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What are the best web browsers for Windows XP 32-bit and ReactOS?

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Best web browsers for Windows XP 32-bit and ReactOS	Price	Based On	Browser Engine
58 Otter Browser	FREE	N/A	Qt WebEngine (Blink)
50 Mypal	-	PaleMoon (Moonchild Productions)	-
48 Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.9.0	-	-	-
-- K-Meleon	-	Mozilla Firefox ESR	Goanna (Gecko-fork)
-- Basilisk	Free	Mozilla Firefox	Goanna (Gecko-fork)

Otter Browser

Top Pro

Legacy Opera

Aims to recreate the best aspects of Opera 12.x. See More

Top Con

Not a valid 32bit program according to win xp

PleasantNootaikok's Experience

downloaded the 32 bit version and executed on my XP computer, it said this was not a valid program. See More

Specs

Browser Engine:Qt WebEngine (Blink)

License:OpenSource (GNU GPL-3.0)

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Top Pro

Under GNU GPL

A better license for a browser than a restrictive "all rights reserved". See More

FascinatingPotrympus's Experience

I love this product mostly smooth but if you are working IE or very techy stuff then Firefox See More

Top Pro

Open source

Anyone can contribute to the Otter Browser, solve common issues, bugs. See More

EarnestVacuna's Experience

I wanted a simple alt browser to FF. It works. See More

Mypal

Top Pro

Customizable with Pale Moon and some Firefox addons

Supports add-ons from PM, Firefox and other Mozilla add-ons websites (xpi). See More

Top Con

Intermittent text distortion problem

StudiousYopaat's Experience

im using it know on windows vista and its amazing See More

Specs

Based On:PaleMoon (Moonchild Productions)

Engine:Goanna (Gecko's Fork)

Minimum OS Support:Windows XP

Top Pro

All video formats supported

Does better than Firefox 52 in that regard. See More

Top Con

Outdated

Becomes sluggish when surfing lots of hours, lacks compatibility with Firefox quantum add-ons. See More

EncouragingAine's Experience

quite good browser, a bit more lightweight than Firefox 52ESR. still maintained. Relatively light-weight. Portable. MyPal 27 is faster than Mypal 28, but 28 displays more pages. See More

Top Pro

Supports Windows Vista

DiplomaticStheno's Experience

It's pretty decent with a few annoying things. Plays all video formats from what I'm seeing. Gets easily quirky & sluggish with extended use. Won't open online pdf files & no extension can be found to do that. Has an annoying problem displaying distorted text quite often but opens more sites than firefox 52 See More

Top Pro

Now supports pdf inside browser

Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.9.0

K-Meleon

Top Pro

Fast and lightweight

Light on memory footprint: the smallest RAM amount used among all the modern browsers. Fastest application startup. Very responsive. Invaluable on the older and low-end hardware. See More

Top Con

Stability issues

Specs

Based On:Mozilla Firefox ESR

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork)

Top Pro

Highly extensible

Has hundreds of its native extensions written on its own macrolanguage. Supports dozens of XPI-extensions for Firefox. See More

Top Con

Uses Goanna

Its one of the oldest gecko forks which was made by one man. See More

Top Pro

Extremely customizable

Almost every detail can be personalized: skin buttons (icon theme and on/off state) toolbar placement menus number of settings and preferences proxies (add and switch with ease) locale (switch on the fly without downloads and restarts) etc. See More

Top Pro

Secure and fully under user control

No malware/adware toolbars/extensions can be injected. You can switch off Java, JS, Flash, popups, and Ads from the toolbar or with a hotkey. See More

Basilisk

Top Pro

Open Source

So the source code can be verified. See More

Specs

Based On:Mozilla Firefox

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork)

License:OpenSource (MPL)

Serpent

Advanced Chrome (Custom Build)

New Moon

Top Pro

It runs well on Windows XP. I tested it, daily, for more than two years.

It is quite easy to upgrade to a new version. All you have to do is to replace the old file/version with the new file/version - extracted from an archive. All your settings are kept after upgrade. See More

Chromium 49

Top Con

High RAM usage

Due the sandboxing, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM , which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM. See More

Top Pro

Completely Open Source

Both Chromium and and its rendering engine Blink are licensed under the BSD-license which includes no copyleft unlike the GNU or Mozilla Licenses. See More

EncouragingAine's Experience

Still gives the best and especially the fastest rendering experience for many websites. Much faster than Firefox 52ESR on Windows XP. See More

Specs

Browser Engine:Blink

License:Opensource (BSD)

Top Pro

Sandboxing

Every tab and plugin runs in its own subprocess so they will never affect the whole browser ,however that consumes more memory than other browsers See More

PleasantNootaikok's Experience

300+MB uncompressed? That doesn't fit my definition of lightweight. Also complained about not being able to locate Kernel32.dll during installation. See More

Opera 36

CourageousAltjira's Experience

would not run on win xp See More

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