[rescue] Anyone running Netscape 7 browser on their SPARCs?

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Tue Jul 15 14:10:01 CDT 2003


Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2003 19:46, Kevin Loch wrote:
> 
>>Hell, even on most sun4m's it's too slow to use regularly.
>>Only on a HS150 does it become what I would call usable.
>>
>>Even Netscape 4.x was painful on a LX.  I have never
>>found a machine that Netscape 3 runs on that it
>>was slow on.  I wish AOL would release the source code
>>for 3.x so It could be ported old slow machines
>>and/or improved.
> 
> 
> Netscape 3 is ancient history. If you want a lightweight browser that can do
> next to nothing run Dillo.

Netscape 3 still renders many pages in a useful way.  Disable
javascript for best results.  I'd like to play with the
source because it's the *fastest* (not just lightweight)
browser I have ever seen.



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