Moving to Europe

[Enzo]

Not really.

I visit Mouser online all the time. In a recent thread, someone linked to a Mouser page for some parts they are thinking to buy. I went and looked. It was from Mouser, but it was Mouser in France. I just tried to look up a Mouser part, and I cannot get off of the Mouser France site. I can select English and US$ pricing, but it is still Mouser France.

I am sure if I clear my cookies, it will fix itself, at least I hope. But When I am working, I find some cookies useful as they keep place and let the autofill speed up my address bar. I am thinking Chrome is assuming too much.

[The Dude]

Bonjour,
You should be able to navigate to your cookies folder and just delete the Mouser cookies.
Au Revoir

[mozwell]

as recommended & used by the IT department here where i work, use ccleaner, to clean up internet history, cookies, & a load of other stuff.
FileHippo.com - Download Free Software, look for the ccleaner in "popular software" or just search for it.

works a treat, i use it all the time to get rid of old browsing files & keep the registry clean.
It also allows you to see & enable / disable what software runs when you start your computer..... overall a very powerful tool.

[The Dude]

Also, FWIW, "Autocomplete" stores entries in another location. Deleting cookies won't effect that function.

[g1]

Have you tried to just type mouser.com into your address bar? My default is the Canada site, but if I want to see the US version I just type mouser.com into the address bar. The France site probably has a fr. prefix? Canada is ca.mouser.com

[Enzo]

Yes, and when I type in plain old mouser.com and hit enter, BANG it sticks the FR back on the front and there I am again.


yes, I can clean out everything, but when I do that, it forgets where I have been and so I must enter whole URLs again. I keep my favorites list small enough to fit across a bar at the top.

Yeah, I have ccleaner. This whole thing is not really a problem, it just irks me that it does it in the first place. There is no reason that site should become a default.

[Enzo]

Dumping my cookies cleared it up, as I suspected it would. I have opened many overseas links to look at parts someone was thinking of using, but this capture never happened before. But now I have to go re-enter my passwords at various forums.

[dai h.]

I don't think you need to go to such extremes (as nuking all cookies) to change back to the desired mouser site. Try clicking the flag on the upper right, then choose the appropriate site.

[J M Fahey]

Well, now it's done.
But as suggested above, you might have nuked *just* Mouser cookies.

Didn't Enzo teach you that "shotgunning" is not the best tool?

At least, you should have given the cookie file a good whack first.

Eeeeeeenzooooooo !!!!!!!! you are a folk hero appointed by the People's decision

[Enzo]

dai, I already did that, and even re-entering the URL didn't help. SOmehow the system had decided I was in France.

I may be good at troubleshooting, but i am a dinosaur with computers. I clear my cookies now and then anyway. As to clearing only the Mouser cookies, well first, I have no idea where the cookies even are. And last time I did look at them, there were tons of them, and I;d have to scroll around looking for relevant ones. Foo on that, just clear them all. I am about as interested in the innards of the computer as my mom was as to the workings of her car's motor. Cookie clearing is one of those "internet options" I can quickly access.

[Tom Phillips]

I think that there is a French conspiracy regarding computer settings. I have had several instances where my Microsoft Word application changed the dictionary language to French for no apparent reason. It took me a while to tunnel down to the proper menu selection to fix that since Microsoft seems to have hired a Costco shelf stocking employee to re-organize the menus for every new SW release.

[Enzo]

I visit Elektrotanya all the time, and it never reverts my system to Hungarian. At least not unless Hungarian looks just like English.

It struck me as odd, since it has never before happened, and I look at parts companies all over the world.

[dai h.]

i am a dinosaur with computers.

same here (or at least it probably takes me 10 times as long to figure something out compared to a modern teen).

re: finding the specific cookie, that's probably something not too hard to figure out, and re-signing in to various sites is going to take time anyway, so maybe a bit of a "six of one, half dozen of the other" situation there.

As for cookies in general, it seems they (or possibly on the other end?) can experience some sort of corruption which can be resolved by signing out and back in again. I vaguely remember some situation like that with some game, where I would keep getting dropped from the gaming server until I signed out/in again (things were stable thereafter).

[Enzo]

I probably know more about computers than I think I do, but I just hate screwing with them. As much as I like analyzing circuits in my head and solving the puzzles they create, I get no joy doing the same thing in a computer. I am sure I could find a cookie if I really wanted to. I can change a tire on my car if I want to. I don;t want to. Wherever I find the cookies, I won;t remember where it was a year later when I need to do it again.

When I download some file, it stores it in some temp file somewhere. It will have a name like AM4D73KJF90SNE9 I can look at the tree at the top to find that is the end of a branch from libraries/windows/enzo/whatever ( I made that up). If I go to look for it immediately afterwards, I find the tree structure of my computer doesn;t seem to be the same, and I cannot find the branch no matter what. Plus a cut/paste copy of that file name entered into the search function is never found. Now I could spend a half hour or hour or three hours and maybe solve that mystery, but then... what do I have? I already know I have saved the file into memory somewhere anyway. The reason I want to figure it out is the explore the other titles I see listed in those temp files. When I am saving, I cannot acess those other listings, and so I am not sure I have all the tech files I see as titles also stored where they belong. MY tech files are pretty organized, but every now and then I find some schematic I downloaded saved as a picture instead of a schematic, or as a document or whatever. SO I hate to think I have some mis-filed drawings in hidden nooks. But I lose interest in the search very quickly.

[ewd]

I have the same problem with those hidden temp files. I've had files, schematics, etc, I've downloaded and subsequently lost. I can catch glimpses of them in the mysterious temp files when downloading something else and have even written down the ablkjackaberl temp folder names they are in, but can never find those temp folders when searching for them in my file structure. The more I learn about computers and the more I use them (which is extensively at work and at home), the more I hate them. Just a necessary evil of my current life.