Firefox changed the default setting for pull-to-refresh to disabled

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13 points·tuukkah··9 comments

Tangential rant: on iOS Safari it drives me crazy that there is a reload button... except on google.com. There is no reload button there - it's only pull-to-refresh. If you manage to figure it out, of course. Otherwise no google reload for you.

There’s no reload button for your default search engine. So for me, there _is_ a reload button on google.com.

And here I thought I was becoming mad and blamed web sites for finding a way to disable that behavior with JS.

Yes, it would have been nice to notify me that they disabled this.

I understand there was a reason for this decision. But why can't the product - from time to time - prompt the user to ask about a particular setting? Worst case add a "don't show me this again" checkbox.

They need to ask you about pocket, and don't want to exhaust your attention

What is pull to refresh?

Pull to refresh is a mobile gesture where, when viewing a web-page, users viewing a webpage can use a downward-swipe to "pull" the site down and make the browser reload the page. For example, on Safari it looks like this: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2022/01/25/refresh-safari-webp...

Firefox first implemented this feature in April 2023, however they are temporarily putting it behind a default-disabled option because of a number of bugs, until they can be resolved.

Ever since the 'zoom to top of page' gesture got ditched in, uh? ios 6? 7? It rendered pull to refresh as somewhat pointless to me.

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