Firing Firefox
Grandad 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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That’s weird for Firefox, it’s usually the bee knees. Don’t worry I’ve hacked all your fave porn sites, I’ll mail you the passwords.
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It could just be that you’re using a PC and it’s the PC that fucked it all up… now if you only had a mac!
Maxi – I think it’s the first time I have had a problem with it. Many thanks for the passwords. You don’t have my banking details, do you?
Tricia – Jayzus!!!! Why is it that every time I mention my PC someone crawls out of the woodwork and suggests I use Linux or a mac? As it happens, I do have a mac, but I was nearly arrested the last time I wore it.
*sigh* If you’d bee using IE or Chrome in the first place, this never would have happened.
Makes people over-dependent on their plugins, that’s all it does…
TheChrisD -
“If you’d bee using IE or Chrome in the first place, this never would have happened”
Very true.
I would have had a complete nervous breakdown by now.
IE is the greatest heap of shite. It is slow, featureless, and worst of all – it is Mickeysoft.
I have tried Chrome. Another heap of shite.
If you had said Safari, I might have listened, but you’ve had your chance.
There are several TLA (Three Letter Agencies) that have complete copies of your passwords, bank accounts (all of them), internet history, and a number of unusual photographs. They normally would be happy to send you a copy of your file, but you lack the necessary security clearances to see what you have been doing.
Jim C – If you mean the CIA, they are so incompetent that they will probably give me someone elses [yours?]
Chrome seems quite stable. My alter-ego uses it all the time.
I’ve been having problems with Firefox too, but in my case it’s just drinking all my beer while playing the radio too loud as I try to write. It also smokes inside. I’d not mind if it went out to the patio, but nooo..
I have been having problems with Firefox for some time now. To tell the truth it has been pissing me off. I use K-Meleon now and it seems to be stable….oh ya, by the way mac’s (the computer type) are for people who don’t know what to do with their money.
I can send you the file with MY bookmarks?
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Sounds awful strange for Firefox to behave like that. Never had problems with my “highbrow” sites before. Send me a couple links and I’ll see if my Firefox throws up as well.
BTW, try FEBE for your backup purposes. Works like a charm. Just type FEBE into your Add-ons dialog box search thingy there and you’ll find it.
Have you been taking your Fox out on a regular basis lately? Might just be experiencing a good sulk from lack of attention.
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Firefox it would seem is De Rigueur for all contrarians…
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Thrifty – Chrome may be stable but I ust don’t like it. [refrains from making a joke about horses]
RhodesTer – You mean you haven’t trained your crew yet? Install a few viruses – that’ll keep your software to heel.
Xbox – Please forward. I could do with a laugh.
Kirk M – I was surprised myself. I can’t remember exactly what I was doing at the time but I don’t think it was a specific site. Somehow my profile obviously became corrupt and that caused the crash. FEBE is now installed!
SAm – Firefox it would seem is iffy.
If you change your PC clock to Aussie time and download IE8 or whatever version they’re on now, you might win ten grand: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/
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