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Nice to understand these things, and thanks for the info.

Strange.....when I first installed NoScript, the emoticons were disabled, and I allowed googlesyndication.com just to see if it was that one that was enabling the emoticons, and then they came back, but now I've shot it and the emoticons still work.... must have been something else that temporarily stopped them. Firefox always seems a little buggy here with stuff like placing quotes, cf. IE. Nothing terrible enough to make me want to go back to IE though.


You haven't lived till you've tried to use Win98 on a fax modem with Hotmail these days. Damned thing won't respond till every ad has been displayed, which takes ages. Try "prematurely" shift-clicking an email to view it in a new window, and it kind of works till you try to close the window, when it crashes the OS. Install Firefox 2 (that's the most recent version that still works with Win98), and there's a rudimentary ad-blocker, but it then becomes impossible to send a reply. I know it's silly to use Win98 with some of these sites (because they can't be arsed to make their stuff compatible any more), but if I install XP, I'm probably going to need a faster CPU and more RAM and HD space. If it weren't for my employer's broadband-with-XP, I'd be screwed.

Yeah - things are sometimes not quite right here with some FireFox add-ons unless options are set and reset first, when "something" seems to settle down and it's Ok thereafter.

Oh, not always silly. I still have a couple of Win98 installations running on virtual machines here, for software compatibility reasons.
One thing Microsoft is very good at is software bloat, with the inevitable result of requiring a beefier machine to drive the shiny new veneer and do what was being done before - but with more noise and narrowing compatibility.
Lock-in, etc. etc.

Oh, that one.........when I first tried playing music on my PC, every track sounded distorted until I changed a setting in Winamp and changed it back to what it was before. It's like some of the default settings aren't really set until the user hits something that initiates a "refresh" command.


That's why I always wanted to stick with Win98......it's an Aspie because it's got no disabilities until it meets the outside world. Even its creator has disowned it. Sooner or later they'll rig everything so that only Vista or worse can make sense of it. Progress.

Excellent!

Yeah. That's all Microsoft does these days. Lock-in.
When you think that the purpose of an OS is little more than to suck code into RAM and say "go on then, get on with it", Microsoft's motives have for years taken on a more sinister angle.
But just providing an infrastructure for running applications is not enough to feed the profit margins so with each release, the handcuffs fit ever tighter and the locking mechanism gets more complicated. This might be marginally acceptable if the underlying problems were addressed at the same time, but of course they never are.
I dumped it years ago for OSS and haven't looked back once. Everything I could do I can still do - just faster, more efficiently, more reliably and for free - and with no worries about malware.