In undue fairness, accomplishing nothing was her job.

Reality is a team sport, to some people. They don’t mean things when they say words. They’re just signalling loyalty to their ingroup hierarchy, and playing a dominance game where they get to decide what’s true. It’s not a judgement call. In their worldview there is no objective means to evaluate claims. There’s just whatever their guy says, and whatever our guy says, and their guy is right because he’s their guy.

So please stop falling for it when they declare themselves fiscal experts. They don’t give the slightest shit. They’re just shuffling cards. It’s another song and dance they do, to grasp for narrative legitimacy. Nothing else exists in their moral universe.

Considering I’ve seen it printed on booty shorts, yeah, probably not.

I only recently tossed a Handbook Of Christian Apologetics by Tacelli & Kreeft. I was never devout, let alone outright brainwashed into anti-science nonsense, but at the cusp of my reddit atheist phase I figured a question this big deserved a fair shake. So I got a big ol’ book of the best arguments anyone had. They all sucked. So that was that.

The one that made me put the book down and go ‘yep, atheist’ was “the argument from magic.” You think about moving your hand. Your hand moves by thought alone. Magic! Therefore, Jesus. I fucking wish I was exaggerating.

Took another decade to figure out the people pushing these arguments don’t actually give a shit about being right. The point is performing loyalty to the ingroup. There’s a conclusion, and it comes from people above you, so your job is to make whatever mouth noises get there. A monotheistic god is only the purest expression of that tribalist worldview.

I don’t care if the robot that speaks English read the entire library.

How else was it going to happen?

‘We’re not bitching and moaning, we’re just verbally abusing you for using software as intended.’

Hey look, the block button.

this shit is dumb

You have a terrible workflow.

Square peg, round hole.

I can hammer in nails with the back of a screwdriver.

people are gonna tell you its your own fault. And they’re right.

That’s just what people have said to me, personally, in this thread. Including you. The rest of the thread is worse:

Firefox fixes someones mental illness…

Is this a new mental illness I haven’t heard of?

anyone who needs (or let’s be honest, thinks they need) hundreds of thousands of open tabs has something wrong with their brain and should probably see a professional about it.

AKA User was so stupid, he or she should better not use a computer in the first place.

I have only ever been responding to y’all bitching about us. I am explaining, more politely than your conduct deserves, how and why this is exactly what Firefox is for. Mozilla explicitly tests for it. The feature is right there, on purpose, and works fine. It only fucks up the same way Firefox can fuck up the bookmarks y’all keep telling people to use.

Losing data is bad, actually.

I started taking backups of my profile because Reddit Enhancement Suite kept losing all my settings. You wanna whine at me that settings aren’t meant to be persistent, and I should reconfigure every plugin each time I start my browser? Because the difference between that list of options and the list of open tabs is next to nothing.

Y’all are bitching and moaning at us. I am telling you why you should stop.

The browser already works how I want. Has done for ages. Mozilla specifically tests for it. But for some goddamn reason, you think that’s wrong.

You’re quoting where I mentioned forced reboots. That’s not how this works. On the rare occasions where Firefox fucks up your profile in any way - it’s an event, and it’s a problem.

When that goes wrong, it’s the software fucking up. Same as deleting your bookmarks, forgetting all your passwords, or erasing your whole profile. All of which I’ve also dealt with, and if someone told me I’m stupid for calling that an error, I’d slap them.

The browser needs to be closed. The tabs persist… because they’re saved, and then restored. You know how I know that? Because I’ve been doing it for TWENTY FUCKING YEARS.

When that goes wrong, it’s the software fucking up. Same as deleting your bookmarks, forgetting all your passwords, or erasing your whole profile. All of which I’ve also dealt with, and if someone told me I’m stupid for calling that an error, I’d slap them.

I’m not fighting anything except your ignorant horseshit comments - the software works how I want. Only you whiners think it’s not supposed to. Like Mozilla made it work this way by accident. Fell ass-backwards onto increasingly reliable session restore options.

Sessions aren’t restored by coincidence. They’re meant to be persistent - that’s why there’s a mature and stress-tested feature to keep them persistent.

Go whine at someone expecting their hammer to work on a thousand nails. They don’t write on the packaging that it’ll work that long! It’s only designed for a couple dozen nails, and then you throw it out.

Would you spit this at someone annoyed that all their bookmarks got deleted? Because restored tabs don’t take much more storage or memory than that. And if you don’t expect your computer to remember those kilobytes of information, buy a better computer.

Mozilla has proudly advertised testing how Firefox handles hundreds of tabs.

There’s not some upper limit. A computer remembering a hundred things has not been impressive since the days of drum memory. Open tabs in a restored session are barely more than bookmarks.

Stop throwing that comic at people who use software as advertised.

No.

I’m not done with them yet.

I am using this many tabs, after pruning. It’s not just opening everything and closing nothing. 99% get closed in a timely fashion. This is the rest. This is what’s left despite routine passes to weed out what’s no longer relevant enough to get back to.

All of y’all scoffing ‘use bookmarks’ act like a Bookmarks folder thousands of items long would be any more manageable or convenient. Bookmarks don’t even use less RAM since tabs started lazy-loading. Bookmarks also don’t go away when you open them and decide you’re done. You have to find it in the big dumb list to open it, do whatever, and then find it in the big dumb list to remove it. God help you if we’re talking about a group of tabs instead of exactly one page.

There used to be this perfect plugin called Read It Later. You’d click the icon and the tab would go onto a list, and opening it from that list would remove it. This did exactly what I wanted until it became Pocket and enshittified into a cloud service. And then Mozilla forced that cloud service on everyone by bundling its “recommendation” spam into the goddamn browser, forcibly uninstalling the old version I was still using.

I have been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox. I don’t care if you use it differently from me. Extend the same courtesy.

I am using software in a way that suits my intent.

The ability to do this is one of the reasons I choose this software.

Do you think they’re adding vertical tabs for you people with six of them?

Screw all those replies amounting to ‘stop having that problem.’

Mozilla has previously bragged about testing how Firefox handles hundreds of tabs. If you feel cramped opening a dozen - my condolences. But get out of our way. We’re using all this RAM we paid for.

All while aiming to be cash you can e-mail, and failing at that because its high volatility and low speed make it a completely artificial commodities market with nearly zero real-world applications. It’s a technology that took off because Paypal is the devil and it is arguably worse.

Ban them.

Get rid of the entire business model. It’s an abuse. Games make you value arbitrary worthless nonsense - that is what makes them games. Attaching a dollar price to that imaginary form of value is a scam.