Bloody Updates (Firefox&Twitter News)

I was quietly planning to have some fun with my future petticoat/skirt for my V&A dress today, but I hadn't counted on adorable [Yes, the Sarc font is firmly ON today, so if you know and love anyone working in IT... Better skip most of this one] IT engineers who seem to think that uniformity is something to look for in computers.

Blah!

I'm rather good with computers, but more and more, I've got to bloody waste hours finding hacks and tricks to fix things.

I'm entitled to growl at Microsoft because I paid for their lousy Windows 8 (still bloody hiccoughing from time to time, and if I meet one of their engineers, the poor thing will be read the riot act in such a way that s/he'll feel like being on the hull of the Enterprise at Warp 9.9!).

The others, I should kindly shut my mouth as they're programmes that can be used for free...

Yes.

I'm happy and grateful for that, but that doesn't mean that I have to be silent and not complain when things aren't good.

First tiny surprise this week: Twitter.

I haven't updated to their new (yuck!!!) profile, but the new layout on the homepage means that the place where my customized Theme background image is tiled shows a bit. Since I'm still a tad OCD, I looked for a better, bigger image to replace the one I've had almost since the creation of my account in 2011, and I did find one! Only to discover that I cannot upload it.

I could change the photo and header in my profile, but my background photo is holding by a pixel. That's not the end of the world.

Yes.

I know.

Ta.

But... it'd be nice to be able to keep the things we like.

Free customization's better (even the silly bunnies over at Google got this since IF you use their browser, you're now allowed to customize your Google Search Homepage again, thanks to an add-on).

So, I'll have to live with a tiling line on my background photo on Twitter... until they decide to force me to use the new layout everywhere on their site.

Don't these engineers know that most people are creatures of habit? Being rhetorical here...

And then... Firefox joined the fun. If one can call that fun, that is.

This morning, I got a message that an update was available, and I clicked "Install". Ah! Great way to spend hours looking for a way to fix the new things I positively HATED.

I knew I had to keep the update for security reasons, but I loathed losing the orange Firefox button, and the way the favourites are displayed in that "Australis" version were bugging me beyond words (and I am not joking).

Merlin be praised, I finally located an add-on that fixes the update's silliness. You can find it here and that allowed me to not go looking for Voodoo dolls to curse someone.

Security and updates, yes, but bloody stop making everything look the same.

And don't forget the cardinal rule: if it ain't broke, don't bloody fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There. Off the soap box.