Archive for June 16th, 2009

Firing Firefox

June 16th, 2009

I was happily browsing away yesterday visiting my usual porn anarchist highbrow web sites, when my Firefox browser decided it had had enough and needed a rest.

I got a little message on the screen saying that Firefox had closed to prevent damage to my computer.

Being the philosophical type, I just fired it up again.

I got a little message on the screen telling me that Firefox failed to load and would I like to inform the honchos so that they can broaden their minds a bit.  I said yes, and shut it down.

I fired up Firefox again, and once more it failed to load.  This was getting irritating at this stage.  I tried several times, and each time it fucked up on me.

I tried loading it in Safe Mode, whatever the hell that is, and it still failed.  By now, it was really getting on my tits.

I decided to fire up that abominable heap of shite called Internet Explorer and get a new version of Firefox.

I loaded that and everything went well, until I tried to fire up Firefox.

The fucking thing failed again.

This was really pissing me off at this stage, so I uninstalled Firefox, and reinstalled it.  It still failed.  Fuck!

I decided to uninstall it again, only this time, I told it to remove all traces of itself.  Being a smart sort of chap though, I backed up my bookmarks and my profile before doing that.  I reinstalled it, and it worked perfectly.

Great.  At last I am getting somewhere.  All I had to do then was restore my bookmarks and my profile and everything would be hunky dory.

I did my bookmarks first and had a look at them.

Bollox!!  I had backed up the wrong version, even though the date on it was yesterday’s date.  I could live with that though.

I went to restore my profile, only to find that fucking Firefox had deleted my old one and the backup.  Damn, blast, bother, knickers and spit!

My profile contained quite a few things.  It had all my little plug ins, my settings and gizmos like that, but it also contained all my stored passwords.

Now I can’t access a load of my sites.

I have written to Chang Li Sung in China and Vladimir Gradsky in Russia, both of whom I know have been ripping off my passwords for months, but I haven’t heard back from them yet.

I’m screwed now.

I wonder if Nympho Nancy will miss my daily visit?

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