Internet Explorer wouldn’t let me use copy/paste to edit the widgets in my sidebar, so I switched to Firefox. What with all the security vulnerabilities hackers keep discovering in IE, I was even happier about switching. Then, yesterday, I reorganized bookmarks and added new ones. When I started Firefox this morning, the changes had disappeared. WTF?
So I Googled “firefox won’t save bookmarks” and learned: 1) it’s a well-known problem; 2) the fix is ridiculously user-unfriendly.
The “fix”: 1) use the Windows file manager to locate your Mozilla profile document, then manually change lines of code; 2) change your bookmarks in IE, then import them into Firefox. But if you elect to import new bookmarks into Firefox, you’ll first have to delete the existing ones.
Jesus H. Christ, Mozilla developers, were you having a Microsoft moment there, or what?
Goodbye, IE. Goodbye, Firefox. Hello, Google Chrome.
Er . . . Google Chrome, dandy in most respects, doesn’t display RSS feeds properly. It also has a “proxy resolution” feature that makes it extremely slow to open certain web sites. I’m now trying out a browser originally designed for the Mac, Apple Safari.
Days like this, I can understand how Mac users get to be such self-righteous assholes.
Update (12/30/08): Screw you, Mac users. Not only are you self-righteous assholes, Apple Safari crashes. Firefox never did that. Dear readers, any suggestions?