re: Wanted: Lightweight Browser for old, slow PC
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Kiwi wrote:
|One or the other of the Wiki links eventually led me to an article I could use.
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Sometimes the back door is as good as the front. 8-)
|[...]Several years ago, I had tested a version of K-Meleon some,
|ended up not needing it after all, and then forgot its name.
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Wikipedia articles with "Comparison of" or "List of" in their names are useful.
I know the feeling of trying to break the rust free from the old thinker sometimes.
|Midori looks as if if will be interesting, but not while still in a very raw stage.
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I don't think that is an option anyway. Midori is based on the WebKit engine
and I haven't seen anything that would lead me to believe it works under Win9x.
I do know that Google Chrome (also WebKit-based) doesn't support Win9x.
I haven't tried Midori (WebKit browsers don't have extensive extension sets);
the extensions for SeaMonkey(/Firefox) are addictive--even under Windoze.
|There's another one named Ultrabrowser I'll be looking at.
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That uses the Trident engine, so you'd be getting the same old vulnerabilities
--basically a re-skinned Internet Exploder.
OTOH, the other week I mentioned a twist on both of these
where you keep IE's user interface but add a Google-provided plug-in
that substitutes the WebKit engine under the old skin:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1253992383
Sites have to be tweaked to get IE to switch over
--or, via the Address Bar you can manually tell it to swap rendering engines:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1382925&cid=29547985#29548721
(CF==Chrome Frame)
Google developed that to get HTML5 compliance out of M$'s junk--even IE6--
so that their cutting-edge stuff will run under Windoze.
MS's junk is just so sad--even their latest stuff is just pitiful:
cache
of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acid3
What's dishearting is how other countries are zooming by us getting their freedom
while so many of us (especially the policy makers) are mired in the last century:
from the Usenet Archive:
Another South American county finds that freedom is also cheaper.
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