Re: What processors does Firefox under?

Dave Miller wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Martyn Bissett
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have been on the system requirements 
>>(http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/system-requirements.html) page of 
>>Firefox and it informs me that Firefox requires a Pentium processor. I 
>>dont know a great deal about processors so I was wondering will it would 
>>fail to work in another (ie. Celeron, Crusoe, AMD)?
> 
> 
> That page says "minimum hardware".  That usually means anything newer
> than that will work, too.  Unfortunately, with Intel using names for
> their chips, it's hard to tell what's newer if you didn't already know
> the names.  Pentium (without a number on the end of it) is pretty darn
> old (I don't know anyone that actually sells it anymore outside of
> embedded devices), so unless your computer's fairy old (more then 4 or
> 5 years), it should be fine.
> 
> If your computer shipped from the manufacturer with any OS newer than
> Windows 95 on it, it's a fair bet you have at least a Pentium II.
> 
Hey, I was using a P-1 133mhz and win98 and it worked great.

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