re: Opera 10.5 beta available (Smoking JavaScript performance)
Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|It looks like Opera is gradually withdrawing support for 9x.
|http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/386/
Hmmm.
:"Although Opera may run on older hardware and older versions of Windows
:[...]you may be better off installing a legacy version of Opera"
The masters of the velvet glove, those guys.
To this point, Opera Software's stance has been
**We'll examine your bug reports and see what we can do**.
This was discussed here at least once before:
cache
of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1244139148
In their previous history, however, they haven't used NT-only APIs.
...but time does pass and things may change.
A guy on the SeaMonkey newsgroup just asked WTF was going on
when Win98 spit SM2 back at him.
(The SeaMonkey 2.x team has never made any attempt to support Win9x.)
Several people mentioned how Linux runs modern software just fine.
I mentioned MEPIS antiX specifically for his ancient hardware.
Someone else mentioned Linux Mint specifically (but didn't note the age of his box).
Firefox just dropped support for OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
which was shipped on units as recently as 3 years ago.
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