Follow Up: Firefox Problem Solved Without Linux! Was My question Off-Topic?
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kit
(14 messages posted)
I kind of got a mixed-message in reply to my question, so I guess that requires a
mixed-response from me back. I think I got some sort of rules violation warning in
gweg's reply, which seemed to be quite unfair to me, so I guess I need to find out
if I really did something wrong (I want very much to ask future questions of this
Group).
Importantly, I have fixed my Firefox problem, which was simply that Shockwave/Flash
for Mozilla was not automatically installed with Firefox (it was probably accessing
the MS version, which does not work). I very much want to contribute to the Group,
so I hope this info is helpful for future Firefox/98SE users.
I caught the shockwave/flash and SWF reference from gweg's reply, and that gave me
the clue, so I thank him very much for that. But admittedly, it was awfully hard
to pick out of the anti-MS talk, and mingled with an apparent warning. So this response
is just to explain my intent with the question, and determine if I did something
wrong.
I found it particularly frustrating that when everyone who responded (including gweg)
said good things about Firefox, he felt I was out of line bringing up my questions
about installing it on 98SE on this discussion group, especially since I was simply
taking everyone's recommendation to swing over to it. A bit no-win trap, that. I
didn't ask the Firefox install question until I had scanned the past posts in this
Group, and found many requests on Firefox installation details. The question looked
valid as long as it was in regards to installing apps on 98SE.
I found it especially ironic that I was kind of hand-slapped to stick to Windows
subjects while I constantly keep getting Linux discussions in the replies.
I appreciated gweg's help immensely, and am very grateful. But it's important to
understand that due to the fact I keep 98SE *ONLY* because it is the only operating
system that supports about $8,000.00 of support software that programs amusement
park rides and motion picture computer cameras, I:
1. Am not using Linux.
2. Don't plan to use Linux.
3. Am not going to consider using Linux.
4. Ask questions of this Group because I don't use Linux.
I hope that saves a wasted sales pitch in the future, and again am very appreciative
to gweg for his quick response, and helpful clues (and I agree 100% about Windoze,
Bill Garbage, and M$).
My apologies if I was out of line in some way.
On Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 11:20 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>First, recognize that this is a Windows 98 forum
>and that things that don't install from the Windows CD are really off-topic here.
>we'll let it slide this one time.
>If you're going to continue to use a Mozilla product, however,
>you should get cozy with a corresponding Mozilla Usenet group and/or forum.
>
>To get those kind of unsupported things to play "inside" your Web browser,
>you need
>1) the proper "Helper Application" (Shockwave/Flash)
>
>2) a plug-in that corresponds to the browser and that app.
>cache of http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows-all.html#Flash
>
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