Computer/Yahoo help?
Mar. 4th, 2007 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyOkay, testing to see if I can actually type and delete in this window... yes, I can.
My Yahoo mail is doing a VERY odd thing, and I was wondering if any of you know anything about it. When I type in an e-mail or in a reply to an e-mail, my cursor doesn't stay at the end of the line... it kind of migrates backwards, and then when I try to delete, it doesn't take any of my letters away. It merely overwrites with new letters I type so I get a jumble of letter-on-letter. I also can't move my cursor so that I can type between words I've already typed (or, at least, it doesn't show that my cursor is moving and then it doesn't insert letters between things, but overwrites and I get another jumble). Does anyone have any idea why it's doing this? I was afraid it was my keyboard or something, because sometimes in my cisunix mail, the cursor moves away from the end of the line as I type and get further to the right in the text window. That isn't nearly as much trouble as the not being able to delete thing, though.
Bah! I must not succumb to that "nothing will ever go wrong with my computer because it's a Mac" delusion that all the new Mac user tutorials warn against.
[edit] It seems to have stopped doing that in my e-mail, but I've been fooling around with my font preferences. I have my Firefox font preferences all changed because otherwise my font is MINUSCULE and gives me a headache if I try to read it. Will I just naturally have issues with random weird font things if I fool around with the font preferences? For example, half the time the last few letters of every line on my LJ are cut off by the right margin, no matter how I stretch or don't stretch the screen. Is this just something that happens when you take your font preferences off default? [/edit]
My Yahoo mail is doing a VERY odd thing, and I was wondering if any of you know anything about it. When I type in an e-mail or in a reply to an e-mail, my cursor doesn't stay at the end of the line... it kind of migrates backwards, and then when I try to delete, it doesn't take any of my letters away. It merely overwrites with new letters I type so I get a jumble of letter-on-letter. I also can't move my cursor so that I can type between words I've already typed (or, at least, it doesn't show that my cursor is moving and then it doesn't insert letters between things, but overwrites and I get another jumble). Does anyone have any idea why it's doing this? I was afraid it was my keyboard or something, because sometimes in my cisunix mail, the cursor moves away from the end of the line as I type and get further to the right in the text window. That isn't nearly as much trouble as the not being able to delete thing, though.
Bah! I must not succumb to that "nothing will ever go wrong with my computer because it's a Mac" delusion that all the new Mac user tutorials warn against.
[edit] It seems to have stopped doing that in my e-mail, but I've been fooling around with my font preferences. I have my Firefox font preferences all changed because otherwise my font is MINUSCULE and gives me a headache if I try to read it. Will I just naturally have issues with random weird font things if I fool around with the font preferences? For example, half the time the last few letters of every line on my LJ are cut off by the right margin, no matter how I stretch or don't stretch the screen. Is this just something that happens when you take your font preferences off default? [/edit]
