And the only questions this situation raises are why did their space program have only one astronaut? Why is an entire nation's space endeavor forced to shut down, because one person resigned?

The anonymous reader's summary raises completely ridiculous issues, such as, "...whether she was the right person to lead the program and whether the huge cost of sending her into space was a waste of taxpayer's money." These are childish accusations which insinuate that the blame should be put on the astronaut, instead of the space program.

The fact that this addon exists is a symptom of the overlying problem, which is that these companies feel they need such a restrictive level of security on their application forms.

My two favorite online form issues are:
1)Not being able to save the form in an editable state to work on at my leisure.
2)Signature fields that either do not allow using PDF's built in signature file import, or require some unusual signature format instead of the simple picture file that any PDF reader can place in the field.

It's 2014 and it irks me quite a bit when I am forced to print, sign, then scan a document. It can, and should be much more straight forward and easy.

"Why would you ever want have a browser NOT open its last state when you open it?"

Choice. The user should be allowed to choose what behavior they prefer. The behavior that you think is so mandatory may be the same thing that other users want to avoid and not having the ability to change that behavior upsets them. Many open source projects have forked over this very issue.