A Windows 98 & ME forum. Win98banter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » Win98banter forum » Windows 98 » General
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old September 25th 09, 07:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Robert A. Macy
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 269
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

Thank you to the person who recommended using Opera 9.64 on my Win98
machine.

Opera as a browser is FAST, and doesn't hang with all of the new
whizbang new fluff put into the latest websites assuming everybody is
now running WinXP. Plus, and for me this is a big plus, Opera saves
*any* website html's in a single mht format, whereas IE on many of
these same websites would try for a long time and then present that
stupid error message that it can't save the webpage. Opera has saved
all these same web pages for me.

Opera has the fantastic feature of letting you go to, open new window,
or save contents of any link you find. The power of this is
incredible as you do a search on google and open as many windows as
you want WITHOUT losing your original list. Plus you can easily
'stack' multiple downloads. I used to have to do 1 at a time using
IE.

One heads up:

[this is my opinion only] because Win98 doesn't allow later versions
of Adobe, there is sometimes a hang/bomb when you hit the latest .pdf
websites. Something's changed with acrobat, I've even found my Adobe
can't open the latest forms from the IRS website any longer and I had
to download a third party reader for that function. And, and this is
often enough to be irritating, a .pdf website opened using the Opera
sometimes will totally lock up the Win98 to the point of rebooting,
sometimes so extreme, power off rebooting. But, to get around this, I
ALWAYS select 'save contents of link' option, put the document into
the appropriate folder, and open it later. Since doing that, have had
absolutely no more hangs.

Anyway, to any happy Win98 users that have problems with IE and the
internet, I highly recommend trying Opera.

Robert

  #2  
Old September 25th 09, 09:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Nigel Stapley
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 80
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

Robert A. Macy wrote:

One heads up:

[this is my opinion only] because Win98 doesn't allow later versions
of Adobe, there is sometimes a hang/bomb when you hit the latest .pdf
websites. Something's changed with acrobat, I've even found my Adobe
can't open the latest forms from the IRS website any longer and I had
to download a third party reader for that function. And, and this is
often enough to be irritating, a .pdf website opened using the Opera
sometimes will totally lock up the Win98 to the point of rebooting,
sometimes so extreme, power off rebooting. But, to get around this, I
ALWAYS select 'save contents of link' option, put the document into
the appropriate folder, and open it later. Since doing that, have had
absolutely no more hangs.


Why not just install Foxit?

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

reply-to will bounce
  #3  
Old September 25th 09, 09:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Nigel Stapley
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 80
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

Robert A. Macy wrote:

One heads up:

[this is my opinion only] because Win98 doesn't allow later versions
of Adobe, there is sometimes a hang/bomb when you hit the latest .pdf
websites. Something's changed with acrobat, I've even found my Adobe
can't open the latest forms from the IRS website any longer and I had
to download a third party reader for that function. And, and this is
often enough to be irritating, a .pdf website opened using the Opera
sometimes will totally lock up the Win98 to the point of rebooting,
sometimes so extreme, power off rebooting. But, to get around this, I
ALWAYS select 'save contents of link' option, put the document into
the appropriate folder, and open it later. Since doing that, have had
absolutely no more hangs.


Why not just install Foxit?

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

reply-to will bounce
  #4  
Old September 26th 09, 04:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Dan
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 1,089
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

"Nigel Stapley" wrote:

Robert A. Macy wrote:

One heads up:

[this is my opinion only] because Win98 doesn't allow later versions
of Adobe, there is sometimes a hang/bomb when you hit the latest .pdf
websites. Something's changed with acrobat, I've even found my Adobe
can't open the latest forms from the IRS website any longer and I had
to download a third party reader for that function. And, and this is
often enough to be irritating, a .pdf website opened using the Opera
sometimes will totally lock up the Win98 to the point of rebooting,
sometimes so extreme, power off rebooting. But, to get around this, I
ALWAYS select 'save contents of link' option, put the document into
the appropriate folder, and open it later. Since doing that, have had
absolutely no more hangs.


Why not just install Foxit?

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

reply-to will bounce


The current version of Foxit Reader is not supported in Windows 98.
  #5  
Old September 26th 09, 04:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Dan
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 1,089
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

"Nigel Stapley" wrote:

Robert A. Macy wrote:

One heads up:

[this is my opinion only] because Win98 doesn't allow later versions
of Adobe, there is sometimes a hang/bomb when you hit the latest .pdf
websites. Something's changed with acrobat, I've even found my Adobe
can't open the latest forms from the IRS website any longer and I had
to download a third party reader for that function. And, and this is
often enough to be irritating, a .pdf website opened using the Opera
sometimes will totally lock up the Win98 to the point of rebooting,
sometimes so extreme, power off rebooting. But, to get around this, I
ALWAYS select 'save contents of link' option, put the document into
the appropriate folder, and open it later. Since doing that, have had
absolutely no more hangs.


Why not just install Foxit?

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

reply-to will bounce


The current version of Foxit Reader is not supported in Windows 98.
  #6  
Old September 26th 09, 04:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
glee
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 2,458
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

You're welcome. ;-)

"Robert A. Macy" wrote in message
...
Thank you to the person who recommended using Opera 9.64 on my Win98
machine.
snip

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Windows, A+
http://dts-l.net/

  #7  
Old September 26th 09, 04:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
glee
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 2,458
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

You're welcome. ;-)

"Robert A. Macy" wrote in message
...
Thank you to the person who recommended using Opera 9.64 on my Win98
machine.
snip

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Windows, A+
http://dts-l.net/

  #8  
Old September 26th 09, 01:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 1,554
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

In message , Dan
writes:
"Nigel Stapley" wrote:

[]
Why not just install Foxit?

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

reply-to will bounce


The current version of Foxit Reader is not supported in Windows 98.


So install an earlier one ... I don't think the .pdf format has had that
much added since the last version of Foxit that _does_ work under '98.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

"Forget computers; it's hard enough getting humans to pass the Turing test."
- David Bedno
  #9  
Old September 26th 09, 08:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Robert Macy
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 406
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

On Sep 26, 5:09*am, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
In message , Dan





writes:
"Nigel Stapley" wrote:

[]
Why not just install Foxit?


--
Regards


Nigel Stapley


www.thejudge.me.uk


reply-to will bounce


The current version of Foxit Reader is not supported in Windows 98.


So install an earlier one ... I don't think the .pdf format has had that
much added since the last version of Foxit that _does_ work under '98.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
**http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htmfor ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

"Forget computers; it's hard enough getting humans to pass the Turing test."
- David Bedno


The latest Adobe reader I could download onto a Win98 from Adobe's
website was Adobe 5
If I lied and said I had Win98SE, I could get Adobe 6, but I found it
didn't work on this machine even though the Windows Explorer 'help'
tells me it's Windows 98 Second Edition. Go figure.

Yesterday I downloaded 3 .pdf files from the DoE. Not one will open
on this machine. All say the file is damaged or such.

Yet, on my WinXP [shudder] running Adobe 8, the files open very well.
Also, Adobe seems to have 'improved' their reader by removing the tiny
little fist that moves the image around. I sure miss that little
fist, very difficult using the side bars and arrow keys. Adobe must
be learning from MS about how to improve a product [NOT!] by removing
good features.

But, now I can't find my .pdf reader I used last year! Worse, I can't
find my pdf to text converter. I need to pull sections out of this
huge document.

Any ideas which one will open these new format .pdf's? Or, what will
do the pdf to doc conversions? Uh, free of course.

Robert
  #10  
Old September 26th 09, 08:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Robert Macy
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 406
Default Successfully Replacing IExplorer with Opera

On Sep 26, 5:09*am, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
In message , Dan





writes:
"Nigel Stapley" wrote:

[]
Why not just install Foxit?


--
Regards


Nigel Stapley


www.thejudge.me.uk


reply-to will bounce


The current version of Foxit Reader is not supported in Windows 98.


So install an earlier one ... I don't think the .pdf format has had that
much added since the last version of Foxit that _does_ work under '98.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
**http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htmfor ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

"Forget computers; it's hard enough getting humans to pass the Turing test."
- David Bedno


The latest Adobe reader I could download onto a Win98 from Adobe's
website was Adobe 5
If I lied and said I had Win98SE, I could get Adobe 6, but I found it
didn't work on this machine even though the Windows Explorer 'help'
tells me it's Windows 98 Second Edition. Go figure.

Yesterday I downloaded 3 .pdf files from the DoE. Not one will open
on this machine. All say the file is damaged or such.

Yet, on my WinXP [shudder] running Adobe 8, the files open very well.
Also, Adobe seems to have 'improved' their reader by removing the tiny
little fist that moves the image around. I sure miss that little
fist, very difficult using the side bars and arrow keys. Adobe must
be learning from MS about how to improve a product [NOT!] by removing
good features.

But, now I can't find my .pdf reader I used last year! Worse, I can't
find my pdf to text converter. I need to pull sections out of this
huge document.

Any ideas which one will open these new format .pdf's? Or, what will
do the pdf to doc conversions? Uh, free of course.

Robert
 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Opera 9.5 Note smith General 0 June 21st 08 08:58 AM
Successfully Run OLD Software on OLD OEM Win98SE Laptop? Cheryl Setup & Installation 1 January 12th 07 07:58 PM
KB837009 keeps coming up in Windows Update after I've downloaded it and successfully installed it. Cymbal Man Freq. General 7 July 9th 05 08:20 PM
DirectX 9 - Has anyone successfully installed this? Nevans Software & Applications 6 October 7th 04 07:25 PM
cannot successfully uninstall screensaver cindy robinson Software & Applications 1 June 6th 04 01:27 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 03:26 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 Win98banter.
The comments are property of their posters.