I had a “fatal” laptop crash last fall and got some professional tech* help during the process of working through what happened & I ended up getting a new one. When I asked the tech what he would recommend for helping keep my new laptop safe, the first thing he said was NEVER use Internet Explorer. I wasn’t using it (had Pale Moon), now on Firefox since they have more regular security updates. Just thought I’d pass that little tidbit on about IE. When I lost my volume control, it was while using Firefox & I got it back using the link I referenced. Glad you got yours back so easily!! :-)
*This tech is great - he’s on a monthly contract for regular updates/service & problem solving for a company owned by a relative so it wasn’t somebody I picked up out of the phone book.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. This may be God’s way of giving me a clue as to how to respond my wife akses me what I want for Christmas.
I tried Palemoon after FFox kept breaking too many of its own extensions/add-ons. Palemoon started breaking them around upgrade 20 to 21 or so.
I found another Mozille based browser that I use now. Cyberfox 32-bit. So far, it has kept all of my extensions/add-ons. It follows the Firefox upgrade numbering.
Cyberfox website: