More Chrome craziness

[threeoutside]

OK, I figured out how to watch Netflix movies. NOW the problem - and it's not a life-threatening one, but it does need to get fixed and I cannot find ANYWHERE on the internet that tells me how to do it, ALL currency is shown as Euros. Every page, everywhere, even my own credit union accounts and retirement accounts. I discovered that if I mouse

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[vilakins]

I googled the problem. Have you installed "Chrome Currency Converter" (CCC). It turns out the default setting for CCC is Euros and if you set it to USD it will be OK.

I had to smile though. I usually have to jump through hoops for defaults not to be American and I still haven't managed in some cases.

I hated the new tab not becoming the active one too. You can install Tabs to the front and it will start working straight away: middle-click on a link and you get a new active tab. YAY!

[threeoutside]

Wow, vilaikins, you are more help than all the message boards and "help" pages I could find! Where do I find "Chrome Currency Converter"? And I am definitely going to get Tabs to the front installed! Thank you!!!!

[vilakins]

NO, don't install the currency converter! It's caused problems for people and I thought it might have for you. Maybe go to Settings, then Advanced down the bottom, and make sure your language is US English.

I'm going out now but I'll see if I can find out what else might be causing your Euro problem when I come back.

[threeoutside]

Ah, yes, well, so far it's been working OK and if it's causing problems I haven't come across them yet. It's a little gold symbol inside the URL window; when I'm on a site if I click on the symbol, it changes currencies to - whatever the right one is, from Euros. On a British shoe store site, for example, it changes the Euros to pounds. On an American store site, it changes Euros to the right amount of dollars. I would rather not have to do that myself, manually - seems like the program shouldn't be screwing up the currencies like this, but at least i can change them now if I have to.

And yeah, I already double-checked to make sure it was set at English. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it. You're very kind. :)

[threeoutside]

Welll...I found them both. I *thought* I installed them both - if "installing" means double-clicking on the live link on the name of the program. Dammit this is so hard by text....Anyway, *Chrome Currency Converter* appears to be just a regular currency converter - convert-as-you-go - rather than changing Chrome itself so ALL pages automatically show dollars. I guess my search is still on. This shouldn't be necessary, what's wrong with those programmers? WHy can't they just put this in the Set-up so *everyone* can get their own currency by default

[vilakins]

You have to middle-click on a link as in Firefox. Sorry, off out now.