Fun fact - in C++ std::sort has undefined behavior, and can crash[1], if you try to sort a container with NaNs in it.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18291620/why-will-stdsor...

The blog post is also complaining about the options to create a screenshot, copy a link to a text fragment, copy a link without trackers, debug accessibility issues, auto-fill a form, and even to print the page.

Also, Mozilla Corporation's sole "shareholder" is the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation.

In an alternative timeline, Firefox makes their context menu really short and someone writes a blog post ranting about how it deprives functionality from power users.

In fact, I've read several such rants about Firefox removing functionality from other parts of their UI.

It's sure hard to make everyone happy.

At the beginning of a TCP connection, which is when the certificate chain is sent, you can't send more data than the initial congestion window without waiting for it to be acknowledged. 160KB is far beyond the initial congestion window, so on a high-latency connection the additional time would be higher than the numbers you calculated. Of course, if the web page is very bloated the user might not notice, but not all pages are bloated.

The increased certificate size would also be painful for Certificate Transparency logs, which are required to store certificates and transmit them to anyone who asks. MTC doesn't require logs to store the subject public key.