Now, I'm Really Mad

Now it’s Foxfire’s turn to be in the hot seat. From time to time, I run into things Foxfire won’t do. Such as saving filled in forms, watching on demand video from Netflix and other general quirkiness.

On the plus side, it downloads quickly and is supposed to be “safer” online than IE. Okay, so I use Foxfire most of the time.

Just now, I was playing with Google Docs. Trying out stuff I hadn’t tried before.

I uploaded my July diary document that I had created in Word. This document comes complete with a Table of Contents.

In Word TOC listings are linked to the heading they refer to. Handy. The way it should be.

I had noticed, but had never tried Google Docs’ Bookmark feature. I like that kind of thing and make use of it from time to time, so I scroll down to the first entry of the month after the TOC. I insert a bookmark. Cool. Then I go to the top of the document, highlight the corresponding TOC entry and click on Link.

It gives me the option of picking between a URL, a file, a bookmark, or an e-mail address. Nice. I like flexible.

I choose Bookmark. My recently created Bookmark appears in the drop-down pick list, and I pick it.

When I return to the document, the first line of the TOC section now looks like a hyperlink. So far, so good.

I hover and get a description, but my pointer doesn’t turn to the little hand I’m expecting to see. I click once and get a drop-down option line. This asks me if I want to follow the link, change it, or delete it. More flexibility. I’m okay.

I click on follow the link. The screen goes blank for a couple of seconds, then I’m right where I started from on the TOC entry line, but now I have the entire document in a new tab. I did this a couple of times before I realized I was getting a new tab with the document in it each time.

I’m not so happy, but I remember how Firefox can be quirky sometimes, so I decide to try the same thing in IE (Internet Explorer)..

I guess you know what happened. Yep. It worked just like it was supposed to.

So, you might ask, and legitimately so, why don’t you just use IE and shut the f#@k up.

Well…IE does lots of things really well, however the one thing it does that irritates me is when I increase the Zoom in Google Docs (and anywhere else), it causes me to have to scroll horizontally to be able to see everything. Firefox knows to keep everything in page width, despite the Zoom level.

I’ve looked at the set up section of IE a couple of times hoping to be able to remedy this, but so far, Stevie Wonder can’t find anything.

Since I’m mostly using Google for storage and organization, I guess it’s okay, but I if I’m going to the trouble to put a link in a document, there’s a good chance I’ll be referencing that document at some point, isn’t there?

I downloaded and tried Opera the other day. I removed it less than an hour later.

I’d love to find a product that does everything all the time, the way it should. It seems everything has issues, caveats, or just plain lack of features.

When I was younger and could see normally, I should have learned how to program so I could write my own stuff that probably wouldn’t always work. At least I could fix my own stuff.

Looking forward to a relaxing evening around the fireplace with hot cocoa and marshmallows.

Well…I’ll at leas relax.