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[GregS]

I need to reinstall a browser at home using W98SE.

What version of Firefox should I be using ??

greg

 

[Artemus]

: I need to reinstall a browser at home using W98SE.
:
: What version of Firefox should I be using ??
:
: greg

I also run W98SE and I've found that ALL versions of Firefox still
exhibit the problem of sucking up 100% of the CPU and causing
my computer to lock up for the duration(which sometimes is measured
in minutes).
I've switched to Opera and have had no problems with it.
Art

 

[Artemus]

: I need to reinstall a browser at home using W98SE.
:
: What version of Firefox should I be using ??
:
: greg

I also run W98SE and I've found that ALL versions of Firefox still
exhibit the problem of sucking up 100% of the CPU and causing
my computer to lock up for the duration(which sometimes is measured
in minutes).
I've switched to Opera and have had no problems with it.
Art

 

[Malcolm Moore]

I need to reinstall a browser at home using W98SE.

What version of Firefox should I be using ??

greg

From

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=et&comments_parentId=74873&forumId=1


Q: Is it planned to set up a version of firefox 3 for Windows 98?
The current installer and the systemsettings mention at least that I
should use minimum windows 2000.

A: Firefox 3 does not work on Windows 98. This is because it
requires some operating system features that are not present in
Windows 9x


There's a later comment that there is a project that allows V3 to run.

Strangly, links on that page purporting to link to old versions seem
to go to the 3.5 download page.

http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

still works.

My Win 98 machines are running Version 2.0.0.20 which seems to be the
last of that line.

 

[Malcolm Moore]

W98SE,900 Mhz Athlon,640MB of ram

I can manage FF 1.x,but I mostly use Opera 9.64.
According to the Mozilla site,FF2.x and up will not run on W98SE.

I look forward to you posting a link to the page that supports that
claim.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements-v2.html

contradicts you.

 

[Artemus]

: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:01:26 -0700, "Artemus" <[email protected]>
: wrote:
:
: >
: >: >: I need to reinstall a browser at home using W98SE.
: >:
: >: What version of Firefox should I be using ??
: >:
: >: greg
: >
: >I also run W98SE and I've found that ALL versions of Firefox still
: >exhibit the problem of sucking up 100% of the CPU and causing
: >my computer to lock up for the duration(which sometimes is measured
: >in minutes).
: >I've switched to Opera and have had no problems with it.
: >Art
: >
:
: You stutter post :-( Firefox does no such thing on more recent
: versions of Wimpows.
:
: ...Jim Thompson
: --

Yeah, sorry about the double post. Outhouse Express crashed when I was
sending and I fired it up and resent it w/o checking the NG to see if it was
already there.

I have other boxes with XP for the OS and Firefox will eat all the available
CPU cycles on them too.
Art

 

[Spajky]

I am using SeaMonkey 1.1.16

I am using K-Meleon 1. 1 + IE5.01sp2 ...

 

[GregS]

: I need to reinstall a browser at home using W98SE.
:
: What version of Firefox should I be using ??
:
: greg

I also run W98SE and I've found that ALL versions of Firefox still
exhibit the problem of sucking up 100% of the CPU and causing
my computer to lock up for the duration(which sometimes is measured
in minutes).
I've switched to Opera and have had no problems with it.
Art

Things got locked up at times. I was trying to clear cache and etc, and it
would lock up. Then, Firefox would not load. I tried reinstalling
but same thing. 3.5 will not install. I will try to find a ver 3 on this computer to
install. I hate to fool with that computer, has, 98/ 2000 dual boot, but
2000 stopped working some time ago. Almost time to start from scratch.
Too bad I can't get the last updates for 98.

greg

 

[GregS]

I look forward to you posting a link to the page that supports that
claim.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements-v2.html

contradicts you.

I was running 2.

greg

 

[GregS]

I am using SeaMonkey 1.1.16

Last night I was using Netscape.

greg

 

[Nico Coesel]

W98SE,900 Mhz Athlon,640MB of ram

Why are you still running Win98SE? I'd upgrade to Windows2000 or XP.

 

[GregS]

Cache and etc. are located with the profile stuff
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\
not with the program files.

A broken Firefox profile won't be fixed by reinstalling. Program files
will be freshly installed again, while the old profile remains.

Use the Profile Manager to create a new profile.
Abandon the old one after you have whatever you want to keep, like
bookmarks, carried over.

I hate to fool with that computer, has, 98/ 2000 dual boot, but

http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html offers the
UNOFFICIAL Windows98 Second Edition Service Pack

I'll check on that. For the record, Opera works really well. One drawback
is resolution on images which seem to have less colors.

greg

 

[GregS]

Why are you still running Win98SE? I'd upgrade to Windows2000 or XP.

I would say 98se runs faster on some things, especially with limited resources.

greg

 

[Nico Coesel]

I would say 98se runs faster on some things, especially with limited resources.

That is a wrong assumption IMHO. I just installed Win98 on a logic
analyzer because the software combined with Windows 2000 doesn't want
to work. If you compare Win98 to Win2k you'll see Win2k uses the same
amount of memory. Win2k comes closer to a real 32 bit OS since it has
proper support for long filenames, better filesystem, etc, etc.

 

[JosephKK]

What reason would one have for running W98SE? Arguably one of the
worst OS's Microshit ever released?

I run Win2K on my PSpice machine, WinXP on everything else.

...Jim Thompson

Win98SE was fairly ok. Win95 was the real piece of crap, i never
could get it to stay running more than 40 min and often had multiple
restarts to get it running at all. Before Win95 i had Win3.1 running
for weeks at a time. WinME was nearly as bad as Win95, which is the
only competition for Vista.