Andrew C
You know what's funny?
Where ya going?
No...I meant the movie Christmas Vacation is on TV! haha.
Where ya going?
I used to use it before Chrome. Every now and then I use it if Chrome is having an issue or won't open a webpage for whatever reason.
In other words, it's my backup browser.
The emails are free. They only count you in the group I mentioned if you are still paying them.I still have an aol email so I guess that makes me still a subscriber. I use it solely for businesses that request my email that I have no intention to email correspond with. Junk emails.
Nope!Am I the only one that uses Firefox?
Microsoft screwed up his IE, not you.
Trust me, he's not the only one having troubles. Trust me...
I'll be bald before Windows 10 comes out at this rate...
I know when I cancelled my AOL account back in the day they were offering to let me keep my AOL email for like $2.00 a month. It was pretty sad. They were pretty much begging me not to change.The emails are free. They only count you in the group I mentioned if you are still paying them.
I still have my corporate account from AOL from when I worked there in the mid 90s. No one ever shut it off.![]()
No, statement of the day.Understatement of the day.
I do that too. When I can't get on a website I will flip to Firefox to see if that will open it. If I can't open the website still I know it isn't me.
Oh yeah, I know that. And I think he knows that. Now at least, initially he blamed me for it since I had been using his computer before my laptop arrived. Now he knows I haven't been on his computer, so it has to be the program. Like I tried to tell him.Microsoft screwed up his IE, not you.
They were a dying thing for two reasons.I know when I cancelled my AOL account back in the day they were offering to let me keep my AOL email for like $2.00 a month. It was pretty sad. They were pretty much begging me not to change.
For IE, disable every and ALL addons and toolbars aside from Adobe. They just mess things up with 10 and 11.Oh yeah, I know that. And I think he knows that. Now at least, initially he blamed me for it since I had been using his computer before my laptop arrived. Now he knows I haven't been on his computer, so it has to be the program. Like I tried to tell him.
I do think that an AOL toolbar was screwing it up. Every time I opened it, it would freeze up. So I ran it without add ons, and I disabled all of them and added them back one by one, and finally determined it was the AOL add ons. I recommended he disable them permanently. He said he didn't want to. So the problem kept up. And he finally switched to Chrome. I'm just not mentioning the fact that disabling the AOL add ons would probably make IE work marginally well again.
I think he is still using IE on his work computer, which has XP on it. I should probably mention to him that it's not secure because Microsoft no longer updates it.
No, statement of the day.
I had to deal with IE being fruity about an SSL redirect just today. Took an hour (less then that in real work, but he had customers while I was working on his machine, so I'd have to shove him over onto Chrome for a bit) to get it behaving again.
Yup, that's what I do.I do that too. When I can't get on a website I will flip to Firefox to see if that will open it. If I can't open the website still I know it isn't me.
Knowing computers is not necessarily a sign of intelligence.Painful. I really appreciate my DD that looks after me and makes sure I am staying current. Raising kids that have a brain eventually pays off. She is very patient and when she teaches me new programs she is always kind.
I know when I cancelled my AOL account back in the day they were offering to let me keep my AOL email for like $2.00 a month. It was pretty sad. They were pretty much begging me not to change.
For ANY issue with electronics, this is the best first step. I hate to say it.Yup, that's what I do.
Before Chrome came out and got to be a top notch browser, I used Firefox after deciding IE was cr*p. But Firefox, every now and then, will have issues.
For instance, my brother was using Firefox on his laptop the other day. Suddenly, he couldn't get on Youtube. Rather than messing with it to figure out what the problem was (he was getting upset) I just quickly had him use Chrome. It worked. Don't know what the issue was.
Yeah, just seems simpler to use Chrome and Firefox. Nonissue now since he said he's no longer using IE.For IE, disable every and ALL addons and toolbars aside from Adobe. They just mess things up with 10 and 11.
Also, if a site isn't behaving, you can try putting it into compatability view. That generally fixes most issues...but not all, and can actually cause different issues.
Chrome and Firefox are not without their sins, but on average they behave much better.
For ANY issue with electronics, this is the best first step. I hate to say it.
Knowing computers is not necessarily a sign of intelligence.
Hand your kid a slide rule and watch her brain explode.
Familiarity with tools that have common interfaces (as most computers do) does not equate intelligence, however, considering the role computing plays in the modern workforce, it's certainly a large plus.
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