re: Internet Explorer vs. Firefox: printing problems
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
OliverW wrote:
|I'm using [IE & FireFox 2.0.0.20]
|I think that is the latest version of FF that will run under Win98.
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Important concept missing: **without 3rd-party kernel update**.
If you can stand the "AwesomeBar", FF3 can be made to work with W98.
|FF is my default browser and I only use IE for special purposes,
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As this forum is about W98 and the M$ apps that ship with the distribution CD,
your post is a bit off-topic.
Since you recognize, however, that IE is a dark pit,
you are granted Special Dispensation. 8-)
|[...]a few web pages that just don't print correctly from FF.
|If I want to print them, IE can usually do it.
|[...]when printed from FF, the problem pages may have a variety of faults
|(not present when the page is seen on the monitor)[...]
|text cut off at the right margin[...]
|
The proper place for problems with an app is at the forum for that app e.g.
http://forums.mozillazine.org
If you will restrict your search engine queries to just that site
and use use phrase syntax, you can narrow down the number of hits considerably:
http://google.com/search?q=site:mozillazine.org+print+"edge.of.the"
Another place to take a problem with an app
is the User group / Usenet group for that app e.g.
news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.firefox
That group is archived at and otherwise accessible thru Port 80 via
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.firefox
The Usenet archive is also quite searchable e.g.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.firefox/search?...q=insubject:print+OR+insubject:printing
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.firefox/search?...q=print-preview
The database of known Mozilla problems is at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=print
The most courteous (but not the easiest) way of dealing with a problem
is to search the database for reports similar to yours
and add any symptoms you can to existing filed bugs.
As FF3.5 was just released (replacing FF3.1),
FF2.x has been deprecated even further.
I don't think there is a much interest in patching that trunk any longer.
As for updating your apps: Patching your Win98/WinME kernel with
cache
of http://www.sox3qEaSjNMJ:x86.neostrada.pl/KernelEx
allows you to run a bunch of apps that are otherwise NT-only e.g.
cache
of http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120479%26view=findpost%26p=844944
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