I've just seen K-Meleon 1.6.0 beta needs the VS2005 Redistributable pack?
That means the OS requirements climb from Win95 to Win2K!?
No Win98 or NT4 anymore, :-(.
This was one of the main advantages for me to use K-Meleon:
Low-End PC have an old OS installed, and K-Meleon ran with old Win OSs up to now ...

Kawe

No.

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The basic Problem of legacy OS support/features

Moving to Mozilla GRE 1.9.x means that K-Meleon must meet its OS functions requirements. K-Meleon simply does not have the manpower and financial resources to keep the GRE 1.8 bugs updated/fixed. Apart from that You'd need to develop HTML 5 support for it too.

The main problem is not the runtimes of the VS2005 Redistributable pack, which are shipped with the portable K-Meleon1.6.0_Beta_en-US.7z and the K-Meleon1.6.0_Beta_en-US.exe by default.

p.s. Einmal erst reingucken, ehe man ne Schippe zieht? Mein Vorschlag.

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Some Tools for System Backup in Win9x
A great how 2 by Duffy98: For 9x Users Only Using K-Meleon ...

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Find other 9.x users that run K-Meleon 1.6beta

Please. Also look into the thread about users that run K-Meleon 1.6 beta with Win98

p.s. Erst alle Infos lesen dann posten. Alte Usenet Weisheit.
Außer den beiden Postern im Thread sind mindestens noch siria und snuz2, die win98 nutzen.

There are several other threads and posts about problems and solutions for K-Meleon 1.6/1.7 under Win9.x with kernelX.

AFAIK NT4 supports the needed OS features. Correct me if I am wrong. You only have to get around the install problems that MS likes to build into their re-distributable package.

p.s. Wie gesagt: Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest, msvcp80.dll und msvcr80.dll werden mitgeliefert.

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This is no development but a support question. I will move this thread to General
where it gets more attention.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2010 02:46AM by guenter.

Dann geb ich auch noch meinen Senf dazu :cool:

K-Meleon 1.6 beta DOES run under (my updated) win98se!
Despite it being based on the gecko engine 1.9.x, which Mozilla develops only for modern machines now. But just like FF3 it can be made to work with KM1.6, though not completely perfect ;-) Occasional crashes and here and there a minor bug in beta version...

The catch is, it doesn't run on the pure original version of win98, you first need to add certain unofficial system updates (KernelEx, 200k, which should be done with caution, and not from bloody beginners (but frankly, which win98 user today doesn't use that system for years meanwhile?? )
And a few people say it messed their system (with an earlier KernelEx-version), therefore strongly recommended to do a system backup before trying :cool:

Here's some info HOW it worked for me, and a few additional tips:

http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,112558

Wondering, perhaps that link should be made a sticky...? Looks like every week someone else posts the same question now ;-) On the other hand, too many stickies may get confusing too, no idea...

PS guenter: dein erster Link hat glaub nur mit allg. System Backups zu tun, nix mit KM (trotz Titel) oder KEx, aber habs bis jetzt nur mal kurz überflogen... irre ich mich?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2010 08:04PM by siria.

Könnte es sein, dass ich mich geirrt habe? Dachte, dass gehört zum Updaten.

Sollte in Hinblick auf die IP garnicht erst en-US gepostet haben. Das "konfust" mich.
Und siria, mecker nicht wieder über IP sehen dürfen, ich gönn mir ja sonst nix

Ah ja Kawe, ich bin einer der Newbie-Dummies, die sich ein Windows 9x mit den KernelX Updates zerschossen hat. Ich laß den Link also trotzdem und ändere nur die Überschrift :O



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2010 08:43PM by guenter.

Hab doch gar nischt gesagt wegen ip *unschuldigbin* ;-)
Das mit den Newbies hat nur geheißen, dass die's gar nicht erst probieren sollen, weil es sogar auch bei 'Fortgeschrittenen' nicht immer funktioniert, wenn man Pech hat *toitoitoi*



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2010 08:57PM by siria.

Hmm, diese "Überschrift" fände ich weniger irreführend: "Some Tools for System Backup in Win9x". Wer schon seine eigene Methode hat, wird sonst womöglich erstmal abgeschreckt, wenn er denkt, er müsste erst so wahnsinnig viel komplizierte Technik studieren und installieren. Wie gesagt, ich hab das alles nicht gemacht, bzw. anders, und es ging trotzdem ;-)

Danke. Ändere in "Some Tools for System Backup in Win9x". Das macht mehr Sinn.

Am Einfachsten installiert man pro PC 2 OSe, dann kann man das grad nicht aktive auf CD brennen und fertig ist's. Schiet nur, wenn einem dann nach ein paar Jahren die Netzwerkkarte abgeht und man nicht genau erinnert: wie und womit das damals so schön funzend gemacht war. So richtig gut sind Treiber für Hardware und Erläuterungen für Win9x nämlich heute nicht mehr zu finden, wenn was mit Kernelx zerspielt ist.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2010 02:58AM by guenter.

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siria

The catch is, it doesn't run on the pure original version of win98, you first need to add certain unofficial system updates (KernelEx, 200k, which should be done with caution, and not from bloody beginners (but frankly, which win98 user today doesn't use that system for years meanwhile?? )
And a few people say it messed their system (with an earlier KernelEx-version), therefore strongly recommended to do a system backup before trying :cool:

more accurately & importantly, siria, KM 1.6.x won't run under pure versions of Win98 & WinME as they both require the latest versions of KernelEx to get KM 1.6 working under them. I'm using a dual-boot machine with WinXP on the main hard drive and WinME on the second hard drive. remember that WinME is kinda like Win98 3rd edition though that one removes access to pure DOS mode when booting ME.

The recomendation for old systems is update to Win2000, WinXP or WinFLP.

If you can't updated then try to use KernelEx.

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