Browser compatible with windows 98

I have not tried any of these, not having a Windows 98 system, but a bit of research reveals: Internet Explorer 6 SP1 was the last IE, in Firefox 2 was the last Firefox in Netscape 8 or Netscape 9 are available here. Opera 10 seems to be the last available, here. Safari and Chrome never supported Windows John Dallman John Dallman 7, 1 1 gold badge 25 25 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.

Strictly speaking all of these are nearly unusable. Almost no website will work using a browser that is more than 10 years old. Nelson As someone who occasionally browses with javascript completely disabled, I can say this simply isn't true. Many major websites work fine, although others don't.

Any my goodness, the web is much faster with no javascript. As someone who still regularly uses Opera 12, I can say that the biggest problem is not so much javascript, but rather the websites which [foolishly] only support https with TLS 1.

From a websites perspective there's also frankly no sane reason why they'd lower their security standards just because some stubborn users refuse to upgrade their outdated systems. Show 8 more comments. Basic browsing functions are enough, in fact such small amount of RAM would not be able to render sophisticated and heavy weight pages. But having a browser under support is always better. Some quick research in the graphical realm also yielded Netsurf and Links -- haven't tried either, yet.

And both seem to be actively developed. If you are going this way, you can run VNC client and have a complete Linux desktop at your disposal. Seamonkey 1. Not as recent as a better answer. Test Test 1. Thanks for the link to a useful repository of binaries for web browsing under Windows 3.

However, this doesn't contain any dates for the software, so wouldn't be very useful for answering the question without further research.

RCSE discourages link-only answers, so it would be better to include a bit more detail about which of these applications you are recommending. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. Thank you. I'll try downloading and installing firefox 2. Any updated OS that will work with those computer specs - probably a pentium processor?

Wish Mozilla created an OS too. The 's of Linux distros which are available are tracked here. It is a good place to start looking for a Linux distro suitable to your hardware and your needs.

You can ask about which distro would be best suited to that old PC here. You would lose all your old documents when installing Linux.

With not being able to copy those documents to a USB Flash device Win98 doesn't support Flash drives and no networks card, you really have no way of saving that data. I have 3 old PC's similar to that myself, but over the years that I actively used them I upgraded the RAM to the max the mainboard would use and installed larger hard drives as I ran out of space on the drives.

At one time all those older PC's were part of my local area network, so I could transfer files and print to printers connected to my main PC.

Even with those upgrades I eventually had to park them for daily use because they just weren't strong enough to run modern programs. IMO, let that old PC die gracefully. I don't know why I'm so attached to this computer but I am. It does have a lot of old docs, jokes, writing clips etc.. Rocket Hazmat Rocket Hazmat 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Firefox 10 was really really slow on my Win98, I even disabled the hardware acceleration and other stuffs : — Ray.

DebugErr But Firefox 3. Thanks, I'll try it. Too bad it's such an old version : — Ray. DebugErr I've only ever tried it on a virtual machine. Never on hardware from that era. RocketHazmat me too, but it's slow in VMware — Ray. Show 2 more comments. Have a look at K-Meleon : free and opensource Gecko based available as installer or portable It runs in Windows While a Pentium level processor is recommended, K-Meleon can run on systems that meet the minimum RAM requirements.

Here it is running in Windows XP:. Community Bot 1. Cornelius Cornelius 4, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. As of , current versions of k-meleon don't seem to work.

The latest functional version seems to be 1. Tyler Dietz Tyler Dietz 1. Got a link? Any specific version? Why from your blog? It would be better if you share the official link of this roytam1 person.

And after searching, I did found the source: kmeleonbrowser. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.