re: Links Don't Work [Internet Exploder won't opening new windows properly]
Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Marjorie
(16 messages posted)
Gewg --you're funny. And I'm reeling from so much great
info!!! I have some questions, but that warning is scaring
me! %(
It's about freeing up some HD space. Should I start a new thread?
>No sweat. Pass along a good deed. It'll find its way back to us.
Will do! :)
>So, it's obvious there's a difference between not knowing how
>and not knowing it's needed. 8-))
I actually didn't know how. Never needed to before.Can
you make the font bigger?
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>Despite the Webmaster's rep for being able to tell folks how to do stuff,
>http://www.google.com/search?q=David-A-Karp+intitle:Annoyances+site:amazon.com
>he sure botched that one. 8-|
>
> }doing happy dance{
>
>My big concern is that IE is an open wound just waiting to be infected.[1]
>I'm ASSuMEing you know how to keep your system clean WRT IE
>so I won't harp on it too much.
>
>I haven't enough room for a whole new browser.
>
>8-( I'm ASSuMEing you haven't ever tried using Tabbed Browsing.
>I'll have to use my imagination about the drugs, but ISTM it's like doing Crack
>--you never want to give it up once you start.
>
>...and I don't know how anybody gets by without AdBlock.
>
>I'll give it one last try to get you off of M$'s online apps.
>
>There's a scad of browsers based on Mozilla's Gecko engine:
>cache of
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#Gecko-based_browsers
>
>Among Firefox's little brothers, this one is noted for lightness:
>cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Meleon
>
>
>WRT disk space, you may also want to take a peek at this thread:
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1123704394
>The good stuff starts several paragraphs down, notably at "REALLY get serious".
>
>
>Plus, I'm afraid to uninstall IE
>
>While it *is* possible to do that, http://www.google.com/search?q=ieradicator
>you really shouldn't try. MSHTML (aka the Trident HTML rendering engine)
>is needed for e.g. the Windoze Help system; other apps (written by bad developers)
>call it *specifically* (instead of using the default browser). 8-|
>
>b/c aren't it and Windows Explorer the same entity?
>
>No. (M$ is nortoriously BAD at naming things.)
>The file manager is EXPLORER.EXE
>and the browser (the User Interface to the HTML engine) is IEXPLORE.EXE.
>
>The confusion was something M$ actually nurtured;
>they didn't want their anti-trust conviction to stand (though it did anyway):
>href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:_SY0a1bgVmIJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten+*-attorneys-*+*-*-*-witness-*-*-*-*-*+without.causing.problems.with.the.operating.system+Internet.Explorer+Windows.98+nineteen.ways+without-*-impairing-*-*-*-Windows+rendered.inaccessible+inc+tax+to.remove+professor.of.computer.science&strip=1#US_v._Microsoft">
>cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten#US_v._Microsoft
>
>
>[1] 93%[2] of the problems with Windoze are related to IE.
>
>[2] 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 8-)
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