Will Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox work on Windows 95?

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Hello people.

I have Windows 95 installed on an older PC, because W95 works correctly with
some older hardware. It currently uses IE 5.0. I want to change browser as IE
5.0 is outdated and 6.0 is no available for 95.

Q: Does Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox work under Windows 95? I can't see why not.

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From the Mozilla.org website :

Firefox System Requirements

These are preliminary, but will probably look something like this...
Windows
Operating Systems

* Windows 98
* Windows 98SE
* Windows ME
* Windows NT 4.0
* Windows 2000
* Windows XP (Recommended)

Minimum Hardware

* Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
* 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
* 52 MB hard drive space

.... No official support for Win95, but you can still give it a try.

Regards, Romain
 
Chaos said:
Hello people.

I have Windows 95 installed on an older PC, because W95 works correctly with
some older hardware. It currently uses IE 5.0. I want to change browser as IE
5.0 is outdated and 6.0 is no available for 95.

Q: Does Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox work under Windows 95? I can't see why not.
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Yes and No, at least on the W95B, PII-266, 384MB system I use (true for all 3 Gecko browsers;
Moz, FireFox and K-Melion)

I suspect some kind of system resource (GDI/User) issue. After a period of time (30-40 minutes,
depending on number of graphics/downloads), the browser basically quits rendering. Resources
(GDI/User) drop to 50% and less. Restarting Gecko-based browser doesn't help. Rebooting system
does.

Until I ugrade OS/System, I'm stuck using NetScape 4.x (until a site/script crashes it). Then
it's Gecko time. I don't use IE. Haven't tried Opera yet (maybe that will fix it).

Bottom Line: It's not perfect, but it's not terrible either.
 
(zulu@[127.0.0.1]) said those last words:
Yes and No, at least on the W95B, PII-266, 384MB system
I use (true for all 3 Gecko browsers;
Moz, FireFox and K-Melion)

I suspect some kind of system resource (GDI/User) issue.
After a period of time (30-40 minutes,
depending on number of graphics/downloads),
the browser basically quits rendering. Resources
(GDI/User) drop to 50% and less. Restarting Gecko-based
browser doesn't help. Rebooting system
does.

Until I ugrade OS/System, I'm stuck using NetScape 4.x
(until a site/script crashes it). Then
it's Gecko time. I don't use IE. Haven't tried
Opera yet (maybe that will fix it).

Bottom Line: It's not perfect, but it's not terrible either.
Click to expand...

This is probably what I will try - Opera.

Windows 95 is *horrible* on resources stuff, IMHO. I upgraded to Win 98 and
rarely am with resources < 60%.

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http://marreka.no-ip.com | And thought you were still
(most often offline... ) | with me..."
------------------------- -- Evanescence, "My Immortal"
 
I have firefox .8 running on a beginning pentuim, 100Mhz, with 64Mhz of ram and
win 95 and it has run just fine, even somewhat `fast' on this tiny machine. It
does take forever to load, runs out of the memory it needs fairly quickly if
one uses tab browsing (so I do not), and will freeze on occasion when there
is too much multi-tasking (so I run only maybe one more programs and a few
small tray applications with it.)

My MaxMem memory monitor shows it uses up most available memory when
running, and can quickly to into MaxMem's red zone if you tax it. I solfted
this fairly easily by limiting, in system.ini the amout of memory windows
uses for cache. As some may know, unless otherwise instructed windows will
tend to use all the memory not being claimed by applications for cache.

Certainly works better and faster than the netscape 4.8 I previously used on
this machine.

Chaos Master said:
Hello people.

I have Windows 95 installed on an older PC, because W95 works correctly with
some older hardware. It currently uses IE 5.0. I want to change browser as IE
5.0 is outdated and 6.0 is no available for 95.

Q: Does Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox work under Windows 95? I can't see why not.

[]s
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jo ([email protected]) said those last words:
This machine is 98SE, 233mhz, 32MB RAM, and runs a recent build of
Opera better than it runs Firefox. I noticed that oldversion.com has
some very early builds of Opera which may well be suitable for you; I
have no idea what their *ware status might be.
Click to expand...

To type this, I am using 98SE, 233MHz, 32MB RAM. Using Opera 7.51.

Firefox takes a while to load (not much, but enough to be irritating, say 40
seconds) while Opera loads in 20 or so.

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© Chaos Master. | "I've tried so hard to tell
My Evanescence HP is at: | myself that you're gone
http://marreka.no-ip.com | And thought you were still
(most often offline... ) | with me..."
------------------------- -- Evanescence, "My Immortal"
 
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