Internatioanl "kick a Firefox developer in the shins" day

[yendi]

Two reasons I really hate Firefox today:

1. This:


That's after running for less than an hour. Admittedly, there were four zillion tabs open, but that's still insane. And I run Flashblock, so I can't throw this one at the feet of Adobe.

2. After restarting, I got the traditional "we can't restore everything, so pick some tabs to ignore" window, followed by the two buttons, one of which restores, the other of which starts a new session. Of course, the "new session" button is on the left, where the "ok/go/yes" buttons are in every other fucking webapp (see the LJ comment form, where "post" is on the left, or most of the Wordpress ones, etc). And no, there's no "confirm you don't want to lose eight thousand tabs" pop-up. And yes, I know it's user error, but for the love of god, why put that button there in the first place?

So, yeah. Lost about forty tabs, including a bunch I actually needed for work. Not happy.

3. Daylight Savings hits tomorrow night. I can't prove that Firefox is responsible for this, but I'm blaming them, anyway. You just know that someone associated with Mozilla has to be related to Ben Franklin.

Comments

New Firefox advertising tagline:

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Firefox: We Give 101%.

Re: New Firefox advertising tagline:

[yendi]

I'd like to give them 101%. Of my boot. To their ass.

[ex-gnomicut.livejournal.com]

have you ever run the session manager add-on? You can set it to save a history of what tabs you had open, so even if you lose them you can get them back. I can't function without it.

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

I've recently switched to Chrome on my home computer. They haven't come up with a perfect flash-blocker yet, but it does seem to take up far less memory and run much more quickly.

[yendi]

Thanks -- I'd generally ignored that extension, figuring that the Tab Mix session manager (in the old days) or FF's own one would cover me. But I'm clearly going to need something more.

[asim.livejournal.com]

I run Flashblock, so I can't throw this one at the feet of Adobe.

Don't be so sure. I run NoScript, blocking Flash among many other things, and Flash turned out to be crashing GMail and other Javascript-heavy sites on my machine -- even though they don't even call Flash! Even with all add-ons disabled, loading just that site, Flash caused a crash.

That said, if you're going to keep dozens of tabs open, I suggest you take a BarTab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67651); it's an add-on that stops tabs from loading on startup, until you click explicitly on that tab. I've found it useful so far, but it's not a panacea for that issue, just, perhaps, a mitigator.

[yendi]

The major thing holding me back from Chrome is the lack of any autofill functionality (weird, since Google Toolbar comes with it).

[yendi]

*blink* Wow. That's annoying. Who knew how powerful Flash could be?

I might look into Bartab, although running multiple tab-affecting add-ons (I use Tab Mix Plus) might cause issues. Also, there are times when I really want two dozen tabs to load (so I can get a cup of coffee and come back to get work done).

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

2 things I like about Daylight Savings.

1) AZ doesn't do it.

2) I think it means I won't have to do the Coaching Role-playing phone call exercise anymore for work until Fall. Because I hate doing that...

[lovingboth]

Oooh, that is extremely useful.

I can believe Flash being a complete buggy pile of pain.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

1.) Flash is a killer. It is the singularly most crash creating thing on the Interwebs.

2.) Firefox still has memory leaks.

3.) Put the 2 together and WHAMMO!!!

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

It's because of #1 that I wish they'd just get rid of the damn thing. AZ isn't the only state!

[yendi]

It's because of how it affects KOL, right?

[yendi]

Too true, sadly. It's a perfect storm.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't play that late at night anyway, so if rollover is an hour earlier/later it's no skin off my clown whip.

[amokk]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[pnh.livejournal.com]

If I recall correctly, Arizona doesn't do it, except that just to be contrary the Navajo Nation does do it, and just to be contrary against the Navajo whose territory entirely surrounds theirs, the Hopi don't do it.

[yendi]

Your recollection appears to be correct (not that there's any official mention of contrariness, of course).

[yendi]

Heh. For me, I'm often awake around 11, but rarely at midnight. So it's a pain.

[pnh.livejournal.com]

That's correct, except that contra the piece you link to, the Hopi reservation isn't a "hole in the donut," it's a series of pinpricks. The Hopi live on a series of widely-scattered mesa tops and their reservation area thus consists of several small, non-contiguous chunks of terrain.

[lovingboth]

Having just had an 'issue' (thank you Adobe, this one was you), Bartab doesn't do anything work with Tab Mix Plus's session manager.

It may be worth pointing the two authors at each other though, because if you do have lots of tabs, this is the sort of thing you do need.