re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 11:05 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Kiwi wrote: |I've been using Opera for several reasons, |the most basic simply being that it still tries to support Windows98 | Actually, Opera does a lot more than just try. Opera is an exceptional corporation --this from a guy who has a low opinion of corps in general and who simply despises many corps. |Opera 10 runs as though in thick molasses at 200 MHz! | As Arminius notes, once again, Opera has a wonderful business model which actually demonstrates how much they treasure their patrons (unlike you-know-who and all **their** BS). |I would appreciate a few Opera-replacement suggestions, folks! | Dillo is noted for its lightness and is used in many super-light Linux distros. M$-oriented developers, however, haven't paid it much mind so the Windoze port of Dillo mostly sucks. 8-( K-Meleon started with the same codebase as Firefox and whittled away at that. In the process, they got one of the more lightweight browsers 8-) --but compatibility with the amazing extension/theme infrastructure was lost. 8-( cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Meleon There are also the text-based browsers: Lynx, Links, Elinks... They get the fastest pageloads--but forget graphics, plug-ins, extensions. cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser) Written in response to: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 4:10 am) Responses to this message: re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 8:34 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 4:10 am) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Arminius: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 7:43 am) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 8:28 pm) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (gewg_: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:05 am) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 8:34 pm) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (gewg_: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:16 pm) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:32 pm) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (gewg_: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:24 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Kiwi: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 10:21 am) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Arminius: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 3:41 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (gewg_: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:13 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Arminius: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 9:18 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (gewg_: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 12:04 am) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Arminius: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 2:34 am) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (gewg_: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 1:47 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Kiwi: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 2:15 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Arminius: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 9:05 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Kiwi: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 2:07 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Kiwi: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 3:24 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (gewg_: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 6:07 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Kiwi: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 1:51 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Kiwi: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 1:25 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (gewg_: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 6:14 pm) re: Maybe a fresh new thread, instead? (Kiwi: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 8:33 pm) re: Maybe a fresh new thread, instead? (gewg_: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 11:48 am) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Arminius: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 8:49 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (Kiwi: Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 7:21 am) re: Another "Lightweight", it's K-Meleon. (Kiwi: Sun, Oct 11, 2009, 2:50 pm) re: As long as it's "Lightweight", there is this as well . . (gewg_: Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 2:16 pm) re: The first Lightweight something is running now (Kiwi: Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 6:56 pm) re: The first Lightweight something is running now (gewg_: Sat, Oct 10, 2009, 9:25 pm) re: Do all of these things still require the intermediate CD construction? (Kiwi: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 6:56 pm) re: Do all of these things still require the intermediate CD construction? (gewg_: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 9:44 pm) re: Do all of these things still require the intermediate CD construction? (Kiwi: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 4:10 am) re: Do all of these things still require the intermediate CD construction? (gewg_: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 11:55 am) re: So far, I haven't seen the Xubuntu GUI illustrated (Kiwi: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 1:10 pm) re: So far, I haven't seen the Xubuntu GUI illustrated (gewg_: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 3:38 pm) re: The fluxbox GUI in DSL doesn't look too bad at all (Kiwi: Tue, Oct 20, 2009, 4:06 pm) Broadband that almost isn't (Kiwi: Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 5:35 pm) re: Broadband that almost isn't (gewg_: Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 7:24 pm) re: So far, I haven't seen the Xubuntu GUI illustrated (gewg_: Tue, Oct 20, 2009, 11:11 am) Bee Linux (Kiwi: Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 1:54 am) re: Bee Linux (gewg_: Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 8:03 am) re: Do all of these things still require the intermediate CD construction? (gewg_: Tue, Nov 10, 2009, 11:25 pm) Boot your OS (ISO) without even burning to optical media (gewg_: Sun, Sep 18, 2011, 6:35 pm) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (gewg_: Mon, Feb 7, 2011, 12:37 pm) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (J.R.: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 8:16 pm) re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (gewg_: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 8:52 pm) Found: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Tue, Nov 3, 2009, 12:59 am) re: Found: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (gewg_: Tue, Nov 3, 2009, 12:34 pm) re: Found: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC (Kiwi: Tue, Nov 3, 2009, 12:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum