re: FireFox and Windows 98 (was: installation cd)
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 10:08 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3932 messages posted)
Ed wrote:
|FireFox 2.0 will run on Windows 98, but FireFox 3 will not.
|Even if it appears to install correctly, FireFox 3 will NOT run.
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This is true for Plain-Jane Win9x.
There is, however, a 3rd-party kernel extension for Win98/WinME
that permits running not only Firefox 3, but OpenOffice 3, Flash 10, and more.
http://google.com/search?q=KernelEx&filter=0
(Note the item for MSFN's "App Compatibility Database".)
|However, your VERY BEST option
|is to install the version of FireFox which you were originally running.
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That depends on whether you can stand Firefox 3's "AwesomeBar"
--or know that it can be reconfigured.
Previously you had to figure out how to turn off that obnoxious PoS.
http://google.com/search?q=AwesomeBar+maxRichResults
This has been made a tickable option with FF3.5.
...and IMO, Firefox's big brother (the SeaMonkey suite)[1]
is superior to either of these choices:
all the goodness of the Mozilla browser PLUS MORE
(e.g. an integrated HTML editor and--optionally--integrated email[2]
plus an optional chat client and an integrated DOM inspector).
|And the VERY BEST source to get that from
|is the CD which came with your computer[...]
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Since when did Firefox come on the same CD as Windoze 98?
M$ doesn't put competing non-M$ software on their CDs
(which has gotten them into hot water with the European Union
--and SHOULD have done the same with the gutless US Department of Justice).
...and Firefox wasn't available any time during W98's marketing lifetime
--though its antecedent (the Mozilla suite) was (just barely).
[1] SeaMonkey's basic release (1.x) is fully W9x-compatible.
A pre-release 2.x version (which uses the same core as FF3) is also available.
[2] If the (wise) reason for getting Firefox was better security,
SeaMonkey Mail[3] completes that paradigm
with an app that is orders of magnitude more secure than what comes with Windoze.
[3] There is also Mozilla Thunderbird if you want a separate mail app
but the truth is that FF+TB takes up more resources than SeaMonkey does
(With the suite, code is shared--not repeated).
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