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Firing Firefox

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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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Firing Firefox — 15 Comments

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. *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…

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Jim C – If you mean the CIA, they are so incompetent that they will probably give me someone elses [yours?]

  9. 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..

  10. 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.

  12. 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.
    .-= >> Kirk M´s latest brainfart .. Migrating tomorrow =-.

  14. 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.

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