The Solution to the Firefox URL Bar Issue!

This is about the issue that was freaking me out last night, after I upgraded my browser. The http:// protocol prefix wasn't showing in URLs (it did show https:// though) in the location/address field.

So I found this last night just before I logged off, but I was feeling hyper and cruddy and didn't trust myself to deal with it. (Today I'm sick - just some cruddy little bug, I think, exacerbated by stress.)

The solution is from Nicole Cozma at CNET, here. I'm going to put a summary in this post, just in case they rearrange their site so I can't find it again when I need it. (These things happen.)

( Cut for a summary of the CNET instructions )

Upcoming Fanfiction Challenges

These are all multi-fandom challenges!

purimgifts challenge: Signups open now; close on February 8 (next Wednesday)
Assignments sent out February 9
Assignments due March 3
Pinch hits due March 4-6
Postings made (actually, revealed by mods) March 7, 8, and 9
Author reveal March 10
This one is a little involved. See the rules post for the requirements for the fandom/character requests. Each day's post is one ficlet, 300-1000 words (no more than 1000 words!), and one graphic "of some kind." (Actually, you can make more graphics than that, if you like.)

rarewomen challenge: Signups open now; close February 8 (this coming Wednesday)
Assignments sent out around February 15
Assignments due April 30
Minimum story length: 1000 words
This signup process for this one looks pretty arcane. On the other hand, there are some nifty fandoms in the allowable list, and it looks like at least 100 people have signed up so far.

springkink XI: Prompt collecting now open; closes February 29
Prompt list(s) go(es) up by March 3, 2012 ( (it usually takes several posts ... )
Claiming begins on March 10, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. EST
(IIRC, claiming pretty much stays open up to the due date of the prompt)
Stories/Art will be posted between May 1 and May 31
You may claim as many prompts as you think you can handle. Each prompt may be claimed 6 times (3 claims for fiction, 3 claims for art). The minimum story length is 100 words and no, you need not write smut (I have seen things rated anywhere from G to NC-17).

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From my point of view, this is pretty nifty in terms of spacing out deadlines - there are due dates of early March, late April, and throughout May.