On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:11:58AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:18:54 -0700, Timothy Knox <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Chapter 1 > > 1. In the beginning was the word, and the word was HATE. 2. And the > > users looked down upon the Fox of the Fires, and saw that it was > > hateful. 3. Thus spake the Dread Prophet Mozilla, "Verily, I say > > unto thee, go forth and let the hate multiply, and spread across > > the earth and all the lands therein." 4. And the pestilence did > > spread, and there was the earth filled with the sounds of weeping, > > and of the gnashing of teeth. 5. And the Fox of the Fires rejoiced, > > having brought its reign of hatefulness to all the earth. > > > > Chapter 2 > > 1. Now in the land of Seattle, there was a simple programmer of > > computers, who used the Fox of the Fires to navigate the waters of > > the World Wide Web. 2. And it was the habit of this programmer to > > read through the morning's dose of trouble ticket emails, and click > > the links to any which he wanted to read further. 3. The clicking > > of the links being a signal to the Fox of the Fires to show the > > programmer each ticket, in its turn. 4. But lo, there came to pass > > a morning where the network of the simple programmer turned into a > > notwork, and the Fox of the Fires could not open the links, as > > requested. 5. Yea, verily, did it indicate failure, by showing a > > Box of Alertness to the simple programmer, and by showing a Tab of > > Emptiness within. 6. The programmer went to the Fox of the Fires > > and said, "Yea, verily, showeth unto me, in the location bar for > > each Tab of Emptiness, the URL I have commanded thee to render." > > 7. But the Fox of the Fires laughed at the simple programmer, showing > > only emptiness in the location bar, leaving the programmer to attempt > > to guess what URL he might have attempted to open. 8. And the air > > was rent by the screams of the programmer, and the sounds of monitors, > > smashing on the rocks below. 9. And the Fox of the Fires rejoiced, > > in having thwarted the simple programmer in his attempt to work > > more efficiently, by opening all the tickets first, and then reading > > them all in one go. > > One of the most beautiful hates I ever read. Thank you!
I hate to mar it -- I use a caching proxy which is certainly hateful in many situations (squid) but happens to act as an unbreak-me for firefox in this particular situation. The reversal of this awful behavior has turned out to be a much bigger benefit than the actual caching. -josh
