haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (johnny-ew no)
haldoor ([personal profile] haldoor) wrote2006-08-26 10:23 pm

Man, why fix what ain't broke?

Bloody Netscape, in their infinite wisdom have decided we all must now access our e-mail through AIM. I already HATE it.



Now I know my Netscape service is limited and boring and I can't do heaps of flash things with it, but honestly, do I care? "No" is the answer, plain and simple. All I want is a place to collect my messages, send my messages, simple and without fanfare.

I understand they NEED advertising to survive, but do they need that much, taking up all the space? Before, I only got one row of it at the top, and maybe another when the screen came up to tell me my message was sent. Now I get them everywhere.

This in favour of reducing my available viewing space of "how many e-mails do I have sitting there?" to about 6 instead of most of the page, annoys the crap out of me. Bastards.

*sigh* So I've been with netscape since forever and it's time I moved on, right? Yup, I think so. I can use the yahoo.com.au one I set up when my daughters set up theirs, or I can look for another to suit. The hassle of changing everything over is the big pain, but I guess there's no hurry. I can run the two until it's all to my satisfaction.

My main criteria are:

1/ Ease of use
2/ Number of e-mails I can see in my list to be attended to at once
3/ Small amounts of advertising

From there, all is cool. I know I'll barely use half the functions, so space is no biggie either (they increased my available storage space from 250MB to 2G -or whatever the hell it's called, who remembers?), but since I'm currently using about 6MB, I really don't think that's an issue. *snort* And that's their big drawcard to flash in front of me *snorts more*

If anyone has any suggestions, let me know, but methinks I'll go for the easy option unless I am totally swept away by something else in the meantime.

[identity profile] karlamel-kisses.livejournal.com 2006-08-27 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
bloody Netscape, I gave up on it years ago cause it got to the point where it took the main page forever to load then I had trouble locating my mail when it was there. Yeah I'm with yahoo.com.au it's ok to use, simple and easy to move around in, plus you can get news and such from out side of the world. hehehhe. I'm also with gmail.com (googlemail) a great account if receiving and sending large files, movie files, songs & such plus it has it's own chat thingy like yahoo messenger.
for a browser I switched to firefox cause we have more important things to look for on the web than spend out precious time waiting for pages and what have you to load ;P

[identity profile] haldoor.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
I've gone with yahoo.com.au and I already like it much better than AOL. I have no idea why I'd want more than one e-m really... but thanks for your comments! Much appreciated! I don't have a cluue how you change browsers, but mine seems to work okay most of the time, so no worries there at the mo'.