FireFox update

Yesterday morning (Thursday, August 28, 2008) FireFox (“Fox-Fire”) updated for at least the tenth time.
I installed FireFox some time ago; a free download.
I installed it for three reasons:
—1) My friend Charlie Gardiner had it on his PC, and said it was better than Microsoft’s Internet-Explorer. (Although he codes his web-site for the vast majority of Grannies that still use Internet-Explorer.)
—2) My blog-site was suggesting FireFox instead of Internet-Explorer, and Internet-Explorer wasn’t displaying their “add-picture” icon (although I still have to configure for IE users, since IE misreads my HTML).
—3) The Famblee-site was gonna no longer support Netscape, and was suggesting FireFox or Flock as alternatives.
So at least once a month I’d get the “do ya wanna update” message, followed by “FireFox will update with the next fire-up” if I hold off.
Updates are free and automatic — it’s just a browser, and was free to start with.
But this was the first update that changed the appearance of the browser-display.
Previous updates have been background; e.g. security updates, etc.
Gone are the turgid old Gates rectangular buttons, replaced by the glowing ovoid buttons of Apple’s OS-X.
(Of course, Vista may have this too — I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft and its cronies to copy an inspired idea.
The Apple graphical-interface got copied, as did the mouse; another inspired Apple idea.)
The update maintained everything from the past; like my bookmarks and homepage (which of course is the Curve web-cam).
Every time FireFox updates I get a “newest features” page.
I immediately zap that, which means many of the 89 bazilyun bells and whistles FireFox has aren’t used.
All I use it for mainly is its browser-function; and I don’t have to type in a web-site, since I usually have it as a bookmark.
I have an entire toolbar folder of Google bookmarks.
But I did notice it’s now asking if I wanna restore all my open tabs for the next fire-up.
Nice idea — no longer do I hafta open a MyWay tab.
I also noticed that a copy/paste of a web-address is no longer the “Geneva” font. It’s whatever font I was using, usually “charcoal” — this saves dorking around.
The Famblee web-site is “Flock,” an entirely different browser. So my Flock homepage is the FlagOut log-in page. (My old Netscape homepage was the FlagOut front page, but that was set up before MyFamblee initiated the log-in requirement.)

“FireFox” is a web-browser, as are “Flock,” “Internet-Explorer” (“IE”) and “Netscape.”

RE: “Fox-Fire.........” —My siblings are all mispronouncing “FireFox” as a put-down.

“Charlie Gardiner” and I both graduated Houghton College in western New York, from where I graduated with a BA in 1966. I’ve never regretted it, although I didn’t graduate with their approval. Houghton is a religious liberal-arts college. (We both graduated in the Class of 1966.)

The “Famblee-site” is our family’s web-site at MyFamily.com. Our site is named “FlagOut,” named that because I had a mentally-retarded kid-brother (Down Syndrome) who lived at home, and loudly insisted the flag be flown every day. “Flag-Out! Sun comes up, the flag goes up! Sun goes down, the flag comes down.” I fly the flag partly in his honor. (He died at 14 in 1968.)

Bill “Gates” is the CEO of Microsoft. “OS-X” is the current Apple-Computer operating system. A “PC” is the usual Windows computer (I drive an Apple Macintosh, much to the loud disapproval of all my nay-saying siblings, who drive PCs).

“Vista” is the newest version of Microsoft “Windows.” (A response to Apple’s OS-X.)

The “Curve,” is “Horseshoe Curve,” west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. (I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.) —Horseshoe Curve has a web-cam, but it’s awful.