New Things

I don’t like ’em. New things, I mean. Why fix it if it ain’t broke? Why get a new one if the old one works fine? These are words of wisdom folks, words to live by!

After I got the “Internet Explorer is not responding” message for the umpteenth time, I decided to take a big step and download Firefox. I know. I’m a rebel. :) So I click all the “accept” and “agree” and “install” and “run program” buttons and voila! I had a brand new, spic and span browser!

It was so pretty. It was sleek and modern and just felt right. At this point I am very proud of myself and my leap of faith. I went and told all my friends the good new (instant messaging rocks) and they welcomed me into the 21st century.

And then I tried to open a new tab. I had to go all the way to the file tab, and hit new tab. Huh. What a letdown. But when the resulting tab was so wonderful I let that little misstep go. Until I tried to access my bookmarks. I had been starring websites left and right but I couldn’t find the list. I had to actually go to the bookmark tab hit “most visited” and choose from the drop down list. Ugh. What a drag. But the drop down menu was so efficient and well organized that I couldn’t help but smile.

The smile quikly turned to a frown when I tried to watch a YouTube video. Oh injustice of all injustces! Firefox dared declare that my Flash Player or Adobe or Acrobat or whatever the young whippersnappers are calling it these days was outdated. So I followed the link to update. I updated the software three times and still I was slighted in my quest to watch silly videos!

Now there is probably a logical reason behind all of this. I do not pretend to know very much about technolgy or the interenet so it is very likely that a more astute person would have been able to fix it in two clicks of the mouse. But why would I go through all that trouble when good old Internet Explorer was waiting for me faithfully with a fully functional YouTube? That’s right. I wouldn’t.

So I’m back to IE and its ubiquitous bouts of non-responsiveness. And I have no intention of trying something new.