re: Browsers Question
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by elmoticky
(134 messages posted)
Ed, thank you for the interesting information with
respect to browsers. As I wrote earlier that I was
having difficulties viewing videos with firefox, I
switched to Opera and I still cannot view most of
the videos posted by bloggers on my favorites web
sites. When I go to the video, it has the loading
circle going round and round but the video never
shows. While your recommendation with respect
to downloading a Kernel Extender to give my WinMe more power, I must tell you that
I am now
becoming accustomed to my new Opera browser
and would find it inconvenient to switch again so
soon. Sometimes I get lucky though with videos. It
is when they appear on screen with the spot to click
and it opens. Other than that, I thank you for your
advise. As to the Kernel, as good as it sounds, I
wonder if it works for Opera also. Feel free to give
your opinion, it is greatly respected.
Thanks
On Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 12:28 pm, Ed wrote:
>Your question seems to contain an implied reference to YouTube, a site which has
>been making a nuisance of itself lately by threatening to withdraw support for older
>browsers.
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>From examining the latest statements on that site, its intention appears to be merely
>to introduce new forms of advertising - of benefit only to itself, not to users
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>which I'm sure we can well live without.
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>Specifically, they are now saying explicitly that it will remain possible to view
>videos on their site using any browser. This is a old tactic, long abused by Micro$oft
>in its campaign against Windows 9x users, of pretending that the sky will fall unless
>you obey their demands.
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>I've noticed that Firefox 2 is quite effective on the YouTube site, much more so
>than Internet Explorer 6. So I always use Firefox 2 there now: it doesn't get nearly
>the same level of abuse from the site that they hurl at Internet Explorer 6.
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>However, Firefox 3 will run on Windows ME (whereas Internet Explorer 7 won't).
>If you install the kernel extender (KernelEx.exe), to add certain functions that
>are commonly used by Windows XP, Firefox 3 and quite a variety of other WinXP programs
>will happily run on a Windows ME system.
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>In this respect, WinME has some advantages over Windows 98, because the higher powered
>hardware of WinME seems to handle the WinXP software a little more easily.
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