On 9/10/2020 5:33 AM, John wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 16:37:44 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On 9/9/2020 3:25 PM, John Doe wrote:

Does anybody on a PC actually use a Microsoft browser nowadays?


I don't (I greatly prefer FireFox), but *many* people use Edge. They use
Edge because it's the default in Windows 10, and they either don't know
they have a choice or are to lazy to change from the default.

My sister is one of the former. She's not entirely sure what a
"browser" is. Nor, really, does she understand file systems, storage,
RAM or hard drives. Her only save space is her desktop so she loses
stuff when Win-ten tidies up.

She is, however and unfortunately, a bloody wizard at clicking on
things in emails so browser "helper" objects get installed.


My wife is one of those who use Edge. I've tried to convince her that
Edge is terrible, FireFox is much better, and she should change, but she
won't. I don't understand why.

Maybe because "it doesn't work right", or "it's not THE INTERNET" or
it's not the clicky in the top left corner with the big "E".


No, none of those. I've shown her FireFox and showed her what I thought
was better about it, but she ignored my advice and stayed with Edge.


Perhaps
if you changed the icon for FF to the one Edge uses, replaced the Edge
icon's position with FF and labeled FF's title header as "THE
INTERNET" she might like it more.


She might not even notice it was not Edge. But I won't do that. If she's
happy with Edge, I'll let it be.


Your wife doesn't sound *stupid*, just reluctant to change. This is
not a rare thing. If she doesn't know she's had a change done, she may
grow to like it.



Yes, reluctant to change, but she's also stupid when it comes to
computers. She makes the same mistakes over, and over and when I explain
what she did wrong, it stays in her brain for a full six or seven seconds.

If I were to die, and she didn't have someone to fix things for her,
she'd have an unusable computer in a very short time.

I do all our financial record keeping in Quicken. She wanted to take it
over and do it instead of me. I said "no way." She'd have it all f*cked
up in a day or two.



You could even tell her the "new Edge" is an update from Mickey.
There's a small chance that she'll accept this if she doesn't poke
about too much.



Every now and then I have to go on her computer to do something for her,
and if I have to go onto the web, I have to use Edge. I hate it.

So maybe you could install FF as an additional choice but don't tell
her? Then you could use it but wifey doesn't need to know it's even
there.


Yes, I've thought about doing that several times, but I've never done
it. Maybe I will, one of these days. I could even tell her I've done it;
she wouldn't mind, as long as she could still use the Edge she's
accustomed to.


You may put a *FOLDER* on her desktop called "Tools" and put inside
it all of the icons for the tools you use. You could even put inside
it a PortableApps starty icon and keep your browser on a USB stick.
That way, even your colour schemes, favourites and security settings
travel with you between machines.

I did that for my sister so she could use her children's boxen but
she never used the stick. I think she still has the folder sitting
there, unused.

Unless Win-ten has deleted as unwanted?

J.



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Ken