don’t understand how this is dystopic?
baines@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
because fuck pop ups
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Imagine, you’re busy dying in the sands of karak (I think) and then Firefox makes you die instead of it being your own inability to chain 20 dashes
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Done you have to enable notifications for this to happen?
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a windows/hollow knight issue.
Firefox has no way of knowing that you’re playing a full screen game.