Friday, April 27, 2012

Bleg: I Broke Firefox!

Don't know how. Closed it normally last night; this morning when it starts, it pops up a tiny little window at one corner of the screen, which promptly blinks out leaving nothing but the taskbar button. That button toggles as usual -- but no Firefox. Aaargh.

Time to remove and reinstall? I have about a zillion links saved, which I don't want to lose. Gee, I miss CP/M. MDM730, where have you gone?

Update: I think I fixed it. In a stupid way, but hey, whatever works -- I jumped on the tiny window and maximized. Hurrah!

But I swear, I didn't close it that way last night. Grrr.
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12 comments:

  1. KurtPApril 27, 2012 at 7:13 AM

    Did you try restoring to yesterday?
    I've noticed whenever I do something to FF, the computer usually remembers what I had on it and it's there when it starts again.

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  2. KurtPApril 27, 2012 at 7:13 AM

    Did you try restoring to yesterday?
    I've noticed whenever I do something to FF, the computer usually remembers what I had on it and it's there when it starts again.

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  3. TXGunGeekApril 27, 2012 at 7:14 AM

    WOW, CP/M I haven't hears anyone mention that in gackcough years.

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  4. PopgunApril 27, 2012 at 7:35 AM

    Wow, you remember CP/M too? My first two computers ran on CP/M. Cool!

    -Popgun

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  5. Dave HApril 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM

    I never had the pleasure of using CP/M, but I did use TRSDOS for a while. My first professional programming gig was using PL/M, the compiler that CP/M was developed to host.

    I noticed some time back that if Firefox crashed on a web page it would try to automatically return to that same page when I restarted it. "As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."

    I think they took that "feature" out. Chrome at least asks if you want to try that again.

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  6. RuthApril 27, 2012 at 8:30 AM

    In Firefox, go to the Bookmarks option, click "show all bookmarks" in the popup window click the "import/backup" and follow instructions to backup your bookmarks.

    Then uninstall and reinstall. There was an update not to long ago, it may have futzed something.

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  7. Fuzzy CurmudgeonApril 27, 2012 at 8:58 AM

    I just want my VM/CMS account back.

    Ah, BITNET. Those were the days.

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  8. rickn8orApril 27, 2012 at 11:19 AM

    "I think I fixed it. In a stupid way..."

    As we used to say in my Navy technician days, "If it stupid but it works, then it's not stupid."

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  9. AnonymousApril 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM

    WATFOR

    old people test. :)

    Terry
    Florida

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  10. DrangApril 28, 2012 at 3:39 AM

    I've had that problem with Firefox, but not recently. You might want to check your extensions.

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  11. Roberta XApril 28, 2012 at 6:31 AM

    Hey, now, no call for that; this is all my own hair.

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  12. AnonymousApril 29, 2012 at 4:58 PM

    CP/M!?! Your comment caused me to blow the cobwebs off my old 5-1/4" storage drawers to see if I still had any 498k disks left from my Kaybpro-IV and KayPro-II computers. Nope, all gone.

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