Firefox went ahead and upgraded me to 20.0 and now all is screwed up

[freshwest]

38. What machine (display, desktop, etc.) are you using now?

I've gone through the older Mac, the ones with the monitor and the floppy discs to the 'It comes in colors' monitor and CPU all in one package.

Then went to one of the first iMacs on a pedestal with the more squared screen than the current elongated iMac desktop. That style aggravates me so I've decided to upgrade this one.

They only had 250G when I bought it, but when the HD went down suddenly, and of course it was past the Applecare protection program, and I had not backed up despite having a 250G MyBook, I just freaked.

Fortunately someone sent me to a repair shop who not only put in another 250G HD, but was able after days blowing a fan on it to keep it cool, they salvaged my 230G. But they warned me to be prepared for when the HD goes down again so I've now got everything backed up on the newer 1TB Passports, which I also use to carry the data with my laptop. I wish I'd gotten the Mac Air, but I wanted the one just before it, the aluminum shell 250G.

When this HD goes, the repair shop will replace it with a 1TB HD which I think is the maximum size for this desktop. I'm planning on keeping this one indefinitely as the shop can upgrade it for me. They can also put a 1TB into the laptop.

Both are too old to be serviced by Apple but are great. Hope if you like your current machine you can upgrade for what you want. Of course this is Intel so if you don't have that, you may want to save up to get another.

You can save money buying refurbished machines directly from Apple. All of mine are refurbished and with the purchase of an Applecare protection contract they'll keep on fixing it for 3 years.

Back to the email problem:

I've found that happens when my fingers accidentally touch the wrong key or more than one. Or hit the key too hard and that sends it off. I still do things at times to change defaults, but it is all my fault. I accidentally disabled images here at DU and was able to get help in W & H from those who are really good with computers.

Holding down a key longer or hitting it too hard can enable F functions or weirdly enough - when double tapping on a folder, it goes to change an option inside the folder that I can't even see so I don't know how to put it back to my choice.

I have set a few things in the Universal Access file in System Preferences to account for my sloppy keyboarding and erratic mouse functions. I don't have the great dexterity I once had, although many times I can click and type much faster than even Intel can process it.

Your 'user error' may be from that. Sometimes I have mouse trouble and do strange things. Are you having any trouble with the mouse?