<story><title>Cut the cutesy errors</title><url>https://alexwlchan.net/2022/08/no-cute/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lammy</author><text>Firefox has one of these when a tab process crashes: &amp;quot;Gah. Your tab just crashed.&amp;quot;  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;2017-08-11-05-57-08-275c74.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;i...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really hate the way the &amp;quot;Gah&amp;quot; wording feigns shock, as if Mozilla are also inconvenienced alongside me. Then the meat of the error implies I am at fault. It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;my tab&lt;/i&gt; that crashed, and I caused it to happen by doing whatever I did on whatever page I was choosing to visit. Any blame is deflected away from Firefox itself.&lt;p&gt;Then it makes me feel doubly bad because I immediately realize I&amp;#x27;m getting upset at something incredibly trivial, but man it annoys me!!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrsig</author><text>Honestly, as an engineer &amp;quot;Gah&amp;quot; is generally what I &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; say. When I experience difficulty with software others create, when I discover frustrations with software I create, and when I discover that a customer experiencing an issue that made it out the door that clearly shouldn&amp;#x27;t have.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a very caveman-esque &amp;quot;gah, thinky box no work&amp;quot; type expression, or surprise &amp;quot;gah! wtf just happened!?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not trying to invalidate what you feel - just trying to share a different perspective.  Perhaps a nudge to give the devs the benefit of the doubt that they don&amp;#x27;t want you to feel bad things when using what they&amp;#x27;ve poured a lot of energy into.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cut the cutesy errors</title><url>https://alexwlchan.net/2022/08/no-cute/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lammy</author><text>Firefox has one of these when a tab process crashes: &amp;quot;Gah. Your tab just crashed.&amp;quot;  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;2017-08-11-05-57-08-275c74.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;i...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really hate the way the &amp;quot;Gah&amp;quot; wording feigns shock, as if Mozilla are also inconvenienced alongside me. Then the meat of the error implies I am at fault. It&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;my tab&lt;/i&gt; that crashed, and I caused it to happen by doing whatever I did on whatever page I was choosing to visit. Any blame is deflected away from Firefox itself.&lt;p&gt;Then it makes me feel doubly bad because I immediately realize I&amp;#x27;m getting upset at something incredibly trivial, but man it annoys me!!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuukkah</author><text>I think &amp;quot;your tab&amp;quot; here implies &amp;quot;your loss&amp;quot; not &amp;quot;your fault&amp;quot;.</text></comment>