When a program crashes in Vista, the OS attempts to “find a solution” to the problem. For the first time yesterday a “solution” was found to a Firefox crash. The “solution” presented was to upgrade to the newer version of Firefox. A handy link to to the Mozilla site was even given to me. Here’s the rub, I’m running the latest version of Firefox; no upgrade is available. Does Vista know something I don’t? Don’t get me wrong, this is all a great idea but it needs to work in order to be helpful. I was sure to click on the “Provide Feedback” link and let Microsoft know just what I thought of their “solution”.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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