firefox vs. IE for updates

[Eric R. Benoit]

Thanks, I'll read through it.

green_man wrote:

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> Eric R. Benoit wrote, On 05/18/05 2:17 PM:
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>> Actually to make a long story short our school still runs win98se we 
>> don't have the money to upgrade and moving to linux is a bit tricky 
>> right now ...as I type this from my FC3 machine.
>> Thanks for the help
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>> Greg Neumann wrote:
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>>> Eric R. Benoit wrote:
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>>>> Does anyone know if it is possible to use some kind of vb script 
>>>> (or if one exists) with firefox to use firefox instead of IE for 
>>>> updating a Windows 98se OS?
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>>> I don't know how well it works, but Firefox has an extension called 
>>> "Windowsupdate". I haven't tried it for Win98. Is Win98 even 
>>> supported by M$ anymore? (another good reason to switch to Linux ... 
>>> as I type this on WinXP! ;-) )
>>> -Greg
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> There's a browser called "Advanced Browser" 
> http://www.advancedbrowser.com/ for windows that I have used. It's a 
> freeware download that uses the IE5.5 core, but gives you FF-like 
> control [pop ups, java, *Activex*, tabbed browsing, grouping, etc]  
> you might try that one. I love the warning that says " you currently 
> have Activex scripts disabled so this page may not work properly." 
> Most that I visit do work though.
> A review and description is here:
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> http://www.download.com/Advanced-Browser/3000-2356_4-10279150.html
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> I have tried Firefox, Moz, Netscape and Opera all without success to 
> update my 98 SE.
> Of course I never registered it either. ;-)
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> I export all my bookmarks to bookmarks_common.html so I have the same 
> ones for each browser. If you get the Preferential extension, you can 
> change the path to the bookmarks file, rather than linking to it. That 
> way when I run a live linux CD, I have them in whatever flavor of the 
> Gecko it uses.
> I also copy history.dat in to my profile.
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