good web browser for 10 year old laptop?

[Evander]

I've got a nice pentium 4 desktop at home, and a laptop i got for free a few years ago. never used internet on it, but recently found a pcmcia LAN card in the junk corner of a pc shop, so now I'm wired. I won't use it a lot for internet, but it will be useful sometimes. specs:

win 95 a
pentium 75
15 meg RAM (had 8, but added extra RAM from another junked laptop, but the bios only shows 15 meg not 16)
about 50 mb free HD

and no, firefox and kmeleon have higher sys reqs. I nabbed a free opera 8 during the giveaway, could try that. offbyone http://www.offbyone.com/ seems pretty minimal in system resources, but from trying it on my desktop it seems too limited (doesn't even have an option to show the url bar)

 

[EagleKeeper]

Stick on an old Netscape (before the bloating package that included Communicator)

 

[alm4rr]

lynx

 

[jack1201]

old Netscape

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: alm4rr
lynx

QFT

or Netscape 3.0

 

[Snapster]

Is it even worth it? Restricted browsing at best.

 

[jbritt1234]

IE 4.0...

Seriously, a P75? I think I would pull my hair out just waiting on it to startup.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: Evander
I've got a nice pentium 4 desktop at home, and a laptop i got for free a few years ago. never used internet on it, but recently found a pcmcia LAN card in the junk corner of a pc shop, so now I'm wired. I won't use it a lot for internet, but it will be useful sometimes. specs:

win 95 a
pentium 75
15 meg RAM (had 8, but added extra RAM from another junked laptop, but the bios only shows 15 meg not 16)
about 50 mb free HD

and no, firefox and kmeleon have higher sys reqs. I nabbed a free opera 8 during the giveaway, could try that. offbyone http://www.offbyone.com/ seems pretty minimal in system resources, but from trying it on my desktop it seems too limited (doesn't even have an option to show the url bar)

I can't remember what version of IE browser I had when I used Dell notebook with 486DX100 and 28MB, it runs great.

 

[xcript]

I've used Opera 6 on an old 486/DX2-66 laptop with very little RAM and it ran surprisingly well, IIRC.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Stick on an old Netscape (before the bloating package that included Communicator)

Yes, like Version 3.04
edit: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/

 

[Evander]

So far, I've only tried opera 8 but it works pretty OK, except sometimes I get these gdi.exe errors. If I can't fix that, I probably try netscape 3.04 (thanks for the link). Never thought about trying lynx, but that could be sometimes useful on a system like this.

 

[sourceninja]

i'm a big fan of links

I think there is a striped down version of firefox out there, but I can't remember its name.

 

[theAnimal]

nm

 

[Eureka]

http://www.oldversion.com

You can get older versions of browsers there.

Norm