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FromTheRafters

It happens that formulated :
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 05:36:53 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:

On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 2:29:42 PM UTC-5,
wrote:

It is nice to have discussions like this to keep abreast of what is
going on in the computer world as one year is like a dog year and a 5
year old computer is middle aged in computer years.

" bleeding edge " technology... as in bleeding your wallet .. :-)
My present computer serves me just fine - thank you ..
12 year old Vista era Thinkpad running Win 8 Pro.
I've had it ~ 3 years it cost me $ 140. plus $ 40. for a battery.
I recently added a memory stick to get up to 6 gigs, and an SSD.
It does zoom and streaming .. I can't figure out what am I missing ?
John T.

What are you using for a web browser? I have laptop on XP and there are
no browser's left today that I could find, except for Mypal, which is a
Firefox derivative. Antivirus not many choice left either. That's a big
problem, dwindling software choices. And I'm not doing anything that
requires being able to play videos, having up to date Adobe Flash Player,
etc.

FireFox 68.8.0 esr upgraded from a very old version earlier this
year - seems OK so far - I do need to use Chrome for viewing on
Imgur - haven't looked into why - I don't get any error messages
just a blank dark Imgur page ..
I have an idle P4 tower that is on Xp Pro - I've used it once
this year just as a test - it still does the basics.
John T.

I get the same from Imgur, some trimmings around the edges but the
'canvas' remains dark grey. My Chrome browser does the same thing.

Too bad when posters post images and discuss them here without
describing them and I can't see them.

Someone once posted one with angle brackets around it, and it worked.
Then I tried the original - and it worked too. Then later back to dark
grey every time since.

Old version won't upgrade on my XP machine. 52.9.0.6746