smart computer use?

What the hell is Fmail?

I’ve a got a story for you.

Recently, I tried to punch in “gmail” in the Firefox address bar, thinking that since Firefox is smart it’ll just automatically take me over to my Gmail account.

Well… I typed Gmail wrong and instead typed in “fmail” and hit the Enter key.

Nuts. After watching the screen trying to load some web page, and watching in awe realizing that I had typed in “fmail” instead of “gmail”, I figured “What the heck. I’m just gonna sit and see what happens”.

Loading continues…

Fmail has a home page. There is a good ol’ landing page for Fmail.

It’s a Facebook email app. Nice. Alright, I guess I’m not really interested in email apps at this current time. After 8+ years of battling with trying to find the ultimate email app, I’ve ended up using a free web app provided by Google. Yeah, good times. I’m not going to even think about trying out Fmail, even though I ended up their by accident.

Cripes. I gotta be more careful when just entering simple keywords in the Firefox address bar.

Back to the World Series. Go Rays!

Alright. Maybe I was too harsh. I’ve quickly noticed that Fmail appears to interface with Gmail in Facebook. Props. That is a good platform to work from for Facebook, bringing in Gmail and all. I was too harsh. Yeah I like Fmail. I should maybe log into Facebook more often.

Lately I have been noticing a strange glitch in trying to access Godaddy.com. It seems like pretty much any time that I try to view Godaddy.com in Firefox I will get this Connection Interrupted message on the screen:

I try to clear my browser cache and other settings just to see if maybe there is a hiccup that is causing this, but it never really seems to work.

Also, I usually check to see if I can also get to Godaddy.com in Internet Explorer 7 just for kicks, even though I don’t use IE7 much. Any time that I get this Connection Interrupted message in FireFox, I also cannot get Godaddy.com to load in IE7.

Hmm….

I am not really sure what could be causing this glitch, but it’s pretty annoying. It seems like any time that I need to hop onto Godaddy.com to do some quick domain configuration operations that I end up not being able to get to the site at all.

After a couple weeks of dealing with this random error on the Godaddy.com site, I tried to view the site in the new Google Chrome browser.

Viewing the site in Google Chrome seems to “bring it back”, so to speak, when I cannot view it in FireFox. For example, when I get the Connection Interrupted error in FireFox, I open up Chrome and go to Godaddy.com. The site loads, and then afterwards I can view Godaddy in FireFox again.

Weird.

Any input on this error would be appreciated. I can’t seem to find much info about how to resolve this issue when searching the web, even though I find many comments about people with similar issues.

I like Firefox. Probably my favorite browser. Firefox has come a long way since version 1.

Get ready for version 3 of Firefox. Mozilla will probably release it by June.

Additions boost security and allow users to run Web sites when they are not connected to the Internet. Mozilla also says Firefox 3 uses less computer memory than Firefox 2.

Nice. I like the idea of Firefox using less memory. At times it is the single most resource using application I am running. I do, however, tend to have 10 or more tabs open at any given time.

Read the rest here.

Alright. Here’s a classic tale of computing.

Approximately 38 minutes ago I grabbed the laptop (the one I’m using right now), flipped it open, and thought to myself “hey, I should email that Doom rickroller video to some people right now”. How I came to this thought is a much longer and different story. I’ll leave it for a different time. If you are wondering what a rickroller is, check this out. I found the whole rickroller thing to be pretty amusing.

Back to this story.

I opened up Firefox. All my tabs were reloaded from the night before, including the tab with the Doom rickroller video from youtube. I then opened up gmail and started to compose a message.

Upon hitting ctrl+v to paste the rickroller video link into the message field, Firefox just pretty much froze up. Weird. I waited minute just in case it was a javascript thing or something. No go. I then tried to close Firefox. No go.

This laptop, although dependable and pretty nice, can get kinda flaky when it’s left on and goes in and out of hibernation a lot over an extended period of time. Being the somewhat impatient and reckless computer user that I can be sometimes, I just held down the power button and killed the machine.

Upon restart, the machine crashed and rebooted. I was asked politely by Vista to go into a startup repair mode. Okay. Sounds good. I’ve never seen this before but it sounds like a good idea. I ran startup repair. The machine sat and thought, using a load bar to show me that it was thinking about something. Then it prompted me to run system restore.

No way. I didn’t want to run that. I had just installed Propellerheads Reason 4, and didn’t feel like needing to reinstall Reason if the system restore rolled back too far. I hit Cancel.

Now, you might be thinking I’m an idiot. Truth is, sometimes I just don’t care if my computers crash. I should maybe be more concerned.

I then had to sit and wait for about 20 minutes while my machine completed the startup repair operation. I had no idea how long it was going to take until it ended.

All I wanted to do was email the rickroller video link. That was just too much to ask.

Anyways, after the repair completed and shut down, I started the computer and decided to type this. Good stuff I guess.