So, I'm an Idiot
You aren’t. I just switched, for now at least, to Firefox as a browser. I also thought I’d “subscribe” to some of your blogs. I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to do it. I did subscribe to a few sometime back and have now added them to my homepage; but, other than cutting and pasting each of your urls into the “subscribe” pop up, which I’m not going to do, I can’t figure it out (I haven’t tried really hard). So, how can I select the blogs from my blog folder in Bookmarks and send them en masse to Google Reader?
And, the Firefox experiment may be ending as when I tried to upload this post to Blogger, I got a bunch of garbage in the typing box and a big red ERROR above it. I'm entering this from IE7.
I will be eternally grateful for your advice, or at least for a week or two.
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I'm on a Mac, so I can't try this yet, but you should download Google Chrome (they're new browser). I don't know anyone who's tried it yet, but I'm guessing it's pretty good. It came out yesterday.
Google's Chrome is what got me thinking about making the change. But, I'm not an early adopter. No Beta for me, thus the more tested Firefox. And I figured out the Google Reader thing. Now to make Blogger, Word (which have never really liked each other) and Firefox make nice.
I just upgraded Firefox and it is acting kind of weird. I don't use it to subscribe to blogs, though. I use Bloglines for that.
This guy tried Chrome and wasn't all that impressed.
I have six browsers installed. Four of which I actually use regularly. And I don't subscribe to blogs -- I follow bookmarks when I am bored. Which happens too frequently, I am afraid.
Appendix A: Browsers Installed
Internet Exploder 7
Firefox 3
Netscape Navigator 7.2 (I have a client that requires their site to be fully functional in it) (sigh)
Seamonkey 1.1.9 (a sort of a hybrid between Netscape and Firefox)
Safari 3
Chrome 0.2
Appendix B: Browsers Used Regularly
Internet Exploder 7
Firefox 3
Seamonkey 1.1.9
Safari 3
Considering the issues I've had -off and on -for a little over a month now with Google Reader, feeds (RSS and Feedburner) and such, most of which I don't understand in the least, far be it for me to recommend ANYTHING! But for me, whether my darned blog updates on my reader or not, it's been a big timesaver for me. But then too, I have around 160 blogs listed on my reader too so it does save time. I have two browsers installed -IE6 and Firefox. Why not IE7? Because it wouldn't play nice with my computer and IE6 does. Firefox -everyone tells me it is fantastic but the thing I liked the best about it was how I could zap my blogs listed on my reader over to my sidebar as my blogroll. That, and I do like the opening stuff in a new tab thing too but otherwise, I am far too dumb -to be blunt about it all -to see all that much difference most of the time between the two browsers I have in place.
Now, getting Word to play nice with Blogger -I don't think that's gonna happen. You can write something in Word, copy it over to Notepad and then from there copy it to Blogger -I think that transition will work -or just write stuff you intend to use as a post in Notepad -then copy and paste to Blogger. I tend to compose directly in Blogger most of the time but when I don't, I now write in NOtepad, copy to Word to run it through the spellcheck and other little things there, then go back to Notepad (recopy to Notepad if need be) and then copy from notepad to Blogger. A lot of steps -sort of -but none that take a whole lot of time in the end to make the post jive with Blogger.
Now, if you read through that and understood what I said, congratulations because you are now probably as confused as I am -all the time! Your logical mind will figure all that is needed out for you -unlike my mind, which will keep going in a vicious cycle of mass confusion!
I've been using Firefox almost exclusively since my son the computer science graduate told me this is what all the cool kids use.
That, and I leap at almost any chance to use a non-Bill Gates product.
I have David v. Goliath issues.
I also think Walt Disney is a fascist.
But, to return to the subject, I did say I use Firefox almost exclusively.
This year was the first year Illinois lawyers were required to take CLE and document it. I subscribed to a service on West (hey, they were getting an arm and a leg from me each month anyway... under the circumstances, what was another limb?) that allowed me... in theory... to watch all of the necessary CLE courses on the Internet in my spare time. In my 'jammies, were I so inclined.
The difficulties involved with same are to off-topic for this comment, even for me.
With one exception.
It turns out that the West programs must be run on IE and will not work on Firefox.
Which just proves my son's point, doesn't it?
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