Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-30 Thread Felix Miata
Arnie Goetchius composed on 2016-12-30 20:34 (UTC-0500): Robert Gault wrote: The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 2500+. I believe it does not support SSE2. FWIW, I'm running SM 2.46 on XP SP3 on a SOYO PRM266A with a Intel Pentium 4 2.4 ghz cpu. It supports MMX, SSE and SSE2 All Pentium 4s

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-30 Thread Arnie Goetchius
Robert Gault wrote: > Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: >> What's your processor? Does it support SSE2? >> >> Robert Gault wrote: >>> I am running a WinXP SP3 system and am using SM 2.40. When I tried to update >>> to 2.46, my SM became corrupted and would not start. I just downloaded the >>> complete SM

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-30 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
> But disabling a browser just because the coders wish to force upgrades is not anything I'll support. There's other fish in the sea. (Pun intended). ;) If you are under the impression that it was removed by the SeaMonkey devs you are wrong. SeaMonkey just picked it up from Firefox. At the

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-30 Thread richieb7606
I actually have three Dell laptops running Win 7.1, Win 8.1, and Win 10 respectively. All Latitudes, 2-D620 & 1-D630. I have WinXP on a spare HDD that I swap in/out for some progs that won't even install on the post-XP O/S's. All my favorite progs that I spent lots of money on are right here on

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-29 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
Well trying to use IE8 nowadays is like shooting yourself. Mot much will work with it. I am using XP too on another PC and also frequently testing SeaMonkey on it. I would buy a P4 or better Core2Duo. Should be cheap. FRG richieb7...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-29 Thread Jonathan N. Little
JAS wrote: > richieb7...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 4:19:35 PM UTC-5, Frank-Rainer >> Grahl wrote: Not looking forward to the next new release. >>> >>> Sorry SeaMonkey will never work again on this system. SSE2 is a hard >>> requirement on Windows from 2.46 on. >>>

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-29 Thread JAS
richieb7...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 4:19:35 PM UTC-5, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Not looking forward to the next new release. Sorry SeaMonkey will never work again on this system. SSE2 is a hard requirement on Windows from 2.46 on. FRG Too bad. I liked

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-29 Thread Richmond
WaltS48 writes: > On 12/29/2016 06:37 PM, richieb7...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 4:19:35 PM UTC-5, Frank-Rainer Grahl >> wrote: Not looking forward to the next new release. >>> Sorry SeaMonkey will never work again on this system. SSE2

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-29 Thread WaltS48
On 12/29/2016 06:37 PM, richieb7...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 4:19:35 PM UTC-5, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Not looking forward to the next new release. Sorry SeaMonkey will never work again on this system. SSE2 is a hard requirement on Windows from 2.46 on. FRG Too

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-29 Thread richieb7606
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 4:19:35 PM UTC-5, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > > Not looking forward to the next new release. > > Sorry SeaMonkey will never work again on this system. SSE2 is a hard > requirement on Windows from 2.46 on. > > FRG Too bad. I liked SeaMonkey/Mozilla/Netscape.

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-28 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
> Not looking forward to the next new release. Sorry SeaMonkey will never work again on this system. SSE2 is a hard requirement on Windows from 2.46 on. FRG richieb7...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same experience. I'm running Windows XP SP3 on an Intel 1.4Ghz Tualatin-S system. The 2.46

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-26 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
> The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 2500+. I believe it does not support SSE2. Yes that's right sorry. You can't use 2.46 Windows on this system. The Linux version still works. 2.49 and up should give you the correct message when you try to install it. The change came too late for 2.46. FRG

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-26 Thread Robert Gault
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: What's your processor? Does it support SSE2? Robert Gault wrote: I am running a WinXP SP3 system and am using SM 2.40. When I tried to update to 2.46, my SM became corrupted and would not start. I just downloaded the complete SM 2.46 but now not only would it not

Re: Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-26 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
What's your processor? Does it support SSE2? Robert Gault wrote: I am running a WinXP SP3 system and am using SM 2.40. When I tried to update to 2.46, my SM became corrupted and would not start. I just downloaded the complete SM 2.46 but now not only would it not install, the installer

Can't install SM 2.46 on a WinXP SP3 system

2016-12-26 Thread Robert Gault
I am running a WinXP SP3 system and am using SM 2.40. When I tried to update to 2.46, my SM became corrupted and would not start. I just downloaded the complete SM 2.46 but now not only would it not install, the installer indicated I needed at least a WinXP SP2 system. This is a major bug in