Computers are great devices aren’t they?
You can read news from around the world, look up celebrity gossip, download fantastic recipes, music, TV shows etc etc etc!
In fact I was just saying to my family the other night, ‘I can barely remember what I used to do with my time before I had an array of gadgets to keep me connected to everyone/everything/the world 24/7′. (cue joke below!)
To view all these amazing things on the internet, we have a choice of which ‘browsers’ we can use. I’m often surprised when I mention the word ‘browser’ and quite a lot of folk look at me as if I’ve just landed from outer space. It’s only when I say, ‘Oh you know, that program that you use to look at things on the internet. You click on the blue ‘e’ (Internet Explorer) or the fox wrapped around the world (Firefox) etc’.
So what browser are you using?
When I first got my computer (l-o-n-g time ago!), there wasn’t a great deal of choice about which browser you could use and you quite often went with the preinstalled software on the computer, which was Internet Explorer. At that time, there wasn’t the vast array of ‘browser add-ons’ that there are these days and IE used to be able to cope quite well.
These days, just about every function you want to do on your computer has some sort of ‘browser add-on’ and this can lead to instability of your browser and this is only with legitimate type add-ons, not the malicious ones that so often seem to effect our browsers.
Picture your browser as a dishwasher and a browser add-on as a plate. The more plates you add to your dishwasher, the less effective the dish washing becomes until a) you can no longer fit any plates into your dishwasher and b) your dishwasher has a seizure and ends up not working any more.
This is what your browser can become like if you ‘overload’ it. It can become sluggish and downright unusable.
In fact, I recommend that you ALWAYS have two browsers installed on your computer!
Why?
Because the very minute that you want to do some important banking or pay a bill, will be the day your browser decides to have an apocalyptic dummy spit!
So what should you do if your browser becomes unusable?
Well aside from having a very long cuss at the computer, you can reset your browser. What this does is to reset it back to when it was brand spanking new and this removes all the add-ons and you can then start to collect them all again (until next reset!)
Below are links to reset your particular browser:
Once you’ve done this, your browser should be a happy little dishwasher and your dishes should be sparkling and clean!
Have you had any browser troubles? How did you fix them up? We’d love to hear your view in the comments below.
