On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:34:41 -0800, mike wrote:

On 11/24/2012 1:04 PM, Steve B wrote:
I was getting nagged that my IE was outdated, and that I should download the
newest greatest Google Chrome, which I finally did. Now, it must not have
gone in, as I still get the nag message. I'm not fond of it, as it takes me
to BING on a lot of things, and I hate BING.

I need a little help understanding this. I hear all sorts of bad things
about Google, and IE, and such. I seem not to have all these problems, tho
I am not fond of some things my computer does, like: taking me to Bing,
where it is impossible to find the article you went there for; taking a long
time up to forever to download some stories and videos, redirecting, etc.

Will downloading Firefox improve my computer life? Do I have to uninstall
IE, and will my computer allow itself to be castrated thusly? Is there a
lot of configuring to do afterward? Do I have to get rid of OE, and
download a new news program, or does the installation of Firefox fix all
that? I am somewhat handy on computers, but not sure about setting the
things behind the curtain.

Advice appreciated on selecting a browser, news reader, and general computer
setup to make my computing life a little smoother.

Thanks.

Steve


Might be helpful to mention the OS version you're using and how old the
IE is...in the proper browser newsgroup.
Sometimes, it's helpful to upgrade IE even if you don't use it.
Sometimes, it makes things worse.
Other programs use dlls that get installed with IE.
YMMV.
A LOT of sites are now using html5 - which is not supported by IE8 -
and IE9 will not work on XP