Encouraged by the reactions to my last threads, I'd like to add another one:

I have this 486DX4/100 VL motherboard laying around I always wanted to assemble once I find a decent graphics card. It will probably take up to 64 MB.
Until some years ago, I ran NT4 SP6 and IE 5/5.5 on a 486DX2/66 board with 64 MB, and it ran okay.

This leads me to the question: What is the slowest system anyone really runs KM on and how does it perform regarding startup and rendering time?
I remember the minimum requirement being 486/66, but can't imagine how it would run on such a machine.

Alex

PS: Somewhere in the attic, I still have a working 486DX/33 machine which used to run WfW 3.11 and Opera 3.62 in 16 MB, how about that? :-)

AFAIK an 486/66 with 16 mb under win95 was mentioned about half a year back.
that is the lowest i remember. (unless i mixed it up and it was Your system).

Compared to win32s win95 used much memory & was unstable additionally.
to get futher down with hardware we may possibly need a k-m that runs with win95s
// which is not available.


p.s. nur ein k-m für win32s würde IMHO noch geringere ansprüche haben, aber das ist m. E. vom betriebssystem.

486/66 with 16 MB? No, it wasn't my system. I never posted anything here until last week.

Alex

I found 2 different threads here (note the dates). I'll just quote the relevant posts:

1.
Re: Why you use K-Meleon?
Author: Rob Wolfe (---.na.21stcentury.net)
Date: 04-18-04 22:04

I just want to thank you for this great browser. I needed a second computer and dug up this old Gateway 486-66 (with a massive 0.7 Gig hard drive) from my closet. I somehow managed to get an old NIC card to work, but could not get anything newer than Netscape 4.8 to run, and could hardly view any modern web pages. I could not even get the Microsoft site to load. K-Meleon loaded it just fine, and the web is actually usable. And I CANNOT manage without tabbed browsing.

I'll have to try this on my new HP Pavilion. If K-Meleon can run on a 486-66, it can run on ANYTHING.

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and

2.
Re: WOW This beats Firebirds hands on
Author: Marcin (---.waw.cdp.pl)
Date: 11-06-03 03:53

That's the only browser that I can run on my old laptop Toshiba (486 DX2, 48 MB RAM, Windows 95) and surf the web.
Internet Explorer sucks nowadays, it displays a lot of scrap, popups and other s**t, older versions don't display most of the sites properly.
Kmeleon does it very well, tabbed browsing is what I like.
The only way to say whether one browser is better than another is to install both of them onto a slow machine. Then you can tell the difference.
Kmeleon is no.1 as far as speed is concerned if enough RAM is available.
I can give you a example:
K6-2-500 MHz with 640 MB of RAM, Windows 2000 pro SP4, DSL
http://weather.icm.edu.pl opening time:
1. Kmeleon - 17 secons
2. Firebird - 22 seconds
3. IE 5.5 - 23 seconds
4. IE 6.0 - 30 seconds
5. Mozilla 1.5alpha- 50 seconds
6. Mozilla 1.3 stable - 55 seconds.
On other, more complex sites, kmeleon is even faster.

Running Gunter's 1.7.11a on an old 486 DX2-66, 32 meg RAM and Win95.

K-M is my favourite because of the ad-blocking and flash handling.
Opera 6.06 is very fast on this set-up. Not much to choose between K-M
and Opera 8.02 though. Both perform quite acceptably.

I am still on 0.4GHZ/192MB ram. Check my site: http://www.spreadkmeleon.com

Hi

A long time ago I had KM running on my old 486 / 128MB RAM / WIN95 comp - performed very well - easy to rid M$IE from the OS unlike XP

One has to remember that once the ram has been used by the comps OS, background processes and applications that it will use the swap file (virtual ram) which can make things s-l-o-w-e-r (r/w speed) and prone to freeze/crash! KM never did this but M$IE manged with ease lol

Now: Compaq, 64bit AMD Athlon 3000+, 1.81GHz and 384MB RAM - obviously runs no problem

Kind regards
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encoderX

i686 266mhz/32meg FP/win 98se = loads in five-six seconds without the preloader and runs pretty fast.

I use K Meleon with a 120mhz / 32ram / 1.2hd / win98se laptop

Toshiba Satellite CDS220 (133Mhz/48Mb) with Win98SE. Runs like a scalded dog on this laptop I rescued from the trash.