Friday, June 01, 2007

Three separate browsers

Three separate browsers (four, if you include Apple’s “Safari,” which I’ve never used; and came with OS-X) to grab the picture above.
My primary browser is FireFox — the home-page in it is the sign-in to my MyWay e-mail account. I also have this blog among the bookmarks, including all the blog-management sites.
I also have the FlagOut sign-in page among the bookmarks, and a Google folder (of Google sites).
FireFox can access fours sites at once — four tabs.
So what I usually do is fire up FireFox and do four tabs: e-mail, FlagOut, blog, and Google.
But I can’t get FireFox to download pictures. An e-mail had the photo attached, but I couldn’t grab it.
Which is why I have Netscape 7.2; it will let me download pictures (right-click).
Which is why the FlagOut sign-in is my home-page in Netscape. Sometimes I have to download pictures from FlagOut (so I can manipulate with Photoshop).
But Netscape currently doesn’t have the MyWay sign-in. That’s Internet-Explorer 5.2, which came with OS-X and was my portal to my e-mail account.
But Internet-Explorer 5.2 is the most unstable browser I have ever driven. It’s locked up every use, requiring me to force-quit, and sometimes I can’t even do that.
So here I am dickering my e-mail with FireFox, and of course it won’t let me download the picture.
So I fired up my e-mail with Internet-Explorer but that wouldn’t let me download either.
(Actually, FireFox let me download it, but it was ASCII-text; gibberish — not a picture.)
So then I transferred my e-mail to Netscape, and that let me download the picture.
I’ve had it with Internet-Explorer.
I keep it because I haven’t yet tried the Canandaigua National Bank site with FireFox.
I originally had it with Netscape; but the techno-mavens at CNB threw in some monkey-wrench that made it wonky.
Yet it still worked right with Internet-Explorer.
The other reason why is it seems to be the required way to order things online.

  • A “MyWay e-mail account” is like a Yahoo-account, accessible from any ‘pyooter anywhere in the universe.
  • “FlagOut” is our family’s web-site.
  • “Canandaigua National Bank” is where our checking-account is. We do online bill-pay with it.
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