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I'm on wi-fi and it's working and I'm using my laptop right now. I was just attempting to get on the internet on my desktop and firefox said it was going to update which it does all the time. It started and then gave me a message saying there was an incompatible add on which was Norton tool bar and asked it it wanted me to search for a compatible add on, not having the foggiest idea what was going on, I just said yes. It asked me to finish which I did and then it suddenly lost internet connection. I tried explorer so it's not a firefox problem. Everything is working as far as hardware. I don't see my Norton icon on my desktop anymore. It appears where you look at all the programs but then just comes up with installation and security and backup (which I don't have) and I can't do anything with those because I don't have internet. Should I throw my desktop away? If I lost Norton I can probably find the subscription stuff and re download but I'm at a loss as to what to do.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Can you do a "Restore"?

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- Joe Kelley

Death is only a shadow across the path to Heaven.

Joe,

Ok, it took me five minutes to remember where that was and I did it but it didn't seem impressed. But, it did remind me to try restart which I did but I still couldn't get on, however my Norton icon was back. I clicked on that for no particular reason other than I was happy it was back and then closed it and tried to get on and I'm ok now. I simply will never get it.

Thank you for your suggestion.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

I had a horrible time with Internet Explorer a couple months back. Slow as a snail, then it locked up etc. Horrible. Tried everything to fix it.

I got sick of it and downloaded the Google CHROME "explorer'', webpage presenter, whatever it's called.

It worked fine right off. Fast as heck.
A couple of weeks later Internet Explorer seemed to clean itself up. I hadn't done anything. Must have had some temporary garbage in its files which it needed to clean up.

I'm still mad at Internet Explorer, though, and routinely use Google CHROME to surf the internet.

I can run both 'explorers' at the same time. Norton doesn't seem to care.

CHROME lets you 'import' your Internet Explorer Favorites.

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

Val - Glad it worked. [You are faster than me in remembering how to get to Restore. ]

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- Joe Kelley

Death is only a shadow across the path to Heaven.

Norman,

I don't have any explorer favorites as I only use firefox. I hate not understanding the weird things computers do sometimes. I assume it's some sort of socialist plot orchestrated by Obama.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Computers are some of the most complicated machines ever created by man. Seriously. There is always a reason, there is always a cause, and the computer is stupidly doing precisely what it is told to do.

Figuring out what it is told to do and why it does what it does is unbelievably difficult sometimes.

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Jeff Stevens

Have you recently updated to Firefox 17.0.1?

I recently saw this comment about it on another forum:

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

I also have to say that I'm not exactly a Google lover, but once I switched to Chrome, a lot of things improved.

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

It's good to have a second 'explorer', webpage presenter, whatever, ready in case the first one has a nervous breakdown,
as apparently happened with VAL and I.

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

Rose,

Thanks for that info. I was trying to update to the latest version of firefox as they always automatically start an update when you start to sign on if there is an update available. I was going to go to their website to start the update again but I don't think I will now.

I'm not sure I understand what Chrome is...just another browser? What advantages does it have over explorer and firefox?

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

I'm not a Firefox user, but I'll bet there is a setting to prevent those automatic updates.

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

Among other browsers, I'm running FF 17.0 .... where Tools --> Options --> Advanced --> Update will get you to where you want to be to choose how you want to handle updates

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Jamais le mal n’aura le dernier mot. La foi et l’amour déplacent les montagnes de la haine.
- Marguerite (Maggy) Barankitse

Chrome is just another browser, but it seems to work for me, when Firefox seems to be rife with ads and Explorer has gotten just plain weird.

It's also very compatible with my smartphone, which uses the google android operating system. So I can expect similar things to work on both phone and laptop. (and kindle, for that matter)

I think it comes down to YMMV. To some extent, they all seem to have some quirk that's attractive to part of the population.

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

So far I have not detected any "updates" by Google's CHROME. The thing works and they leave it alone.

Microsoft has fifteen thousand software engineers who are always playing around with the software because they're not paid to read newspapers. So Windows and Internet Explorer are constantly being updated, and we get problems like I had two months ago.

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

Rose,



Yes and no.

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James Daly

"It is the Lord." (Jn 21:7)

I bow to your superior knowledge.

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Rose West
"May God help us not to spoil His work" (Bl. Mother Theresa)

Technically true.
In context, false.
Practically, useless.

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Jeff Stevens

Chrome updates, it just does so silently. The current version of Chrome is v23. As opposed to 17 for Firefox, 11 for Opera, and 10 for Internet Explorer.


That's not quite how it works. Well, by "quite" I mean "at all".

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Jeff Stevens