On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:58:25 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

Are you sure you're not running it from inside the ZIP?
The XP+ "convenience" of showing ZIPs as folders can
cause problems like that because the ZIP is not actually
unpacked.

Aside from that, why not just download the installer?
I use Pale Moon and have never had problems. It actually
is FF underneath. It just leaves out some of the extras
that many people don't need, like parental controls,
in order to keep it lean. But unlike other versions of Mozilla
browsers, like K-Meleon, the people making Pale Moon
don't change anything.


Nope, I unzipped it to C:\TEMP. (using WinZip). It dont even attempt to
install. It just crashes instantly. I tried several times as I
mentioned. I chose the ZIP version since I'm on dialup and the smaller
the better for a download. I'll probably DL the direct installer the
next time I get to a WIFI spot. But if I recall, it wanted to install
it to my computer, and I was downloading on my Win98 computer. I dont
allow ANY sites to directly install stuff to my computer, except for
Microsoft. (I could be mistaken about that).

I have noticed that FF version 22, tends to be somewhat slow on XP,
whereas Seamonkey runs well. But then again, FF3.x runs slower on my
Win98 machine too, whereas K-meleon always ran fast. I think FF has too
much crap in it, and it seems to be getting worse. And this computer is
older and not the fastest either.

If I ever get XP to properly connect to the internet correctly, via
dialup, I intend to downgrade FF to version 5.x. That's the version I
have on my XP laptop, and it works fine. Of course I'm sure that sooner
or later some websites will be nagging about upgrading. Youtube
constantly nags me about upgrading FF 3.x on my W98 machine. But there
is no upgrade possible on W98.

So YOU dont need the parental controls......
Are you sure about that ?


wrote in message
.. .
|I cant recall who suggested the browser "Pale Moon" to me on this group,
| without reading many older posts, but I decided to give it a try. I
| downloaded the .ZIP file, extracted it without any problems, and clicked
| on palemoon.exe. I have tried several times, even unzipped the zip file
| three times, and it crashes immediately, as soon as I click on it.
|
| This is their latest version, which I got from their own website.
|
| I'm running XP Sp3, and a fresh install of it.
|
| At the same time, Firefox ver 22, and the latest Seamonkey both work
| fine.
|
| I just thought this was worth mentioning.
|