So I'm helping someone with something, because they're getting an error:
"Catastrophic error" (8000ffff)
Um... OK. I guess something went wrong. I dunno what, but SOMETHING sure wasn't happy!
So, after a bit of searching, I've been able to figure out that "Catastrophic error" essentially means "some error occured that I don't have an error code for." (Interestingly enough, if you search for it, you'll get the VB error code that I was getting, along with two surgeons who removed the good kidney from a man with kidney failure and an editorial on the war in Iraq.)
I suppose "catastrophic error" sounds more impressive than "unknown error" but it's just as useless.
So, anyway, move to later, and now I'm getting a weird error from Mozilla. Finally look it up, and it turns out to mean "an error occured somewhere else" which is, yet again, not very helpful. Yes, something went wrong, I got that. Instead of hiding the REAL error message, could you, you know, tell me what went wrong?!
Please?