I recently acquired a new laptop. The old laptop was nice but beginning to frustrate me.
Of course the new 'puter machine came loaded with Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8, neither of which is particularly elderly-Luddite-friendly. OK says I, I will consult with my expert IT guy and be up and running in no time.
::sigh::
So, OK, I called another IT guy I know, and I think I kinda get IE8. I'm just not very fond of it.
Further browser browsings below the fold:
I had tried Firefox before but wasn't as computer savvy as I am now (I know at least half again as much now as I did then. Read: barely more than nothing.) so that didn't work out all that well. Nevertheless, my failure to unnerstand fully teh internetz as delivered by the folks in Redmond prompted me to take another look at Mozilla's pride and joy. Thus my time online lately has been spent like this:
Disclaimer: I totally, absolutely and unequivocally deny, abjure and eschew the green portion of the graph! I don't know how that got in there.
I have determined that there are several other folks here who admit to not favoring IE8 as their browser of choice. Therefore I will share my research hoping that you will find it helpful.
Please note: If you have come out from under your bridge to find a better WiFi connection, have read thus far and found it not meeting your standards, please don't trouble yourself to leave comments. Just amble on, plz?kthxbai.
I was somewhat surprised to find that Firefox is still quite popular given the number of browsers giving Microsloth a run for its money.
Mozilla's brainchild has some new features:
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(not that it would ever reject your search query!)
Of course, having been devised by hooman code-writers, Firefox does have the occasional glitch.
Its standard features are still there and work wonderfully well.
Sooo...there it is. Should you decide to try Firefox for yourself I urge you to accept no substitutes. (possibly NSFW)