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

[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!