I can't decide if jwz is laughing or crying at this.

[waider]

In order for Firefox 3 to keep your data safe, we have to make your system unresponsive. This is because, wait for it, they're using a database! Hurrah!

(I imagine jwz doesn't care any more, since he's using a Mac.)

Comments

[waidesworld.livejournal.com]

I tried it a few months ago and it was as buggy as IE7. The only difference of course is that a beta version of IE is called a release!

[nothings.livejournal.com]

God, that is so annoying.

"Because people complained about losing bookmarks, we thought the best thing to do would be to use an ACID database to record the last time you'd visited any page. That way you'd never lose ANY data."

I especially love comments like "stop spamming this bug with suggestions that we abandon sqlite, because that's just not happening at this late a stage". Especially because usually such comments have been preceded by discussions (in other places) where people said this was a bad idea, and somebody said 'well, let's just try it and see how it works, and if it turns out it's a problem we'll do something different' (although I can't prove that ever happened for this case).

Hey, look at these old firefox bugs and their current status:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225882
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342
Fucking fuck.