“Come Monday…” is a
weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television
shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be
generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come
Monday.” This is subject to change,
however. In fact, I would be most
derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel
universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
When
I first ventured forth into the great unknown of cyberspace, my vehicle of
choice was Internet Explorer. Well, it
really wasn’t much of a choice. For not
only was cyberspace a complete mystery to me, how to get there was, as
well. That is, except for what came
installed with Windows ME, which is what was installed on our first Dell in 2000.
While
proceeding with great caution (utter terror, actually) each baby step along the
way, I started to realize some of the wonders available, and one of them was
the favorites option to Internet Explorer.
For instead of having to write down the URL’s to sites I wanted to see
again, I could just add them to my favorites on the sidebar of the
browser. Later on, I “discovered” how to
organize them into folders, and it was around then when I started compiling the
list for the [Sites To See] series here.
Oh,
but as they say, all good things must come to an end, and the beginning of this
end came when I started having a lot of trouble opening some Entrecard sites
through Internet Explorer 7 (I think).
So, I gathered up (so to speak) all of the courage that I could muster,
and went about installing the Firefox browser.
I
don’t remember which version of Firefox it was, but the difference between IE7
(I think) and Firefox was quite telling.
For all of the sites that wouldn’t load before, now came up with enough
speed to startle me.
Soon
after that, the Google toolbar for Firefox was brought to my attention, and I
started bookmarking my Sites To See list instead of trying to add them to my IE
favorites folders. Oh yeah, life in
cyberspace was becoming more and more comfortable.
No,
we can’t be having too much of that—can we?
Therefore, after the 3,498th “new and improved” version of
Firefox was introduced, the makers of the Google toolbar for Firefox probably
just gave up. In any event, the
announcement for made that it would no longer work on Firefox, and my stress
level returned to a familiar feel.
A
few days later, I was shown a variation of the Google toolbar for Firefox, and
even though things had to be done a little differently, it would work. Back to feeling pretty good again.
Nope,
it didn’t last. For when I went to
publish last weeks edition of Sites To See, I discovered that links would no
longer open in a different window through the new Google toolbar, which meant
having to go back and forth with the browser back button.
Oh,
but wait—there’s more! For not only was
I having to go back and forth between sites, when going back to the bookmark
list, it was like visiting the page at start of the session, which meant
changing the view from the sites being listing according to when they were
bookmarked to alphabetical.
Yeah,
none of this may sound like any big deal to most, but if you have ever had a
very painful wound, you know that even a puff of wind can make it hurt
worse. Such is my life in general.
Why
haven’t I just went back to using the IE favorites? Well, the problem with some sites not loading
still exists, and I am relegated to having to stay with IE8 because IE9 and 10
will not work with Windows Vista.
What
about Google Chrome? There is no Google
toolbar for it, and I am yet to be shown how to transfer all of my old
bookmarks to what Chrome has to offer, short of one at a time.
Opera
and Apple Safari for Windows? Refer to
the situation with Chrome.
Okay,
what about going back to using an older version of Firefox? Well, Blogger/Blogspot is all about being on the
cutting edge. So, it will not support a
browser version older than the one previous to the newest version, which means
that I cannot publish anything through IE8, neither. Yeah, they (and I am talking about all of them here) really might be out to get me.
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