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Name: grgarno
Date: April 20, 2009 at 09:18:23 Pacific
OS: Windows 98/98SE
CPU/Ram: 32 MB
Subcategory: Web Browsing
Comment:

Is there a version of Firefox that could be run on a system with only 32 MB of ram?



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Response Number 1
Name: jam
Date: April 20, 2009 at 09:39:33 Pacific
Reply:

FireFox 2.0 will run on Win98 but why are you only running 32MB RAM? Nothing is gonna run well with that little memory. If possible, upgrade to at least 128MB.


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Response Number 2
Name: T-R-A
Date: April 20, 2009 at 10:51:46 Pacific
Reply:

And if upgrading the RAM is not an option, I'd try Opera, which doesn't use quite as many resources as FF.


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Response Number 3
Name: Derek
Date: April 20, 2009 at 12:25:14 Pacific
Reply:

I'd run with T-R-A.

Firefox 2 is way out of date. Opera is right up to date. I've got it on my W98SE for those very reasons and it works just fine.

Like any new browser it takes a little while to get used to it but it is well worth the effort. I've used IE, Firefox, and Seamonkey on various machines - Opera compares quite nicely and is probably the only current browser that supports W98.

some other bloke...


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Response Number 4
Name: larryf215
Date: April 20, 2009 at 15:00:59 Pacific
Reply:

my personal favorite for 98 systems

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki...

larry


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Response Number 5
Name: Cityscape
Date: May 6, 2009 at 21:50:46 Pacific
Reply:

No Firefox or Opera versions i could find supported 32 MB RAM (they supported 64MB min.). However you should try Netscape 6.1 (98 compatible) which supports a minimum of 8 MB. Netscape was Internet explorer's original competitor in the early 1990's. I highly recommend Netscape.

The link for Netscape 6.1 is:
http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscap...


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Response Number 6
Name: grgarno
Date: May 7, 2009 at 07:03:50 Pacific
Reply:

I got Firefox 2.0.0.20 to work on my computer with only 32MB of ram. I don't know how I did it, but I did.


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