Opera is such a slide show that I wonder how they even managed to do that. In my MMX I settled for IE5.5 (with javascript disabled). If it doesn't work on IE then I try Firefox, or just switch to my main PC, download stuf there and transfer through the network.

Btw you might want to get an older cheap router supported by OpenWRT or DD-WRT and just install one of them. Both of them support operating as a WiFi client and will provide you 4 LAN ports for older machines/consoles.

Hello,
this browser is really fast: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dplus-browser/
i can enter even mobile version of Facebook with that and be able to chat. The downside is that of course not all scripts work.

On the photo you can see 90MHz notebook with wifi card installed, running that browser and internet radio.

You can use Orinoco wifi card (i used that in this laptop, it works also with MS-DOS and Win 3.1) with pcmcia to PCI adapter, but it only works with WEP encoding. I have Asus router, which can split the Wifi signal to 4 guest networks with different encoding, so I can have WPA2 encoding and enable additional WEP network when I need that.
I even used that in 486 (seeing 486 laptop with Win 3.1 and WiFi, running on battery is priceless :p)

Dillo, D+ and Lynx are probably your best bets. Unfortunately, the modern web is riddled with the woefully inefficient messes of Java and Flash which require an unnecessary amount of processing power and system resources.

I already did a try over Wifi on that machine, but both solutions ended up using too much cpu (one was a pci wifi and the other was a usb model)...
I don't see a problem about the wifi itself, I always use the notebook at the same place, and it's near to the old computer, so I decided that using a network bridge worked fine on that situation...

I found the "SlimBrowser" it should work with old computers with win 98 just fine, but I need to give it a try.
I'll give a try too for the D+ browser...

You got a libretto 😳, that's a nice netbook, It's just bad that I'm full of old computers (a c64, apple II and a desktop)

Ah, just a note, I'm using a Desktio with pentium MMX not a notebook

Evert wrote:

Dillo, D+ and Lynx are probably your best bets. Unfortunately, the modern web is riddled with the woefully inefficient messes of Java and Flash which require an unnecessary amount of processing power and system resources.

Isn't Java, is Javascript. Now that Flash is basically out of the game, Javascript is the only one to be blamed that you can't use anything lower than a CPU with SSE2 to browse the web normally.

Or the browsers themselves. Opera manages to be slow even no matter what site you are.

I used to use OffByOne on my 486 for the modern internet (modern as of 2008), though this dplus thing looks really cool.

I use SeaMonkey 1.1.19 on my Compaq P100 non-MMX system (actually posting this from that system now! 😎 ). It's impressively slow at times, but it works for light browsing (VOGONS rendering beautifully on it). It should run well enough on a 233MMX with 128MB of RAM.

I tested IE 5.5, Firefox 2, Slim Browser 5 and the D+ one.

IE 5.5
-It works quite fast, but the chances to enter on a website and you get some problem is really high.
-Download speed only reached 50kb/s
-Downloading a file from Abandonia website didn't worked
-Vogons webpage broken

Firefox 2
-It's more slow, but it works very well with many websites, still the only browser that can go over https websites 🙁
-Download speed like IE 5.5
-Downloading a file from Abandonia website didn't worked
-Can enter on vogons (but failed to add a smile pressing the smiles list)

Slim Browser 5.0
-It's like IE 5.5, but with some upgrade.
-Download Speed reached 300kb/s and it could be increased.
-Vogons worked fine
-Abandonia website got really but really slow and I need to close it 🙁
-Can't enter in https websites (maybe with IE6 installed I could)

D+ browser
-it's really fast, but it beaks even more the websites (maybe because the resolution)
-It's indeed the faster one.
-no https support.

Opera 10
-SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW can't even open a website and it's already slow '-'

Well, I think I'll be using all of them but not D+, Slim is like a IE 5.5+, and the download speed is really good 😁, but for a better website support I'll use too firefox 2.0...

It's creepy to see my notebook opening abandonia website in less then one second while that old computer takes 10 30 seconds to actually load the page D: