New watch, new Firefox

[susanreads]

My watch stopped and the battery's pretty new so it must be the watch (confirmed by the guy on the market stall with the batteries). Chimes are on holiday till 10th October and Timpsons quoted £56 for a repair, which is more than I've ever paid for a new one (the one I've been using for the past 10 years was a prize), plus it wouldn't be while-you-wait, so: time for a new watch. I've had problems with both plastic and leather straps in the past, and the one that just died has a metal strap, which is great but heavy and they're also expensive, but I found one with a "woven material" strap which is also super cheap, so I'm experimenting with that. (I suspect it's actually plastic, at least in part, but it looks nicer and doesn't feel nasty like your regular plastic strap.) I'll have to wear it for a while before I can tell whether my wrist finds it irritating.

Then I got back to the computer and loaded Firefox and it's changed! Apparently I'm on a beta, which I don't think I asked for, is that random? There's been several changes to the appearance, which I guess I'll get used to, and all my extensions have disappeared aaaaaaaaaa! The only one I was actually using (since Java stopped working months ago) was AdBlock Plus. There are several possible replacements; I picked AdBlock, in the hope that it would work the same and I wouldn't have too much of a learning curve. I like the green thumbs-up on whitelisted sites, i.e. here, but it remains to be seen how easy it is (having lost all my custom filters) to find the culprit if it starts blocking something I need.

PS: via the AdBlock help system, How to stop auto-playing videos (HTML5; I assume they've also got one about how to block Flash). Take that, YouTube!

Comments

[gwendraith]

£56 seems expensive for a watch repair but then it costs me £20 to have my watch battery replaced. The watch is about 12 years old now (a Longines) and bought for me as a treat by my elder son, Ben. It has a stainless steel strap and I love it. I have a couple of fun watches with woven straps and I like them a lot and find them comfortable..

I'm not a fan of Firefox and use Chrome which I love, but then a lot of people don't get on with it and prefer other browsers. I hate it when anything changes, I'm such a dinosaur :)