Okay, fingers crossed, I now have a functional version of Firefox that does not mangle all the graphics into abstract art and runs at a decent speed and I DID IT without losing my million username/passwords in LJlogin, none of my extensions and only had to redownload/install a few Greasemonkey scripts.

It took freaking forever though, I was ready to pull out my hair. I highly, HIGHLY recommend FEBE - Firefox Environment Backup Extension, OPIE - Ordered Preference Import/Export and Password Exporter. OPIE didn't end up helping me in the end, as it must be one of the preference files for something that's messed up (only once preferences were installed in the new FF install did it screw up all over again), so I couldn't recover all my preferences, but it was having to find and download everything again and then key in a billion usernames and passwords that had me so discouraged, so these extensions definitely saved me a lot of grief.

Between that and a teething baby, the last few days have been SO NOT FUN and thus my presence on the 'net was very, very scarce.

Now I need to catch up on LJ/IJ so people don't think I've been ignoring them and catch up on comments at FT/FT itself for the same reason.

Happy Valentine's Day, belatedly!

Also, meme ganked from kikithepirate:

SCATTERGORIES... It's harder than it looks!
*Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things... nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl question.

What is your name? Jessi
1. Four-letter word: Junk.
2. Vehicle: Jeep.
3. City: Jerusalem.
4. Boy name: James.
5. Girl Name: Jennifer.
6. Drink: Jägermeister.
7. Occupation: Jockey.
8. Something you wear: Jumper.
9. Foods: Jalapeño.
10. Something found in a bathroom: Jewelry box.
11. Reason for being late: Jam in traffic.
12. Cartoon Character: Jerry.
13. Something you shout: JESUS!
14. Animal: Jackrabbit.
15. Body part: Jaw.
16. Word to describe you: Jovial.

Okay, so recently (within the last 24-48 hours) Firefox has started being a total whore, which is shocking and I have NEVER had problems with it! At first I thought it was my computer and a memory issue, but everything else seems to be running fine, programs open promptly, respond promptly to actions, etc., so I've temporarily ruled it out and turned toward the problem being Firefox. I can open multiple tabs in Netscape quickly with quick page loads (I did so for a comparison), but not in Firefox, it DRAGS, both in openign the tab and loading the page. When graphics load in Firefox, they are slightly distorted (especially icons of people's faces), but they look just fine in Netscape, just as they do when viewing them on my harddrive.

I've already reinstalled the damn thing, and web searching for others having this/a similar issue is not producing results, so anyone have any ideas what the deal is? Suggestions as to things to try?

I cannot give up all my extensions and go back to using Netscape. >(