Re: some ideas for Mozilla products

Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:50:35 -0400, /JM/:
> 
>> There are people who still run old operating systems because of some 
>> programs that require them and for educational purposes. I'm sure 
>> people would like to be able to run their favorite web browser on 
>> windows NT 4.
> 
> Although I've not tried, running Mozilla on WinNT 4.0 should be 
> possible.  Have you tried it?
> 
I have tried and It won't let me; it says firefox isn't supported on 
this operating system and then the installer closes. I know it probably 
is possible though.

Maybe you could try installing firefox 3 on another computer and then 
copying the C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox folder to the same area on 
windows NT. Then try opening the firefox.exe file. I haven't tried this 
yet though, so I don't know if it works. Firefox probably requires some 
registry entries that would be missing if you did a simple copy. 
However, it might be able to create them if missing. It would also be 
missing a profile to use, so it would probably be a good idea if you 
copied your profile folder into this directory so firefox has a profile 
to start from.
D:\WINNT\Profiles\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles.

Another idea is to install firefox 2 and then tell it to check for 
updates. However, I don't know if firefox tells the website what your 
operating system is, so it may or may not say upgrade to firefox 3.

My computer with windows NT has a modem that won't work on NT so I can't 
use the Internet with NT, plus I don't have a antivirus or firewall on 
NT, so I don't know if the check for updates idea will work either.

If you try any of my ideas, please post back to let me know if they work 
or not.

JM