Oh, come on...

[davidgillon]

 I've spent most of the past couple of days in bed with some sort of sinus bug, so I'm a bear of little brain at the moment.

Get's to 6PM and I'm feeling a bit better, so I wobble through to use the net on my computer. Computer is showing the log-on screen, which means it's rebooted since I passed it mid-afternoon when I noticed the process that takes all night to run had finished and left the results to save later when I had more brain... The log-on screen probably means it installed a Windows update, but Kaspersky AV was telling me yesterday I needed to reboot because it had updated, so I did need to do a reboot at some point.

Firefox comes up as things reboot, and reports that it's updated as well, oh joy! Then the error messages start appearing. I think the Kaspersky stuff was just that I hadn't run through the 'Hello, am new wersion of Kaspersky" presentation and okayed everything yet, but I have no idea WTF is going on with Firefox, because about half the pages I try to look at are reporting certificate errors, and I know they're not valid because I can access the same pages on my Kindle, and in Edge (I hate Edge). On top of which it's the big internationally known sites that are falling over, not the individual user ones. I don't know if it's Firefox, Kaspersky or Windows, or some combination of the three and I really don't have the brain for this!!!

Comments

[oursin]

Is Mercury in retrograde or wot? (given my own current computer problems)

Was it you brought to my attention elseweb somebody thinking wheelchairs weren't invented until mid-C20th? - I was checking usage of actual term (vs bath-chair, invalid carriage), and OED cites to John Evelyn's Diaries, 1684, for their earliest example!

[davidgillon]

Yes, the wheelchair thing was me.

1684? You would think they would have worked out wheelchair access by now!