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Service workers are a terrible mis-feature. Ask anybody and they won't know that things can keep running in the background when tabs are closed. Even most devel

• SquareWheel 8y ago
  That's great until you click "Send email" and close the tab. Then you expect things to continue to work.
  • cpeterso 8y ago
    The page could use an onunload handler to ask the user if they really want to close the tab before the email has been sent.
    • SquareWheel 8y ago
      That's what happens now, but it's really not great UX. Typically by the time the user reads the modal dialogue telling them not to close the window, the email will be sent. The page then needs to make clear "hey that thing we just said? You can ignore it now". I appreciate the suggestion, but it's just a very confusing and disruptive approach to solving the problem.
• kylek 8y ago
  I just checked my about:config (icecat) and see- dom.serviceWorkers.enabled = false Is this the only thing that needs to be checked to turn them off? (And, curious, is this enabled in newer FF ESR versions?) I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything considering it was already disabled in this version (without me knowing about it).
• duxup 8y ago
  Except when anybody wants something to keep running in the background, then those "anybody" are dismayed it doesn't do that.