Posted by BrendaTx on 11/6/11 9:40am
Msg #402935
Google Chrome
Forgive me if this is OT, but my browser is the window to my "work stuff."
I have been using Google Chrome for years. It has been reliable.
On Friday, I hit a snag. Pages would stop loading and I'd see "waiting for cache" in the lower right hand page. I could get out of the program and re-start it and it would work well for about ten sights and then nosedive.
I have cleared my cache, uninstalled and reinstalled and all is going well for now, so I wanted to post. Just for good measure, I threw in a re-boot, too.
I don't like Firefox or IE, except when required for a site that requires one of them. I absolutely love Google Chrome. It's lighter and faster....until now. Hopefully, I have fixed it. Thought I had better post this question before I bogged down again.
I've read the help and it sounds like a lot of folks gripe or fix the way that I have.
Have any of you run into this?
| Reply by Frenchie/TN on 11/6/11 10:42am
Msg #402942
I use Chrome too. Haven't had a problem n/m
| Reply by ME/NJ on 11/6/11 2:18pm
Msg #402953
I've use Chrome all the time, had some hitches but uninstall it and download it again clears up issues.
| Reply by Stoli on 11/6/11 2:23pm
Msg #402955
Well, Brenda, I learned something from you again today.
I didn’t know enough to clear the cache, or about the Safety Button. Obviously IE has a lot of new features, and I’m not taking full advantage. I’ll add that to my bucket list along with the remedial reading class I promised to take.
| Reply by BrendaTx on 11/6/11 3:53pm
Msg #402963
Glad to offer up yet another dose of my
trivial, jack-of-all-trades knowledgez. 
| Reply by BrendaTx on 11/6/11 3:52pm
Msg #402962
Re: Google Chrome - lol
"about ten sights and then nosedive."
I have been to lots more than ten "sights" and no nosedive.
Holey Sites, Batman!
| Reply by HisHughness on 11/6/11 4:20pm
Msg #402964
Re: Google Chrome - lol
***about ten sights and then nosedive***
Okay, I let this go by the first time, but now it comes back around again, and I have to ask: What is "sedive"? Is that some sort of garnish, like parsley? Or is it a salad component, like endive? An open ocean plunge? A really seedy beer joint, well below the "A" and "B" joints?
And what are the ramifications of having NO sedive?
| Reply by BrendaTx on 11/6/11 4:32pm
Msg #402965
Oh, please.
It's a C-stat's homie's talk for "no C drive."
Don't mess with me. I just spent too much of my day adjusting my budget and online bill paying activities to going on salary (paid once a month) from being hourly (paid twice a month). The new position and the check are both better, but it's a psychological nightmare to pay all of one's bills at the first of the month rather than every two weeks or twice a month.
I have never been paid only once a month. In know, I know...lots of you have been doing it for awhile and on fixed incomes, but I'm either too young, or too old for such radical changes.
| Reply by Susan Fischer on 11/6/11 4:54pm
Msg #402968
Many of the state jobs in ID were paid monthly, and indeed,
it was the pits. That's when I started all utilities I could on level pay, so the budget was at least uniform for them.
For annual/semi-annual expenses, like prop taxes, insurances, I created savings accounts for each, and made myself contribute the monthly $$ to each, as well as a Holiday Fund for the obvious.
It helped.
| Reply by BrendaTx on 11/6/11 5:53pm
Msg #402971
Exactly, Susan. That is my pathway, too.
It will just take me a little while to adjust. I will keep my utilities on regular pay for awhile to get a bettter. I had horrendous electricity bills in the last year because my 30 yr old condo had very little insulation.
I have the insulation now and new siding...all kinds...new double-paned windows are in my future. After the $5400 assessment for the siding, insulation, and so forth, they took back seat.
My bill is doing a lot better now.
| Reply by HisHughness on 11/6/11 6:26pm
Msg #402974
Re: Exactly, Susan. That is my pathway, too.
***new double-paned windows are in my future***
Don't think it helps in the winter, but film on the windows is quite inexpensive and will lower your summer A/C bills.
| Reply by Susan Fischer on 11/6/11 7:28pm
Msg #402977
Along those lines, in the Log Planet (Idaho), the first year
or two, I made my own "storm window" on non-opening ones (picture window in LR, eg) by using fairly thick 'see-thru' plastic, wrapped around cardboard 'frame,' and gingerly staple-gunned it to wood. It really helped with those freezing winters. Once I could finally replace all the windows with good ones, some 28 years later, Mom died, and I sold out to move here.
The plastic coverings didn't look too bad with sheers and some ingenuity, ripped off in the spring faster than a pop-up daffodil.
Used Hugh's suggestion on West windows, and it works really well. Hope you don't have individual panes, because they are a pAIN, but, with enough rock and roll, beer, and good cheer, it gets done.
| Reply by BrendaTx on 11/6/11 10:15pm
Msg #402983
Thanks, Hugh...
I will look into that for my one big window...I had not thought about that.
Susan, uh, where I come from we just tacked quilts up over those drafty windows...of course, we only needed them for a few days here and there. Interesting idea, though.
Next, I am going to get rid of my fire place.  Should have already, but we had a horribly cold winter awhile back and my heater's power supply went bad at the same time it was in the teens here. (Remember, I had almost no insulation and I live on the end of a building!) I had loaded up on wood, lots and lots of wood. My house was warm and toasty for the three days until someone could get over and look at it.
Last year, I replaced my circuit breaker box. It started tripping for the heater...yeah, it needed replacing baaaaaad. I stopped using the heater and called an electrician. Cold snap again...more teens and the heater is going to be out for four days until the electrician can get it done. I picked up two small but efficient space heaters for the interim. They were more efficient than the fire place. Removing the fireplace will be a good inside job for my handy man this winter.
| Reply by Susan Fischer on 11/6/11 10:56pm
Msg #402987
Oh yeah, my beloved wood stove was made up at Dry
Gulch by folks who were part of the Fisher stove war back East. PA, if I recall. Anyway, they made me a "Squatty Bear," bigger than the Baby Bear, smaller than the Mama Bear. They welded a star and moon for the front, and a friend who worked in sheet metal fabrication made the wall protector fashioned a fabulous giant sun. MWF was etched into the bottom. Many Warm Fires. It'd run you right outta there, and there were times when, in gentle snow, I'd open the front door, and let the quiet cool try to out-do the heated hearthheat.
However, the wood gathering processes ranged from lots to nil, and the nils were hell. The happiest day was when I got actual ducted gas forced air heat, and I had very little help in building the return up through the 2 stories, but got 'er done, just before the first frost. Standing over a register isn't the same as cooking next to a wood stove, but, boy, was it heaven not to deal with frozen wood, no kindling, and a growling stomach after work.
I wasn't going to drag that wonderful old stove to the Coast, so I left it with the Log Planet. Dad finally replaced the gigantic old Earth Stove here, and we love the gas inserts - especially not having to lug wood upstairs.
Stay toasty, word has it it's going to be a bear.
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