Browser

Malcolm Moore wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Mal,I believe you're right. ISTR hearing bad things about FF 2,perhaps that's where I got the idea it wouldn't run on W98SE.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
localnet
dot com

Cache and etc. are located with the profile stuff C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\ not with the program files.

A broken Firefox profile won't be fixed by reinstalling. Program files will be freshly installed again, while the old profile remains.

Use the Profile Manager to create a new profile. Abandon the old one after you have whatever you want to keep, like bookmarks, carried over.

I hate to fool with that computer, has, 98/ 2000 dual boot, but

offers the UNOFFICIAL Windows98 Second Edition Service Pack

Why are you still running Win98SE? I'd upgrade to Windows2000 or XP.

--
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
                     "If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer!"
--------------------------------------------------------------

I'd upgrade to Windows2000 or XP.

...or moonOS or wattOS or Damn Small Linux or...

This is pretty cool as well: (assuming you have the horsepower)

*-*-*-computer-hardware-independent+inc+inc+inc+*-*-the-leader-*-*-in-*-opensource-EDA-*&strip=1#Scope ?Frev=1e4bef319b6fc1ddcb294bb8ffd0f7896a4482ba+Revision.Log+geda+240+239+238+kicad

I'll check on that. For the record, Opera works really well. One drawback is resolution on images which seem to have less colors.

greg

I would say 98se runs faster on some things, especially with limited resources.

greg

Beryl wrote:

All good stuff there. The trick is backing up your profile while it is still working.

Renaming the \\default directory in \\Application Data before reinstalling can also be a workaround. If you're curious and have time to muck about, you can copy files from the broken directory into the new \\default directory to see which files are broken.

Then restore good files from your latest backup to \\default and copy over the know-good files from \\backup.old

BIG CAUTION: Some extensions are not compatible with all versions.

Have you see my posts in this thread? Have you installed KernelEx?

That one is kinda lame:

*-*-only-operating-system-updates+Alper+from.Windows.Update.site+*-does=-NOT-contain+Coskun+Microsoft-*-never-released-a-service-pack-for-Windows98=-SE+*-*-all-*-*-updates+Internet-Explorer-*+DirectX-*+Media-Player-*+I-made=

-*-*-* This one is better:

*-compilat=ion-of-most-major-patches-for-Windows.98Gold.*-*.*-*+217.MB+cms+cms+and.Dir= ectX

...and, as noted, the BEST updates *don't* come from M$.

That is a wrong assumption IMHO. I just installed Win98 on a logic analyzer because the software combined with Windows 2000 doesn't want to work. If you compare Win98 to Win2k you'll see Win2k uses the same amount of memory. Win2k comes closer to a real 32 bit OS since it has proper support for long filenames, better filesystem, etc, etc.

--
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
                     "If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer!"
--------------------------------------------------------------

Win98SE was fairly ok. Win95 was the real piece of crap, i never could get it to stay running more than 40 min and often had multiple restarts to get it running at all. Before Win95 i had Win3.1 running for weeks at a time. WinME was nearly as bad as Win95, which is the only competition for Vista.