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[Andrew T.]

Lately I've noticed an odd problem with the installer of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird on my Windows 95 OSR2 system:



When I run it, ten blank tabs appear at the top of the window. These tabs contain the respective "pages" of the installer window that would normally appear one at a time. The third tab from the left displays a dialogue that is almost totally blank. Additionally, "OK" and "Apply" buttons appear at bottom instead of the correct "Back" and "Next." I can still run the installer, albeit by having to select each tab one at a time myself.

I first noticed this when installing Firefox 1.0.4, but then noticed that my downloaded installers of other recent Firefox and Thunderbird releases behaved like this as well, even though they had once behaved normally on my computer.

What could be the cause of this odd problem? Or is this what I get for using an operating system that's not "officially supported?"

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[Antony]

Have you tried to quit and restart the installer again?

Or perhaps reboot your Windows 95?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412

[Andrew T.]

Yes; this is not a one-time occurrence.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[Don_HH2K]

My guess is that the installer is trying to make an API call to change the names and switch the windows that isn't available within Windows 95. Has this happened with any releases prior to 1.0.4?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Donzilla/0.7PR2 (WML/1.3; WML/1.2; WML/1.1; WML/1.0)

[Andrew T.]

My guess is that the installer is trying to make an API call to change the names and switch the windows that isn't available within Windows 95. Has this happened with any releases prior to 1.0.4?

My Firefox 1.0-1.0.3 installers currently do this as well, although they didn't do this on my system at the time I originally installed them! It seems that this problem is due to a change on my system within the last couple months. In any case, the Firefox 0.8 and suite installers don't have this problem.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4