Mike wrote:
Using WinXP on one of my many rigs and read that one of the best browsers left was 2.49.3
- but after I used the posted link to the download saw some stuff I didn't quite
understand and looked for any "newer" versions that worked on WinXP and that
led me to the 2.49.5 page.
Be aware that Windows XP is end-of-life and no longer receiving updates
from Microsoft. There are known security vulnerabilities which will
never be fixed, nor will any others discovered in future, so it is
unwise to connect such a system to the Internet or open untrusted
content on it (including web pages and emails, particularly downloaded
files and attachments).
The same applies to SeaMonkey 2.49.5. There are known vulnerabilities
which have been fixed in 2.53 but will never be fixed in the 2.49 series
which is end-of-life.
Most of the popular antivirus products have also dropped support for
Windows XP, so it'll be difficult if not impossible to find one which
runs on XP and still receives updates to detect the latest threats.
Even if you don't care about your system becoming infested with viruses
and ransomware, and the consequent loss or theft of your data, please
consider the impact on everyone else using the Internet. Amongst other
illegal activities, infected systems are often used for sending the huge
quantities of spam we all loath, so by connecting such an outdated
system to the Internet you would be contributing to that problem.
Having said all that, there may be legitimate reasons for running a
browser on an isolated system which is not connected to the Internet, so...
Did the install but weird stuff is showing but since I can't read it I can only
guess to what functions they mean - but otherwise it's seems to work. How do I
get rid of the computer-like language fonts used so it reads english completely?
Attached is a jpeg of what I am seeing.
Tried looking for info on your site, struck out. Will try googling also.
As others have mentioned, this list removes attachments, and I'm not
sure what "computer-like language fonts" are. A couple of thoughts...
1. Make sure you've downloaded the English version (or whatever your
preferred language is), and not just the first one listed on the
downloads page (Chinese).
2. There may be an incompatible extension scrambling the fonts, so try
starting in "safe mode" which disables add-ons. There are a few ways to
do that:
* The easiest is usually Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled, but
I'm guessing that may be difficult in your case.
* As I recall, I think the Windows version adds a shortcut to the
Start menu titled something like "SeaMonkey (safe mode)" which does the
same thing.
* Otherwise you can start SeaMonkey from the command line, passing
an option to start in safe mode. So open a command prompt and run
something like:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\bin\seamonkey.exe" --safe-mode
(including the quotes); I might not have got the exact path to
seamonkey.exe quite correct, so adjust to wherever SeaMonkey is installed.
--
Mark.
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