Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
by 2b3a51 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:40AM
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Seamonkey is still around and works nicely on low spec machines (not sure about 128Mb though) as a step up from NetSurf. You get a graphical email client and news/gopher built in. Also a rudimentary Web page editor. Printing a Web page to pdf is a rough and ready way of getting rich text onto paper. The 'legacy' version of the noscript plug-in will allow selective use of javascript (saves battery and helps with security which might be an issue).
[1] https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
[2] https://noscript.net/getit/ [scroll down to bottom, note there is no support]
Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
by anthk on Saturday February 04, 2023 @12:29PM
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More than NoScript, get Ublock Origin Legacy:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy
Also, there's a forked dillo called dillo-ng
https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG
with mpv support on context menu that works fine with these sites:
https://simple-web.org/projects/simplytranslate.html
https://simple-web.org/ (several services without js). On the Invidious video links, simply right click the link and choose open with mpv".
Also, on Gopher (lynx it's good for this) gopher://magical.fish has a huge service list usable on text mode.
Linux with a lightweight GUI for example can still run okay with just 128MB. I ran Debian with LXDE on an old IBM T22, and it worked perfectly well. Running Firefox was a problem (but did eventually work), but something more stripped down like NetSurf or Dillo is blazingly fast.