Stick with the oldies that work

Somebody once told me never to update/upgrade your software unless the update contains critical new features that you can't live without, or the update solves a problem that you are having.

Well, I did not follow that advice, and am now paying the price. I updated FireFox to the latest version, and now I'm having all sorts of problems. My icons don't work, for example. When I click on the icon, FireFox is listed in the Task Manager, but there is no browser window. If I close it from the Task Manager, then restart it, then FireFox works. Also, my TypePad pop ups don't work, e.g., for picking multiple categories. I suppose I can uninstall and reinstall FireFox, but then I would lose all the cool (19 of them) Extensions that I have. Who wants to re-download and re-install all that? Not me...

I'm posting this with Explorer, meaning that I have two different browsers on right now.

That's silly.

Last week, I upgraded my BIOS because IBM told me to. But, the computer crashed during the installation, requiring a call to IBM Customer Service. They walked me through the process for setting my BIOS back to the older (functional) version. Kudos for being very nice and patient with me on a Saturday afternoon.

With great hesitation, I updated Skype this morning...no problems noted so far.

Rant over...back to work...

Comments

[Steve Shu]

Sorry about the issues. One thing you might want to watch with the Skype upgrade is that I have found that I and others that link with me cannot see the status of each other online. Have no idea what is going on. Have had the problem for many months now. The software acknowledges that we're both supposed to see each other, but we can't. May have to do with the fact that the other persons are not using the latest versions of the software.

[Carlos N Velez]

I have the same problem with Yahoo Messenger. I have the latest version with Voice, but a few contacts of mine do not. We can chat ok, but I can't see when they're online!