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Windows 98SE, Opera, Macromedia Flash, and web animations in general
I have a couple of questions that may be of general interest to Opera & Windows 98SE users:1) Opera still supports us Win98 users, but apparently Adobe/Macromedia no longer does.
But surfing the web without Flash loaded can get difficult, so I need to have at least one of my Win98/Opera machines loaded with Flash.
I've tried to get an earlier version of Flash that still runs under Win98, but the sites on the web that I tried redirected me to Adobe (the owner of Macromedia) and the Adobe site seems to give me the runaround.
Does anyone know where I can get a clean installable version of Macromedia Flash that runs under Win98SE?
2) We all know that advertisements are the means by which sites that we all know and "love" like Yahoo and the New York Times on-line edition are kept solvent by the ads they run. OK, so I grit my teeth and accept the free website and tolerate the financially necessary ads.
However, the animated ones are *really* obnoxious, and, worse, they soak up the limited horsepower of my overburdened 600MHz Pentium III.
Is there a way of setting Opera so that the animated ads simply don't run?
Also, is there pressure from the commercial websites to make it difficult or impossible to shut off advertisements thru browser controls?
