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**J. P. Gilliver (John)**

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With the html 5, I'm constantly getting script errors in the browsers I
have been using, namely K-Meleon, Netscape, and Seamonkey. I quit using
IE years ago, and know that IE6 is the last version for 98. (which was
always crap). I found a browser called Flock, and found out it wont run
in Win98, nor will Chrome. The only one that still works halfway well,
is Firefox 3.x, but even it seems to choke on some websites.
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I'm not about to change my OS. I really can not stand any of the newer
MS OSs. Maybe the time has come to just abandon the web, and only use
email and usenet. The web has become pretty much a huge advertisment
anyhow, and it seems that facebook has become most of the web, which I
want no part of.... But there are still times I do find the web useful
for looking up something....

I suppose you could limit your browsing to the sites you know will work.
(I guess, in practice, you're having to do that anyway.)

XP can be made to look, feel, and behave a lot like '9x - takes a little
work, but once done, you'd not know you're on XP (except for the greater
reliability and more things working).

Can '9x do VMs (virtual machines)? That might be an option if it can.
(Or of course dual-booting, but with that it's tedious to switch back
and forth. With VMs, you can.) I know a lot of people who are using VMs
the other way round, as a way to be able to run things that run under XP
but not 7, and they mostly seem to be happy. If it can't, I guess you
could run '9x in a VM under 7 or 8 (or I think XP); going to 7 or 8
would probably mean new hardware though, and even XP might, depending on
what you've got. (IMO XP SP3 needs at least 3/4 of a G of RAM; IME going
from 1G to 2G made little difference. Also a bit more disc space for the
OS: I keep my OS and software separate from my data, and the OS/software
partition has reached almost 19G, though that's after several years.
Probably a processor over 1 GHz helps too, though the RAM will make far
more difference and a slightly slower processor might still be OK.)
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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