VIOLA

Last night (Tuesday, August 18, 2009) I managed to make FireFox® the great Internet browser it was a few weeks ago.
I installed FireFox about two-three years ago. I did so mainly because my BlogSpot blog site was no longer going to support Microsoft Internet-Explorer.
And so it was, I guess. Internet-Explorer wouldn’t even display the add-picture tab for BlogSpot. I had to switch to FireFox.
FireFox was also highly recommended by a friend who’s a Windows PC user (I’m MAC).
At first I was using two browsers at once, then three.
All had different home-pages.
One was Netscape 9.0, which seemed to be a rebadge of FireFox. My family’s web-site was my home-page on that.
Earlier versions of Netscape also had an e-mail program, but 9.0 was just the browser. —My e-mail is in NS 7.2.
FireFox had the web-cam at Horseshoe Curve as my home-page. Horseshoe Curve, near Altoona, PA, is by far the BEST railfan spot I’ve ever been to — I’ve been a railfan all my life.
I installed Flock® when it came out — it seemed to be a rebadge of FireFox. I think my home-page on that was my MyCast® weather-radar.
I think Flock has gone defunct, although I still have it.
I also have Netscape 9.0, although buried.
FireFox would update almost weekly. I’ve installed a slew of updates.
One included a feature that made FireFox superior, my default browser. It shoved all the others aside.
This was keeping all your multiple tabs open for restart.
At shut-down, it would ask if I wanted to do this.
Of course! By doing so I no longer had to log in to sites like Facebook or my family’s web-site.
It also opened the Curve web-cam at the 2X expanded size, where I’d set it earlier.
Recently I’d installed another FireFox upgrade: 3.5.2.
Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.......
It had added an add-tab button, but no more multiple tabs.
“Do ya wanna save all your tabs for reopening on restart?”
“Yes;” but NOTHING. Nothing but home-page.
“What happened to your greatest feature; the time-saver?”
I set about writing a question, but Mozilla.org had a slew of barriers, and no box for technical questions.
I tried an experiment; reconfiguring my FireFox general preferences, but still NOTHING.
Further inquiry suggested FireFox was aware of the glitch, and they had solved it.
Hell-oooo; knock-knock. Anybody home?
My wife came in, and cranked FireFox 3.5.2 into Google on her PC.
A hit. A girl noting the same problem. The girl thereupon began trying a number of changes to her FireFox preferences, and discovered by clicking “remember history” in her security preferences, she got back to square-one.
I tried the same. Fired up FireFox and all my tabs were still there — just like old times.
“It shouldn’t be this hard,” she said.

• “BlogSpot” is this blog site.
• Horseshoe Curve, west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is 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. —Horseshoe Curve has a web-cam, but it’s awful.
• My wife of 41+ years is “Linda.”