On May 24, 5:30*am, Dan wrote:
I was wondering what the consensus of this group was of adding the Windows
2000 updates to IE 6 sp1 in Windows 98 SE. *Please don't let this thread
become another back and forth between 98 Guy and MEB but I know it probably
will so I post it reluctantly. *However, I am interested in real world
results of whether it causes IE 6 sp1 to become unstable and/or whether it
causes new vulnerabilities into IE 6 sp1. *I added a few updates to IE 6 sp1
from Windows 2000 just to see what would happen but discontinued the project
due to a perceived lack of interest from the community. *It did not seem to
cause any harm but I have no way of knowing for sure of whether this ended up
being a good thing or a bad thing and since when in 98SE I generally use
another browser to surf I was wondering what the consensus was in this group.
*LOL!!, yes perhaps I am the only one left willing to live on the danger zone
with 98SE but don't worry I have the appropriate safeguards in place on my 9x
side of the system.

After many, many frustrating attempts to get IE6 to work with those
'new' websites - hang all the time; I completely abandoned in favor of
Opera 9.64 [newer versions available] since then no problems, and I'm
running Win98SE.

Several times Opera itself has raised attack flags and stopped
malware, before any firewall saw the attack. As a result, I abandoned
trying to use Firefox versions and now use Opera. Sadly, I still get
'government' sites that complain I don't have IE 5, or later?!
Nothing like govt helping an individual company, eh? For those sites,
I roll out antique IE6 and use once.