Netscape Navigator 2.0 will always be my favorite.
Same...... That was the browser on my very first computer and that sound of the modem connecting up and downloading stuff.
Which web browser do you use?
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Same...... That was the browser on my very first computer and that sound of the modem connecting up and downloading stuff.
Didn't everyone? Navigator was pretty much the only browser that existed for Win 3.1-Win 98, right? (Other than IE)
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There was Internet Explorer, NCSA Mosaic (which Microsoft bought a license to make IE), Lynx, Opera, Netscape, and then Mozilla, which later became Firebird then the Firefox we know and love today.
Here, everyone have some fun:
https://oldweb.today/#/19960101/http://geocities.com/
I've started using Brave but don't wish to get rid of Firefox just yet
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Brave seems decent, but I have a few quibbles: I don't like their connection to crypto, and I don't like that they're based on chromium. I did use it for a while, and it seemed solid enough as a daily driver, but I love my Firefox (mostly, sometimes, well...), and stick with it.
I didn't know of the crypto thing so that seems like an issue. Brave just seems to go faster then Firefox for some things. I tried Chrome but it likes to use lots of ram sometimes.
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Well, Brave is based on the Chromium browser, and Chromium uses the Blink engine, which is faster than Firefox's Gecko rendering engine, so Chromium based browsers don't just seem to be far snappier, they show better performance in W3 tests as well.
On the other hand, this tends to make them RAM monsters, but that's okay as long as your system had adequate RAM. Your RAM is something that is to be used, that's why it's there. I have friends who min/max their systems, and they'll have 64GB of RAM and their system will use 735MB on idle, and I'll be like "okay, what's the point?" because if you're not using your RAM, you're just wasting it.
I use about 2.5 to 3GB of RAM on idle, because I like widgets, and I like frontloading my system to be ready to jump into action should the need arise. I also have 64GB of RAM, and so I don't worry about running out.
So don't worry about the RAM situation unless your system doesn't have enough and keeps maxing out.
That said, you could always try Vivaldi. They're a Chromium based browser, but they're big on privacy, and they don't do the crypto thing. They also have a full suite (Browser, Email, Calendar) like the old Netscape Communicator days if you're into that kind of thing.
Have not thought about Netscape in many years.
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Did you have success with Kmeleon? I've never had it do anything other than collapse under its own weight.
I've never tried Opera, what's that one like to use? With Brave the only thing I had to add to it was a menu option but that only comes on once a page is downloaded but it helps to make it feel a bit more familiar.
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The last time I used Opera was around 2016, and it was pretty decent then. Based on the Chromium engine nowadays, of course, it comes with a free proxy so you can browse with more privacy, but it also has a reputation for being spyware, which I can't confirm, but I just want to point it out as something to investigate if you want to use the browser.
I might give it a try sometime, so far Brave is the only one I am using besides Firefox, so might give Opera a try sometime.
Slimjet. Vivaldi.
Brings back memories...Netscape Navigator 2.0 will always be my favorite.
Netscape Navigator 2.0 will always be my favorite.
That brings back so many memories. It was slow, but it was classic.
And back in the early 90's the TCP/IP protocol wasn't even built-into Windows 3.1. I remember needing an external program that would patch that in, but you'd have to run it everytime you wanted to use the internet. Then and only then could you dial out.
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Yep. I remember upgrading to Windows 3.11, and installing Novell Network just so I could use the internet.
Hey don't forget those dial up modems and the classic sound of them
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