[TenTec] Re: XP v. 98

[W1GOR]

I'll 'second' Rob's comment about the Firefox 1.0 browser.   I've been using 
it since it was first offered and I'm very pleased with it.  Firefox makes a 
perfect replacement for IE.

73, Larry - W1GOR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:46 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Re: XP v. 98


>I still run win98 and have no probs & in fact, I have heard that because it 
>is so old, it is more immune to hacker/worm/virus attacks now.  Also, I 
>have heard that with some of the ham software, you may need real DOS 
>instead of the DOS emulator.
>
> OTOH, I can heartily recommend dumping Internet Explorer and going to 
> www.mozilla.org, and downloading the Firefox 1.0 browser.  It installed 
> easily on my ancient 9 year old win98 machine, cookies, bookmarks, history 
> etc. moved over to it no problem, and it runs noticeably faster than IE, 
> AND, no popups.  If it works on my PC, it will probably work on anything 
> newer.
>
> Rob/K5UJ
>
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