Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, there is that work-around for looking large. However, several times, I've waited it out after the direct route of just clicking on the enlarge icon and, after an annoying delay, the enlarged picture showed. The work-around is faster. I quit Firefox because it seemed to have a memory leak, my computer would slow down, and the activity showed that my available memory was close to zero. It could very well have been some add-on (plug-in) but a quick set of experiments failed to identify the culprit and I just decided to switch to Chrome. Also, I've learned to love Chrome's bookmark manager. Herb Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > This question lives in the Windows universe. Macs are perfectly good > computers, but outside the scope of the problem. > > The entity to which I am indentured requires us to use an earlier version > of the Bill Gate's browser. Since I sometimes need to connect there from > home, I have to keep my IE behind. Said version is now so old that it > often freezes or crashes on many Web sites these days. So I am going to > make another browser my default, and save IE for when I need to connect to > said entity. > > So... Chrome or Firefox? Or...? Which do you prefer, and why? I like > reliability and logical simplicity of controls. Reasonable security is > good, too. > > I've been fooling with the most recent version of Chrome, but have noticed > some quirks. Like the LUG gallery displaying blank pop-ups when I click > the little double rectangle to enlarge the pictures (they show up fine if > I right click and tell it to open in a new tab). > > --Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information