Maurice,
I did download a new copy of Firefox today and had exactly the same
problem as the first time.  I have Win98SE.  The site said that would be
compatible, so I don't know what's wrong.  I only downloaded Firefox,
not Mozilla.  I had Mozilla once in the past, though, and it worked ok
with my system.  Odd.

Yes, the whole reason I wanted to do this was because it's supposed to
be a more secure and stable system than IE.  (Would also like to have
the 'tabs' for multiple open windows/sites etc. too.)  I have started
having problems with IE again.  After about 4-5 months, it starts
freezing up etc.  It gets worse and worse and eventually I have to
reformat again.  I've reformatted several times in the almost 4+ years
I've had Win98SE.  Guess I'm stuck with it, at least until I can upgrade
to XP.  (I know I'll still have IE, but I think it's more stable with
XP.....I hope.)
Carol Hanson


> Carol,
> I have never used Maxthon, but I believe it's a browser "shell" for
Internet
> Explorer (IE), that is to say it uses the IE browser. So any security
or
> hacker concerns you may have with IE would remain with Maxthon. From
my
> experience Firefox is pretty much a non-conflicting program. I would
suggest
> you uninstall and download a new copy. Corruption may have occurred on
the
> initial download. I don't if you downloaded the full Mozilla/Firefox
the
> first time, but I found that downloading just Firefox as a standalone
was
> much cleaner. By the way,it is always helpful  in questions to this
forum if
> you indicate at a minimum the Operating System you are using since
this
> often can be of importance in a software matter.
> Good Luck
>
> Maurice
>

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