Re: grouse - new internet problems

Yeah... I don't know. I think it may have to do with being cool. Apple turned a relatively straight-forward browser into a mostly black screen with huge icons of the last umpteen web pages you had visited-- on the assumption, I suppose, that all of us ADD people want to keep going back to yesterday's hot iTune but can't remember how to do it. It looked more like a video game than a home page. Anyway, enough's enough. Firefox works just as well... maybe better in some ways... and it's a whole lot cleaner.
And you're right about MS. It's always on the hustle... which is one of several reasons I went to Apple. 


On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Kitty wrote:
Don't they test these things first? Don't they ask people what they want and don't? Or do you suppose some hackers got hold of a beta of IE8 or Safari and worked on it to make a plan to wreak havoc on it as soon as it was distributed? Paranoia, conspiracy theories. Oh well. I really think MS likes to screw w their products just to force people to have to buy something new. I use their 2000 versions at home - mainly excel & publisher and they work fine. At work I have 2003 versions, but my supervisors have 2009 versions that look and work very differently. I suppose eventually I'll have those. Why don't they leave well enough alone? 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] grouse - new internet problems
It must be contagious. The twinkies at Apple just updated Safari to an 
awful mess so after fiddling with it for a week or so, i installed
Firefox. I've used it before, a couple of years ago. It's sure better
than what Safari has become.


On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/
SCOSI wrote:


I use Firefox almost exclusively at home. We have to use IE for one
particular thing though and the IE8 upgrade messed that up, so I'm
glad
to hear how to roll it back.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
Behalf Of Theresa Gannon
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:32 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] grouse - new internet problems
I've updated to the newest version of Firefox. works great- just like 
the old one.




________________________________
From: Daryl <dp2413@comcast.net>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2009 3:02:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] grouse - new internet problems

If you now have internet access, I highly recommend Firefox.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox
I'm running 3.0.11 and it's been rock solid for me.
It doesn't have a lot of extraneous garbage to clutter it up. You can 
download various add-ons to do what you need.
There's a newer version out, but I haven't tried it, so don't have an 
opinion yet. It's supposed to be faster.

d

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] grouse - new internet problems



With a little right-clicking I found an option to reset IE to the

factory installed settings which I expected to be IE6. It warned
against
doing this because I'd lose all sorts of settings and it couldn't be
reversed. However, it did say to use this option if your browser
becomes
inoperable. I hadn't been able to use it since yesterday through
numerous restarts.



The reset seems to have worked, although rather than going back to

IE6, I still have IE8. But at least I am online. I have a couple of
items selling on ebay today so I need access. Time to go looking for
another browser. I noticed I have Netscape setup.exe, created Jan 2006 
on my computer. Would that be a good one to use?



Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] grouse - new internet problems



Jim's suggestion looks imperative but impossible now.
IE8 doesn't "respond".  My internet connection is obviously fine
as I

am

getting new emails.  But when I try to get on the internet, I get

nada.

C+A+D gets me "this program is not responding".  Does anyone know
how

I can

dump IE8 and go back to IE7, if it is still somewhere on my
computer?

If I

can't get on the internet, how could I get a new browser?

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com > 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] grouse



Because I am genetically paranoid, and knowing that Greedy Billy

wants
to compete in the search engine business, I wonder if your trouble 
is

not Google gone amok, but Explorer. Maybe it's time to switch to
Firefox [or whatever it's called].


On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Kitty wrote:


I know I've said it b4, but I hate upgrades.  This morning Win
Explorer 8 jumped on board, and though it doesn't cause any real
problems (so far) I really dislike the way it grays out most of
the
web address, making black only one word.

But what's really ticking me this time is Google.  Idid NOT
upgrade
to a new Google thing they kept pushing because I didn't know what 
would happen.  I was just fine w/out it.  But they still changed
things on me.  I googled "currency conversion calculator"  and
got:
Results: 1-10 of about 9,050,000
Sounds good but they will only allow me to look at ONE - which is something google wants to add to my igoogle toolbar - a toolbar I 
don't have & don't want..  I could click on a right hand sidebar
of
sponsored links, which of course I don't want.  I don't want to
buy
anything I just want the exchange rate for a euro.  The largest
portion of the search list page is totally BLANK.

Obviously this can't be right.  So I scroll and scroll until I'm
past the sponsored links and THERE they are. I cannot immediately see my results until I first look at what goolge and it's sponsors 
have to offer.

Why does everyone want to slap another toolbar on my screen? I
currently have NINE available of which I allow 4 to show and that 
takes up 20% of my screen as it is with small icons.

Grrrr


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5


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