On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:22:30AM -0000, Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > I've never tried Netscape 4, but I've heard that it is > > too resource hungry for an old PC. > > Hmm... Depends on how old your old PC is, I guess. It was usable on my P133/16MB, > chugged a bit though. When I upgraded that to 40MB, it was a lot happier.
This is the same that I found with mozilla when I added more ram to my P133 (32 to 96MB). I'll see what happens when I cut back to 32 or 16MB (do I even want to run X with only 16MB ram?) with Slack 7.1, a project that may take me a while. > Performance aside, though, NS4 has a fairly well-deserved reputation > for being buggy; more so in some releases than others, but still buggy. It may be buggy, but it's the only browser that seems to work with my bank's online website (not that I really need it). I don't know why mozilla doesn't work, but I found it a lot easier to simply apt-get Netscape (4.7) in Debian, than messing around with a JRE (java), which might not even fix the problem. Personally, I wouldn't want to recommend "the best" browser. Howard E. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
