Last version of Firefox that supported Win95?

[VirtualLarry]

I dug out an ancient laptop, 8MB (yes, not GB, MB) of RAM, monochrome screen, 386SX (I think) CPU, Win95. Only drive on the laptop is a floppy drive. No USB ports. Thankfully, I have a 16-bit PC Card 10Mbit ethernet dongle. So I can get on the internet with it if I want to. IE version is 3.02.

 

[Dahak]

Firefox 2.0 was the last version for nt4 and win98, may work for win95

further digging suggests Firefox 1.5.0.12 was the final version supported on Windows 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox

 

[alkemyst]

Why? A basic cell phone today would be magnatudes better.

 

[Nothinman]

You'll never get it to run anything remotely recent with only 8M total of memory. You could try something tiny like QNX but I doubt even that would be very useful.

 

[Bateluer]

A monochrome screen and Windows 95? Waaat!?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Put a minimalistic Linux distro on there and run bigadv WUs with F@H. You might return a WU every couple years.

 

[lxskllr]

Microcore Linux requires 36mb ram. I'm surprised Win95 will run on that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If I recall Windows 98 required 32MB of ram, so I could see Win95 running on that, but that's BARE requirements most likely. I remember installing windows 98 on a 486 for fun. It was a 3 hour install, and once you were in, if you clicked on the start menu or anything it would take about half an hour to get a reaction.

I'm guessing it will be similar having win95 on that machine.

See if you can find a copy of win 3.11. That would be totally retro.

 

[Steltek]

If I recall Windows 98 required 32MB of ram, so I could see Win95 running on that, but that's BARE requirements most likely. I remember installing windows 98 on a 486 for fun. It was a 3 hour install, and once you were in, if you clicked on the start menu or anything it would take about half an hour to get a reaction.

I'm guessing it will be similar having win95 on that machine.

See if you can find a copy of win 3.11. That would be totally retro.

Shockingly enough, Windows 3.11 is still available to Technet subscribers if you can believe it.....

 

[gevorg]

Sadly, even Win95 is too much for that machine.

 

[shabby]

Sadly, even Win95 is too much for that machine.

Not really, win95 can run even with 4mb of ram. The cpu might be a bit slow but im sure the responsiveness will be similar to running vista on an atom netbook.

 

[corkyg]

Shockingly enough, Windows 3.11 is still available to Technet subscribers if you can believe it.....

I have it on original floppies. <LOL>

 

[Nothinman]

Not really, win95 can run even with 4mb of ram. The cpu might be a bit slow but im sure the responsiveness will be similar to running vista on an atom netbook.

I.e. painful enough that you shouldn't even attempt it.

 

[Chiropteran]

Not really, win95 can run even with 4mb of ram. The cpu might be a bit slow but im sure the responsiveness will be similar to running vista on an atom netbook.

No. Vista on a netbook runs about the same as windows XP on a netbook. Unless it's bogged down with stupid browser bars and startup apps it runs fine. A base OS install is snappy, even. Neither runs nearly as slow as windows 95 on 4mb of RAM.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I remember Windows 95 on 8MB RAM and a 486DX2 66MHz CPU (or at least I think that's what the CPU was). Do not attempt. I remember opening a ~50KB JPEG off your hard drive would take between 30-45 seconds before IE 2.x would launch and display the image.

 

[PrayForDeath]

Why would you torture yourself and try to use this thing?

 

[lxskllr]

Why would you torture yourself and try to use this thing?

Your user name is appropriate. You'd be praying for death while waiting for a 386 to load a web page :^D

Seriously though,, a 386 is a pre internet machine by any reasonable standard. The internet didn't exist any meaningful, end user way. Back then it was used to transmit text information between geeks. The best use for that box would be running old DOS games, and as an amusing conversation piece. If you really want internet, Lynx, or something similar would be the best bet.

 

[swinger222]

There aren't many websites you'd be able to browse with that thing! I doubt Firefox 1.5 will run smoothly anyways.
Pics?
It'd be a cute thing to mod or put on display somewhere IMO.

 

[HexiumVII]

Put DOS on and log into a MUD!!!!