herbalist Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 Is there any way this "fix" could be used on the latest version of SeaMonkey? 2.0 works well with KEX but 2.1 and up have the same problem as FireFox, stalling out and taking forever to load.
Steven W Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 I wish I would have seen this post earlier in the day, Was working on my friend's old 98 box. I had FF 4 up and running, although very poorly. I noticed in the options that there was a checkbox that could be used to disable use of hardware acceleration. Are there any build options to disable it completely? If so, that might take care of the need for the DirectX SDK.
frogman Posted August 17, 2011 Posted August 17, 2011 Think I may keep using FF3.6.20 till the bugs are fixed, noticed that FF6 is out now.
felicitas Posted August 17, 2011 Author Posted August 17, 2011 Updated to Firefox 6, see first post for details I think I've found the reason for this bug. Expect some information in the next few days on KernelEx' bugtracker. I don't have that much time at the moment, sorry. Short version: UnlockFileEx unimplemented(easy to fix), region locks affect file mappings to everyone, even the creator(in case anyone wants to take a look at it).I haven't looked at the bookmark and history issues yet, but I can absolutely confirm them.Maybe there will be also a Seamonkey 2.2 build for 9x soon if no unexpected problems show up.
rainyd Posted August 17, 2011 Posted August 17, 2011 It's pretty amazing to see possibility of running Firefox 5 or even 6 on those old systems.Felicitas, despite of those issues, you're doing a great job!
frogman Posted August 17, 2011 Posted August 17, 2011 Kudos from the peanut gallery...Just took this for a test drive and was kind of amazed! It successfully grabbed all my Firefox 3.xx add-ons and offered to update as needed. Did you manage to import the FF bookmarks?
triger49 Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 Kudos from the peanut gallery...Just took this for a test drive and was kind of amazed! It successfully grabbed all my Firefox 3.xx add-ons and offered to update as needed. Did you manage to import the FF bookmarks?Strange thing about that, i have been using an addon called Foxtabs(similiar to Opera's Speed dial) ..it grabbed that addon...Viola..mymost used book marks where right there..I have not had time to playwith it any more...Jake
frogman Posted August 19, 2011 Posted August 19, 2011 Kudos from the peanut gallery...Just took this for a test drive and was kind of amazed! It successfully grabbed all my Firefox 3.xx add-ons and offered to update as needed. Did you manage to import the FF bookmarks?Strange thing about that, i have been using an addon called Foxtabs(similiar to Opera's Speed dial) ..it grabbed that addon...Viola..mymost used book marks where right there..I have not had time to playwith it any more...JakeHmmm, so it looks like that add-on has helped with saving your bookmarks, interesting, thanks for that.
schwups Posted August 19, 2011 Posted August 19, 2011 I was writing this Post with Aurora 6.0. It runs as good as 5.0 for me with the known issues. Thanks
patclash Posted August 20, 2011 Posted August 20, 2011 I was writing this Post with Aurora 6.0. It runs as good as 5.0 for me with the known issues. Thanks Me too but , the bookmarks doesn't work bookmark is empty; I can't bookmark any webpage ; import doesn't work I just can setup a bookmark saved in HTML as Firefox start page
Steven W Posted August 21, 2011 Posted August 21, 2011 (edited) trevor89, you mentioned GoodOldFavorites extension, did you mean PlainOldFavorites? I found that this lets me use IE's favorites even adding links. Think this is what I'm going to set up as a work around until the bookmarks problem is fixed.Edit: This gets even better! The menu editor lets me remove 'Bookmarks' from the menu bar.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plainoldfavorites/http://menueditor.mozdev.org/ Edited August 21, 2011 by Steven W
patclash Posted August 21, 2011 Posted August 21, 2011 trevor89, you mentioned GoodOldFavorites extension, did you mean PlainOldFavorites? I found that this lets me use IE's favorites even adding links. Think this is what I'm going to set up as a work around until the bookmarks problem is fixed.Edit: This gets even better! The menu editor lets me remove 'Bookmarks' from the menu bar.https://addons.mozil...inoldfavorites/http://menueditor.mozdev.org/That's the trick but no need menueditor, there is an option in this add on to disable "bookmarks" in the menu bar And I add the french language pack , so I have Firefox 6.0 in french now B)
Steven W Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 That's the trick but no need menueditor, there is an option in this add on to disable "bookmarks" in the menu bar And I add the french language pack , so I have Firefox 6.0 in french now B)Magnifique! B)
Giant2011 Posted September 12, 2011 Posted September 12, 2011 Hi there, maybe it is also good to look at the new Firefox version 7 Beta 5. Version 7 seems to have a better memory management.I have not tested it yet. But maybe it is worth to do that.
frogman Posted September 12, 2011 Posted September 12, 2011 Has anyone managed to run Firefox 6 or 7 on 98 with Kernel Ex to run as fast as Firefox 3 ?
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