tech question

[bdclark0423]

> Tonks:
> Hi Potioncat. I think what they are saying is that the cookies are 
> turned off on the kid's computer. Firefox and Internet Explorer 
are 
> browsers. There should be a IE link somewhere on there, maybe just 
> not on the desktop. I just pulled up Firefox (which I don't like) 
> and tested it. I am seeing the same thing that you are. No visited 
> link color changes. So it is in the Firefox browser. Maybe there 
is 
> a way to get it to work, but I don't know how. I would go into the 
> control panel and see if you can find IE on that machine. I will 
> leave it to the guys to tell you how, I am not that much of a tec 
> person.
> 

Well, when I saw you used the term 'clunker' and in your latest 
post 'contraption,' I figured it possible the most you knew would be 
where keyboard and mouse were, but at same time, i didn't want to 
insult you either, so I thought I had exlained fairly simple 
enough.  Of course, when you start using acronyms and terms others 
aren't familiar with, the whole explanation isn't worth a darn 
thing.  

So.....let's try this again.

The links you have already visited change colors because your 
software (the programing that tells your computer what to do) knows 
you have already read it because all this data is actually stored on 
your computer itself rather than where you would think, on that 
realm of 'out-there' we call the internet.

Tonks says Firefox does have this option like Internet Explorer to 
let you know what links you've read, so you should be able to change 
the way Firefox is configured, it just a matter of knowing how to 
change your settings.

I'm currently downloading Firefox and will send you an e-mail with 
step by step instructions and screen shots explaining how to do 
this.  If this won't help, you'll have to either live with links 
displayed the way they are on your teens' machine or stop using that 
old hunk-a-junk as a foot rest.