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Clare Snyder

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:52:41 -0500, wrote:

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'm running Firefox 83.0 64 bit and the latest version of Edge.
Thats as close to Chrome as I want to get. I still use IE11 too. On my
phone I have the latest firefox and Safari - usually use the fox.