Fucking Mozilla.

[theweaselking]

Firefox 47 change log:
"The browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand preference has been reset to its default value (true) to avoid e10s performance problems. Because faster is better!"

No, you stupid-ass motherfuckers, this is SLOWER, not faster, because when I want a tab, I want it *now*, and I wanted it loaded because, get this, it was IN AN OPEN FUCKING TAB. Having to wait for a page to load after I click on it WASTES MY FUCKING TIME. If I didn't want that page loaded already when I look at it, it wouldn't be in a tab.

And if you were changing the default behaviour, sure, okay, but you're not. You're RESETTING MY CUSTOM FUCKING SETTING THAT I SPECIFICALLY MADE NOT-DEFAULT, because, like Yahoo search and supporting anti-gay hate groups and endorsing misogynist harassment campaigns, MOZILLA'S DEFAULTS ARE OFFENSIVELY GODDAMN STUPID.

"Firefox: The browser I only keep using because Chrome's extension support is lousy and their UI is unfixably broken"

Comments

[skington.livejournal.com]

What's broken about Chrome's UI, out of interest?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The thing I hate above all else is "tabs on top". The browser controls should not be inside the tab and the tab handle itself should not be disconnected from the tab contents. I HATE it. I hate it a fucking ton. And on Firefox, I can change it so that the handle to the tab is connected to the page contents, AS IS RIGHT AND PROPER. In Chrome, I can't.

[glaurung-quena.livejournal.com]

Pale Moon: firefox with a sane and rational person in charge of the UI.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

For the non-tech-minded: is this going to fuck with the way Firefoz remembers my tabs and re-opens them when I launch it? Because I HATED it when they changed that and I somehow miraculously found the settings that made it go back to remembering, and I'm going to be pissed if they've messed with it again.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What it does now: Opens all your previous tabs, but loads only the ones you look at, after you look at them.

What it did before for me: Opened all my previous tabs, loaded the ones I was looking at FIRST and then loaded all the others in the background until every tab was fully loaded and ready for me to look at it.

To make the behaviour go back to the CORRECT behaviour, do this:
1. Open a new tab.
2. In the address bar type "about:config" and press enter. You may get a warning about "voiding your warranty" - if so, click "I know what I'm doing"
3. You'll reach a page with a giant fucking list of arcane preferences. Luckily there's a search bar at the top. Type "restore_on_demand" (it will probably be enough to just type "restore_") and the list will shrink way down. You want "browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand", which will be set to "true".
4. Double-click it and it should go Bold and change to "false".
5. Close the tab.

Now, when you restore a session with many tabs open, the tabs will all load without you needing to click on each one.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

(I'm glad, though, that it doesn't look like I'm going to end up losing all of my tabs - which I've had happen before, and it has infuriated me)

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

This also totally breaks offline reading. I get that we're all supposed to have broadband dripfeeds strapped to our arms, but sometimes you're somewhere for a long time with no intertubes. If your browser doesn't load up all the wikidrama and cat pics you opened to sustain you until you actually look at it, it's effing useless, isn't it?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

To be fair, it *does* still load tabs where you middle-click "open in new tab" by default, and if you'd closed Firefox, it would still have to load all the tabs again when you started it.

But if you opened Firefox, saw all your tabs reappear, said "Yay!" without looking at each one and unplugged to go read them later, that would not work so well.

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

Not Firefox, but the library App my Mum uses actually only loads one book at a time to the device. Not good to discover in the semi-wilds of a Kenyan safari!

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Yes, I nearly had an aneurysm this morning when this hit me.
Maybe for slightly different reasons, though - I have quite some tabs that auto-reload and give me info via <title> tags. Also I want to re-start, enter my gazillion basic-auth passwords and be fucking done with it. Not have to re-open keepass every 10 minutes when I want to glance at Yet Another "Protected" Internal Site.

(There's another new nag-feature - the auto-complete suggestions now don't start right under the URL-bar, but on the left-most part of the screen. And I use a huge screen, with some estate on the left usually reserved for bookmarks. This misfeature now necessitates looking all the way to the left just to see what auto-complete might suggest. *HATE*)

[drcuriosity]

Yes. Seriously, fuck those guys.

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

I'm just cross that they've started ignoring window setup and treating control-U like "open source" again. What happened to "don't ask us to do it, that should be controlled by your windowing system" (vs erase line)