which browser would work best with an older desktop pc running a Celeron 400MHz chip?
Hi Everyone;
As a personal project, I am helping a friend get onto the internet with an older pc running a 400MHz Celeron processor and about 512MB of RAM and running XP Pro SP2. With this condensed hardware profile in mind, which browser would work best with such an older system? While I would like to install the latest version of IE, I realize at the same token there might be the frustration of waiting for pages to load or even locking up due to insufficient system resources such as processor speed or even more importantly RAM. Perhaps there are other types and versions of browsers to better consider with older systems such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, etc., but, I am uncertain with regards to this idea.
At any rate, any tips or suggestions given here will be most appreciated.
Thank you.
George
As a personal project, I am helping a friend get onto the internet with an older pc running a 400MHz Celeron processor and about 512MB of RAM and running XP Pro SP2. With this condensed hardware profile in mind, which browser would work best with such an older system? While I would like to install the latest version of IE, I realize at the same token there might be the frustration of waiting for pages to load or even locking up due to insufficient system resources such as processor speed or even more importantly RAM. Perhaps there are other types and versions of browsers to better consider with older systems such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, etc., but, I am uncertain with regards to this idea.
At any rate, any tips or suggestions given here will be most appreciated.
Thank you.
George
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Thanks so much for the wide range of options to consider on this one. Since I am a Microsoft as opposed to a Linux user, I wanted to entertain the options which would be compatiable with XP SP2. However, I do appreciate the browsers used within a Linux environment being brought up. As such, I went ahead and gave some points for those options given.
Through a little tweaking with the browser like removing temp files, cookies, emptying the cache folder, etc. and improving the signal strength to the wireless, I now have IE 8 working just fine on this older pc. To do the cleanup, I used CCleaner which does a very thorough clean up of the system. With regards to the signal strength, I had to reconfigure a Linksys router used as a repeater so the SSID and Channels matched up with the primary Belkin router. I also attached a parabolic shaped attachment to the transmitting attenae of the primary router made entired of aluminum foil. This idea was obtained from a video clip on YouTube.com.
Thanks again everyone for the help.
George