firefox, why you tryin to hurt my heart?

So some time last night, Firefox started freaking out on me.  The automatic Google-search in the search bar to the right of the location bar? disabled itself.  I had to install a whole specific Google toolbar.  Then when I try to customize my toolbars (and put the Google bar up where the search bar used to be), it works, but never stays that way when I close Firefox and reopen it again.  Frustrating, but I can live with it.

Now today it's stopped allowing me to set bookmarks.  I click 'bookmark this page' and I get the popup box asking me what folder to put the bookmark in, but when I click 'OK', the box doesn't go away and the bookmark doesn't set.  I thought maybe I had too many bookmarks, so I deleted one and tried to add one back -- didn't work.  I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox -- same story.

Help!

no spoilers here

Following PotC:DMC, I've been rather gorging myself on piratefic.  Granted, most of this was written following the first movie by people other than yourselves, but I must nevertheless make the following plea:

For the LOVE OF GOD, please don't call Norrington a 'teetotaller'.  I don't mean to get into a discussion of whether he is or isn't one -- that's not the point.  The point is, the word 'teetotaller' is thought to have originated with the temperance movement of the 1830's.  1830's.  We (at least I) don't know precisely when PotC:tCotBP is supposed to have taken place, but listen, y'all, for sure it's not as late as the damn nineteenth century.  The wigs! the frock coats! the buckle shoes! the freakin' tricorn hats!  [ETA:  Also:  the flag flying at Norrington's promotion ceremony is the Union Flag in the pre-1801 design which lacked the St Patrick's cross representing Ireland.]

Memo to the writers, Gore Verbinski, and Lucinda Dryzek (who gets less blame because she was only eleven or so at the time):  you all committed a similar anachronism when wee!Elizabeth told wee!Will, "It's okay".

Thank you.