The Granny browser

Relatives and friends know that I send railroad Christmas cards every year.
I have for years.
I’ve been a railfan all my life.
Most years I’ve gotten them from Trumble Greetings (Leanin’ Tree) in Colorado.
Ordered by snail-mail at first; recently online.
Usually their catalog arrives in August. I page through it, and there are the railroad Christmas cards.
Fire up ‘pyooter; fire up FireFox Internet browser.
Key card-number I want into their search-window; there it is, 25 cards.
Usually what cards I order end up being Pennsylvania Railroad, now defunct, but at one time the largest railroad in the world.
Nearly all of my early contact with railroading was mighty Pennsy, and they had some great locomotives; e.g. the E6 Atlantic (4-4-2) and the K4 Pacific (4-6-2), both steam locomotives, and both of which I saw; and the fabulous GG1 (“Gee-Gee-One”) electric locomotive, which I also saw.
And every time I did, it was doing 80-100 mph!
The card I want is Pennsy steam, locomotives rounding the southernmost calk of the mighty Curve, the BEST railfan spot I’ve ever visited.
Begin ordering......
Fill in name and address.
“Continue.”
Ooohhhmmmmmm........
“Looks like this isn’t working,” I shout.
FireFox is fairly dependable, but at railfan sites it bombs.
Fire up Granny browser; good old Microsoft Internet-Explorer.
My siblings loudly assert Internet-Explorer is vastly superior, and my using FireFox is stupid and of-the-Devil.
This is despite my blog-site, BlogSpot, and others, claiming Internet-Explorer is inferior.
And so it is, I guess:
—A) It won’t even display my BlogSpot “add-picture” tab, and;
—B) If I use an HTML picture-table at 5.6 inches wide, the width of the BlogSpot column, Internet-Explorer shoves tiny snippets of text up alongside the table so that portions of what I wrote kind of disappear.
I can use the HTML picture-table here on MPNnow, since the column-width is wider. But at BlogSpot I have to replace the HTML picture-table with a tag I made myself.
So those using the Granny-browser can fully read whatever I posted to BlogSpot.
‘Pyooters are challenging to most people, who have fallen into thinking the solution is Microsoft — much like the cereal maven is General Mills.
All of which is okay, but Internet-Explorer lobs these stinking hairballs at me. BlogSpot suggested I install FireFox, since they no longer supported Internet-Explorer. And I can see why — although their site was written for FireFox, not Internet-Explorer.
My wife uses Internet-Explorer, and hasn’t had any problems. But if she were to blog at BlogSpot, she couldn’t add pictures with Internet-Explorer.
I fiddle MPNnow with FireFox; and was told it was configured for that.
Nevertheless I configure my BlogSpot blog for Internet-Explorer, since that’s the browser most use.

• “‘Pyooter” is computer.
• “Pennsy” is the Pennsylvania Railroad, no longer in existence. It merged with New York Central Railroad in 1968 as Penn-Central, and that tanked in about eight years. “Pennsy” was once the largest railroad in the world.
• The “mighty Curve” (“Horseshoe Curve”), west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use — operated by Norfolk Southern Railroad.
• My wife of 41+ years is “Linda.” Like me she’s retired, but she works part-time at the West Bloomfield post-office.
• The first blog-site I used is this: “BlogSpot.”
• “MPNnow” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper’s web-site, where I worked almost 10 years, and from where I retired almost four years ago. —Best job I ever had. In the end I was doing that web-site myself (although that was iteration #3; they are now probably up to iteration #6). MPNnow has blogs. They recruited me as a blogger.