Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 15, 2019 5:24:58 GMT -5
I'm blaming the Windows update last week. My Opera browser won't open when I switch the PC on. (Microsoft Edge does, however.) If I restart the PC, it's fine. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but it didn't make any difference.
This is annoying, and I don't really want to start all over again with a different browser. Any ideas?
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fab
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Post by fab on Aug 15, 2019 13:05:00 GMT -5
might want to wipe out any registry keys after uninstalling. If you can back up your bookmarks / user profile first (and didn't wipe it out when uninstalling), that's probably a good idea if you don't use any sort of sync feature for all your stuff.
oh, and seriously... back up your registry before you touch it with a ten foot pole. if you break that, your whole Windows installation can go ass over teakettle.
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 15, 2019 15:29:29 GMT -5
I meant I reinstalled the browser. No way am I fucking about with Windows.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 15, 2019 21:55:46 GMT -5
I'm blaming the Windows update last week. My Opera browser won't open when I switch the PC on. (Microsoft Edge does, however.) If I restart the PC, it's fine. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but it didn't make any difference.
This is annoying, and I don't really want to start all over again with a different browser. Any ideas?
I’m confused as to what you mean. Isn’t restarting the PC the same as turning it on? Or the problem occurs if the computer is off for more than a few seconds before you turn it back on, but not if you restart? |
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 16, 2019 3:54:23 GMT -5
I'm blaming the Windows update last week. My Opera browser won't open when I switch the PC on. (Microsoft Edge does, however.) If I restart the PC, it's fine. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but it didn't make any difference.
This is annoying, and I don't really want to start all over again with a different browser. Any ideas?
I’m confused as to what you mean. Isn’t restarting the PC the same as turning it on? Or the problem occurs if the computer is off for more than a few seconds before you turn it back on, but not if you restart? Yeah, I meant when I switch it on in the morning, after being off all night, no browser. A restart is said to cure all ills. Having said that, it worked fine this morning without a restart. So either my messing around with settings worked yesterday, or it's an intermittent problem that will plague me till the crack of doom. |
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 16, 2019 16:20:27 GMT -5
Stand down, people, I'm going all-in on Firefox.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 17, 2019 6:09:49 GMT -5
Stand down, people, I'm going all-in on Firefox. I've been considering ditching Chrome for Firefox, so let me know how it goes. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 17, 2019 6:18:45 GMT -5
Stand down, people, I'm going all-in on Firefox. I've been considering ditching Chrome for Firefox, so let me know how it goes. Seems fine so far. It's just the ballache of rebuilding my screen-long row of bookmarks. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Aug 19, 2019 8:45:53 GMT -5
I've been considering ditching Chrome for Firefox, so let me know how it goes. Seems fine so far. It's just the ballache of rebuilding my screen-long row of bookmarks. You can't do a bookmarks import/export? Also, I read "ballache" to be pronounced "ball-ah-chuh" and hereby propose that become the new standard. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 19, 2019 9:05:16 GMT -5
Seems fine so far. It's just the ballache of rebuilding my screen-long row of bookmarks. You can't do a bookmarks import/export? Also, I read "ballache" to be pronounced "ball-ah-chuh" and hereby propose that become the new standard. I didn't know of this import/export wizardry. I'm not that computer literate, really. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Aug 19, 2019 9:14:07 GMT -5
In Chrome, go to Menu > Bookmarks > Bookmark Manager, then when that window opens, Menu > Export Bookmarks. It'll put all your bookmarks into an HTML file.
Then in Firefox, Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks, then in that window ("Library"), Import and Backup > Import bookmarks from HTML (or "Import data from another browser" which will carry over more data like your cookies as well I think and totally forgot about until just now when I opened Firefox to explain how to do all the things.)
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Post by ArchieLeach on Aug 20, 2019 5:57:56 GMT -5
I've been using Firefox almost exclusively for over 10 years. I also use it at work, which drives the national IT nuts. They keep insisting that we should be using Internet Explorer, but then Edge appears, and the our front line folk seem to prefer Chrome. There's very little I can't do easier using Firefox. Every other week we have a pricing strategy meeting in someone else's office - she's set for IE as her automatic browser, but GoTo Meeting won't open on it, so I copy and paste into Firefox.
Firefox's home page is also suggesting interesting articles via Pocket these days.
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 20, 2019 6:36:04 GMT -5
A few days in, I have no complaints about Firefox.
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Post by fab on Aug 20, 2019 14:07:52 GMT -5
A few days in, I have no complaints about Firefox. get Ublock Origin and never look back. I use Chrome since Google already has a comprehensive profile on me, given that I use Android and Gmail, so I kinda... just don't give a damn any more. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 20, 2019 21:17:48 GMT -5
A few days in, I have no complaints about Firefox. get Ublock Origin and never look back. I use Chrome since Google already has a comprehensive profile on me, given that I use Android and Gmail, so I kinda... just don't give a damn any more. On my laptop, I use Ublock Origin on Chrome. I think that was the plug-in that prevents me from logging into Kinja on any GMG site that isn’t kinja.com. But on my iPad, Chrome won’t take plug-ins. |
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