Fighting Fire with Firefox
February 16, 2008
The Mozilla Foundation (MoFo for short) and I have always had a love-hate relationship. Namely, they hate me, and I love them.
It all started back in the days of yore, when Firefox had been out for about 4 years. Mozillions of people gabbed endlessly about how Firefox was infinitely better than Internet Explorer in every conceivable way. Usually, it is my policy to ignore fanboys (and any cockgobbling, asinine webcomics made by them and their fellow nintentards), but I decided to give it a try anyway.
I find that internet browsers and operating systems are a lot like religions- you tend to be faithful to what you were brought up with. Since I had been using IE exclusively, Firefox was foreign and, in my opinion, inferior to IE. I uninstalled it after two weeks.
About a month or so later, firefox 2.0 came out, and I decided to reinstall it. This time, I kept firefox on my computer for a longer time. I had became more familiar with the tabs system (thanks to IE7), which gave me the incentive to keep it on my computer. The party ended when my computer got more viruses than your mom gets on the average Friday night, and I had to wipe it.
After reinstalling Windows, I again reverted back to IE for a year before getting Firefox for a third time. Unlike my previous two experiences, I found myself to be a savvy user of Firefox. I had add-ons coming out of my GreaseMonkeyed ass. I was getting close to hitting the 10,000 webpages mark on StumbleUpon.
Sadly, the internet is no fairy tale. One day, Firefox crapped out on me, and refused to open, even in Safe Mode. I uninstalled it yet again, assuming I could simply redownload it through Internet Explorer. This was not the case. When I tried to download Firefox again, Download Wizard refused to open up, my computer won’t extract the saved file, and it pretends that it is corrupt.
I was not content with IE. I was willing to download Ubuntu in order to get Foxxy Browse back. It was the ultimate act of sacrifice- I wouldn’t be able to use any Adobe products, nor could I play computer games. I wouldn’t be able to email any files to people I know, but it would be worth having Firefox.
However, Linus Torvalds had other plans. In the middle of downloading the 300 MB file, the download window stopped for no reason. So here I am with no Firefox, no Ubuntu, and all my MP3’s changed to .ogg format. I guess you can’t cut out your own heart because it bleeds on your dreams.
Tags: crop circle, firefox, internet explorer, tragedy, ubuntu
February 16, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Wow DT, I don’t know what to say. I never had that problem. I agre though, I didn’t like it at first either, but it grew on me. And since then I’ve never had any problems with it.
WC
Maybe it’s because of my computer? I haven’t the slightest cloo.
February 16, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Same here, I’ve never had problems as crazy as yours. Firefox was running smoothly since the first day I installed it. I bet there’s a real fox in your computer messing up your hardware.
I know. It’s a puzzler.
February 19, 2008 at 6:09 am
The Cap’n ‘ere,
Being a total computer imbecile, if ever I have a problem, I immediately contact one of my whizz-kid sons.
I never even had a computer until I was fifty. And at my age, it’s getting hard to learn.
Yeah, the older you are, the harder it is to learn. In fact, some people, like Abraham Lincoln, Richard the Lionhearted, and Genghis Khan never owner computers- probably because they were so confusing!
February 19, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I wanted to know if in that binary code at the top of your page you are trying to dedicate your love to me?? I have been going over it now for like 4 minutes, and I think it’s definitely a message meant for me, and I like that you said you will buy me designer jeans and lots of strawberry mentos. Let me know if I’m right.
Legend has it that if you can read what it says, you will unify the nine kingdoms of Azgarrgoroth.
February 22, 2008 at 12:20 am
well there is always safari and opera!
Actually, I am considering getting opera. For now though, it’s still IE.
February 27, 2008 at 12:53 am
Ha…what a last line, some err..excellent imagery there..
Now is Foxy Brown the one who’s jail all the time? ….
I think she is. Not sure, though.
March 3, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I’ve never had that problem and I’ve ran Firefox on Windows and Ubuntu. It could just be a bug.
It’s probably my computer. I have Opera now, which makes the hurt go away.
March 18, 2008 at 4:11 am
Aha, that’s good. But IE has the tendency to annoy me a lot, so there
I don’t know exactly how to say it, but you’re making a serious understatement.
March 21, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Firefox rules, dude.
IE? God, it’s slow and pulls in so much extraneous bullshit that it’s not even worth using, IMHO
Death to IE for an internet browser . . .
~m
Sorry man. I’ve moved on to Opera, which I love like a Puerto Rican boyfriend.