On 2012-11-24, Steve B wrote:
This appeared again, even though it was dated from about a week
ago.
I was getting nagged that my IE was outdated, and that I should download the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.
If it was claiming that your IE was outdated, and was pushing
Chrome instead, it was not from your computer -- it was from the web
pages which you were visiting, trying to force you to change browsers.
Now -- you've downloaded and installed Chrome -- but are you
actually *using* Chrome when you get those messages, or still using IE?
I consider getting away from IE to be a good thing, but I'm not
sure that Chrome is any better -- different weaknesses and nasty things
being done.
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,
How would you know? Most of the undesirable things are hidden
beneath the surface -- the tracking, the ability of a web site to
install a virus, and the other things. You would not see them
happening, just (somewhat later) the effects of that -- likely when you
are not even using the browser.
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.
The "taking you to Bing" is likely to be something programmed
into the web page where you are clicking -- or a web page is modifying
your preferences to say that you prefer Bing -- even though you
apparently don't. This is a problem with both browsers -- the ability
to change preferences without asking your permission.
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.
The only way to get rid of OE, is to get rid of Windows -- use
some other OS, such as one of the Linux or BSD flavors. Probably
something like Ubuntu might be the best from your point of view. Now, I
*can't* run either IE nor Chrome on my systems. They don't make them to
run on Sun's Solaris on an UltraSPARC CPU -- and I *still* have (in the
past) gotten things trying to get me to "upgrade" from IE to Chrome, so
I know that those are bogus, as I can't have IE to upgrade *from*. :-)
Advice appreciated on selecting a browser, news reader, and general computer
setup to make my computing life a little smoother.
Change the OS to some unix flavor (the Linux or BSD mentioned
above) so you *can't* run either of the programs in question. (Hmm ...
maybe Chrome is available to run on some flavors of linux running on
Intel hardware (what Windows runs on), but you don't have to use it.
Newsreader choice is very personal. I like slrn (which
*requires* a unix flavor). Others have other preferences. Bear in mind
that I *don't* like Windows at all -- any version thereof. :-)
Enjoy,
DoN.
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