FireFox vs. IE

Tara came to me with an interesting problem.  A patron wanted to copy an image (in this case, a photo from her Face Book page) and paste it into a document. Most of us would simply right-click on the image, and then copy and paste.  But the right-click function is disabled under group policy on the public computers, so she looked around for another way to perform this simple task.  There is no way to do it as a "TRpublic" user...IF you are using Internet Explorer.  However, Tara and I did the experiment.  You can select an image, copy it, and then paste it into a document, when using FireFox!  This is a useful discovery because the only other way to accomplish this task is to log in as a staff member, which is much more cumbersome.

Internet speed

Since several staff members and patrons reported a noticable slowdown in internet speed (and I experienced this myself), I submitted a helpstar.  Tony Wagner called about it this morning, but of course we could not reproduce the problem during the phone call.  Now, however, there's an independent means of testing web speed.  Just go to this website: http://speedtest.net/

Meanwhile, I had Susan empty her browser history and temp files, in the hope that this little measure will help with her web speed.