Yes, I use internet explorer

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OliveOilMom,

Use whatever you're most comfortable with. If that's IE go with it.

Also, somehow, Windows 8's IE10 is currently the safest browser:

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/none/304 ... afety-test

I do use it. On this computer we have separate user accounts and everybody can have theirs set up the way they want. We have explorer, Google chrome and Safari installed. I think everybody else uses Google chrome, but I just don't like how it looks. It looks almost exactly the same, but I can see the difference. Crazy, I know but it's one of the things I get picky over. I also like specific icons for my favorite places in the bar across the top. I actually searched online and searched online until I found the ones I wanted, that I had used before and downloaded them and then replaced every single icon and folder with the ones I downloaded. I also like my tabs in a certain order. It needs to be WP, FB, Google and then anything else that might be open, but I don't usually open more than that.

I'm pretty content with it like it is, but years ago when our computer had died and my daughters fiancé (just her bf then) brought his second computer up here into the den and set it up for us to you, he had firefox on it. It was pretty straightforward but I just couldn't get it. I don't think I had trouble remembering or figuring it out, I think I had just not wanted to use it so bad that I had a mental block about it. Plus it would get that virus where boxes kept popping up.

Switching from AOL to just plain broadband was a huge change for me. I mean huge. When I got online in about 1997 we had AOL. You did everything through AOL. It was the one AOL screen and nothing else there, no tabs, no nothing. You had IM boxes that would pop up but otherwise you did everything in that one window. It sounds horribly restrictive now but back then I didn't have anything to compare it to. So really, up until three years ago when we all switched to ATT broadband, I had AOL on my computer. It would be installed on every laptop or desktop that I used and I was the only one who ever used it. I liked it because it looked basically the same for all those years and while I liked the upgrades, I did not like too many of their changes.

If I could go back and have Windows 98SE and AOL 7.0 and have them run like this one does and maybe have tabs in the top of it like the very last AOL did, I would gladly go back to that look. I also miss those Windows games too. The only thing other than the looks of AOL that I miss with it is the chatrooms. I loved the chatrooms. But, I have WP and FB now, so I'm happy.

Hey. For the record, I use lynx on a daily basis on this site, and it functions perfectly.

OliveOilMom, Could be worse... You could have all of THESE open

http://puu.sh/2R8ky

Oh, and yeah, I use them all frequently.

I use internet explorer when I use a computer at school (they only have this) and at home I use mozilla.

I've always just stuck with what the infernal machine came installed with.

No idea what anyaspie is talking about here, just rolling my thumbs and hanging about in this forum until this other guy who has the letters ihqsyz in his or her name receives a response in this other absolutely inconspicuous thread

ps,
how, and why, would anybody roll their thumbs?

I open IE eberry once in while to visit the little Bill Gates homunculus that lives in my version of it.