ie9

i've grown comfortable using google chrome, so today checking out ie9 is uncomfortable to the eyes... especially the smaller text on the screen and the inability to open pages in new tabs from button links... my kaspersky (anti-virus) is set to "on" for checking the website of some links (not all) on every webpage and putting an icon next to the link which distorts the page layout which is unacceptable for blogging... kaspersky seems better integrated with chrome as i can turn that feature on and off in chrome with a toolbar button... on the other hand, ie9 has a favorites/history toolbar button i like... changing the size of what is on the screen increases the font size for everything including buttons in ie9, changing the paragraph layout, which is annoying... that happens in chrome too, but not in all areas (both browsers fail in this aspect)... there is more top screen taken up by chrome when all top bars are minimized, advantage ie9... but i like the pin tab feature in chrome... there seems to be some sort of pinned site feature in ie9, but it leads to a microsoft site (fail)... chrome doesn't have a status bar it seems, but it does have a pop up bar down there when hovering over links which has been enough for me... ie9 has the same when the status bar is removed... chrome is also consistently a bit faster than ie9, a big edge... so even though i want to check out all of the new features of ie9 and it appears to have more than chrome, at the moment i like chrome better, even if just a teeny tiny bit and that may be due to eye-comfort from recent use, but especially for the ability to open button links in new tabs and not changing the page layout by increasing all font sizes and speed... i'd need a bigger screen to better compare the views side by side and i don't feel like unpacking and setting up a bigger screen at the moment cuz there's no room in the living room for it, alas... one of these days i'll open and try firefox again... bigger screen...

woke up with very watery eyes and a runny nose today... maybe all the sugar last night, a whole lot of cake and icing for sure... some meatballs too... belly big this morning... time to put a cork in the indulgences for a week or few to drop back under 200 pounds, especially with softball season right around the corner... also must increase exercise, especially upper body work and stamina work as running any substantial distance is still at least a few weeks and maybe further off... but must start the daily test running too... clear the sinuses and full speed ahead... ummmm, no, ok, clear the sinuses and put on the ankle wrap and sneakers and step outside and attempt to lightly job a few hundred feet?... yeah, that's more like it... so when we gonna do it?... later... today, we hope, aye?... waking up groggy in the middle of the afternoon, wow, what a sweet life :)

hope you are enjoying your weekend (and browser) too :)