Hello
I was tidying up my chaotic computer organisation a bit recently, so when I caught this Thread, I thought out of interest I would check out clicking on that
Homemade SPAM thing in Word(s).
My results so far
here, are a bit patchy as I don’t have all versions on everything everywhere, but I am looking at this range _...
Words: 2003 2007 2010 2013,
Operating systems: Vista, Win7, Win10, win11
Firefox: a few old ones and an up to date one
I pretty well get that
…"Your browser is up to date" … annoyance problem everywhere.
As Hans and Ken don’t get that on newer Words, then my guess is that either something was changed around or after 2013 which had the side effect of making the problem going away, or something was introduced to help discourage using older Offices, or some combination of those two things perhaps – something being changed and the people changing it not being too worried what it did to older Words.
So far my limited measurements suggest the browser version has no effect. For example my last result in the linked list is Windows 11 with newest Firefox version. (Word 2010 I have on that computer).
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The workaround linked in the first post from Chris works for me
almost. - If I change the link from
h
ttps://w
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=FOvAMWupNcs
to
ht
tps:
//ww
w.youtube.com/watch/FOvAMWupNcs
then, first I go to a cookie acceptance page, and then after to the video.
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ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑05 Jan 2024, 15:34
... using Word2003
since around 2023, and installing always from the same physical CD.
that's not so long Chris,
, give it a chance, - I started using it a few years ago, and I think there is still lots of good stuff to discover.
I got some Office 2003 physical CDs as well. I bought them on eBay for little more than the cost of post. I could keep using them to install over and over anywhere. (I wouldn’t though, seriously, well not on other multiple computers, as I don’t think you should use more than the agreed licence number. What is annoying though, is that I have more legal licences on 2007 and 2010 DVDs than I have ever installed, and some were quite expensive from new, but never the less, I can’t use them anywhere anymore as I re installed on the same computers a few times. So I can understand people fiddling the to get over that hurdle. ( Please don’t tell me anyone about numbers to phone Microsoft to get the things to activated. Just the thought of the last few times I tried that does my head in. I am planning to learn how to fiddle it
but only so that I can personally use what I am legally entitled to but am prevented from by Microsoft. ) )
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BTW you can pick up the old Firefox install exes for experimenting, Chris, from what looks like the official FireFox/Godzilla site here:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
I compared what I had found laying around with what I thought should be the same install exe file from there, and they looked either the same or very similar, going by the file size. You need to be a bit careful and look around a bit as a lot of files there have the same name
Alan