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Old February 19th 18, 12:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Can onl;y open ONE window of Firefox

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 06:42:44 +0200, Steve Hayes
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:02:56 -0600, wrote:

What happens, is that if I have an open FF window, I can not click on
another .HTML file. Or I should say it wont open if I do click on it.

For example, I often have a FF site open for the local weather radar.
If I am reading a newsgroup and there is a link in a page (Such as(
www.website.com
When I click on that link, NOTHING happens. I must first close the open
FF page.

Is this normal FF behavior, or is something screwed up?
It cant be in the FF settings, because I uninstalled FF entirely, and
reinstalled this same version from scratch, and did not change any
settings, other than setting the homepage to *blank*. (so i could test
offline).

This is ridiculous. There is no reason that a second FF page shoulod not
open, without closing the open one first. I'm about ready to just
restore the original setup from my backups which will put K-Meleon back.
At least K-meleon opened multiple windows, and I could just copy and
paste the URL to FF when K-meleon did not open the site correctly.


Did it work with Firefox before on the same machine?

I'm not sure which version of Firefox introduced tabbed browsin, so
that you could open another page without having to open another
instance of the browser, but could that be the problem?


FF was never the default browser. I once used IE, but then K-Meleon
became the default. FF was always slow to load, so I never set it as the
default. Plus I liked the features of K-meleon better. K-meleon was also
a tabbed browser, and so was FF versions 3.x. (which this is). I believe
FF 2.x was also tabbed, from what I recall.

I am wondering if this problem would happen in FF 2.x? I may uninstall
again, and go back to version 2.x. Win98 was not intended for any
version of FF above 2.x, but Kernel-Ex allowes it to work, and it works
quite well. Kernel-ex says FF should work up to (I think) version 6.x,
but they dont work well at all.

Seamonkey is also tabbed, but was never a favorite of mine. I just
installed it again, and it is now the default browser, which was no
problem at all to set that way. But Seamonkey is also not able to handle
the HTTPS sites (just like K-Meleon), so it does nothing but pop up
security error messages.

But I'm leaving it installed for now, because at least some program
loads when I click on a URL, and the few sites that are still HTTP will
load fine.

At the rate the internet is going to all that excessive security crap, I
doubt I will be able to use the internet any more in 6 months from now.
(except the newsgroups and email). I guess their security is working.
Pretty soon no one will be able to use the web, so it will be secure,
because no one will be on it.

Whats most bizarre, is that the web was very secure and 1000 times more
useful back in the 90s and early 2000s. Then all the bloat was added
which meant all those scripts, and CSS files and thats when the web
became insecure. (and far less useful).

By August of this year, I will likely have my phone line disconnected. I
only have it now, for my dialup internet. I never use the phone, now
that I have a prepaid cellphone, and need to use up the minutes or they
go to waste, and my prepaid flip phone costs less than half what my
landline costs.