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Netscape Browsers minimum requirements ?

Postby rtdos » Wed 05 Mar, 2003 5:56 pm

What are the absolute vs. recommended MINIMUM requirements for Netscape 4.8 (base install)?

What about NS 4.08 (Win 3.x) or ... ?
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Postby Mr. Tinkles » Wed 05 Mar, 2003 6:04 pm

The 'lowest' system I ever installed Netscape v4.08 (or v4.5x and v4.6x for that matter) on was a 486/66 with 16Meg ram. It worked acceptably. Not great, but acceptably. I don't remember what the actual recommended system specs were..that was years ago when it was released.
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Postby Josh » Thu 06 Mar, 2003 5:12 am

From the NS 7 Release Notes:

NS7 Release Notes wrote:Macintosh

Mac OS 8.6 and later; Mac OS 9.1 or later highly recommended; Mac OS X 10.x
PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or faster processor, G3, or G4
64 MB RAM
36 MB of free hard disk space
QuickTime

Windows

Windows 98 or 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
Intel Pentium class 233 MHz (or faster) processor
64 MB RAM
26 MB of free hard disk space

Linux

The following library versions (or compatible) are required: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.x, Glib 1.2.x, Libstdc++ 2.9.0. Red Hat Linux 6.2, Debian 2.1, and SuSE 6.2 (or later) installations should work.
Red Hat 6.x users who want to install the Mozilla RPM must have at least version 4.0.2 of rpm installed. There is an official update to rpm from Red Hat.
Intel pentium class 233 MHz (or faster) processor
64 MB of RAM
26 MB of free hard disk space
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Postby Mandrake » Thu 06 Mar, 2003 6:51 am

Or if you need a more upto date browser and you dont have a PC that meets Netscape's requirements, try K-Meleon
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Postby rtdos » Thu 06 Mar, 2003 2:43 pm

thanks guys!
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