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Old February 17th 13, 02:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
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Default Is there any browser left for Win98se?

wrote:

With the html 5, I'm constantly getting script errors in the
browsers I have been using, namely K-Meleon, Netscape, and
Seamonkey.


Why do I not see Firefox 2.0.0.20 in that list?

I suggest that you obtain and install a Win-98 API-extender /
compatibility layer developed by a group of enthusiasts called
"KernelEx". This allows Win-98 to run many applications that require
Win-2k or XP, such as many recent versions of Firefox and Opera, as
well as the most recent versions of VLC media player, Java JRE 6, and
Adobe Flash player.

KernelEx can be downloaded from he

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/
http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/

The only requirement is that it requires a Microsoft Unicode layer
update for win-98, which can be downloaded from he

http://web.archive.org/web/200607070...42/unicows.exe

I run win-98se with KernelEx, and my primary browser is Firefox
2.0.0.20. One other aspect to my system that I modify from time to time
are the entries in my HOSTS file. I am quite agressive at blocking
ad-servers, click-trackers, web-metrics track-back servers, and other
server elements that I find do not contribute anything to my web-surfing
experience, and even slow it down. This includes all references to
twitter and Fecebook (I am not a user of either one of those pieces of
garbage). I block these web-page elements by disabling their servers in
the HOSTS file. So, for example, I don't see commercials when viewing
episodes of TV shows online.

I don't run AV software - becuase (either by design or by luck) win-98
is simply not as vulnerable to web-based threats as the NT-line of
Windows. One side effect of agressivly blocking many of those nuisance
servers is that they are the source of many web-based threats when they
get hacked. This confuses a lot of people because they think it's the
website that they were viewing that was the cause of this or that
infection, when in fact it was one of those other servers.

I have posted many articles and answers here in these win-98 newsgroups
about solving web-surfing and general usage issues with win-98 - I
suggest you look them up. This includes hardware and large hard-drive
support.