I forgot to tip the keyboard up and Pereg made a whoopsie of my monitor General Chat

Pereg is not to be trusted when I am not at the computer as she knows that I usually have a tissue or three between the keyboard and monitor, and to her tissues are manna from heaven. So I tip the keyboard up on end, propped up by the bottle of water I usually have on the table.

Only I forgot to do so a couple of hours ago and came back to find everything on the monitor sideways on.

Oops. With it never have happening before, and not knowing what to do, I pressed this, that, t'other...

...and everything on the monitor was then upside down.

PANIC

Tried pressing this, that, t'other again, but nothing happened so I had to telephone Effie and say Hellup what do I do now.

Simple, he said.

Press Control and Alt and then whichever arrow you want to turn the picture on the monitor to the right way up...

...and then he started laughing.

And I felt like a right idjit.

Well I certainly wouldn't have known what to do!

Its ok Malka I am useless when it comes to computers, I know how to go to my email Facebook, here ebay & Amazon & Google anything else is way out of my league x

When Effie built my first computer, brought it here and set it up, I had to ask him how to switch the thing on! Well, I had never seen a computer before.

And it took me two weeks before I dared send an email. Actually the only email address I had was my twin's and she had snail-mailed it to me when I had said that I might be getting a computer.

No lessons, nothing. Effie just left me to it, and slowly slowly I learned what to do, and this was the first time ever I had had to telephone him and say Hellup.

Now, you are talking about someone - me - who crashes Firefox at least once every day because she - me - as two [sometimes three] Firefox windows open with at least ten [or more] tabs on two of them...

...so Firefox crashes and wants to be re-started. No problem. I just restart it.

But I do ask rather a lot of my computer and the computer itself copes just fine. Firefox, however, does not always cope with what I ask of it - but I still reckon it is the best browser.

I do also use Chrome but that is only for a couple of things, and for emergencies if Firefox has hysterics for too long. I will NOT NOT NOT touch IE - would happily get it off my computer if I could but I cannot as I use Microsoft, currently using Windows 7 Ultimate. And will never use W8. If and when Effie has to build me another computer [I think I am on computer #6?] and W7 is no longer supported, probably Windows will be on W10 by then!

But I will cross that bridge when I come to it!

Don'tcha just lurve computers?!

I use Chrome, and my son uses Firefox. When I go to switch the computer off and come off Firefox, it tells me that I am about to close something like 24 tabs.

It seems to cope, just gets slower and slower.

Firefox Chrome no idea what you talking about, I flick all switches on wait until computer is running then type breedia, Facebook, Amazon, ebay in the gap on virgin home page or click on emails nothing else.

I'm not technical minded at all, we did have Chrome but started getting problems so now on Firefox, but thinking about Comodo Ice Dragon browser has anyone tried it.
https://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/icedragon-browser.php

OK - the reason I use Firefox [and I have changed the layout from the latest version to the previous "classic" one because I prefer it - and I knew how to do it - is because it has various Add-ons that I really do need.

Examples:

1 - ReminderFox. I set it to remind me of things like Pereg's three times a day pills, times of Shabbat coming in and ending each week [although I do have to change the times for the reminders, the four-weekly Mei Eden water delivery - and various other things.

I set it to pop up a day or an hour or whatever I want to remind me, then can set time in hours or minutes to snooze - and it gives me peace of mind that I do not forget anything.

2 - X-Notifier. I have 10 Gmail accounts, 1 Yahoo account and 1 Hotmail account, and if an email comes in on any or all the X-Notifier icon turns from grey to red [as it has just done] with the number of incoming emails. All I have to do is click on the icon and each email address opens in a different tab.

I must add that my ISP email address and my personal Hover address open in Thunderbird, and incomings show up as an envelope on my bottom task bar.

3 - Textarea Cache. It remembers everything I type so if I lose something I just have to click on the icon and there it is, ready to be copied and pasted where the lost whatever had been.

In other words I have my computer set exactly as I need it to be set, doing exactly what I need it to do. Having started knowing booger all about computers and how to use them, this was the first time I was stumped as to what to do, and oh was it embarrassing to have to ask Effie for help!

No wonder he laughed at me!