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Used to do that on my mom's computer, but it was firefox with the ie icon. Never heard a word. Tried it with my grandpa's computer and he was furious, I asked
by soperj 7y ago
Used to do that on my mom's computer, but it was firefox with the ie icon. Never heard a word. Tried it with my grandpa's computer and he was furious, I asked him how he knew and he said it was completely different, everything had totally changed. Naturally I was wondering what he was talking about, since they seemed like a drop in replacement at the time, what could possibly be so different. Turns out it was the menu where you could increase the font size which he used multiple times a day. Things you don't think of.
side note: as soon as I showed him he didn't have to go into the menu at all any more and could just use the plus and minus keys on his keyboard he was thrilled with the change.
- chapium 7y agoFor my parents, I removed ie and replaced it with chrome. I told them its faster for gmail and works better in general. Plus that it auto updates (which are important to apply quickly due to malware) and I wouldn't have to be called as much. They totally bought into it and I didn't even need to tell any white lies.
- jenscow 7y agoWhen I do similar, I just shrug and say "yeh, they're always changing things...".
- asdfman123 7y agoMy dad is actually pretty smart and is decent with computers for a guy in his 70s, but he refuses to move from IE to Chrome just because he's more comfortable with IE's bookmark system and he doesn't want to bother learning it in Chrome. Stuff we care about, like better load times and a cleaner interface, doesn't matter to him.
- Scoundreller 7y agoHeh, reminds me of when I changed people’s CRTs from 60hz to 85... and they don’t even notice the difference. How ??????
- mjhagen 7y agoI did the same with changing to the native resolution of the LCD panel, people never noticed the suddenly crisp pixels...