Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 21, 2007 @10:58PM from the we-don't-play-to-bake-bread dept.

Eatfrank writes "A recent CNet article suggests that Mozilla should pipe a lite version of Firefox into older PCs to further attack IE's dominance: 'Firefox supporters, take note. A bare-bones Firefox will get the browser into more houses, increasing the Fox's market share and keeps it in novice users' eyes for when they get a new PC ... a truly great super-lightweight browser would have the security of Firefox, without the add-ons, without the tabs, yes, even without favourites, history lists and customisability. The Firefox name is synonymous with security and Web-browsing vigilance. Why not give this to the processing lightweights of the PC world?'"

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Just how old are these machines by Anonymous Coward · 2007-07-21 23:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

This post is being written on a machine with a 633 MHz processor. It's fairly ancient. It runs the full version of Firefox just fine. Mind you, it isn't running Windows, it's running DamnSmallLinux.

If I were to want a stripped down Firefox, it would probably be for embedded devices where resources are often quite limited.