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Re: What is a good, small, web browser?



On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

[snip]
> It's not for older/slower boxen though.  I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a
> PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU.  For memory,
> 128 MiB minimum, 256 strongly recommended.  Particularly under intensive
> use (I can easily get over 100 tabs/windows open) it sucks both CPU and
> memory.  But it does good things with both.

Galeon does fine on this old 266 with 64MB of RAM.  It certainly does
better than Mozilla proper or Konqueror (KDE > 1.x is just too memory
hungry).  So, while 128 is probably nicer, I'd hesitate to say it was
the minimum.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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