Yes, MS had EOLed 98SE the year before, but they reenabled support. will transition to a non-supported status. Microsoft EOLed 98SE the year before last.Įnd of support for Windows 98 and Windows MeĮffective July 11, 2006. >Win9x has been dead for a long time before this. The logic of Bug 330276 Comment #33 also needs a fix: Ever tried to update a fresh installed XP over Internet? The worms are faster than the patches. Using win9x implies having an old computer, that's logical, using it as primary system is not, and using the primary system (WinXP) for surfin' the internet is stupid, as Win9x is more secure on doing this. Whoever is stupid enough to use Win9x as his primary system must have an old computer. The logic of Bug 330276 Comment #32 also needs a fix: No Sir, as offered inīug 330276 Comment #36, RoC offers review if someone wants to make a shim library supporting Win9x.īug 330276 Comment #35, RoC mentions concerns that that checkin also removed some code supporting transparency on Win2k. (drop life support = kill) and the victim (preWin2k = mostly Win98SE)īug 330276 Drop support for pre-Win2k platformsĪnd the this bug is resolved as WONTFIX not by a module owner, or one of the programmers involved in 'fixing' Bug 330276, no, Supernova is telling me this bug is WONTFIX because the other one has been fixed. Sometime later a bug is filed: Bug 330208 Unsupported windows versions need error message on startup (and in installer)Įven later another one is filed, politically correct avoiding naming the deed I'm pissed off by the unprofessional, clandestine handling of the issue.įirst Win9x support is broken, don't care Breaking Win98SE will disallow users to run a current Gecko on their old computers, and why should they run a browser only on their top machine, if they have one? Consumers don't run Win2k, they are running WinXP, or Win98SE, rarely WinME or Win95. Firefox is a consumer browser, in contrast to seamonkey which is less known in the public. At first win9x was broken, than a bug filed to 'pre-Win2k platforms'. I don't have that skills, but imho that killing of Win9x has been done clandestine and hastily, also killing knowledge. > application running, when you have the necessary skills of course. > Due to the open source nature of Firefox you are still able to get the > Firefox 3.0 (which is still a year away) he can always create a "port" to It requires an AGP slot.> When the creator of this bug is still interested in a special version of In case anybody is curious on what graphics card I put into my Windows 98 PC, it is a NVIDIA GeForce2 MX200 64mb video card. It also has 1 GB ram which you need all MS updates in order for Windows 98 to recognize 1 GB ram. The PC itself is a Gateway G6-300 with above average specs for a Windows 98 machine. Now, this graphics card technically does not support Windows 98, but downloading the most recent Windows 98 Nvidia drivers off the Nvidia website installed drivers that were compatible with the graphics card. The computer itself did not work, but I thought that I may try to put the graphics card into my Windows 98 PC. Well, I found a Windows XP desktop in the dumpster that had a graphics card in the AGP slot. Also, 1080p is fully supported by the display device-something that is usually unheard of with Windows 98. The screen does not look stretched at all like you often get with forcing 16:9 resolutions. I did not use powerstrip or any third party display driver modding tools or software. I got my Windows 98 running on a 24-inch Viewsonic va2452Sm and in 1080p.
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