How well does IE 5.0 work nowadays with regard to displaying most web sites? And is it as much of a security risk on Win 3.1 / WfW 3.11 as IE 6.0 is on Win9x/NT4/2000/XP?

Phil

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates

Hey

IE 5 is probebly your best bet for win3.1 as it is the most modern browser that you well find...however even as such it really does not work very well as it is slow and well not display most websites correctly and well often times freeze up the browser, even this site is starting to get to much for it as there are so much ads on here now that once in a while it well lock up IE. Sadly most webmasters i think never heard of "less is more" so they need to put all this unessesary fluff in there website that chokes the older browsers, take for example creatives website or disneychannle's site. totaly unnessesary.

As for security you should be fine as most worms and such only work on 9.x and up.

Hope that helps some and sorry for the rant :)

John

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply. It sounds like IE lives up to its "Internet Exploder" reputation even on Win 3.1. I think I'll just avoid IE no matter what platform it's running on.

I agree with you about web sites that are loaded down with crap. I hate them. And I won't install or activate Flash unless I absolutely have to.

I am using the latest version of Firefox on Linux, and I've found that it will start acting strange and eventually lock up after viewing some web sites. However, there might be some slight incompatibilities between that version of Firefox and the particular Linux distro that I am using. Or maybe it's because the Firefox I am using is very new and still has some unfixed bugs.

Phil

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates

http://browsers.evolt.org/?opera/win16/362

Could try Opera it was last updated DEC 2004

Java and Flash and Acrobat are the main problems with compatibility, as well as https://

>>>Could try Opera it was last updated DEC 2004<<<

No, it's not been updated since 2000. Acrobat works if you establish it as a separate prgogram in Opera's preferences. Flash on Win3.1 would be problematic at best anyway, no matter which browser. But between Netscape, IE and Opera, I'd still pick Opera. But it wasn't free (like it is now) when it was developed. Don't know how you'd get around that...