Lounge: Third-Party Browsers

Google Chrome 19 is out. Download it here. ZDNet shows some of the upgrades.

Hello All:<br><br>Currently running Firefox version 10.0.4 and suddenly any time I use Firefox and close it I can't&nbsp; reopen it without restarting my system. Dialog box says can not open new...

I downloaded software which gave me the option of installing BucksBee's toolbar. I declined the offer, yet, when I run a search which had been set up for Google, I get redirected to BucksBee's...

A couple of weeks ago, I got a box that popped up that said that Chrome needed to do some kind of maintenance. I didn't pay that much attention to it, just clicked OK, it did it's thing and then my...

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Hello All: Currently running Firefox version 10.0.4 and suddenly any time I use Firefox and close it I can't reopen it without restarting my system. Dialog box says can not open new window...

I installed a program during the install I unchecked install context tool bar. When I opened my Chrome browser I found the context tool bar had been installed :mad: When trying uninstall this...

I don't know if this is the place to ask but here goes. I use Popurls to follow a lot of news and other sites. MetaFilter is on the popurls site and I can never get on it. Whenever I click on a...

I appreciate Fred Langa's article about Chrome bloating in Issue 337 dated 2012-05-03. Chrome has been freezing my entire computer recently after working great for quite some time, but the bloating...

FYI: FF has just (very) recently gone from v11 to v12. Please check that you are keeping your browsers up to date. Regards, Drew

I just installed the latest version of the 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 11 plug-in manually, because Firefox had been open and prevented automatic installation -- or rather, as so often happens, Windows...

Hi, I am planning to take a mathematics course that requires Firefox v. 11 because it will handle equations better than Internet Explorer. I am currently using IE 9. Can I have both IE 9 and Firefox...

By default, Google Chrome installs in Users. Does anyone in WSL know how to force it to instal in Program Files, which is where programs should install?

In Firefox, I can close the tab I'm in with Ctrl-W. This doesn't work if the view is of a PDF, so I must go up and click on the X in the tab. Is there a Ctrl-W on steroids that will close a PDF?...

Hi, My wife uses Yahoo.com for email. Someone is sending emails to many of her contacts. What should she do? Thanks, Jerry King

Was not sure where to put this, but here goes. Last week or so in early morning till maybe 10:00 or so when I get on a forum or web page and scroll up or down all is working as it should, then the...

MailTo: links in Chrome, Firefox, & IE fail to open my email client (Eudora) like they did up to a month or two ago. When I click on a MailTo: link in Chrome v.16.0.912.77m, it does nothing at...

I'm using FF11.0, but the problem has been going on probably since FF9. A message at the bottom of my screen says: "Sync has not been able to complete during the last 7 days. Please check your...

Hi, When I installed Chrome on my Windows 7 64-bit machine, it hijacked the F8 key. Now hitting the F8 key, even in combination with other control keys, always starts Chrome. This includes when...

Win 7 64 bit desktop and HP printer works fine everywhere except in the yahoo mail using Firefox browser, same yahoo mail using IE and the printer works. There has to be something i'm missing...

Google’s web transport protocol, known as SPDY, can now be used in Firefox 11. While it’s not enabled by default, the system can offer dramatically increased browsing performance. Simply type in...

I mainly use Chrome and the longer it stays open the more memory it uses. I can remember when Opera was the other browser trying to see how many pages I could open before my computer became...

Somewhere I went to a site that pilfered my search box and changed it from Google to Yahoo. I went to about:config, keyword.URL and changed the value to...

I have many Firefox bookmarks that I imported from previous computers. Needless to say, there are LOTS of duplicates, and I desperately need to do a scan-and-purge, followed by a complete ...

I am at my wit's end. I created a new favicon for one of my blogs: I deleted the old one and replaced it with the new one--which I know worked because the icon appears in the address bar....

Suddenly, all my iGoogle settings have disappeared. Posted first YouTube video yesterday, which necessitated setting up a Google account and, I guess from what I see on this new Google page, Gmail...

Whenever I launch Firefox for the first time in a session it freezes windows. The disc light comes on solid for a good minute, at least, and then everything goes back to normal. I have an Acer Aspire...

Actually I haven't got it yet. Everyone keeps telling me it's better than IE but from what I've been reading here, I'm beginning to wonder, seems like it has lots of problems too. On top of that, it...