The Day I Nearly Dumped Firefox

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Glyn Mody
May 4, 2011

[ Thanks to E5Rebel for this link. ]

It began, innocuously enough, with a minor upgrade to Firefox 4. Firefox 4.01 apparently dealt with a host of minor bugs, and so I allowed the system to install it without a thought. After all, had there been anything big, I reasoned, it would at least have been version 4.1; 4.01 was clear signal that the changes were minor and would not break anything.

Wrong.

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Glyn Mody

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