Browsing with Windows 98

[Kitsune]

I finally upgraded all of my computers out from the 98 OS (Actually about Six Months now)...I know, I am slow....

I was talking to a friend who claimed that you cannot browse a lot of websites with 98 now...What are opinions?

[Stark]

What do you mean, 'opinions'? Either the 9x platform has up-to-date versions of shit like Java and browsers that can render modern websites, or it doesn't. Do some goddamn research.

[aerius]

I have a PII-400 running Win98 with an older version of Firefox. Unless the webpage is loaded with all kinds of shitty Java crap along with music & videos it still loads up fine, if a bit slowly. Make that darn slow at times, but it'lll load & display just fine.

[Kitsune]

What do you mean, 'opinions'? Either the 9x platform has up-to-date versions of shit like Java and browsers that can render modern websites, or it doesn't. Do some goddamn research.

Well, kind of curious if someone still used it for Browsing or knows someone who does?
Chill.....

[Stark]

I have a PII-400 running Win98 with an older version of Firefox. Unless the webpage is loaded with all kinds of shitty Java crap along with music & videos it still loads up fine, if a bit slowly. Make that darn slow at times, but it'lll load & display just fine.

I haven't checked recently, but Sun supported older OSes for quite some time with Java et al. I'm not sure if FF3 or Chrome or IE7 work in 9x, though, which might cause problems rendering more modern pages.

Kitsune, asking if someone uses it for browsing isn't an opinion either.

[Themightytom]

I have a side program at work where people donate their computers to me and either myself or one of my volunteers upgrades it to a point of minimum usability. We take win 98 SE and up because you can still get by pretty well with it. We actually replace copies of windows ME with win98. On the other hand my clients for the most part posess only basic computer skills so the most sophisticated things they do are word processing and email.

[Bounty]

Depends on what you need. If you can make do with basic Javascript, even this old warhorse works fine.

[Crayz9000]

For me, I usually upgrade Win9x computers to Linux, usually a thinned-down distro such as Xubuntu. The PII series hardware is very well supported by now, and while a bit sluggish, it'll run just about everything you need, which on an old box like that usually means a web browser, word processor, and email.

[Kitsune]

For me, I usually upgrade Win9x computers to Linux, usually a thinned-down distro such as Xubuntu. The PII series hardware is very well supported by now, and while a bit sluggish, it'll run just about everything you need, which on an old box like that usually means a web browser, word processor, and email.

This kind of is outside the original question but does Ubunta support many mobile broadband cards?

[Crayz9000]

... Actually, I'm a bit surprised myself. The answer should be yes.

It of course depends on the carrier and modem, but there's no reason you shouldn't be able to get it working better under Ubuntu than Windows.

3 Mobile Broadband USB modems on ubuntuforums.org

Or just do a search for "ubuntu <your carrier> mobile broadband" and you should turn up more than a few results.