As usual, "runsan" has no clue.
Monday, March 2, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3931 messages posted)
runsan wrote:
|Don’t bother with Firefox
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Before taking to heart anything this user says, look at his record:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum_search?user=1154084049&requested=win98
His moronic notions have to continually be slapped down by people with a clue.
He has a great many opinions; none have a basis in fact.
|(it's a con built of IE).
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Complete nonsense.
IE uses MSHTML (aka the Trident rendering engine--currently M$'s property)
and Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine,
which has Netscape roots and is now Open Source Software under the GPL.
The only common link between the 2 is Marc Andreessen
(who start again from scratch after finishing Trident
--having learned from his mistakes).
http://www.google.com/search?q=Marc-Andreessen+Mosaic+Spyglass+Netscape+Gecko
|The older versions are slower/
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Claptrap. You won't notice any negative speed difference
when compared to any version of IE--especially one usable with Win98.
You may notice an increase in speed, like when processing JavaScript
with Firefox's (21st-Century) TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
|bugged
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WRT "bugged" [buggy?]: Total garbage. (Like all versions of FF)--and unlike IE--
even the old versions aren't open wounds just waiting to be infected.
The time span since FF3 has been released
hasn't allowed any threats to be developed nor exploited.
There have also been updates to FF2 since that time.
Your 'bugged" [buggy?] comment is uninformed crap.
If you have a link that confirms your statement with details, post it.
Bugs in Open Source Software are squashed MUCH faster than in M$ products.
There are known bugs in IE that have been there for YEARS without patches
--and the defects in IE (especially before IE7) will remain in place eternally;
there is no further suppport for IE6 (and certainly not for earlier versions)
and IE6 is the last version that works under Win9x
--MSFT purposely broke compatibility with IE7 and Win9x).
|& the bookmarks aren’t single files,
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...and, as such, don't take up 8kB each on your hard drive.
...and, as a single file, are easier to back up
(especially if they have names with over 64 characters).
NOTE:
That said, I like my Bookmarks/Favorites *timestamped*, so I go the other way,
but there is no other reason I can see for not using the Mozilla method.
For most things, I like the way IE does it
BUT I'm *willing* to take the hit on HDD space used
as well as the extra effort it takes to create those non-native items under Gecko.
|it’s just one complicated file (not convenient).
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You are a moron.
Gecko/Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey bookmarks are kept in a standard HTML file
called -- wait for it -- bookmarks.html.
You can use it the standard way *or* call it as a viewable page of hyperlinks.
Most people (who notice a difference) find it MORE convenient than IE's Favorites.
|I speculate [you're] using IE5? it’s well-known for screwing-up,
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ALL versions of IE are festering sores. Because of
the needlessly liberal privileges granted to the highly-integrated M$ browser,
the *less* you use IE, the **lower** your chances of a SYSTEM infection.
NOTE: I stopped letting IE have access to the 'Net in 2002.
Anyone can do the same with an entry in his software firewall's configuration.
|I suggest you upgrade to IE6 due to [its] higher performance
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Not "higher" when compared to ANY non-M$ browser
--if you don't count ease of system infection via IE.
If you run a Micros~1 OS,
you will probably need to to have a working install of MSHTML (the core engine).
It is used by the Help system, among other things;
several (clueless) app vendors also call it (instead of the default browser).
Since M$ shut down the auto-update for 9x, you don't need the M$ browser
--unless you go to websites that use (the incredibly dangerous) ActiveX controls.
Immediately after playing Russian Roulette on those sites,
shut down IE and use a non-M$ browser for the rest of your websurfing.
|(MS has not ended support for it).
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Utter rubbish.
...and if you are concerned about PRIVACY, the way IE keeps stuff in the Registry
is avoided by using a non-M$ browser.
Avoiding Micros~1 as much as possible
makes it MUCH simpler to erase your browsing footprints.
...and if you had READ the thread,
you would see the OP has started to use Firefox and is VERY impressed with it.
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