Firefox 3 is omnipotent...
 

Actually, something really weird just happened, and I was wondering if anyone else has had problems like this: My bookmark icons all changed to the Nukearpower.com icon earlier today, and now their all normal again...Anyone have anything similar happen to them?


Now, on to why FF is omnipotent...

I was uninstalling some junk just now, and I accidentally hit the restart now button. I had Firefox open, and it gave me the "Save session?" message, and I clicked cancel in a desperate attempt to halt the restart...And Firefox halted the restart. If this isn't something new, please, let me know, but I've never seen that happen before.

It isn't new to my knowledge. When you press the cancel button, it supposed to stop, and it does. Though save session is pretty much just as good. The people who make Firefox aren't complete ninnies.

I could be wrong though...

No, I mean it stopped the entire reboot. Like, my computer was about to shutdown and Firefox was like, "Screw you Windows, this idiot wants more internets."

And Windows cowered in fear.

Yours is not the only browser to become all powerful. For some time now my IE has been sentient. It regularly tries to switch to tabbed browsing, open the calculator on its own, open itunes on its own, randomly switch to google without me telling it to and once it even shut down the whole computer just cos it could.

I have yet to solve this problem.

Sometimes a program that the computer can't shut down without literally stopping it in it's tracks gives you the options of "End now" or "Cancel" just because that's the default for ending a program forcefully. It just is a happy coincidence that "Cancel" stops Windows shutdown.

Happens to me sometimes too.

Any program can stop Windows from shutting down, because Windows is a wimp and if any program says it doesn't want to stop running, it will obediently stop the shutdown. I always have to hang around waiting while my computer tediously shuts down, because if I don't, some random program will hold up the whole process indefinitely.

Now, if you can get Firefox to stop Windows from crashing, then you're onto something.

Freedom to open Google is the right of all sentient beings, and apparently IE has become sentient.

Your only options are to coexist with your new digital neighbor, or murder it.

That's the same reason that I hate my computer. My firefox use to randomly open itunes too but it hasn't done it since upgraded to Firefox 3.

We eventually established a peace treaty. It's not an easy peace, there's the occasional border skirmish. It's more of a cold war really. I just know the bastards planning something, but I daren't make a move against it.

I've kept my IE only for the sake of leverage when negotiations between me and Firefox/Chrome break down.

It's not much of a threat, as it really only hurts me, but they haven't figured that out yet. ;)