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But what happens when you want to meaningfully interact with it? It seems kind of useless to me if things are broken the instant I try to do anything.


You can press the Refresh button and suddenly things fix themselves. The utility is in having a snapshot of the site looking exactly as when you left it, with all the benefits of it not being rendered to a image, and with a high probability that at least some interactions still work.




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