The Glade 4.0

I finally am breaking down and upgrading to Firefox 8.0 or whatever is the latest version. I think I've identified why this bugs me so much - it must be something to do with my innate conservatism. Nothing should ever change. It works well enough, why should I bother? But, no, horribly coded sites crash repeatedly and force me to upgrade ... with no particular guarantee that it's going to work better when I do. So, this better **** work. I'm tired of crashing when all I'm just trying to do a bit of **** simple research in my underwear.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Uh...Your browser shouldn't be crashing no matter how badly written a page is. I think you've got something else going on here.

1. Launch a command line.
2. Cd to the firefox program dir. Probably this is:
   
   Code:
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\
3. Run "firefox -ProfileManager"
4. Create a new profile and select it. See if the problem goes away. If not, try this:
5. Run "firefox -ProfileManager -safe-mode". Again, use the new, clean profile. This will eliminate any possible complications from corrupted profile data, bad plugins, whatever.

If you're still getting crashes with a fresh profile and no plugins or add-ons enabled, then I suspect a deeper problem with your computer, whether on the software or the hardware end. Malware, perhaps?

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Well, the reason I thought it was the site is because the site I'm using - newspaperarchive.com - is horribly written in some other ways. I just updated Adobe Acrobat Reader, and I think that was the problem. I should have figured that out, because after doing a hard shut down a couple of times, it told me that Adobe was still open, even though I didn't see it.

If it still crashes today, I'll give that profile thing a try, thanks.

Edit: See, this is is why I hate to upgrade. Sure, now it's not crashing (at least looking at the first couple of pages, but ... the "Snapshot Tool" is gone. It was a handy little thing that I could use to mark an article in the newspaper and then copy and paste it in another file. Now, there's no more Snapshot tool - the icon is simply gone. I can copy and paste, but all I get is the text, with certain OCR errors that are inevitable in a 75-year old newspaper.

NOTHING SHOULD EVER CHANGE.

Move along, nothing to see here, just a rant, thanks.

2nd edit: Ah, there's the snapshot tool - it's only available in the Reader application, not in a browser window. And, not in the toolbar, but only through the Edit menu. Gee, thanks, Adobe, now I have to save everything locally and go through an extra three steps or so to do what took me one step before - until it crashed. Can't have everything, I guess.

_________________
This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge