I don’t think I like what Firefox 1.0 is doing to my machine. I know I don’t like it telling me “you are missing plugins” every time I load a page with Flash. (If I wanted a browser with Flash, I would open the page in IE.) I don’t think I’m going to use Live Bookmarks at all. It also feels like Firefox 1.0 is a bigger RAM hog than the previous version. (When you have just 64MB of RAM, a little difference matters a lot.) I think I’m going to “downgrade” and go back to 0.9.2, which I still have an installer on this machine. I’m going to try to back up as much of my data as possible, just in case I have to uninstall 1.0 in order to reinstall an earlier version. I definitely want to get this fixed before tomorrow, though - I don’t want to spend my day off trying to repair my computer!

Added: Well, that went very smoothly - I didn’t even have to reboot! While I was backing up my Firefox profile, though, I noticed that I only had about 130MB of space free on my C:\ drive. (It’s a 4-gig partition.) I deleted some software I’m not using, deleted duplicate copies of photographs that have already been posted online, and went looking for more ways to free up space. To my surprise, the root directory was harboring 190MB of file*.chk files and another 200MB is tied up in save2dsk.bin. (Yes, I’m running Windows 98 on a laptop.) I blasted those .chk files but I’m not too sure about the other one. A trip through the first several Google results reveals that it’s unclear whether or not this file is necessary for hibernation. I’m not sure how it got to be (or why it needs to be) 200MB, but I do put the laptop to sleep regularly (shutting it off after a couple of days) so I don’t want to mess with that. I now have 444MB free, so hopefully my swap file will be happy for a while.