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What is the most unnecessarily excessive thing you have ever done to accomplish something? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by g6d3np81@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Famous example... a man spent $44b to push his memes.

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I learned just enough coding and firefox framework to compile my own version of firefox with middle mouse closing tabs disabled

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an about:config option for that... (kidding)

[–] blazera@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

It was weird man, i was in the dev forums and there were previous requests for this feature. And they wouldnt put it on the config page because users might not find it there. So cant have it at all.

[–] SevFTW@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol why not just not use the middle mouse button? Did you remap it to something else?

[–] blazera@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes i have it mapped to a thumb mouse button for other applications. And then im browsing firefox, i wanna switch to a tab on the left, the button bumps against the keyboard, tab gets closed.

[–] whosdadog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

AutoHotkey can detect which program is active and rebind keys independently for each

[–] SevFTW@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, thanks for the explanation

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Are you aware of ctl + shift + t to reopen a closed tab? You can hit it multiple times too. Totally fine if you prefer this solution, but this is a useful tip regardless!

[–] barrage4u@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not saying it wasn't worth it, but some other options that might work:

bind middle mouse to an extension (e.g open lastpass)
buy a mouse that lets you change keybindings on the mouse instead

[–] blazera@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

you cant bind middle mouse to anything in firefox, or in any browser I looked at. and I bound this button to middle mouse myself, it's used a lot in Blender and this is more comfortable than the default.

[–] gondwana@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Can feel you right there. I once bought a new computer just to bring compile time of Firefox core from 1h to 15m. To fix a bug which was on my nerves.