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How to run "New" Yahoo Email on Windows 98 system?

• While there seems to be a lot of confusion about whether yahoo is going to force everyone onto their "New" Yahoo Email and dump yahoo mail "classic" ... it is worth noting that there is a way to run the New Yahoo Email on Windows 98 and 98se machines if that's all you have. Here's a primer on how to do that ... ----------- HOW TO RUN THE “NEW” YAHOO EMAIL ON WIN98 MACHINES - by Jacob Marley, Esq If you have a Yahoo Email account you may have noticed that Yahoo appears to be forcing everyone to “upgrade” to the “New” Yahoo Email ... whether you want to or not. The problem for many is that the “New” Yahoo Email is (according to yahoo) not compatible with Operating Systems before Windows 2000 ... which means Windows 98 and 98SE machines are out. So unless one is willing to spend the money for a newer operating system and possibly a newer machine to run it ... one would appear to be out of luck on the “New” Yahoo Email. Importantly, the reality is that it’s not the operating system that is the limiting factor but the browsers that can run on those systems ... so the trick is to get one of those browsers to work on a Win98 machine. Firefox is a recommended browser by yahoo, and the lowest version of Firefox that does actually work with the “new” email, Firefox 3.6, would normally require an Operating System that is “Windows 2000” or newer. However, there IS a workaround for running Firefox 3.6 on a Windows 98 machine. Here’s the workaround ... 1) Download and save to your computer the software “KernelEx”. This can be found at ... http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/wiki/ 2) Turn off or pause your virus software. 3) make sure your computer is still physically connected to the internet and then click on the KernelEx installer program that you downloaded. 4) KernelEx will tell you that it wants (a particular version of) "Microsoft Layer for Unicode" ... also known bucolically as “unicows”. Though your system probably contains one or more copies of unicows (unicows.dll etc) you should still let KernelEx go find the one it wants from Microsoft ... so click the “continue” button that KernelEx presents you with at the appropriate time to obtain unicows over the net. When unicows downloads make sure you also click “ok” to the unicows software agreement and it too will automatically install. 5) After finishing the KernelEx installation (and unicows as necessary) ... you need to download and install Firefox 3.6, which can be found at the following link ... http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older On that page, scroll down to the version for “English (US)” (or British if that is the case) and over to the link for the Windows version ... and download it to your computer. 6) Once the installer for Firefox 3.6 is on your computer, go ahead and click it to install it. Then reboot. And that’s it! When you want to go to the “New Yahoo Email” just use Firefox 3.6 as the browser. Please notice that on the page listed above http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/wiki/ there is a link to see the various programs that KernelEx is known to work best with ... Mozilla Firefox is one of them ... and that if you click the Mozilla Firefox information link there, you will see that there are a few things that Firefox under this arrangement will not do, including: Being able to be set as the default browser (something I don’t do anyway) ... Being able to print directly from Firefox (again, something I never do), and ... Problems making certain system changes WHILE Firefox is open (so merely close Firefox when making such changes) In any case, there are workarounds for each of these bugs if one really wants to address them. None of those issues should be a big deal. And besides, in general it is a very good idea on a Windows 98 system to have available more than one brand of browser at the same time. It is not uncommon that, when accessing certain websites from a Win98 machine you may have to try each of your browsers to find the one that gets along best with that website. For what it’s worth, on the Windows 98SE boxes that I still own, I run: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. 5 ... Firefox 3.6 (with KernelEx) ... and Opera 10.6.1. Ahhh, the price of nostalgia.

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  @kay The poster said the instructions were for windows 98 you fapping pillock. Staying with yahoo classic only works if the arseholes at yahoo don't kill classic and force everyone to convert.