Rant #1,594: Google Chromed

I am sure that you noticed when you went onto this site today that the Classic Rant feature is back.

How did this happen, you ask?

It wasn't a miracle, but I have to wonder why the whole thing happened in the first place.

I was completely perplexed about this whole thing, so I went into Google Blog Help, a feature that I have used in the past when my site was hacked.

Way back when, over a year ago, I came up with nothing. No solutions, no direction about what I could do about something like this.

Well, this time around, evidently, I am not the only person to have suffered the loss of what is called my blog archive, as I read when I went into the help site.

However, I did not find exactly the solution to my problem there, so I put up my question about my blog.

"Why can't I go into my blog archive as I have in the past? When I try to access the archive, all that I get is the spinning ball of doom, but it does not provide me access.

What should I do?"

Well, that was actually two questions, but I think you get the point.

I posted my question(s), and waited for a response.

I got one the very next day.

Basically, someone who read my question had a pretty quick solution: open the site in Google Chrome, and the archive will miraculously appear again.

I did, and it did.

I was happy, but I posted another question, which has yet to be answered, and that is, "Why, all of a sudden, am I being forced to use Google Chrome as my browser when I access my blog?"

I think that that question has a simple answer.

Google is trying to push its Chrome browser for everyone to use. I prefer Mozilla Firefox, but they want me, as a PC or Mac user--sometimes I do use a Mac for the blog--to move over to Chrome.

Google is not being nice by doing this, but they have forced my hand, so what am I to do?

I don't know if you realize this, but Google is kind of everywhere. When you go into YouTube, you are accessing a Google product, to use one example to illustrate my point.

I don't necessarily like Google Chrome. To me, it is not as flexible as Firefox is, or whatever I am using on a Mac.

But as long as I can access my blog, I guess that I would rather switch than fight--at least for this one thing that I do on the computer five days a week.

So, if they want to take over the world, I guess they can start with their blogs.

I am just happy that I can access them they way I used to, and look, the Classic Post I put up today celebrates my birthday, of all things.

Tomorrow, I am going to tell you about a much more important celebration my family will be having this weekend, rain or shine, snow or no snow.

And Google Chrome will have nothing to do with it.