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Re: Yet another plea for guidance

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On 12/1/2016 03:59, David LaRue wrote:
> Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:ea92rlFpmv8U1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> On 11/30/2016 14:45, David LaRue wrote:
>>> Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:ea8r4jFnsb3U1@mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> There is probably a better place than this for looking for help. but
>>>> I don't know where that is......
>>>>
>
> You can just change your search engine away from bing.  It sounds like that
> would fix the problem.  Firefox as well as the other browsers support many
> search engines.

That is not a "fix", that is a "run away from the problem" and is in 
fact what I had done to be able to search for a "fix" before I gave up 
and tried the unlikely-to-succeed-these-days plea for useful help.

> Personally I don't use those things.  I just open the web site for the
> desired search engine.  Why take up more screen space for such a little
> used function?

How do you know how I call "bing"?  (It happens that it is the default 
for a new window, but I often call it using a book mark.  I have no 
visualization for what the screen space issue is of which you speak.)


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Yet another plea for guidance Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 14:29 -0600
  Re: Yet another plea for guidance David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2016-11-30 20:45 +0000
    Re: Yet another plea for guidance Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 16:40 -0600
      Re: Yet another plea for guidance David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2016-12-01 09:59 +0000
        Re: Yet another plea for guidance Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 16:12 -0600
  Re: Yet another plea for guidance "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 21:48 +0100
  Re: Yet another plea for guidance Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-01 00:28 +0000
    Re: Yet another plea for guidance Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2016-12-01 20:10 +0000
      Re: Yet another plea for guidance BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-01 20:52 +0000
        Re: Yet another plea for guidance lfsheldon@gmail.com - 2016-12-01 14:38 -0800
      Re: Yet another plea for guidance Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 16:15 -0600
      Re: Yet another plea for guidance Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 16:22 -0600
    Re: Yet another plea for guidance lfsheldon@gmail.com - 2016-12-01 14:36 -0800

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