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Firefox in 98

by SEGMAT Sep 5, 2007 8:36AM PDT

Hello everyone,

I read a post on some other forums and I wanted to see what people here thought. I heard that the newest version of Firefox (2.0.0.6) won't work in 98 anymore, that they cut it out of their development. I'm just wondering if anyone knows if that's true (I don't run Firefox myself) but I was thinking of trying it. I'm also wondering, if it's true, what implications do you think that has for other programs, do you think that a lot of other programs are very shortly going to stop development in 98? I just switched back to 98 recently and am finally happy with how things go on my computer and that would be terrible if all my programs will stop working.

Feedback please!

Matt

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by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Sep 5, 2007 8:39AM PDT

Part of the problem is that development tools are not as readily available for 98. Plus when you need more features and are competing with MS, Apple, etc you'll eventually have to pull the plug.

I had to move the lowest OS I write for up to Windows 2000 since before that some features don't exist.

Bob

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by Bob__B Sep 5, 2007 11:44PM PDT

I'm using FF 2.6 on this w98 machine....seems to work fine.

It might depend on what feature you try to use.

I expect more and more progs/utils to move away from support for this old OS.

For basic use w98 works quite well....but it's a mater of resources/money.

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