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Yes. And I said: why not avoid updates?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The installer for newer versions ID the OS and tell you upfront, it won't install. If it was just "may or may not work", that wouldn't be half-bad.
megaadam wrote: Why not be happy with an un-updated browser ?
(a) The constant nag
(b) If history's any indication, more and more pages will just have their rendering completely mess up by browsers that aren't keeping up, making them even less usable than risky security.
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dandy72 wrote: I know the hardware won't perform as well with 10
Are you sure? I seem to remember that I was pleasantly surprised when I installed W10 that it seemed nimbler than W7.
Mircea
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The machine in question is maxed out at 4GB of physical memory. I know Win10 works in a VM with only 4GB (on a faster host), but you don't get very far without starting to page like crazy the instant you try to use a browser. 7 isn't nearly as bad.
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I don't #$%^'in care.
I have chrome's win7 nag shut off with a registry edit and use seamonkey browser anyway.
Firefox is a dork like sears and ibm.
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Ron Anders wrote: I have chrome's win7 nag shut off with a registry edit
Stopping nags through a registry entry is very much a Microsoft thing. Chrome is also doing that now?
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Nothing is telling me I have to uninstall IE on any machines that matters. You set your "preferred" browser; you're not actually "changing" it. If it can access the sites that are needed, it's not an issue at this time.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Just noting that on Windows 10 there was a auto-update that disabled IE and replaced it with Edge.
Researching the fix and getting it back was not really something that some people who are nervous around computers might want to undertake without kindly instruction.
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That's the problem, a lot of sites nowadays have completely stopped paying attention to IE, and rendering is completely broken - even MS's. It's just unusable nowadays.
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Why do you need to change browsers at all right now? If you / they are happy to run an older unsupported OS (Win 7) why fret about an older unsupported browser (Edge, Chrome or FF)?
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Because sites refuse to let you connect using older/no longer supported protocols; pages aren't tested and rendering is completely messed up, etc.
Generally I have no problem using software that is set in stone, but a browser, by its nature, tries to connect to something - the web in this case - that is constantly evolving.
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I get the need to leave IE (its been deprecated for several years) but all the other choices have only very recently dropped (or will drop) support for Win7. I suspect you're going to be fine with today's versions for several years before protocols change enough to matter.
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dandy72 wrote: Realize that changing browsers is a big deal for some people
I run Windows 10. For the most part it looks like Windows 95 with addons that I have added.
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jschell wrote: I run Windows 10. For the most part it looks like Windows 95 with addons that I have added.
You and I can deal with that.
But I'm talking about people who get profoundly disturbed by the fact that the icon for their browser changed from a blue E to a blue/green circle. To them, 95 and 10 are nothing alike. I'm likely to get a phonecall if their wallpaper changes.
I'd love to be able, like you, to pretend such people don't exist.
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Psycroptic - Rend Asunder[^]
In last week's SOTW, @Member-6430 / @peterkm shared Psycroptic's new album, Divine Council.
This album is awesome right from the start all the way to the end!
Psycroptic's from Australia and they play fast and technical death metal.
And apparently, that was just what I needed this week 
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This Shakta is interesting, thanks ...
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Nice! Been listening to it while working 
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Garsi has a new set out. I'm sure I'll get tired of that style pretty soon, but it hasn't happened yet: GARSI - Live @ Paris, France 02.02.2023. Nice work music as long as I keep from watching the video.
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peterkm wrote: (we are missing metal smiley)
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Not a smily, but I think one can understand it anyways 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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OK, thanks ... but, perhaps it can be added to the list of icons ?
and, where is your musical preference, if I may ask ?
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Skype for business has it even moving the head up and down with a bit of "hair"
peterkm wrote: perhaps it can be added to the list of icons ?
The correct place to ask: Bugs and Suggestions[^]
peterkm wrote: where is your musical preference, if I may ask ?
You may.
I always say that every music has a moment and every moment has a music.
I like a lot of different types (classic to techno, pop to metal, chill out to epic, folk to country...). But my taste was not so satisfied with some of the songs commented in some of Sanders' threads in the past, they were a bit too "dark", too "minimalistic" or too "extreme" for me. Although in general terms I do usually like the proposed SOTW (I even contributed twice to the selection of following week if I remember correctly)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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