Interesting about the Chrome and water comparison. Not sure how that all works, but the AT&T site specifically says which are acceptable and which are not. Chrome isn't listed as approved/supported.
The friendly personnel (idiots) on the phone at tech support (that get paid $7/hour and know nothing) have been more than willing to offer their (useless) help. Granted some of what they had to say (was complete bullshit) wasn't in line with what I thought was correct regarding computers and the internet. However, we've reached a common ground (either I shut up or they shut me off), meaning that due to my distance from the "DSL booster thing", being 22,000 feet and they only support service up to and no further than 16,000 feet, I should expect an occasional (often) "glitch" and be thankful that I've been able to upgrade from the dial-up connection that I've had for the past 15 years. They're unaware why I've been granted service in the first place (they're willing to take my $140/month check for internet, phone, sat TV) so as was mentioned, I should expect an intermittent "bug". However, none of the issues I'm having, have anything to do with the distance I am from the "thing". They can't seem to understand that (my problem isn't on their flowchart and are unable to think for themselves as they've not been properly trained to problem solve in areas that pertain to their job) so I'm on my own for "bug repair". These
little issues I've listed here are browser specific, not distance specific.
Due to my distance, FIOS, U-Verse, Charter Pipeline is not available. The only other options I have are satellite, dial up, or cel. I've not heard of anyone impressed with sat.
My buddy brought his laptop with cel based connection and it sucked worse than mine did. I shouldn't need to brag of the virtues of dial-up to anybody that's had it.
So....This is what I've got to work with. To keep the 'bugs' to a minimum, I'd like to chose among the pieces of software that are approved by AT&T which are IE8 and Firefox. If I could work out the couple bugs, I think I can deal with the other issues that are due to my extreme distance from the "thing" that gives me DSL.
Sorry for the bitterness. I think that Mr. Subliminal came out for a choice word there.??
Bob