Web browser for low-end PC?

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Hi,

Which (vintage) web browser will run reasonably well on an old Pentium 75
PC with 64 MB RAM?

Thanks for all suggestions!

Preston
 
At date Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:00:50 +0000 (GMT), Anonymous
([email protected]) wrote in article <b58f18e4852df438a95c49e479a8f6a4
@anon.bananasplit.info>, for newsgroup alt.comp.freeware:
Hi,

Which (vintage) web browser will run reasonably well on an old Pentium 75
PC with 64 MB RAM?
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Opera?

[]s
 
At date Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:00:50 +0000 (GMT), Anonymous
([email protected]) wrote in article <b58f18e4852df438a95c49e479a8f6a4
@anon.bananasplit.info>, for newsgroup alt.comp.freeware:
Hi,

Which (vintage) web browser will run reasonably well on an old Pentium 75
PC with 64 MB RAM?
Click to expand...

Opera?

[]s
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OffByOne is the smallest and fairly new.
Main drawback is "no javascript support".
 
Anonymous said:
Hi,

Which (vintage) web browser will run reasonably well on an old
Pentium 75 PC with 64 MB RAM?

Thanks for all suggestions!

Preston
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Hi Preston!



I would suggest K-Meleon. Although, I would let IE5.5 or IE5 on the
system if you have Windows 95,9x,ME and "NT4(the fastest and most
effective OS for 486CPU and faster)".
2000, XP and newest X-Window (Linux) distributions need more MHz and
they have IE6 (respectively Linux, of course), which is not avaiable
for Win95 (only 5.5 SP2). 98 and higher is upgradeable to IE6.x SPxx

Then you can see yourself if IE5.x is so much slower than other
Browser. ;-)




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
stay away from old versions of netscape 4.x
they are no longer compatible

I would go for opera 8.5 or 9 preview, that is now totally free ( no
banner )
 
At date Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:00:50 +0000 (GMT), Anonymous
([email protected]) wrote in article <b58f18e4852df438a95c49e479a8f6a4
@anon.bananasplit.info>, for newsgroup alt.comp.freeware:
Hi,

Which (vintage) web browser will run reasonably well on an old Pentium 75
PC with 64 MB RAM?
Click to expand...

Opera?

[]s
Click to expand...

OffByOne is the smallest and fairly new.
Main drawback is "no javascript support".
Click to expand...

I like OB1. The only other one I know of is:

Camera Shy.

It is a browser that was designed to fit on a floppy disc.
It does not write any cache at all, so every page is as slow to load
as any other whether you have previously visited it or not.
it was written for dissidents, in countries where internet access is
monitored, and is specially designed to decode hidden data in website
GIF`s.
All the person has to do is visit an inoccuous "friendly" website, and
any GIF`s found are searched for hidden messages etc using private key
encryption.
It works, but is very slow (especially if you are running it from a
floppy disc)
Here is a link to the available mirror sites which I used. Just pick
the one nearest to you

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camerashy/CameraShy.0.2.23.1.exe?download

BoB
 
seems that top posters are smarter... I can understand him perfectly.
I suggest you to go lesson top posting 101
and drop that netcop id badge...
 
I like it when posters cut out all the previous posts and get to the point.
Thanks for not leaving all the previous posts.

Mark
 
Hi,

Many thanks to all who suggested K-Meleon. I installed it and it loads web
pages truly fast. I'm really impressed by its speed on this P75. I didn't
know that this kind of browser performance was possible on a Pentium 75. It
is really nice to use K-Meleon on this box. K-Meleon's performance is
comparable to IE on a much, much faster PC!

Regards,
Preston.
 
Hi,

Many thanks to all who suggested K-Meleon. I installed it and it
loads web pages truly fast. I'm really impressed by its speed on
this P75. I didn't know that this kind of browser performance was
possible on a Pentium 75. It is really nice to use K-Meleon on
this box. K-Meleon's performance is comparable to IE on a much,
much faster PC!
Click to expand...
Click on the "help" menu and take a look at the forum. There are new
builds available that are even faster and have many more features.
 

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