Yeah: I ended up figuring out a way to add it. I now generally like having the feature, but it was a complete necessity due to the Hacker News IP ban rules (although, as I mentioned, still doesn't solve the underlying problem for this site, which is incredibly touchy).
It is so annoying that all the other browsers STILL have not implemented this little but very effective idea - please speak more loud about this, as it seems even most developers here did not even notice this feature...
It speeds up browser startup dramatically. Especially when you leave lots of tabs open as your "to read" list.