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On 12/16/2020 6:58 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
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.

Bought a new Windows laptop last week and of course it had Edge
installed. But I was surprised to find that it also had IE11 installed
(though it was hidden down in the Windows Accessories folder). So when I
fired IE11 up guess what the very first screen said. That I should
should switch to Edge of course.