But I don’t want Bing

For whatever reason, one of my browsers has decided to default to BING regardless of which engine is in change when I start the search.

I am neither amused or pleased. The list I have generated pops up, followed by a hijack of the page to the new search engine. It is only Chrome, not Safari which means, more than likely that I will be stuck completely the use of the native Apple browser. Blocking Bing hasn’t worked. Deleting it multiple times doesn’t work and I challenge any but the most game worth of opponents to be able to beat out the millisecond or so where my preferred page with link appears before blinking away.

Perhaps this is another one of those “another improvement for your safety and convenience” improvements? Kind of like the signs along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the mid-70s where the next sign would say “No Guard Rails for the next 25 miles?”

in other words, we think it will be better, somehow, some way and perhaps some day, but proceed at your own risk.

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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