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Nick29
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The real cause of the problems with IE8 and other things has been touched on."Problems would be fixed when millions of Americans upgraded their computers" That's where Microsoft profits come from, the rest of the world are added extras for decoration only.
When I said "Problems would be fixed when millions of Americans upgraded their computers" I was referring to Ancestry, not Microsoft.
IE8 hasn't changed, but Ancestry has. Ancestry has always had a reputation for rubbish page coding.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Nick29
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I did say I didn't use Ancestry  - but the company would not have achieved the success it has if its web pages did not work adequately on a number of browsers.
Clearly not ! Ancestry is favoured because of the range of information available, not because of the way that it is presented.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Nick29
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Millions of Americans may be upgrading to IE8 but across the rest of the world millions of people are turning their back on IE completely. In the UK almost as many people use Firefox as IE7&8, in the rest of Europe and Asia more people use Firefox than IE.
I dispute your figures. Do you have any proof of them ? Also, I'm sure that millions of people have downloaded Firefox - I am one of them, and which browser do I choose ? IE8.
I have no problems with Ancestry using Firefox, but then I have JRE which is needed for a variety of programmes and is kept up to date.
So do I, and when I tried Firefox (version 3) I could not get the Ancestry enhanced viewer to work.
OK, I confess, when I started on the internet I used Netscape, which at that time was at version 0.81 and I have always loathed Internet Explorer in all its versions, so I am biased.
I used Netscape too, and I was astounded to learn that one of the authors of the code was a 14 year old schoolboy 
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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bikermickau
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I use/have used Firefox on 2 computers here, this one I mainly use has no problems wth Ancestry enhanced image viewer.
The other computer cannot install/download Ancestry enhanced image viewer correctly with FF, it keeps trying.
No problems using IE.
We did installed the latest IE on that computer, my stepdaughter, the main user of it uninstalled it as she didn't like it.
Seems mirosoft has failed with that 16 yr old also 
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GOODDOG
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hi tomkin,
sorry for the delay in replying to your question re avs. Google said they were the 7 best avs. who told Google?.
regards
michael 
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bikermickau
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Yep, just found the post about it on page 6.
We discussed the Autorun security status a little earlier (probably lost in all the sidetracking posts) but Graham's particular problem, I believe, is that even after resetting IE8 to allow Auto run it failed to operate and yet on the same machine IE7 ran the autorun program perfectly.
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Jeffs - Northamptonshire to Leicestershire to Queensland, Australia
Lewis - Gloucestershire to NSW & Queensland, Australia
Mary Jones, Daughter of James and Eliza - born abt 1864 Staffordshire, married 1883 London to Queensland, Australia
Dorans - Ireland to Scotland to Queensland, Australia
Reedy - Ireland to NSW & Queensland, Australia
Bradbury (False name?) - Oxfordshire to Queensland, Australia
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robbo43
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Millions of Americans may be upgrading to IE8 but across the rest of the world millions of people are turning their back on IE completely. In the UK almost as many people use Firefox as IE7&8, in the rest of Europe and Asia more people use Firefox than IE. I dispute your figures. Do you have any proof of them ? Also, I'm sure that millions of people have downloaded Firefox - I am one of them, and which browser do I choose ? IE8.
Try reading any one of a whole range of computer magazines which give figures for actual browser usage.
Robert
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Nick29
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Do computer magazines reflect the views of average computer users these days ?
I haven't bought any magazines on computing since I discovered the internet in the mid-1990's. What's the point ?
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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NigelG
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Has anyone had issues trying to access the site "GR" once they have updated/downloaded Explorer 8?
I'm running Windows XP - have updates automatically downloaded - last update asked me to download Explorer 8 - duly complied but since then everytime I try and access that site I get an immediate Explorer message screen that tells me that it has to shut down Explorer??
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