Lazy Jones's Journal: Current Pet Peeves

Things that make me want to poke people in the eye over the Internet:

• download URLs that aren't copy/paste (wget) friendly and/or inside homebrew navigation disasters that are 100% redundant when Apache's (and other webservers') directory indexing is perfectly useable (hello sourceforge!)
• website search functions or simple links that require JavaScript to work (it's sad how many popular or well-known websites have such issues. FFS, if you cannot implement a search function that does not require JS to display results, just link to Google, stupid. )
• JavaScript-enabled web forms where backspace (sometimes) makes FF go to the previous URL
• FF tabs that open when I am not using tabs and have FF configured to open URLs in windows
• FF using up 100% CPU time on one core and 1GB RAM for 40 open windows (with mostly text content too)
• videos posted to blogs that require 5+ domains to be enabled for JS with NoScript and even then their quirky code doesn't allow the video to display
• E-Mail clients that can't handle an inbox with 90K messages without hanging for minutes in the year 2009 (hello Thunderbird!)