New Windows 7 computer--Trouble installing FF

16 years ago

I know this belongs on the computer forum, but you gals are so sweet and helpful and this forum moves along much quicker!

DD has a new laptop with windows 7 and now hubby is having trouble installing firefox--an alert window comes up. Anyone have this problem and solve it?

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jemdandy
16 years ago
OOhhh. I'm glad you posted! I am running XP service pack 3, but I know that some day, I'll have to move to Win7. Now, I wonder if there will be a problem with ThunderBird, my email utiltiy.

Its time to mosey over to the MicroSoft site to see if they have published a compatibility list for Win7, or maybe a list of known incompatibles.

As I understand it, all version of Windows up through Win98 tried to be backwards compatible with existing software. Legacy DOS programs were abandoned in XP. (There are some gurus who say they can make DOS programs work in XP, but with special techniques.) A complete break happened with Vista. Vista was a completely new operating system and a number of incompatibilites with older software occurred. I thought that Win7 was a remake of Vista to make it better behaved and I would expect software that ran in Vista should also run in Win7. However, I expect problems for software written for XP and older versions.
jemdandy
16 years ago
Go to the link below to review your software compatibility with Windows 7. When you arrive at this page, enter the name of your software in the box at top left.

Alternatively, you can search through the many pages by paging through page after page, but that's going to take a very long time.

It will be seen that there are many incompatibilites even with MicroSoft's own untilities written for earlier versions of Windows.

Interestingly, MS recommends that if you have a version for Vista, try that one in Win7. It may work.

Here is a link that might be useful: MicroSoft Compatibility List
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Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
16 years ago
--an alert window comes up.
Can you find out what the alert windows says? I imagine that would help in determining the problem.

Sue
monica_pa Grieves
16 years ago
I had no problem loading Firefox on this laptop...and it also came with pre-instalLed Windows 7.

It would help if you said what the Alert notice said.

Did DH go to the Firefox download site and make sure he was downloading the version that is Windows 7 compatible ?
cynic
16 years ago
Yes, would need to know what the alert is and what the trouble is. What happens? UAC notice? Refuses to install or are you stopping the installation? Do you have 64 bit version of Windows 7? If so, get the 64 bit version of Firefox. I just installed it on my new machine and it works great and is finally a version of Firefox with acceptable speed for frequent use.

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