Thanks, I'll check the Firefox site for an update, but for now I'm fairly at peace with K-meleon.

My system is a cocktail of 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 files, which has endured countless crashes during testing with alpha-staged and/or badly coded apps (including my own ), but it's still standing and going strong. The folders Temp, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History are automatically deleted upon each start-up (granted, this can happen every 2-3 weeks, at times, unless I screw up ); as for the registry - I'd rather clean it up manually, when needed, but - except for recent browser testing - I haven't installed foreign apps in a long time and my own scripts/apps usually don't use the registry, so it should be in a fairly OK state.

Defragmentation is however a delicate matter, since I have a 160GB HDD but the BIOS is not LBA48-aware so it only gives me 137GB of available space, which required LLXX's BigHDD patch, therefore the ScanFrag package must be used. All in all, I'd rather leave it as is than risk losing all the unsaved work and especially the system settings that proved almost perfect for the last 5 years.

Apologies for the off-topic.

Firefox has far bigger issues: I have 3.6.20 (beta, probably) and at some point - not sure what the trigger is - thre GDI system gets screwed up, artifacts appear and stay on the screen and the only way out is a reboot.

Same thing happens with K-meleon 1.7.0, which uses the same Gecko engine as Firefox, just a little bit behind with the version. Apparently after a longer usage time, however.

Symptoms usually appear after navigating through Wordpress blogs while logged in (I have a blog there - don't bother unless you know Romanian); there's a stupid toolbar attached to each WP page visited while logged in.

Might be relevant/helpful :

Joe.

It's built into Revolutions Pack AFAIK and I already have RP installed; always had.

Firefox might have a severe GDI leak that's too much for GDI Heap Extender to handle. No worries, I don't like it anyway; never did.

Outpost Firewall Free 1.0

Outpost Firewall Free 1.0

Are you confirming it works on Windows 98?

I can confirm that it works on Windows ME. Worked just fine on my computer.

In between using Tiny Firewall, Kerio, and Sygate, Outpost 1.0 has a nice blend of friendly user interface, and low memory overhang.

Tiny and Kerio require more knowledge of making rules and knowing what programs are running in the background. You'll have to permit or deny all kinds of weird Windows processes from running.

Sygate Firewall works good, has a friendly user interface, but it uses around 10 MB of memory compared to Tiny/Kerio's 2 MB in the background.

Outpost 1.0 uses around 2 mb, has a very friendly user interface, and generally, in my opinion, less annoying than any of the others.

(If you're wondering how I know the approximate amount of ram these programs use, it's because I use a small System Info tool called SIV. I recommend version 4.15 or older for Win9x).

http://rh-software.com/

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by ScrewUpgrading

I know the approximate amount of ram these programs use, it's because I use a small System Info tool called SIV. I recommend version 4.15 or older for Win9x).

http://rh-software.com/

A bit complicated, only for the RAM

Do you know Memload 2.0?

It is hard to find, but I can upload it if necessary (28 KB zipped).

A bit complicated, only for the RAM

Hehe. It's small and quick. Doesn't need to be installed, just unzipped.

Sure, if you got a link to that MemLoad I'll give a try. Never heard of it before.

Sure, if you got a link to that MemLoad I'll give a try.

Haven't found any direct link.

I have uploaded mine at: Memload2.0.zip

Size: 28.2 KB ( 28 972 B )

MD5: 3c5d057977f29ca9ba3eaa0e6400bf05

Enjoy

Edited September 23, 201114 yr by CharlesF

Cool, thanks.

If you decide to use outpost 1.0 here how to configure it for security.

http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum/showthread.php?9858-A-Guide-to-Producing-a-Secure-Configuration-for-Outpost&s=

Firefox 3.6.23

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

Edit: Sorry, I should have specified with KernelEx in Win2k SP4 mode.

Edited October 3, 201114 yr by Lipper

Xvid 1.3.2:

http://www.xvidvideo.ru/xvid-video-codec/

xvid_encraw.exe doesn't work, VFW DLL does, haven't checked the DirectShow filter.

Jawor's build doesn't seem to work.

Firefox 3.6.23

FF3 works on 9x?

Edited October 2, 201114 yr by shae

Jawor's build doesn't seem to work.

Are you sure?

FF3 works on 9x?

Yes, with KernelEx.

without KernelEx installed:

Foxit Reader 2.3 4015 build.

http://www.oldversion.com/Foxit-PDF-Reader.html

Edited October 3, 201114 yr by ScrewUpgrading