fastest web browser for my old computer?

[sirpado]

Hello, I am currently using IE 5 on my ultra ligt laptop (win 98, p2, 366 mhz, 128 ram), and it runs decently on the network. I have been looking into other browsers though, and i see people recommend mozilla and opera. However, would that be good on an old computer such as mine? thanks!

 

[amdforever2]

No browser will ever be better than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

 

[deftron]

Lynx

 

[compudog]

Lynx would be the fastest, but not very interesting as it is all text. Opera may be a good choice as well.

 

[VBboy]

Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

 

[deftron]

Doesn't opera cost like $30


I think that's a little steep for a web browser, considering almost every other one is totally free.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Hij is en stomme lul

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Translation: I use Internet Explorer. He wants a SMALL, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE, SECURE program. HE should use Opera. Mozilla is a bloated POS that was in the works for too long, and is now not getting anywhere. Netscape was good baaaack in the day, but it should've died long ago Have you seen the source code?

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: deftron
Doesn't opera cost like $30


I think that's a little steep for a web browser, considering almost every other one is totally free.

You forgot to mention that an ad-based version is available for free, and that again he wanted a SMALL EFFICIENT browser.

 

[deftron]

Have you seen the source code?

Has anyone ?

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Translation: I use Internet Explorer. He wants a SMALL, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE, SECURE program. HE should use Opera. Mozilla is a bloated POS that was in the works for too long, and is not not getting anywhere. Have you seen the source code?

Don't tell me you understand all of that source code. If you do, props. For me, Mozilla feels as fast as IE at least. Opera has some memory leaks. With 7.01, I experienced sometimes a memory usage of 120MB.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Translation: I use Internet Explorer. He wants a SMALL, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE, SECURE program. HE should use Opera. Mozilla is a bloated POS that was in the works for too long, and is now not getting anywhere. Netscape was good baaaack in the day, but it should've died long ago Have you seen the source code?

Mozilla has nothing to do anymore with Netscape 4.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Hij is en stomme lul

Heh (een instead of en btw, en means and, een means a)

 

[VBboy]

I withdraw my name from a pointless browser war discussion with people who don't understand Mozilla's source code

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Hij is en stomme lul

Heh (een instead of en btw, en means and, een means a)

Well I can only speak Dutch, writing looks so complicated with that "ij" stuff

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: VBboy
I withdraw my name from a pointless browser war discussion with people who don't understand Mozilla's source code

You said that Mozilla is "bloat" but didn't give me any proof

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Hij is en stomme lul

Heh (een instead of en btw, en means and, een means a)

Well I can only speak Dutch, writing looks so complicated with that "ij" stuff

Apparently it is one of the toughest languages to learn, thanks to all the exceptions to rules and such.

 

[JYDog]

I like Mozilla, in all, a flip between IE6 and Mozilla for me.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
Uhh, OPERA, anyone? Opera.com

Mozila is old nasty ugly crap that's so bloated, it chokes on its own poop.

Tell me what do you find bloated in Mozilla. It loads pages awesome fast, where's the bloat?

Translation: He uses Opera, therefor everything else sucks.

Hij is en stomme lul

Heh (een instead of en btw, en means and, een means a)

Well I can only speak Dutch, writing looks so complicated with that "ij" stuff

Apparently it is one of the toughest languages to learn, thanks to all the exceptions to rules and such.

Speaking is "kinda" easy but writing? Ugh....

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
I withdraw my name from a pointless browser war discussion with people who don't understand Mozilla's source code

You said that Mozilla is "bloat" but didn't give me any proof

What can I say. Compare the size of Opera to the size of Mozilla. Subtract 10 megabytes. If you get a positive number, Mozilla is bloat. Doom II was 15 MB, for crying out loud!!!

 

[deftron]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: deftron
Doesn't opera cost like $30


I think that's a little steep for a web browser, considering almost every other one is totally free.

You forgot to mention that an ad-based version is available for free, and that again he wanted a SMALL EFFICIENT browser.

Free spyware.. w00t!

Do the ads make it even more efficient ?

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: VBboy
I withdraw my name from a pointless browser war discussion with people who don't understand Mozilla's source code

You said that Mozilla is "bloat" but didn't give me any proof

What can I say. Compare the size of Opera to the size of Mozilla. Subtract 10 megabytes. If you get a positive number, Mozilla is bloat. Doom II was 15 MB, for crying out loud!!!

Bloat is something that feels slow and sloppy IMO. Only because something is bigger, doesn't mean it's bloat, no?

 

[SherEPunjab]

i've tested a bunch on older computers. you REALLY want to avoid later browsers, they are not as lean and have extra crap you probably don't need.

from my testing results on a P200 MMX box,

Netscape 4.08 was pretty good.