Firefox is not ready for primetime

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Really?? Thanks! I appreciate that. The trouble is that I have a
PIII, 650 MHz machine with 128SDRAM. I believe XP only works on a
PIV?? But I don't like XP so I'm kind of stuck, at least until I can
find an old W2K, maybe.

Thanks for this. I'll have to hunt that update down.
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Im using a p3 733 with 256 meg of ram (not much more of a spec than yours
really) and i dont like xp either.Whats a PIV?.The updates can be obtained
through the windows update feature.If its not in your start menu its
WUPDMGR.EXE Just run it in the start/run bar.Heres some info on one of the
latest updates for 98..july 2004

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/win98-kb840315.html
me
 
The *only* websites I haven't been able to access with Firefox are
MS's own.
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All of Microsoft's sites work fine for me with Firefox, except for
Windows Update. Surfing the MS Knowledge Base, reading Hotmail, &c are
no problem; they are rendered in quirks mode.

I do a fair amount of surfing, and I never see these sites that are not
compatible with Firefox. The only one I've seen that gives a problem
at all is <http://northcarolina.theinsiders.com/>, and that's perfectly
readable once I turn off their awful style sheet.
 
All of Microsoft's sites work fine for me with Firefox, except for
Windows Update. Surfing the MS Knowledge Base, reading Hotmail,
&c are no problem; they are rendered in quirks mode.
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yep. same here.
 
Really?? Thanks! I appreciate that. The trouble is that I have a
PIII, 650 MHz machine with 128SDRAM. I believe XP only works on a
PIV?? But I don't like XP so I'm kind of stuck, at least until I can
find an old W2K, maybe.

Thanks for this. I'll have to hunt that update down.
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I've never been happier with 98SE - I didn't want to go to XP for the usual
reasons, and I'll be long gone before linux gets down to my level, and 98se
is running better than ever, of course experience of living together
counts.

But since installing ff and tbird I find the shutdowns are blindingly fast
and hangs (very very nearly) non-existent, so maybe that had something to
do with it

mike
 
POKO said:
Don't blame the coders, blame the browser clients that won't conform
to standards.
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Errr, it's the website coders that aren't conforming to WC3 standards,
not the browser clients!
 
GlintingHedgehog said:
What's "large"? I've got quite a few bookmarks and don't have any
problems...
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About 1600 bookmarks. I have to click Bookmarks in the toolbar about 10 times
before I get the pulldown menu.

Mike Sa
 
bassbag said:
Im using a p3 733 with 256 meg of ram (not much more of a spec than yours
really) and i dont like xp either.Whats a PIV?.The updates can be obtained
through the windows update feature.If its not in your start menu its
WUPDMGR.EXE Just run it in the start/run bar.Heres some info on one of the
latest updates for 98..july 2004

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/win98-kb840315.html
me
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Quote from that page:
Windows 98 critical update (July 2004): Vulnerability in HTML Help - KB840315

Applies to: Windows XP (with Service Pack 1 installed)

Requirements: Windows XP (with Service Pack 1 installed)

File Name 840315USA8.EXE

????? A W98 update that applies to XP, not 98.

????? Requirements- XP, not 98.

Comment?

BTW, I run W98SE on a P166, and FF and TB run fine on it.

Mike Sa
 
I haven't read every post in this thread so I may be repeating. I also had a
problem with Firefox not rendering some sites correctly. Often I would see
code rendered on screen as text, rather than it being used correctly "behind
the scenes' to render the page.

Turned out that the culprit was actually my firewall program Webwasher. For
some reason, in conjunction with FF, it scrambled certain pages with
Javascript (which I normally have Webwasher filter out). For those
occasional pages, I simply put Webwasher on standby then hit FF's reload
button. Pages look normal. . .

HTH
 
Quote from that page:
Windows 98 critical update (July 2004): Vulnerability in HTML Help - KB840315

Applies to: Windows XP (with Service Pack 1 installed)

Requirements: Windows XP (with Service Pack 1 installed)

File Name 840315USA8.EXE

????? A W98 update that applies to XP, not 98.

????? Requirements- XP, not 98.

Comment?

BTW, I run W98SE on a P166, and FF and TB run fine on it.

Mike Sa
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After a little research it seems 98se is affected by the exploit and
therefore the patch is relevant , though microsofts system requirements
description leaves a lot to be desired...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-023.mspx
me
 
Some bank sites use this, though they are rare. Antivirus online scanning
sites, Windows update, that's about it.
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Microsoft made Java Scripts that CAN write to disk, where other browser activex
apps cannot. This is the huge security hole. By just viewing a page you can be
exploited with dialers, trojans, exploit number (large number), etc.
 
ff loads slower than ie6 for me (win9x,~800mhz,512mb)

maybe because patrs of ie are loaded when win loads.

some sites work better with ff (eg, lycos media search), various settings,
others work better with ie (diff sets of settings for the 'two zones')

there various differnces, good/bad, in googlebar, address/location or link
drags betwenn ff and ie.

i've been making notes. but i think i should check whether my notes are
redundant on whatever moz board or group tracks user comments :)
 
ms said:
About 1600 bookmarks. I have to click Bookmarks in the toolbar about
10 times before I get the pulldown menu.
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can you swipe most of them out to paste into some html docs, by topic?
then open those docs when you want to get esoteric.
 
["Podz"; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:57:17 GMT]
This post deserves to be read more than once, so I'm not snipping it.
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It's a great post, ues, but that doesn't mean you need to throw away my
bandwidth like that! |:-}
 
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