More travel neeping

I have a feeling that Fortnum & Mason's website is supposed to overawe me rather than make me snicker: We are still at 181 Piccadilly, just as we have been for nearly 300 years. Green Park and Piccadilly Circus tube stations are equidistant and we are an easy stroll from central London's most salubrious hotels.

I'm getting images of one of those measuring sticks they have outside amusement rides, only this one says "Your IQ must be this high to shop this store." Will they let my lumpy American self into their purveyer-to-royalty presence if I can define equidistant and salubrious?

Libertys of London is much more direct and welcoming: We will be happy to swipe any of these cards as many times as you like; [long list of credit cards, including the rare AmEx]. Foreign money is no headache for us either, we’re happy to accept most currencies at our till points. Just ask any assistant.

In other words: Your wallet must be this fat to shop this store...

A google search for "yarn store: London" netted me a hit on the Libertys Needlework department, which the Libertys website isn't mentioning. Worst case scenario I scoot up to Islington to the yarn store I did find with a website, but I'm probably going to stick my nose into Libertys just because it's *Libertys of London* after all!

( The Must Go/Might Go lists have gelled )

Obligatory non-travel: Another Knitting Charity

For those who have a little spare time and spare yarn, The Red Scarf Project, 2007 Basically, the Orphan Foundation of America collects scarves through the month of January to give as Valentine presents to foster children as they age out of the system and head to college.
Pdf with sizes and colors here. (Think unisex) Check with your local yarn store; they may be collecting for the cause, as mine is.

Now I know what my knitting project for the trip will be!

Stupid Firefox questions

ETA: I may have figured this out... but I'm leaving the post so that people more experienced in Firefox can help out anyway.

Okay. Loaded Firefox. At the third Zone-Alarm-related crash, opened ZA and manually changed setting for touchpad; problem seems to be fixed. Downloaded and installed TabMixPlus and DownloadStatusBar. Now have Firefox running on both computers..

So far, so good. But one continuing problem:

When I'm reading AOL mail, it opens mail in a new window, not a new tab. Okay. Except that the new window doesn't have the location bar at the top or the status bar. Oooookay. Clicking on things like "reply" in an LJ notification opens up a new tab in the mail window (no location, no status.)

The problem is that even if I'm logged into LJ in the main window, this tab in the new window says that I'm not logged in. ETA: apparently a zone alarm cookie problem. Possibly fixed.

Still, I have a problem with this because I can't cut and paste the location of anything in the new window into any other tab because there's nowhere the URL is displayed. I've been looking at the tools and help windows, but don't know what I'm looking *for.* Advice, please? I've already checked "force new window into new tab" without any change in the ultimate issue. I'm supposed to be right-clicking to get the URL info or to bookmark, aren't I?