Firefox 3.5.5 Add-Ons Problem

After upgrade your Firefox to version 3.5.5, you may face the similar problem when you are trying to update or install new addons or plugins into it. I found a simple solution to solve this problem.

1. Close your Firefox.
2. Go to your Profile folder. Start > Run, then type %APPDATA% and press OK.
3. When the folder popup, choose Mozilla - Firefox - Profiles. Double click on the folder inside the Profiles folder.
4. Rename the following files:
   - extensions.cache to extensionsOLD.cache
   - extensions.ini to extensionsOLD.ini
   - extensions.rdf to extensionsOLD.rdf
   - compatibility.ini to compatibilityOLD.ini
5. The renamed files will be recreated when you open the Firefox.
6. By now you should be able to install any addons for Firefox.
   

Actually you can choose to delete the above files rather than rename them. However, better just keep the old files for some safety reason.

For further reference:
1. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/494891
2. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder

Making First Payment With Registered Letter

The first payment of my study loan will be due on 31st December 2008 which is just half a month to go. As I mentioned in my previous post, I bought the demand draft from bank last Friday for this purpose.

Today, I went to post office to post the bank draft to the authority concern which is Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam (SPA) Negeri Sarawak. I prepared the envelope together with the draft last night.

[Envelope for the bank draft]

[Demand draft slipped into the envelope]

This afternoon when I went to the newly-still-in-progress-renovated Sibu post office, I can't believe the crowd was so tremendous. Well, I know usually post office will be crowded but this seldom happen to stamp selling counter. This afternoon, even the stamp counter was crowded. I thought maybe the counter is still very new, so people choose to use new facility?

After some observation, I discovered that it was not what I thought. The long queue was because stamp fanatics were busy buying first day cover! I waited for about 20 minutes before my turn to be served.

[Long queue at stamp selling counter]

I told the staff on duty, "Register". With her professionalism, she immediately understood what I was trying to say. Ya, I would like to post my bank draft using registered letter because I felt more secure with it.

She quickly took out a register letter's sticker together with a 20 cents stamp to me. "Satu sembilan", she said. So the registered letter costs me RM1.90 with RM1.70 is the register service charge and RM0.20 for postal stamp.

[Minor part of the registered letter's sticker with reference number on it]

She then helped me to tear down part of the sticker and sticked it onto my envelope and put a date stamping onto the receipt which is actually the rear part of the sticker paper.

[Major part of the sticker with barcode on it]

[The registered letter's receipt]

After I stuck the 20 cents stamp on the right top corner of the envelope, I handed it back to the staff in charge. My part was done! I had made my first payment. Now the next thing I should do is pray hard and hope SPA Sarawak will receive my bank draft then issue me an official receipt on my payment!

[The registered letter and it is prepared to be posted!]

Steps of buying registered letter service at post office:

1. Queue at the stamp selling counter and wait for your turn.

2. Once your turn, hand the letter to the staff-in-charge and tell him/her "register" or "surat berdaftar".

3. The staff will scale your letter, then tell you how much you should pay for the service. Just pay the amount.

4. The staff will give you a sticker and a stamp. There are 2 parts of the sticker. Tear the major part with a lot of barcode on it. Then, stick it on your envelope where you wrote the receiver's address. Just stick at any empty space. Put the stamp onto the top right corner too.

5. Hand back the envelope to same staff and take the date-stamped receipt.

Buying Bank Draft

Honestly, this is my first time buying bank draft. Before this, I just heard about it but never saw one.

If you still remembered, in my previous post I mentioned about the state government was chasing on me to pay back my study loan, then you will know what I bought the bank draft for. As the first payment should me make not later than 31st December 2008, therefore I think is about the time I make a move.

Buying bank draft is not as easy as I imagined. What I thought is very simple, go to bank, pay the amount of bank draft we wish to purchase, then the bank will issue us with a voucher-like ticket and that's all.

It is not that simple dude! The exact procedure (according to Sibu Maybank style) :

1. Get a special form called "Application for Remittance" from the express counter.
Gosh! the form look so complicated and so many thing you need to fill in! I hate it but well... no choice, you need to follow procedure.

[Carbon copy of Application for Remittance form - is a big one!]

2. The thing you need to fill in inside the form:

a) Type of remittance you wish to make. There are few types to choose from including Banker's cheque, demand draft, telegraphic transfer, payment order and etc. For my case which I need to pay outside Sibu, the staff told me I should go for Demand Draft. Banker's cheque is for payment within an area, in my case the area is Sibu.

b) Personal particulars including name, occupation, IC Number, address, telephone number and purpose of payment.

c) Beneficiary particulars - I just filled in the name and also the address.

d) Remittance amount

e) Signature

[Fill in the necessary fields]

3. After filled in the form, take a number, wait for your turn.

4. Once your turn, hand the form to the officer in charge. The officer will help you to process.

5. After process, the bank will issue you with a demand draft. Demand draft actually just look like a normal bank cheque but with the word "Demand Draft" printed on top of it and all the necessary information preprinted by the bank.

[A demand draft]

Oh ya, please be reminded, beside the amount of remittance you need to pay, the bank will charge you another small sum of money as stamp duty charge. I thought it is called commission, but the officer filled the extra charge under stamp duty instead of commission. In my case, the charge is RM0.50.

[Stamp duty charge - RM0.50 (Depends on amount of remittance)]

With this demand draft, I will have to post it to Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam Negeri Sarawak soon as first payment of my study loan to avoid me being sued by them! This is my first experience I hope everything will go smoothly.