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    os 9.2 best web browser?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by passive101, May 31, 2007.

  1. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    what is the best web browser for os 9.2? a friend gave me his ibook to look at and it wont even load a lot of pages with netscape that is on it.

    It is an ibook with not much ram. I think 160MB it says.
     
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    firefox is the best web browser for everyone. no joke.
     
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    does it work with mac os 9.2? I only saw os X listed for firefox 2.0 and 1.5
     
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    Rodster Merica

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    Believe it or not Internet Explorer 5.1 was the best web browser for Classic. Once Safari was released for OSX it replaced the need for IE.
     
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    Yes, IE 5.1.7 was really the best for OS 9.

    http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive70x.jsp

    If you want to stick with Netscape though you can scroll down to Netscape 7.02, select the language you want, and download the Mac PowerPC version. That will work on OS 9, and 7.02 was the last with pre-OS X support.

    http://www.icab.de/dl.php

    There is also iCab at version 3.03 (last updated August 2006) that supports all Mac OSs back to OS 8.5 and is probably one of the most recent ones still supported. Although I'm not sure how good it is.
     
    ltcommander_data, May 31, 2007
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