Do I Need All This ?

[Evans Electric]

OS is Windows Vista

I have a Firefox home page .

I have BT Yahoo email

I can use Google to search

Or Google Chrome .

Adobe is there doing stuff

Irfanview opens photos

Easy Media Player works the downloaded music vids.

Acrobat does something

Do I actually NEED Firefox ? 

 

[ProDave]

Your biggest problem is item 1 - Vista.

you don't NEED firefox, it's just another browser, but it never hurts to have a choice of which one to use.

 

[steptoe]

having a choice of browsers is good, as Dave says,

I use firefox mainly, but I also have google chrome in case of issues,

funnily enough, one of my PCs refuses to play itvPlayer in FF , so I have to use chrome,  :C

 

[Evans Electric]

I hear this said a lot  , so remembering I'm a dummy , what is wrong with Vista ?    I know the concensus of opinion is that Windows in general is crap but its all I know and it seems to do all I ever need .     I've no idea what Vista actually does , as I search with Google as most people do , ( FF uses Google)

Thing is ,  BT Yahoo has installed a password page which now by-passes Firefox and takes me straight to BT emails .  Where before Firefox home page appeared , with a box for email , plus news items etc  which the Missus likes.

Now BT Yahoo seems to have shoved it to one side and imposed it's own page .

 

[BlueFlashAsh]

im with you iv tried other os's but like windows had vista for a bit and wasnt my favourite though found it temperamental, a lil slow and generally below par. you could probably get an upgrade to win7 for free or very little its a lot better than vista and win 8 if you ask me

 

[ProDave]

Microsoft have a habbit of making a good OS followed by a bad one.

Win 98 was good. 

Win 2000 was bad

XP was good

Vista was bad

Win 7 was good

Win 8 appears to be continuing the trend.

Also, I'm confused by what you mean by "firefox"

Firefox is a browser. Well that's what I thought.

but your phrase 

"Thing is , BT Yahoo has installed a password page which now by-passes Firefox and takes me straight to BT emails . Where before Firefox home page appeared , with a box for email , plus news items etc which the Missus likes."

You are not talking about different browsers, but what page loads when you start your browser. And that can be anything.

In my case I don't have my browser set to open any particular page on start up.  I have it set to return exactly where it was when I last used it, and I typically have 6 or 7 sites open on different tabs.

I don't personally use on line webmail type email things. Never have liked them.  So to me emails is completely different to web browsing.  I just open up my email program and press "send and receive" and there are my emails. It remembers all user names and passwords.  Of course it's not "portable" like webmail, I can't just use any old puter. When we went down under, I had to set up all my email accounts on Mrs PD's laptop so I could use that while away.

So what browser are you actually using? Do you have more than one installed?

I hate BT and Yahoo, who seem to have joined forces. That caused me no end of trouble when I switched my broadband to BT recently and I was forced to choose a @btinternet email address (that I don't use) and that hijacked my Yahoo email.  I don't use Yahoo for email, but do use a Yahoo group for the local Freecycle, and somehow this new BT email took over my yahoo account. The only solution was never ever use the @bt internet email (which I don't want to do anyway)

 

[Evans Electric]

So its taken over your puter also !

YAhoo is all over my puter  I have no idea what it wants , or why its there .

Remember I know nothing , so , my electric typwriter crapped out , upon which I typed invoices as in my previous incarnation as  Complete Electrical Services .      Cousin says you need to enter the computer age , he was right.

So I get 2nd hand Compaq pc , and follow my nephew's advice by signing up with Wanadoo  ( big mistake)

So I had WIndows 98  , Outlook Express and it was soooo slooooooww and it constantly dropped offline .

And then Orange swallowed up Wanadoo and it became even worse.   But I installed FF , dumped OE and things became quicker .

Then I dumped the Compaq for an offer in Currys on a HP .  Vista installed.

Dumped Orange  for BT .

Installed FF which seemed slicker than OE

got a @btinternet .com  email address  accessible from a little box on my Firefox homepage .

Now Yahoo has elboed this page into oblivion .

 

[Evans Electric]

PD    See my screen below , that opens first  then I used to click on the icon I'm pointing at , which is FF and that would go to the FF home page .

Now it goes to BT Yah bleedin' oo  ,asks for passwords then opens my BT email.     What happened to my Firefox homepage ?

 

[steptoe]

ah,

its only changed your homepage then to BTs homepage,

there is a setting to make whatever you want your homepage,

someone that knows how to do this will be along to tell you how to change it back,

it will probably have been a box you needed to UNtick to stop BT making its page the homepage.

 

[Evans Electric]

That sounds good Stepps ,   I noticed BT launching all this stuff about , behold your new BT is coming , you will soon see our new look  etc  and they are asking me to make them my homepage .  

I've just had all this crap with losing access to my Evans Electric emails ..... where Hotmail were suddenly blown away by Outlook Something or - other

 

[steptoe]

on firefox go to the top bar, right at the top of the screen,

Click on  EDIT

go to the bottom and click PREFERENCES

you can change your settings and homepage in there.

 

[Evans Electric]

Great , theres another pint I owe you , thanks .  

I'll have a go at that tomorrow when I log on ,  the duvet is calling its hypnotic melody  ...............ah  no .. its the dog ..wants to go out for a part pee . 

 

[ProDave]

Like I say, all good reasons to not use ISP's email addresses.

Using a slightly obscure browser, Opera, confuses a lot of these programs that try and change things without asking you.

 

[Evans Electric]

Hmmm Thats interesting  .

 

[Sharpend]

Sorry deke, I've gotta ask, are you using a mirrored screen, it's just that's not how I pictured you?

 

[Evans Electric]

:^O   Not a mirrored screen Sharpy  .

But it gives me an idea for the quiz of the week .............Name Deke's screensaver .

First correct answer wins a night out with Steptoe .

 

[Sharpend]

Phew! That's a relief.

 

[ProDave]

Picture of your missus?

 

[steptoe]

Picture of your missus?

Im jealous,

actually, I know who it is, and very nice indeed, 

 

[Sharpend]

Sister?

Nanna!

The girl next door?

Your first love!

Ah! The mistress?

Ok I give up

Now if you'd said she wore high heals then I'd of gone for Kerching!