Nowadays internet browser is the thing which determines if computer is usable or not. I have some old computers too and I have tested different browsers in Emachiness mini laptop which has only 8 MB video ram according to BIOS.
NetSurf and Dillo are working fast, but both of them shows most of web pages wrong. Browsers like Firefox and Cromium are too resourse hungry for this mini laptop, which inxi-data in below.
System:
Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.3.0 Distro: Legacyos-2023_x64
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: eMachines product: eM350 v: V1.06
serial:
Mobo: Acer model: eM350 v: V1.06 serial:
v: 1.06 date: 07/08/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 13.1 Wh (74.9%) condition: 17.5/48.8 Wh (35.9%)
volts: 12.0 min: 11.1 model: SANYO AL10B31 status: discharging
CPU:
Info: single core model: Intel Atom N450 bits: 64 type: MT arch: Bonnell
rev: A cache: L1: 56 KiB L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1338 high: 1571 min/max: 1000/1666 cores: 1: 1571
2: 1106 bogomips: 6649
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: PowerVR SGX535
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: ALi WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3
Display: x11 server: X.info v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: intel gpu: i915
resolution: 1024x600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: atl1c v: kernel port: 3000
bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Foxconn driver: ath9k v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 20.08 GiB (13.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS723216L9A360 size: 149.05 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 26.38 GiB used: 7.27 GiB (27.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: /home size: 85.68 GiB used: 12.81 GiB (14.9%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
org:
Processes: 130 Uptime: 22m Memory: 1.93 GiB used: 593.2 MiB (30.1%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 2052
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.19
The best browser in my test is Konqueror which still has many advantages ower other browsers even if the basic structure has been in Korquorer at least 15 years. Of course under hood Konqueror has been renewed.
To install Konqueror install konq-plugins too
sudo apt install konqueror konq-plugins
Edit 16.3.2023: Seamonkey is even better https://puolanka.org/goto/seamonkey-the-best-browser-for-an-old-computer/