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Being somewhat excitable when it comes to new browsers, I upgraded to Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 two days ago, and in the process lost my beloved A9 toolbar

Shit, is what I said at the time, although I managed to moderate my language when I emailed A9 pleading for a rapid fix. Along with the toolbar I have three firefox extensions - Forecastfox, Tabbrowser Preferences and ChatZilla. All three survived the upgrade.

The loss of the toolbar is grievous because it holds all my bookmarks - that way I have the same set of bookmarks whether I am using my work laptop or my personal one. A clever feature, although I have wondered in the past if I might be placing too much reliance in someone else's add-in (admittedly my employer's,) and thus heading for a fall.

My work PC is still on Firefox 1.06, so the bookmarks are rinky-dinky. Ok, not so bad then - work PC okay, home PC hobbled. But then yesterday my Tabbrowser extension imploded at work. Imploded in the sense that it tried to update itself, gave me a technie error message involving Chrome (oh, so 80's dahhling) and then got deleted. I am not sure whether firefox killed it for misbehaving or it committed hari-kari with the shame of a botched update.

Either way it is an ex-extension, has ceased to be and is resisting attempts at resuss.

Two unpleasant firefox incidents in two days. I wonder what will happen today...