AOL+ Netscape = 666
Oct. 8th, 2007 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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We have earthlink. We've always used Netscape as a browser. In fact, we've still been using Netscape 7.0 because it has email with it. I downloaded 8.0, but hated it; people told me AOL had bought Netscape and made AOL-ish changes to that version of the browser and that's why I hated it. I'll take their word for that.
So, as websites started getting snotty with our old browswer, we moved on to Firefox and love it. I downloaded Thunderbird to be the new email program on the new laptop and it seems okay. I still have to call India and fix why I can't send outgoing email, but that's a small thing and probably my fault somehow.
So, I wake up on Sunday to find Mom has another computer story. She said Netscape was gone off the desktop. HUH?! What I find out, is that her Netscape 7.0 browser email is gone. Completely. Like there is no record of it being on our computer. I even tried a 'restore' but nada. Zip.
When I try to load her profile, a webpage pops up that says AOL does not support that version of Netscape anymore and it encourages us to get a new browser.
So, the question is, how did fucking AOL manage to tell my computer to delete her email?! Her bookmarks are still there. Netscape downloaded the email onto the desktop so it's not like AOL was cleaning out her mailbox on their site. WE DON'T HAVE AOL in any case!
I've wandered through Windows Explorer and I can't seem to find where the email is or was. Maybe I need to go tell it I want to see the hidden files?
Well, Mom doesn't see to be too upset with it but then again, I just took her to the airport and she and the spiffy little laptop should be taking off right about now. Of course, we've a Santa Ana wind condition so that ought to be fun. Not. 12% humidity. The turbulence should be nasty. I hope that cheese omlete I made her doesn't make a reappearance.... But I digress.
Luckily, my profile and email are still there--until FUCKING AOL finds out it's there and somehow deletes my profile, too!
I bet Homeland Security is behind this somehow...and Dick Cheney. Humpf.
We have earthlink. We've always used Netscape as a browser. In fact, we've still been using Netscape 7.0 because it has email with it. I downloaded 8.0, but hated it; people told me AOL had bought Netscape and made AOL-ish changes to that version of the browser and that's why I hated it. I'll take their word for that.
So, as websites started getting snotty with our old browswer, we moved on to Firefox and love it. I downloaded Thunderbird to be the new email program on the new laptop and it seems okay. I still have to call India and fix why I can't send outgoing email, but that's a small thing and probably my fault somehow.
So, I wake up on Sunday to find Mom has another computer story. She said Netscape was gone off the desktop. HUH?! What I find out, is that her Netscape 7.0 browser email is gone. Completely. Like there is no record of it being on our computer. I even tried a 'restore' but nada. Zip.
When I try to load her profile, a webpage pops up that says AOL does not support that version of Netscape anymore and it encourages us to get a new browser.
So, the question is, how did fucking AOL manage to tell my computer to delete her email?! Her bookmarks are still there. Netscape downloaded the email onto the desktop so it's not like AOL was cleaning out her mailbox on their site. WE DON'T HAVE AOL in any case!
I've wandered through Windows Explorer and I can't seem to find where the email is or was. Maybe I need to go tell it I want to see the hidden files?
Well, Mom doesn't see to be too upset with it but then again, I just took her to the airport and she and the spiffy little laptop should be taking off right about now. Of course, we've a Santa Ana wind condition so that ought to be fun. Not. 12% humidity. The turbulence should be nasty. I hope that cheese omlete I made her doesn't make a reappearance.... But I digress.
Luckily, my profile and email are still there--until FUCKING AOL finds out it's there and somehow deletes my profile, too!
I bet Homeland Security is behind this somehow...and Dick Cheney. Humpf.
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Date: 2007-10-10 11:48 pm (UTC)I know I hated Explorer, as we have that at work, so .....which one, which one...
I've noticed the AOL thing going on at the top of the Netscape page too, and I didn't even know they had bought it, which explains a lot!
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Date: 2007-10-16 07:51 am (UTC)I don't know anything about Safari.
Yep, AOL has screwed up Netscape.