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Is there any browser left for Win98se?
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:27:25 -0500, "dadiOH" 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. 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? Maybe Safari? http://safari.brothersoft.com/safari-win98.html The oldest version listed on that page is 3.0. For system requirements, it says XP is the minimum OS required. |
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+On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:30:18 -0000, Computer Nerd Kev
wrote: On 19 Feb 2013, Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote: At the moment I'm running XP on a 1GHz machine with 512MB RAM [] Though on the other hand, I've been at work killing bits of XP I don't like. Most notably (and memorably) I replaced Explorer with "LiteStep" for window management and "Gyula's Navigator" for file management. I run the JayOS Skin for LiteStep which is much more 98ish than the XP "Classic" theme and _far_ more customisable as well. I ended up doing the same thing to one of my W98 machines too. Thanks for those pointers. Just what's bad about the explorer? My PC (1G RAM I admit) running taskmanager shows the explorer task as using 16M. Not much compared with 65M for Iron (a de-googled version of Chrome). Well as I look now, LiteStep is using 11.5MB RAM. I just fired up explorer (been a long time since I did that last) and after opening a file manager window and closing it a couple of times it was sitting hapilly at ~39MB. Mind you as I said before, I was having quite a bit of trouble with Explorer (I think it would suddenly go to 100% CPU usage or something like that), so it may not be the healthiest example. I did dl Litestep, but it seemed to take a similar amount of RAM to explorer (c. 15M) Perhaps I'm a bit overly sensitive to RAM use, but I like a minimal background resource usage so that I leave as much power as possible for the programs I want to use I agree, keep it small! [] I sometimes even go as far as DOS. Happy Days. -- [dash dash space newline 4line sig] Money/Life question |
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With the html 5, I'm constantly getting script errors in the browsers I have been using What version of Adobe Flash do you have installed? (many websites use flash) You might want to install this "unoffical" Windows Scripting Host 5.7 update: ================ Unofficial Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE/ME Microsoft Scripting Engines (MSE) 5.7 build 5.7.0.16535 http://www.mdgx.com/files/SCR579X.EXE CAUTION: In case you encounter errors while using Internet Explorer (IE), Outlook Express (OE), Windows Media Player (WMP), Java Script (JS), VB Script (VBS), HTML Application (HTA), HyperText Template (HTT), Compiled HTML Help (CHM) or other Scripting software (re)-install MSE 5.6: http://www.mdgx.com/files/SCR569X.EXE REQUIRED: Requires MS Internet Explorer (IE) 5.5 SP2 or MS IE 6.0/6.0 SP1 already installed! More info: http://www.mdgx.com/files/scr57.php ================== If you're really hard-core into improving / tweaking your Windows 98 setup, you should look he http://www.mdgx.com/upd98me.php#TOP Or this: Unofficial Windows 98 Second Edition Service Pack 3.17 http://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/ |
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Is there any browser left for Win98se?
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:22:16 -0000, Bill in Co
wrote: 98 Guy wrote: Bill in Co wrote: [] But none of that is as transparent and readily available as it is with WinXP. Nothing much to add the if you want to spend a bunch of time and energy trying to get it all to work well in W98, that's your call. I'd rather have it ALL available at the outset, as I've got enough other things to pursue. And I sure don't need ANY additional cards or other software or hardware support gimmicks to get it. And no add ons. But this *is* a w98 group! -- [dash dash space newline 4line sig] Money/Life question |
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Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:22:16 -0000, Bill in Co wrote: 98 Guy wrote: Bill in Co wrote: [] But none of that is as transparent and readily available as it is with WinXP. Nothing much to add the if you want to spend a bunch of time and energy trying to get it all to work well in W98, that's your call. I'd rather have it ALL available at the outset, as I've got enough other things to pursue. And I sure don't need ANY additional cards or other software or hardware support gimmicks to get it. And no add ons. But this *is* a w98 group! LOL. Good point. But I'd make the suggestion to some holdouts that it just might be worth the migration, unless everything they have now (old software) is all they need (although nowadays, even getting XP might be a problem). I still like 98 (it's on the other computer), but not its limitations in practice(in terms of what can be installed on it anymore, KernelEx notwithstanding). And unfortunately KernelEx is only a "solution" for a limited number of apps. As I mentioned, you can't even install something as good as the old and excellent Adobe Audition 1.5 (its best version) for audio rework, or Cyberlink PowerDirector, for video rework. |
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Is there any browser left for Win98se?
98 Guy wrote:
wrote: Why do I not see Firefox 2.0.0.20 in that list? I have Firefox 3.x installed. Why haven't you tried a more recent version of Firefox then? Such as 10? And why have you claimed that you can't run a more recent version of Opera? You should have at least tried version 12. Maybe he doesn't want Opera anyways. I have used KernelEx for at least 3 years! There was an important change to KernelEx a few years ago. If you have any version of KernelEx 3.x, you are strongly advised to replace it with the most recent version (4.5.2). I wonder how "monumental" the change was, however. It *would* be monumental if it could modify the installers of most other programs to at least give a chance to be actually installed. |
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