As there is no longer an up to date version of Firefox for Windows 95, I recommend upgrading to at least Windows 98 SE on machines that will take it. Or a lightweight Linux distro. Please do not ask me where to get the downloads as I do not know.
If you find a direct link for the download of one of the missing components from Microsoft, please let me know. Despite installer issues, Firefox actually does work well when running under Windows 95, which is good news for people still running an operating system that Microsoft no longer supports. There are a couple tricks to getting it to work.
Here are step-by-step instructions for getting things working:. Optionally , you could also do the following, which may improve things a bit on your PC:. You may find that your scroll wheel doesn't work with Firefox, even though it works in other programs.
Sometimes, scroll wheels don't work at all in Windows The best bet to try to get things working is to install the latest drivers provided by your mouse's manufactrurer check their website.
They should get things up and running in Windows 95 for you. Keep in mind 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no sane reason why they'd lower their security standards just because some stubborn users refuse to upgrade their outdated systems.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 Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. 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.. I tried attaching an HP external rewritable CD drive to download all my docs but it couldn't download a compatible driver. Hoping I can figure out how to use it though - been using windows only for awhile now. Just one more thought though - if I do upgrade to Linux - I am worried the old versions of MS office might not work anymore.
It wouldn't accept an adapter for WIFI usage either.
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