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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.\u00a0 When I started Firefox this morning, the changes had disappeared.\u00a0 WTF?<\/p>\n
So I Googled “firefox won’t save bookmarks” and learned: 1) it’s a well-known problem; 2) the fix is ridiculously user-unfriendly.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 But if you elect to import new bookmarks into Firefox, you’ll first have to delete the existing ones.<\/p>\n
Jesus H. Christ, Mozilla developers, were you having a Microsoft moment there, or what?<\/p>\n
Goodbye, IE. Goodbye, Firefox. Hello, Google Chrome.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Er . . . Google Chrome, dandy in most respects, doesn’t display RSS feeds properly.\u00a0 It also has a “proxy resolution” feature that makes it extremely slow to open certain web sites.\u00a0 I’m now trying out a browser originally designed for the Mac, Apple Safari.<\/p>\n Days like this, I can understand how Mac users get to be such self-righteous assholes.<\/p>\n Update (12\/30\/08):<\/em><\/span> Screw you, Mac users. Not only are you self-righteous assholes, Apple Safari crashes. Firefox never did that. Dear readers, any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00a0 When I started Firefox this morning, the changes had disappeared.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[34,32,33,31,36,35],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","category-a-series-of-tubes","tag-apple-safari","tag-firefox","tag-google-chrome","tag-internet-explorer","tag-mac","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}