When accessing a certain website it shts me down and returns to homepage. Installed mozilla firefox and it works on this site just not ie which i use most of the time. Also on you tube some of the videos will stop and start but not all. have 256 of ram would 512 help?

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Sounds like it's maybe a problem with Flash? Flash doesn't work well on either of 
my old PCs, and it seems incredibly inefficient, so I try to avoid it. You could 
disable JavaScript to block Flash when needed.

I advise against using Internet Explorer with an old OS, because of the number of 
times I was hacked. I use K-Meleon.

For a problematic youtube video, you could maybe try downloading the FLV file, perhaps 
via the website keepvid.com, and you can play the video file in a media player such 
as VLC or Gomplayer.

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IE would like 2 shut down because too many programs and applications running at the same time. A browser like Mozilla Firefox running at the same time with IE? Are you kidding me? And add to that using Windows 98? Win 98 can handle so much at a given workload. What is the speed of the CPU anyways? If I were you I would increase RAM to 512 RAM. U-tube is a graphics program and those consume lots of space. I had the same problem. I was using Win98 and I could barely make any sense of the blurring and blurred images from the Internet until I upgraded to Win 2000 and after I increased to 512 RAM and the CPU speed to 700 MHz. Everything works fine now.

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zu wrote:
|Sounds like it's maybe a problem with Flash?
|Flash doesn't work well on either of my old PCs, and it seems incredibly inefficient,
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...not to mention the security holes you could drive a truck thru.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Flash+ActionScript+vulnerabilities

|so I try to avoid it.
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Amen.

|You could disable JavaScript to block Flash when needed.
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The FlashBlock extension for Mozilla-compatible browsers makes this duck soup.
The PrefBar Extension for Gecko browsers makes turning stuff on & off dirt-simple.

|I advise against using Internet Explorer with an old OS,
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We repeat that A LOT around here (noting the CERT advisory from 2004).
Some people haven't taken the beans out of their ears yet.

|because of the number of times I was hacked.
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That's what it takes for some people.
Others learn from the horror stories that other folks have endured.

|I use K-Meleon.
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That's the ticket.  Gecko-based browsers (see "Mozilla-compatible", above) 
cache of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#Gecko-based_browsers
are good tools and are free (gratis AND libre).

Once you use tabbed browsing and discover the wealth of extensions available,
you ask "WTF have I been doing using a browser from the previous century?".

SeaMonkey also includes an email client that just smokes Outbreaks in Excess.
That email capability is also available as a stand-alone item (Thunderbird).


...and if Firefox/SeaMonkey/... doesn't suit you,
there's Opera, which is freeware and is also FAR more secure than Internet Exploder.

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