[frogman]

triger49, on 26 July 2011 - 09:35 PM, said:

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]

frogman, on 17 August 2011 - 07:39 AM, said:

triger49, on 26 July 2011 - 09:35 PM, said:

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..my
most used book marks where right there..I have not had time to play
with it any more...

Jake

[frogman]

triger49, on 18 August 2011 - 02:19 PM, said:

frogman, on 17 August 2011 - 07:39 AM, said:

triger49, on 26 July 2011 - 09:35 PM, said:

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..my
most used book marks where right there..I have not had time to play
with it any more...

Jake

Hmmm, so it looks like that add-on has helped with saving your bookmarks, interesting, thanks for that.

[schwups]

I was writing this Post with Aurora 6.0. It runs as good as 5.0 for me with the known issues. Thanks

[patclash]

schwups, on 19 August 2011 - 12:09 PM, said:

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]

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/

This post has been edited by Steven W: 20 August 2011 - 08:02 PM

[patclash]

Steven W, on 20 August 2011 - 07:24 PM, said:

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

[Steven W]

patclash, on 21 August 2011 - 07:29 AM, said:

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

Magnifique!

[Giant2011]

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]

Has anyone managed to run Firefox 6 or 7 on 98 with Kernel Ex to run as fast as Firefox 3 ?

[Giant2011]

I have run Firefox 6.02 on a computer with a Pentium ll processor and 384 mb and windows 98 SE and
kernelex 4.5.1in windows 2000 sp4 mode. But it was very slow so I had to go back to Firefox 3.6.22.

But I searched on the Internet with Google and found that there where many people even with windows xp
and up who had troubles with Firefox 6 and up. I have found another release and that was Firefox 7 beta 5
which I could download. this release has fixed the memory problem. But I want to wait until the release end
release so I can simply install it over Firefox 3.6.22.

[Giant2011]

Maybe it is interesting to read what I found here :
http://www.downloadc...24333-firefox_7

[Giant2011]

I installed Firefox the new version of Firefox 3.6.23 and it works perfectly with kernelex 4.5.1 on windows 98 with a pentium II and 384 mb.
Another new version is Firefox 7.0. I have not tried it yet. But I will try soon.

[frogman]

Giant2011, on 28 September 2011 - 12:15 AM, said:

I installed Firefox the new version of Firefox 3.6.23 and it works perfectly with kernelex 4.5.1 on windows 98 with a pentium II and 384 mb.
Another new version is Firefox 7.0. I have not tried it yet. But I will try soon.

Yes please, let us know how your system responds if you manage to download Firefox 7 on Windows 98

Has anyone else managed to use any higher FF builds other than Firefox 3.6 that isn't slow on their 98 system?

[frogman]

Giant2011, on 12 September 2011 - 06:48 AM, said:

I have found another release and that was Firefox 7 beta 5
which I could download. this release has fixed the memory problem. But I want to wait until the release end
release so I can simply install it over Firefox 3.6.22.

I may be wrong, but I don't think it's a good idea to install FF 7 on top of FF3.6 being that there are many changes between the builds, perhaps someone will confirm otherwise.

If you do manage to get FF7 working please post back here and point to where to find the version that works for you.

By the way, when I clicked on HELP then check for updates it said there were no updates available, but when I searched on the net I found that there was version 3.6.23, why did it not find this the first time round?

This post has been edited by frogman: 28 September 2011 - 04:35 AM

[felicitas]

Updated to Firefox 7 final, which now runs at about the same speed as patched Firefox 5/6 on Win98.
All old issues remain, especially the bookmarks-/history bug. At least there is a workaround now. Thanks Steven .

By the way. Do you guys have any speed issues with patched Firefox 5+? Scrolling looks a bit sluggish to me, especially in comparison to Opera 7.54u2 on 98 or Firefox 5+/Win7. I'd love to hear some reports of running Firefox on real machines. I'm mostly using VMWare at the moment.

[frogman]

Well I am continuing to use Firefox 3.6.23 until it's no longer supported, as I really can't be bother with sluggish or patched browsers.

[Steven W]

felicitas, on 28 September 2011 - 05:18 AM, said:

By the way. Do you guys have any speed issues with patched Firefox 5+? Scrolling looks a bit sluggish to me, especially in comparison to Opera 7.54u2 on 98 or Firefox 5+/Win7. I'd love to hear some reports of running Firefox on real machines. I'm mostly using VMWare at the moment.

Not @ that computer at the moment, but I installed your build of 6, did a few tweaks (I'll list the ones I can remember) and it was only a bit slower than 3.6.x. I believe the biggest problem is processing javascript.

The tweaks I recall:

1. Disabling Hardware acceleration.

2. I put it in permanent private mode (didn't bother me -- I don't like passwords and cookies saved anyway).

3. I changed the browser.sessionstore.interval in about.config to 9999999 (That's correct to the best of my knowledge; don't think I can just disable that anymore)

4. There's a setting in Options to disable suggestions in the URL bar -- suggestions were disabled.

5. There's a setting to limit the number of sites remembered (You can only hit the 'back button' so many times), in about.config (might be browser.sessionhistory.max_entries), I limited it to 6.

6. Installed PlainOldFavorites, Hid 'Bookmarks'. (Menueditor unnecessary, Thanks patclash)

7. This won't affect speed, but I like it http://suneilmohan.b...-scrolling.html

8. I may have disabled 'smooth scrolling'

I am recalling this from memory, I may not be accurate and I may have performed other tweaks. I'll post when I get to that PC. Of course, there are probably others. Can't wait to try out your build of 7. Thanks felicitas!

And yes, it was on real hardware, a 733 MHz Pentium 3 with 384 MB RAM.

This post has been edited by Steven W: 28 September 2011 - 10:09 PM

[frogman]

I suppose there will come a time when we will all have to bite the bullet and ditch dear old 98 for a later operating system, in other words purchase a new computer.

[schwups]

felicitas, on 28 September 2011 - 05:18 AM, said:

Updated to Firefox 7 final, which now runs at about the same speed as patched Firefox 5/6 on Win98.
All old issues remain, especially the bookmarks-/history bug. At least there is a workaround now. Thanks Steven .

By the way. Do you guys have any speed issues with patched Firefox 5+? Scrolling looks a bit sluggish to me, especially in comparison to Opera 7.54u2 on 98 or Firefox 5+/Win7. I'd love to hear some reports of running Firefox on real machines. I'm mostly using VMWare at the moment.

In comparison to Opera 10.63 scrolling is a little bit jumpy, but also fast. I checked "Use smooth scrolling" in Aurora (FF) 7 "Options Advanced". OS: Win ME