Whaddaya know; I got on via Chrome

[ghostjmf]

So now if I want to post or read stuff here I have to go to this place that runs Chrome? My situation in life is I'm using other entity's computers, so I can't just set up browsers I like on them. Not if I want to be allowed to keep using them for personal stuff, anyway. Frankly, I haven't seen any reason to want Chrome until now.

As those who are following the saga on the BoredArk group on Facebook, lots of us suddenly can't log in here via the normal routes (IE, Mozilla, Safari for some, although I haven't been at a place I could try that yet).

[ghostjmf]

I just tried that trick, mentioned by thguy65 in the other thread, of leaving the "www" out. I also tried leaving the "http" out. Some browsers these days put those on in the background for you, so you are effectively sending them out twice. Tried it with Firefox; still doesn't work. Tried it with IE, leaving the "www" out, & voila; "http://wwtbambored.com/" worked. That's what shows up as the address I've gone to. This is confusing in the extreme.

[Ritterskoop]

For what it's worth, I do like Chrome. I find it very similar to Apple's Safari, my preferred browser for the past decade or so.

When they made us switch to Chrome at work (to support Google mail) a bunch of us Appleheads cheered (we have to use PCs at work but a disproportionate number of us have Macs at home - they have a whole batch of different keyboard shortcuts for us to substitute when there is an ice storm and we work from home).