<story><title>Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/19/todays-firefox-aims-to-reduce-your-online-annoyances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>&amp;gt; Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a nice little quality-of-life improvement. It&amp;#x27;s a little annoyance that you don&amp;#x27;t really consciously notice because you&amp;#x27;re so used to it, but I recall reading about Chrome adding a similar feature and suddenly realising how annoying it is when you&amp;#x27;re reading something, and then suddenly it jumps out of your view due to a large image above the viewport loading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be nice if browsers or servers could reserve that space even if it&amp;#x27;s not loaded? Like &amp;quot;this is going to be a 500x200 image so let&amp;#x27;s load 500x200 pixels worth of empty space until it&amp;#x27;s fully loaded&amp;quot; and avoid jumping.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/19/todays-firefox-aims-to-reduce-your-online-annoyances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>&amp;gt; Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a nice little quality-of-life improvement. It&amp;#x27;s a little annoyance that you don&amp;#x27;t really consciously notice because you&amp;#x27;re so used to it, but I recall reading about Chrome adding a similar feature and suddenly realising how annoying it is when you&amp;#x27;re reading something, and then suddenly it jumps out of your view due to a large image above the viewport loading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s even worse on mobile, with variable load times.  It&amp;#x27;s in fact maddening that it has to jolt you while reading an article - because ads and images are very very important (more important than the content).  I love reader mode on FF mobile, I click it as soon as the icon appears next to the URL.</text></comment>