Reply 20 of 72, by ppc4me
songo wrote on 2021-04-27, 17:27:I use lightweight web-browsers like Qupzilla or K-Meleon, kill Javascripts, use add-blockers etc. - without that, I wouldn't be […]
dionb wrote on 2021-04-26, 17:36:But web browsing is another matter. Pages have become so script-heavy and resource-intensive that in the low end web browsing is actually the most demanding application, and one that keeps upping the ante.
I use lightweight web-browsers like Qupzilla or K-Meleon, kill Javascripts, use add-blockers etc. - without that, I wouldn't be able to surf net on my single-core laptop.
Surfing present internet without 'condom' would propably choke even my desktop Core 2 Duo.
Now I'm tempted to buy Thinkpad T23 and try how much can I squeeze from that hardware.
I have a T23 and Firefox used to work with it up until a few years ago. I recently went to run some updates on it (it hasn't been used it in a while) and found Firefox no longer works, it throws an "invalid instruction" error when launched.
The last supported version appears to be this one (from what I could find):
firefox-45.9.0esr.linux-i686.sdk.tar.bz2 134M 18-Apr-2017 16:20
The last time I remember Firefox working, was in the middle of 2018, but the Firefox package was likely stale by that point, and the distribution maintainer was reluctant to update since it was "the last one".
When Firefox could still run on it, it was able to work with most webpages that didn't require heavy use of JavaScript. I used a JS management plugin with it, so they didn't run by default and overload the CPU. Anyone know of any "modern features" browsers that still work with pre-SSE2 machines? Netsurf works with it, but it's not compatible with some websites requiring newer JS features.