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roman modic
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      4th Aug 2006
Hello!


"nt4-ever" <nt4-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> from: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...windowsnt.misc
>
> spent many hours trying to
> explain why NT 4 is still important


IMHO latest versions of Firefox 1.5 / Seamonkey 1.0 still
work in Windows 95 / NT4 (Gecko 1.8.0.*)
http://community.wvu.edu/~ast002/mozilla/qa.html#win95
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/windows_95/
Quote:
It is important to keep in mind that Firefox does not officially support
Windows 95, so bug reports should not be sent back to Mozilla.
Please do not contact me for assistance in setting up Firefox on a
Windows 95 system. The above represents the full extent of the
advice I can offer you. Suggestions for improving these instructions
are welcome.

IMHO Firefox 2 / SeaMonkey 1.1 (Gecko 1.8.1.*) will also work with
Windows NT4 and 98SE (not sure about 98 (not SE) and 95)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bone...ses/2.0b1.html

It seems that support for Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT4 will
end with Firefox 3 (Gecko 1.9)
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=8887
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko_1.9_Roadmap
Quote:
"cairo Graphics Substrate"
We plan to replace our aging and limiting graphics ("gfx") infrastructure
with the cairo 2D graphics library. The aim of shifting to cairo is to bring
modern, hardware-accelerated 2D graphics capabilities to the whole of
the web, without requiring proprietary plugins or rendering obsolete the
broad and rich set of web authoring techniques developed over the past
decade. This change will have as a side-effect the dropping of support
for Windows versions prior to Windows 2000 (such as Windows 95, 98,
and ME); we believe that this is an appropriate and acceptable cost to
bear in order to overcome the limitations of our current gfx model and
the rendering capabilities exposed to the web.

There are also requests to end support for versions before Windows 2000
already with Firefox 2
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/...x_2_updat.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/...e_support.html

Regards, Roman


 
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nt4-ever
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      4th Aug 2006
roman modic wrote:
> Hello!


> "nt4-ever" <nt4-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > from: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...windowsnt.misc
> > spent many hours trying to
> > explain why NT 4 is still important


> It seems that support for Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT4 will
> end with Firefox 3 (Gecko 1.9)


appears to me They ended any support
for NT 4 before Firefox 1.04 ??

> We plan to replace our aging and limiting graphics ("gfx") infrastructure
> with the cairo 2D graphics library.


> There are also requests to end support for versions before Windows 2000
> already with Firefox 2
> Regards, Roman


what a joke; their library already
with FireFox 1.04 does Not make any
standard Windoze calls but instead uses
their @nix graphics that locks up windows..

Point i was soo mad about
(and maybe offbase here)
is while mozilla FireFox is @nix
based; suspect 98 percent of their
downloads are for Win users ..

and then they treat us like Dirt for
using a Win OS .. ????

 
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