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Is there any browser left for Win98se?
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. What else is there? Yes, I know there is Opera, but I have strongly disliked that browser dating back to the 1990's, to present, and the latest versions dont run in Win98. Is there anything left? Win98 workd just fine for all my other needs, it's just that there dont seem to be any browser that works properly anymore.... 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.... |
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On 02/16/2013 09:20 PM, wrote:
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. What else is there? Yes, I know there is Opera, but I have strongly disliked that browser dating back to the 1990's, to present, and the latest versions dont run in Win98. Is there anything left? Win98 workd just fine for all my other needs, it's just that there dont seem to be any browser that works properly anymore.... 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.... Win98 is quite dead and even win2k is pretty limited in that Firefox 12 is the last version that will work. XP is really your best bet if you stick with Microsoft. I have my XP machine set for "best performance" and the GUI set to classic. The desktop is virtually the same as it was with my old Win98 machine. OTOH: You may want to give Linux a try -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
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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. 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. |
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philo wrote:
Win98 is quite dead and even win2k is pretty limited in that Firefox 12 is the last version that will work. Your opinion is based on your limited ability to either modify / upgrade the ancient hardware that your win-98 system was running on before you bought your Win-7 computer. |
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On Feb 16, 8:20*pm, wrote:
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. What else is there? Yes, I know there is Opera, but I have strongly disliked that browser dating back to the 1990's, to present, and the latest versions dont run in Win98. Is there anything left? Win98 workd just fine for all my other needs, it's just that there dont seem to be any browser that works properly anymore.... 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 use Opera 9.64 on Win98 and can visit/view most websites. I've even gotten downloaded videos from youtube that friends tell me they couldn't get a copy of, only view real time. A few of the very 'pesky' new websites won't work, like those requiring MS Silverlight, but I fire up the WinXP system every few months to get that info. But day to day, Opera. |
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On 02/17/2013 08:20 AM, 98 Guy wrote:
philo wrote: Win98 is quite dead and even win2k is pretty limited in that Firefox 12 is the last version that will work. Your opinion is based on your limited ability to either modify / upgrade the ancient hardware that your win-98 system was running on before you bought your Win-7 computer. Nope, never bought a computer in my life...I build them all ... usually from whatever spare parts I manage to scrounge up Don't use win7 either, switched to Linux as my full time OS a number of years ago. I still work on obsolete computers and have used kernelEx with win98. Though at the time I used it, I could install whatever was the current version of Firefox, the performance was so poor I decided it would be senseless to continue. I still maintain one Win2k machine though. -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
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98 Guy wrote:
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? Because you have a reading problem. He already said he had tried Firefox 3.5x, which supercedes 2.0 by a LOT. Did you actually read through his post? |
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