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pumanyc
Apr 4, 2005, 08:55 AM
Hi
Are there any good browsers available for os9 (i must upgrade one of these days). I've been pretty happy with Netscape 7 (and IE5 when I have to), but since the weekend the macrumors homepage looks awful (see attached screenshots) the forum seems fine thank good.

update:
well since posting, whatever you changed to the MR css made it display much better in Netscape so thank you. I'd still be interested to hear of a better browser though.
Thanks


thomasp
Apr 4, 2005, 12:09 PM
I have the same annoying problem with MR in IE5.1.7.

Generally, there are no "good" browsers for OS9 - because they are so old, many Java applets don't work properly.

However, Mozilla 1.3.1 seems to work pretty well - and it doesn't have those nasty scrollbars around each MR news item: http://wamcom.org/
Mechcozmo
Apr 4, 2005, 07:56 PM
iCab is a great browser... works on System 7 up to OS X.
mms
Apr 4, 2005, 08:56 PM
Actually the last Mozilla release for OS 9 was 1.2.1, not 1.3.1. I found it to be somewhat buggy when I used to use it. Really, the only usable choices IMO are Netscape, Mozilla, IE, and iCab. I used IE mostly back in the day as it was the most decent of all the choices. Somehow iCab just didn't click with me.
Mechcozmo
Apr 4, 2005, 09:13 PM
Actually the last Mozilla release for OS 9 was 1.2.1, not 1.3.1.

There is an unofficial Mozilla version that supports 8.6 and is based off of version 1.4/1.3.1. It is pretty nice but fairly slow...
GodBless
Apr 5, 2005, 07:18 AM
Hi
Are there any good browsers available for os9 (i must upgrade one of these days). I've been pretty happy with Netscape 7 (and IE5 when I have to), but since the weekend the macrumors homepage looks awful (see attached screenshots) the forum seems fine thank good.

update:
well since posting, whatever you changed to the MR css made it display much better in Netscape so thank you. I'd still be interested to hear of a better browser though.
Thanks

Time to upgrade to OS X?
thomasp
Apr 5, 2005, 12:12 PM
Actually the last Mozilla release for OS 9 was 1.2.1, not 1.3.1. I found it to be somewhat buggy when I used to use it. Really, the only usable choices IMO are Netscape, Mozilla, IE, and iCab. I used IE mostly back in the day as it was the most decent of all the choices. Somehow iCab just didn't click with me.

I'm using Mozilla 1.3.1 in OS9...

It isn't the official Mozilla release, it was released by WamCom (see my earlier post for a link). It is a little slow on my 350MHz G3 iMac, but it handles websites better than IE5.1.7.
wwooden
Apr 6, 2005, 11:00 PM
It's very strange to see those pictures because they have no font smoothing. Everything looks very computery.
Benjamin
Apr 7, 2005, 06:21 AM
It's very strange to see those pictures because they have no font smoothing. Everything looks very computery.

thats what i say each time i am in the pc lab on campus.

anyway on subject have you tired opera on os 9?