Firefox 66 released

It will make Firefox even faster for all of its users. This is so welcome because what has been holding back Firefox's adoption for so long was its slow pre-Quantum user experience. So hurrah for that.

It will inconvenience me and the four other people in the world who care enough about their extension configurations to version them. Boo-hoo, but several people have pointed out that git has an answer to this. I had actually made up my mind to write a script that would transparently encode my JSON files as a database, and whenever an extension writes to the database, I get a (JSON) pull request by email which I can accept or not. But several commenters ruined my fun by pointing out that such a tool already exists.

I do this with git fairly frequently. For years I had maintained a script which automated the process of binary-searching a sequence of commits to find the one that introduced a bug. It started off as a shell script, then I rewrote it in ruby, then I rewrote it in python when I forgot ruby. Then somebody told me about git bisect. I should skim every single git man page at some point, I bet there are more gems.

(Speaking of which. April Fools' Day approaches. I'll leave this Markov-chain based git man page generator here so that people can torment their SVN-using friends: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/)