tried to go to my home page at yahoo today now i get an orange page saying yahoo beta doesn't support my browers or something like that. and it was working fine this morning.think i got something like a hijacker or is yahoo playing games here? thanks

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nevermind it's yahoo. got IE 5.5 and looks like yahoo is moving away from that. whould anybody recommend firefox or something else? thanks again


On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 2:16 pm, kathy wrote:
>tried to go to my home page at yahoo today now i get an orange page saying yahoo
>beta doesn't support my browers or something like that. and it was working fine this
>morning.think i got something like a hijacker or is yahoo playing games here? thanks

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I use Firefox for most Browsing. Much safer then IE. Not sure what Yahoo Beta is, but if it doesn't work with Firefox, you could also install IE6. IE6 is just as prone to Malware infections as IE 5.5, but I have noticed more and more Web sites are not working with old versions of IE any more.

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thanks steve but been trying to download IE6 for months from mircosoft,windows and just about any other place i can. (safe mode,off with the av,no go) but all i really lost is the homepage anyway.favs,bookmarks,mail still works. and hey i got another pc with xp(if i can get the kid off nick.com) LOL hey thanks steve it's 12am got to sleep later


On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 5:56 pm, Steve wrote:
>I use Firefox for most Browsing. Much safer then IE. Not sure what Yahoo Beta is,
>but if it doesn't work with Firefox, you could also install IE6. IE6 is just as
>prone to Malware infections as IE 5.5, but I have noticed more and more Web sites
>are not working with old versions of IE any more.

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Hi Kathy.






On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 9:22 pm, kathy wrote:
| but all i really lost is the homepage 
|anyway.favs,bookmarks,mail still works. 

Well you can restore your homepage in one of two ways.

1) Open up IE, select Tools\Internet Options... and type in the homepage you 
want to use.

2) Same principle but you open Internet Options in Control Panel and do the 
same thing. 

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IE 6 won't work on many Win 98/ME machines.  It was really designed for XP.  The 
security updates that apply to IE6 won't even work on a Win 9X system as it (Win 
9X) is designed totally different than XP.  So even though the some updates may install, 
they are useless in a Win 9X system according to MS.

Your machine may not be up to handling IE6 as it takes a lot more "horsepower" to 
run it than it does IE5.  So your machines specs alone could cause you to have problems 
with IE6 IME. (In My Experience)  Most all experts, and my own experience, will tell 
you that IE5 is the best choice for Win 98.  The recommendation is that you don't 
fall more than 2 versions behind in the browser catagory.  IE7 has been out a while 
now and IE8 on the horizon, so support for IE5 is disappearing sadly..

Also, only older versions of firefox will work on Win 9X so you run into the same 
issues as with IE when it comes to running updated add-ons's...







On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 9:22 pm, kathy wrote:

>

>thanks steve but been trying to download IE6 for months from mircosoft,windows and 

>just about any other place i can. (safe mode,off with the av,no go) but all i really 

>lost is the homepage anyway.favs,bookmarks,mail still works. and hey i got another 

>pc with xp(if i can get the kid off nick.com) LOL hey thanks steve it's 12am got 

>to sleep later

>

> 

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thanks guys and keith i have tried the internet options but get the same thing. c k yeah i had that feeling about firefox and i'd be back where i am now soon. but like i said everything else is there and when i think about it i really only used the homepage to check the weather. looks like things do get outdated. hard to find a vcr player any more. oh well.


On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 6:08 am, C K wrote:
>IE 6 won't work on many Win 98/ME machines. It was really designed for XP. The
>security updates that apply to IE6 won't even work on a Win 9X system as it (Win
>9X) is designed totally different than XP. So even though the some updates may install,
>they are useless in a Win 9X system according to MS.
>
>Your machine may not be up to handling IE6 as it takes a lot more "horsepower" to
>run it than it does IE5. So your machines specs alone could cause you to have problems
>with IE6 IME. (In My Experience) Most all experts, and my own experience, will tell
>you that IE5 is the best choice for Win 98. The recommendation is that you don't
>fall more than 2 versions behind in the browser catagory. IE7 has been out a while
>now and IE8 on the horizon, so support for IE5 is disappearing sadly..
>
>Also, only older versions of firefox will work on Win 9X so you run into the same
>issues as with IE when it comes to running updated add-ons's...
>
>
>

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On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 6:08 am, C K wrote:
| IE 6 won't work on many Win 98/ME machines.  It was really designed for XP.  

I've been using IE6 SP1 for 18 months on my Win98SE and it works with little problems. 
When I say little problems I mean if IE crashes it wants to send a report to M$ then 
restarts.

I had a problem a few weeks ago when it kept on crashing only on one web site that 
I use. I read the dw.log that it sends to M$ and it was saying that Flash.ocx was 
causing the problem. I downloaded Flash Player 9.0.115.0 (IE) and its been alright 
ever since.

Kathy, what do you want as your homepage? Is it something extraordinary?
 

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nope nothing fancy. i was just wondering why yahoo wasn't letting in to my hompage.like i said everything is still there and i can get and since i think this old guy (no not my husband) is about done in anyway i,ll just leave it as it is. oh yeah i guess i missed the news that yahoo was changing but no problem. thanks again keith.


On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 8:42 am, Keith Stanier wrote:
>

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I have three machines that I can boot up to Win 98/ME.  Only one (the fastest one 
with 512 meg of RAM) will run IE6 with any kind of stability.  Fact still remains 
that the security updates won't work on a Win 98 machine though, so you are in worse 
shape for protection than if you run Firefox or another browser that still works 
with 98.  Even though MS says that IE6 is fine for 9X, they aren't telling you the 
whole story!  ;-)  (as usual, they speak with forked tongue)  Websites are writing 
and updating more for the later browsers and new capabilities,  leaving the older 
ones behind, so expect more issues over time...  :-(

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they speak with forked tongue? LOL i like that.but yeah i agree.


On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 6:29 pm, C K wrote:
>I have three machines that I can boot up to Win 98/ME. Only one (the fastest one
>with 512 meg of RAM) will run IE6 with any kind of stability. Fact still remains
>that the security updates won't work on a Win 98 machine though, so you are in worse
>shape for protection than if you run Firefox or another browser that still works
>with 98. Even though MS says that IE6 is fine for 9X, they aren't telling you the
>whole story! ;-) (as usual, they speak with forked tongue) Websites are writing
>and updating more for the later browsers and new capabilities, leaving the older
>ones behind, so expect more issues over time... :-(

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