Most browsers are relatively insensitive to screen resolution; they should run fine at any resolution your system can handle. But higher resolutions show you more and are often easier on the eyes than lower resolutions.

Similarly, browsers shouldn't care much about how many colors your system displays, although pages will look better (with truer colors and less "dithering" or other artifacting) at higher color depths. If you're running 16 or 256 colors (4- and 8-bit color, respectively), you're missing a lot. Color depths of 16-, 24- or 32-bits (millions of potential colors) are much better, if your system can handle them.

(In Windows, you can set your system's resolution and color depth via the Settings tab in Control Panel's "Display" applet. Other OSes offer similar tools.)

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