re: Saving Pictures Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 11:33 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Arminius (163 messages posted) Hi gewg, I have been reading this forum regularly for over a year and I anticipated that kind of comment. When I leave a dirty plate in the kitchen sink over night I can just about guarantee my wife is going to say something about it the next morning. :) I tried Firefox briefly on my old Win98FE installation some years ago before I scrapped it and did not see the advantage of it. Besides, it has a reputation for being a resource hog. When I installed Win 98SE I just didn't bother with Firefox, it was a case of six of one or half a dozen of the other. While IE may have security vulnerablities on paper I have not experienced any serious problems with it myself. I don't keep personal details on the computer, I don't do online banking, and buy things online only very rarely (only once or twice a year). As of a month ago I changed ISPs and the new plan required Win 2000 or higher. I was told Microsoft no longer licensed the ISP's tech support people to distribute support files for Win 98 so they adjusted the system requirements for their plans accordingly. (Read: Microsoft-induced forced upgrades.) Rather than argue with them or pass up a generous plan I went along with it and installed Win 2000 on my internet box. I still use 98SE on my other two boxes which are not connected. In the short term IE patches are still being released for IE6sp1 on Win 2000. I have to say Win 2000 provides a smoother ride while surfing the web than Win 98 ever did. If you are concerned about security issues online, a patched Win 2000 has much to recommend it over Win 98. All that said, I might give Firefox another try. So how did you go saving those pictures? Written in response to: re: Saving Pictures (gewg_: Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 8:42 pm) Responses to this message: re: Saving Pictures -- The *Modern Browser* solution (et al) (gewg_: Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 3:30 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Saving Pictures (The TOOLMAN: Wed, Jan 16, 2008, 3:32 pm) re: Saving Pictures (Steve: Wed, Jan 16, 2008, 8:28 pm) re: Saving Pictures (The TOOLMAN: Thu, Jan 17, 2008, 5:50 am) re: Saving Pictures (Steve: Thu, Jan 17, 2008, 6:15 pm) re: Saving Pictures (Keith Stanier: Fri, Jan 18, 2008, 4:44 am) re: Saving Pictures (Steve: Fri, Jan 18, 2008, 7:30 am) re: Saving Pictures (Arminius: Sat, Jan 19, 2008, 7:03 pm) re: Saving Pictures (gewg_: Sat, Jan 19, 2008, 8:42 pm) re: Saving Pictures (Arminius: Sat, Jan 19, 2008, 11:33 pm) re: Saving Pictures -- The *Modern Browser* solution (et al) (gewg_: Sun, Jan 20, 2008, 3:30 pm) re: Saving Pictures -- The *Modern Browser* solution (et al) (Arminius: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 9:31 am) Good browsers, good HTML tools, good companies, good HTML pages (gewg_: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 12:45 pm) re: Good browsers, good HTML tools, good companies, good HTML pages (dhm: Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 1:12 am) re: Saving Pictures (Steve: Sun, Jan 20, 2008, 1:09 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum