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re: Internet Explorer vs. Firefox: printing problems Monday, July 20, 2009 at 5:37 pm 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. | 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, | 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum