Can't use YouTube

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:21:37 -0000, 98 Guy wrote:

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KernelEx is the best thing to come along for windows 98.
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I find that installing VLC (Videolan) is particulary useful and a more
capable multi-media player than Windows Media Player.

IAWTP


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Esra Sdrawkcab wrote:

I find that installing VLC (Videolan) is particulary useful and
a more capable multi-media player than Windows Media Player.

IAWTP

I will add that I've been experimenting with another player, known as
"XMPLAY", which can be found he

http://support.xmplay.com/

The visualizations available for this player are many and some are
incredibly mesmerizing - particularly one known as "rabbit-hole".

The visualizations available for VLC are very few, and not that good.

XMPlay is also billed as having the most accurate codecs for sound
generation, and is described as the most accurate audio player.

It can be downloaded from he

http://support.xmplay.com/files/xmpl.../xmplay351.zip

I can't say that I like the interface skin.

He Right when it come to Win 98!

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Esra Sdrawkcab wrote:

I find that installing VLC (Videolan) is particulary useful and
a more capable multi-media player than Windows Media Player.

IAWTP

I will add that I've been experimenting with another player, known as
"XMPLAY", which can be found he

http://support.xmplay.com/

The visualizations available for this player are many and some are
incredibly mesmerizing - particularly one known as "rabbit-hole".

The visualizations available for VLC are very few, and not that good.

XMPlay is also billed as having the most accurate codecs for sound
generation, and is described as the most accurate audio player.

It can be downloaded from he

http://support.xmplay.com/files/xmpl.../xmplay351.zip

I can't say that I like the interface skin.

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On 2011-01-08, 98 Guy wrote:
Esra Sdrawkcab wrote:

I find that installing VLC (Videolan) is particulary useful and
a more capable multi-media player than Windows Media Player.

IAWTP

I will add that I've been experimenting with another player, known as
"XMPLAY", which can be found he

http://support.xmplay.com/

The visualizations available for this player are many and some are
incredibly mesmerizing - particularly one known as "rabbit-hole".

The visualizations available for VLC are very few, and not that good.

XMPlay is also billed as having the most accurate codecs for sound
generation, and is described as the most accurate audio player.

It can be downloaded from he

http://support.xmplay.com/files/xmpl.../xmplay351.zip

I can't say that I like the interface skin.

The Winamp Classic and Nullsofted skins make it look a lot like
the old 2.* Winamp.

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I can type in a URL much faster than clicking on those things, and I'm
not distracted or annoyed by them anymore. It's just a personal
thing, but I find anythink jumping around on my screen is irritating.
Even those anmimated gifs and those most annoying bouncing smiley
faces people like to use in emails and on blogs.

Ah, the dreaded Incredimail )-: [I developed a quite irrational hatred
of the "girl strangling teddybear" footer!]
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As far as FF 3 or FF 2. I now find FF3 to be ok. I also found that
it's not possible to use both on the same computer because they both
use the same settings in "Application Data". After installing FF3,
and updating my addons, I opened FF2 and was told my addons were
wrong. The next time I opened FF3, I had to go thru the whole routine
to upgrade my addons again. I just removed FF2 after that.
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Not sure if this applies both 3 and 2, but I _think_ it is possible to
make FF keep its settings at a specified place other than the default -
look in the (online) help for "profile", I think. It requires more
fiddling than you'd expect, but I have persuaded my works system to keep
the settings on my private network space, which means I can log on from
any machine.

The portable version that another suggested may also serve. (Presumably
this does something similar automatically.)
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( Configuring Firefox )

Go to:
tools/options/privacy/
On the bottom, it says
"When using the location bar, suggest:"
Just change it to NOTHING.

Problem solved. No more popdowns at all.
You can also choose just HISTORY, or BOOKMARKS, or BOTH.
By default, it was set to BOTH, which is why I was seeing so many.
I have no use for them, so I set it to NOTHING.

I can type in a URL much faster than clicking on those things, and I'm
not distracted or annoyed by them anymore. It's just a personal
thing, but I find anythink jumping around on my screen is irritating.
Even those anmimated gifs and those most annoying bouncing smiley
faces people like to use in emails and on blogs.


I fully agree with how distracting unasked popdown-lists are when
they popup. Much of what is animated on web-pages today are
perhaps Flash-animations and there are addons to regulate that if
you want to have shockwave/flash-plague-in installed. But for the
GIF animations you can stop that happening via a simple
about:config edit as:

name = image.animation_mode
(type = string)
value = none

Then, still want to see a particular GIF animation?
Pull up the 'Page Info'-window, the Media (tab/button), and
select the desired GIF-file.


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98 Guy wrote:


Also, I came across the following:

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The above answers were correct when it comes to erasing the history.
However, the Mozilla Firefox 3 has a new feature called "RichResults",
which unfortunately is more of an annoyance than a useful one.

RichResults stores the pages you have visited and tries to give you
access fast to the results that you want. As a result, all your history
gets reviewed - even the unwanted pages.

Now, there is unfortunately no way to erase the "rich" history (sucks,
eh?). The only thing you can do is disable the RichResults feature by:

1. Type "about:config" to the address line
2. Go to line "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults". The default value is 12,
change that to 0.

However, by doing this you wont get you history to show up even if you
wanted it in the future.


Maybe i misunderstand what you write or perhaps this is a bug
that only affects Firefox 3.x under Win98?
But under WinXP i've had browser.urlbar.maxRichResults set to 0
(zero) from the start of using Firefox 3.x and still have had
access to my browser-history via both Ctrl+H (Sidebar) &
Shift+Ctrl+H (the URL-library)


I had to scrap the whole Firefox 3 because of this and go back to
version 2. Shame that they let this go into the release version as it
ruined the release for me. They even knew it in the beta phase but
argued that its a "feature". Heh, quite a feature, destroyes security
completely or renders the browser useless (as you cannot see history if
you disable RichResults).
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The only way (i knew) to stop the distracting popdown-list in
Firefox 2.x was (the ugly hack) to lock the history.dat (when it
was empty) and then one would not get any history-entries either.
For me still having history-access but no longer having the
distracting popdown list in the address-bar was a big plus moving
up to version 3.x.


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On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:21:37 -0500, 98 Guy wrote:

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I find that installing VLC (Videolan) is particulary useful and a more
capable multi-media player than Windows Media Player.

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VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and
framework, that plays most multimedias files as well as DVD, Audio CD,
VCD, and various streaming protocols. It is simple to use, yet very
powerful and extendable.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/...2.exe/download

I've tried VLC a few times in W98/2Ed, at ver 0.8 and the current
version. Neither would run after installing (in a non-default
directory, with audio registrations disabled).

When I try to run it:

"Device attached to system is not functioning"

"LIBVLCCORE.DLL file is linked to missing export
KERNEL32.DLL:CreateTimerQueueTimers"

RL

legg wrote:

I've tried VLC a few times in W98/2Ed, at ver 0.8 and the current
version. Neither would run after installing (in a non-default
directory, with audio registrations disabled).

Your machine is screwed up. On a properly updated win-98 system, VLC
version .8 or .9 works fine.

I'm running VLC version 1.1.5. I can run that version thanks to
KernelEx. Look that up in google.

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:40:28 -0500, 98 Guy wrote:

legg wrote:

I've tried VLC a few times in W98/2Ed, at ver 0.8 and the current
version. Neither would run after installing (in a non-default
directory, with audio registrations disabled).

Your machine is screwed up.

Probably...

On a properly updated win-98 system, VLC
version .8 or .9 works fine.

I'm running VLC version 1.1.5. I can run that version thanks to
KernelEx. Look that up in google.

Did that first.

RL