Browser Support • Re: Why is Pale Moon so slow?

Neither do I. Whenever I see him, I always cannot help but think of his age above everything else, simply because I believe that this fact explains more to the neutral observer than anything else about his choices. He is too young to remember a time before iPhone-centric design became the mainstream. He grew up with Metro and Windows 10 ‘apps’; he was in early childhood when Firefox went Quantum. Through his eyes, since most teenagers and many adults lack any real sense of historical perspective which is not heavily filtered, Web Extensions, Electrolysis and the rest are just the way things are , making us the oddballs for rejecting these. Google is not a poisonous viper to him, but drew up how people his age would view the web’s essence, so he cannot see anything wrong with just ‘working together to build a better browser’, the way Google wants people to see it. If all this sounds harsh on him, it is not meant as such; he did not choose to be born so late. Rather, there is a real cultural gap between us, who watched the old order give way, and true natives of Google’s regime, and teaching him our ways, if he should choose to accept them, is bound to take time.

Yeah, more importantly, he's also new to the forum. That means he hasn't seen how many people have asked about e10s over the years, how many weird hacks people have tried to reenable it and the smug justifications and feelings of satisfaction we've seen from that crowd before when they "crack the code" and get speed. He doesn't know that we keep answering the same questions and cautioning people about the same things over and over again... about e10s, NoScript, moving a Firefox profile straight into Pale Moon, various other "clever" things people do that seem to work at first but are not good ideas.

I really hope he doesn't hold it against us that I snapped, it wasn't an appropriate way for me to act as a senior dev. In general, I just need to learn to think more like an engineer and stop treating this codebase, this architecture like it's my baby or something just because I've invested a lot and I believe in it. I need to accept that people will do what they want to do, no matter how I feel about it, and keep building things in the way I think is right, without trying to defend that way constantly. Still want to caution people when I see something like this, almost instinctively, but I think ultimately I really do have to learn how to work with people who don't want the same things I do, who might want to work more independently and treat them amicably when they show up here and talk about what they're doing, without expecting them to share our goals or perspective. That's a hard lesson to learn, but I'm trying to do better.