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tiny stubbed toe of UX design: i use a web-based service called getvau.lt to generate passwords. so i quite often open a new tab and start typing "ge.." to open it. but! i also like a blank new tab page, because who needs junk & news when you're surfing the webPermalink Look on archive.org
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however! the only way to have a blank new tab page is to install it with an extension, and that takes a tiny moment before it kicks in - if i start typing too soon, it gets clobbered by the new tab extension's internal URL. a tiny stubbed toe.Look on archive.org
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what makes this stubbed toe worse is that I switched browsers! from Chrome to Edge. but they're still fundamentally the same browser, and the same behaviour happens. but both Google & Microsoft have their motivations for keeping this behaviour this way.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Google wants extensions to work this way because they want to make Chrome more secure, and incidentally prevent ad blockers from being too powerful. Google and Microsoft both want you to not set the new tab page to anything you like because they like controlling that page.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the last gasp of the MSN media empire, living on in the unchangeable default new tab behaviour. just where i keep stubbing my toe.Permalink Look on archive.org
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it definitely makes tiny annoyances more annoying to know that the cause is large companies acting in their own self interest and there's nothing sensible i could do about it uh, except use Firefox, i guessPermalink Look on archive.org