Question:
What's the best internet browser for windows 98 SE?
Jesse Ventura 2016!
2009-07-22 07:11:35 UTC
I tried Firefox and Opera but both of those browsers made my computer go slow and freeze. I'm now on Netscape and it doesn't make my computer go slow or freeze but my internet is slow and sometimes I get a message that says I have non responsive scripts. What would be the best internet browser that would make my internet and computer go faster and not freeze? Why was my computer freezing when I had Firefox and Opera installed? Sources?
Four answers:
¢σяя вℓιмєу
2009-07-22 07:40:30 UTC
Wow that's an old OS. Back in them the browsers were just mainly browsers without nowhere near as much scripts and features as they have now.

If you want a browser that runs smoothly with your OS your going to find it hard because you'll need to look backwards.

Around the time of your OS, windows released an ADD-ON package called Plus! which was for Windows 95, this included a browser.

Also this was the early days for firefox which had an application called Mozilla Suite which also included a browser called Navigator.

If you used any of these browsers they would be better suited for your OS.

The problem is the internet has changed. Web site's today require all the heavy scripting included in modern day browsers so if you did look backwards for a browser and used it with your OS it would struggle to load most websites. It would also be very unsafe because every new browser release has security fixes and patches to deal with the latest threats. Using an old browser would leave you wide open to viruses and Malware and hackers.



Current day OS have so may scripts running in the background which are communicating with your browser all the time. Having such a old OS it probably doesn't understand some of the requests sent by your browser. It's like trying to put a DVD inside a VHS player, there just not compatible.



I don't know what to recommend because you seemed to have tried most of the current popular browsers. How about Google Chrome? Google do say it's the quickest browser (but they would say that!) I just think your going to continue getting problems when the browser communicates with your OS.



I don't know if Microsoft still provide updates for this system but if they do, are you up to date? This may help but probably not.



Good luck..and sorry for waffling on a bit!
Ardell
2015-08-15 14:34:18 UTC
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RE:

What's the best internet browser for windows 98 SE?

I tried Firefox and Opera but both of those browsers made my computer go slow and freeze. I'm now on Netscape and it doesn't make my computer go slow or freeze but my internet is slow and sometimes I get a message that says I have non responsive scripts. What would be the best internet...
2009-07-22 07:27:21 UTC
Without knowing a lot of specifics about your computer it's not possible to diagnose why your browsers were causing problems. I'm sure a good cleanup of the registry (ccleaner is the best tool for that) and clearing out the temporary internet files folder will help it, though.



Install Mozilla's Seamonkey browser and see if it works better for you. It uses much less resources than internet explorer and Firefox, and it much more secure than IE.
2016-03-13 11:11:27 UTC
Rather than fight an old buggy Windows OS that is no longer supported, load Linux on your Laptop Linux is much easier on hardware than Windows is and there are a lot of options that are available to get it to run on old hardware. Depending on what your hardware is you can: Try Ubuntu If that's to heavy for your machine try Puppy Linux Damn Small Linux All of them are available on the net as a download All of them will give you a modern OS that supports the best browser out there - Firefox


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