Bookmarks vaporized

(Time for another sonorous blast about the VAST and INCREDIBLE superiority of Internet-Explorer from my all-knowing siblings.
The fact I’ve used Internet-Explorer and found it wanting compared to my Mozilla-code based browsers — FireFox (WOOPS; “Foxfire”), Flock, and Netscape 9.0 — is irrelevant.
Granny thinks of Microsoft and computers as the same as General Mills and cereal; which means there can’t possibly be better alternatives, that -a) don’t muck up things like Internet-Explorer does, and/or -b) Internet-Explorer isn’t supported by my blog-site, and they recommended FireFox.
No matter Internet-Explorer won’t let me add pictures to my blog.
Internet-Explorer is God’s own browser, and the fact I don’t use and prefer something else just proves I’m stupid and of-the-Devil.

AND SO IT GOES. FireFox works better than Internet-Explorer.
Use BlogSpot and you’re gonna hafta switch.
But if all you’re gonna do is hit the fatcat NASCAR sites, I guess IE is good enough.
I use FireFox as my default browser; Internet-Explorer for just my Trains Magazine web-sites, which were apparently written for Internet-Explorer, and don’t work under FF (today).
All my FireFox bookmarks (“favorites” for you IE guys) are vaporized (Cue sonorous blustering that this would never happen with IE, but I humblee submit it could).
Delete all the recently bookmarked sites from your “recently bookmarked” folder, and you’re deleting your bookmarks.
It’s like trashing all the memorized phone-numbers from your cellphone phonebook.
“Ya don’t know you’re trashing your bookmarks until they’re gone,” I said to my wife.
And I have my doubts about Internet-Explorer flagging this action with “Are ya sure ya wanna do this?”
So far I’ve restored about a third of my bookmarks — there were only about 30 — the ones I use, like Google, and the FlagOut log-in. Also the Facebook log-in, and my blog-fiddle sites; e.g. “Create Post” and “Manage Posts” (edit).
NASCAR is not a bookmark, nor is http://www.thelittletwerp.com/.
Restoring things wasn’t that hard, since FireFox saves all my web-site tabs. All I had to do is activate the tab, and it had the web-address for bookmarking.
Don’t know as anyone understands this yet — never having to log in. FireFox saves my tabs, so FlagOut and Facebook are always open. I never have to log in.
I have the passwords and log-ins on small pieces of paper attached to my monitor, but only hafta use ‘em if I have to pull-the-plug and reboot. And more-than-likely FireFox will “restore previous session.”

STORY TIME
Linda is using Internet-Explorer 6.0 on a PC, and her “Scrabulous” game (computerized Scrabble®) is demanding she update her FlashPlayer®.
Okay, she does that — and keeps getting a message to update her FlashPlayer.
“I already did,” she shouts.
She opens her Scrabulous with her FireFox and no message.
No comment, I think.
Okay, so FireFox probably has a FlashPlayer plug-in that’s overriding everything.
“Gotta make this work with Internet-Explorer,” she says.
Again, no comment; maybe FireFox is the better browser.
She had to upgrade to IE 8.0, which apparently has the required FlashPlayer plug-in. No more message.
“Another FireFox upgrade,” I shout. “That’s twice this week.
Back when I used IE I never had any automatic upgrades.”

All my siblings refer to the Internet browser FireFox as “Foxfire,” as a put-down.

RE: “If all you’re gonna do is hit the fatcat NASCAR sites......” —My all-knowing, blowhard brother-from-Boston, the macho ad-hominem king, who noisily badmouths everything I do or say, is a NASCAR-dad. NASCAR-driver Jeff Gordon is “the little twerp;” a chronic whiner and cheater. (The link is invalid.)

“IE” is Internet-Explorer; “FF” is FireFox. (I’ve had to fiddle this blog for Internet-Explorer users, since most are using IE, and IE mucks up HTML tags; messed-up display. —FF doesn’t.)

“Trains Magazine” has various web-sites that don’t work correctly under FireFox. (I’m a railfan, and have been since I was a child.)

“FlagOut” is our family’s web-site, 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 15 in 1969.)

“Linda” is my wife of 41+ years. She has her own computer, a Windows® PC (personal-computer).