| It happened today! I just tried to open a new tab to look something up but the page comes up with this: > Sorry. We just need to do one small thing to keep going. > Firefox has just been updated in the background. Click Restart Firefox to complete the update. > We will restore all your pages, windows and tabs afterwards, so you can be on your way quickly. I was in the middle of something. I had a thought, a question occurred, and I
wanted to look something up on the Internet real quick. So I hit ctrl-t for a
new tab. But that isn't the "new tab" command right now. Firefox has entered
into an invisible quasi-mode that remaps ctrl-t to "restart firefox". But
not quite. It actually remaps to a command that locks firefox like a grab:
it's unusable, it refuses to load and display any more pages until I
click that "Restart Firefox" button. Interrupting my flow by remapping keyboard shortcuts to non-dismiss-able
modal dialog with one button ("Click here and only here you idiot monkey" is what that says to me) is super-arrogant. It's patronizing and disrespectful. Saying "sorry" before you shove me doesn't make it any better, it just sounds obsequious. I switched to Vivaldi yesterday. (The opening-a-tab thing today that I'm currently bitching about was to find something in my old history in FF.) I don't actually like it any better but it hasn't spat in my face so far. |