Browsing Frustration(s):
First point. When I find new, and potentially interesting sites, I have a habit of leaving them in a tab and going about my business as usual — the idea being that I can later go back and evaluate whether they are worthy of bookmarking. The session saver extension for FireFox helps, because I can close FireFox, fire it up again later and all the tabs I left open will still be there. Great.
Except, I also have a habit of asking WinXP to do more than it can cope with (too many simultaneous operations, and commands in rapid succession) when it’s already strained under the load of something or the other. Thus, lockups and program shutdowns are rife at times. Sadly, FireFox is a frequent victim; when this occurs current sessions aren’t saved and relaunching after such an event only brings up the tabs from the previous normal exit. Solution? Troll through the inhumanely lengthy history? NOooooo!
Second point. I accidentally clicked the ‘clear cookies’ button this morning, effectively turning the day’s browsing experience into a game of something akin to minesweeper. Deny. Deny. Deny. Accept. Deny. Deny. (I avoid cookies when I can, as should you.) Inevitably, some sites — straight from hell — blow up in your face when you ‘deny’. “You must have for the site to be able to work”, it’s absolutely impossible for a site to functino without those all-important cookies. Hold still while I rip you a new one won’t ya?
