Oh drat, Shockwave again

Well, it's just a good thing I so rarely use it (and can fire up IE if I really need it). Do you remember how some of us fixed Shockwave for Mozilla by running Mozilla in 2000 Compatibility mode? Try to run Mozilla in 2000 Compatibility mode on XP SP2. See? Mozilla won't open. It will only run in normal mode now. Normal mode breaks Shockwave. Arrrgh!

For me, this is not a huge problem, but I still don't get why the thing will work fine in 2000 Comp mode (which is no longer an option) but the plugin will act like it isn't installed in regular mode.

On Dialup, using GetRight, I just finished five days of downloading SP2 (took 2 days-260mb yikes!), slipstreaming it, repartitioning, installing 98, 2nd ed. and XP Home SP2. (That Windows 98 2nd ed SP1 thing is a great time saver! Thanks to Exuberant Software for that, and to Microsoft for their Security Update CD.) Hint- Ya gotta rerun the SP1 after doing the update cd because Microsoft breaks the new desktop icons when they update the shell files.

Well, that's all for this note as any other experiences don't really relate to Mozilla, just the Shockwave thing.

 

I am going to turn off the automatic update. I had read of the mess that SP2 would make. Sorry for you, but thanks for the report.

 

Westside,

Actually there haven't been too many "other experiences." I think XPSP2 is XP with better security and bug fixes. My Shockwave problem with Mozilla on Windows XP is longstanding, and not something that SP2 "broke."

I would leave automatic updates on and let it give you SP2.