Which browsers work for Socket 8 Processor. FF no longer does.What was the last FF that did?

Linux Mint 19.1 32bit, 98SE.

No correlation between a CPU socket and a web browser. Are you talking about 32 bit versus 64 bit?

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Moreover, by 98SE, do you mean Windows 98 SE? And if so, what has that got to do with the issue?

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Ok, I looked that up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_socket

That is an Intel Pentium Pro from 1995 60-66MHz.

So my answer is
Dillo
http://dillo.org/
ELinks
http://elinks.or.cz/
linx
http://lynx.invisible-island.net/
links
http://links.twibright.com/
w3m
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/

Or you could retire that and get something a little newer.

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I run both Windows 98SE and Linux Mint 19.1 Mate on the same Socket 8 computer. Be handy if I could get on the Internet from either one.

It is ASUS A7N8X-X mobo, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU, 2GB RAM. I built it in 2003.

First computer I built. Almost got rid of it recently but it came in handy for running large format SCSI Scanner, and other things. I usually use my Dell Inspiron 1520 w/Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.0. Circa 2007. Runs quite well. I don't do gaming so it meets my needs.

So in what way does Firefox not support your system? Do you receive a specific error message, or is it just too slow?

FF no longer supports Socket 8 processors.

I click on FF. Mozilla crash reported comes up - "Sorry FF crashed..."

Socket 8 processors do not SSE2 which FF requires from FF 52 onwards.

Oh, that's not quite so old then.

The Larger browsers like Firefox forks ex: palemoon might run, but kinda slow. All of the chrome browsers if they run will be slow. Dillo will run on it for sure. Midori probably will..There is also links -g, that will run on that. Oh and there is surf, that'll run on it.

Take a look at some of these and have fun.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ations#Console
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ions#Graphical

One more thing. Palemoon doesn't have to be installed to try it.
http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/
mkdir palemoon
Then untar it into that directory and give it a try, see if it works.
Run the binary.

Not an advertisement for palemoon, one I happen to know about.

From: http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/
Ok, I'll pay attention. Says so right on the page.

How about Midori or one of the others then.
https://www.midori-browser.org/download/
https://wiki.xfce.org/midori/contribute

had to look up SSE2. i'm not a hardware person, and you're a little thin on details.

in any case, it sounds like you're going to have to compile more and more stuff yourself.

i also hear that slackware is extremely backwards compatible.
any version of linux mint just doesn't seem like the right distro for such hardware.

Pale Moon will work if you compile it yourself and set the right compiler flags--I use a special build of Pale Moon on my Windows XP computer, which has similar specs (AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, VIA KT7A motherboard). However, any browser on a machine that limited will be painful to use. A single tab will be all it takes to bog down your machine in endless paging and swapping.

If you also need email, I recommend Pegasus Mail. It has been continuously developed since 1989 and runs flawlessly on computers from now back to the Stone Age. However, it is very annoying to set up modern email services on it--you will need Google and some degree of perseverance.

As for the thread title, I think you mean Socket A, as Socket 8 motherboards take the Pentium Pro (which tops out at 200 MHz, not 66 like teckk said). I would not recommend browsing the web on a Pentium Pro. Not just for the slow processor, but also because you'll probably be working with 128MB of memory or less.

You are right. Somebody told me it was Socket 8. Looked in the ASUS user manual. It is Socket 462 "A" Not going to edit Subject. Will start thread for Socket A.

Why duplicate a thread? That makes no sense.

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