On 3 Nov 2004, at 6:48 pm, Kathleen E. Lawrence wrote:
What are your opinions for best browser for 9.2.2 using iMac DV SE graphite
w/512 ram
OS9 users aren't spoilt for choice.
Mozilla: standards-compliant, does CSS properly, has tabs. Ugly (you can download "themes", but I've yet to see a pleasing one). Crashes a bit too often IME. Takes an age to launch on my iMac - nearly 30 seconds - but I only have 96MB RAM.
Netscape is just Mozilla in different wrapping, as far as I can see.
iCab: I used to like this a lot. It's image filtering is very customisable, allowing you to block imges by size and by URL to kill banner ads, and it had pop-up blocking before anything else did. Tabbed browsing. Unfortunately it doesn't (yet) get CSS level 2, so the increasing number of sites that use CSS for layout don't look right. A final release with CSS support has been pending for ages.
Internet Explorer: I find it slow. No tabs, no pop-up blocking, no point.
I haven't tried Opera 6. I tried an earlier version, but decided not to pay for it and deleted the ad-supported version. Anyone using v.6?
I do most of my browsing on another machine with OS X, but iCab is still the default browser on my OS 9 iMac. It's worth a try, IMO.
Miche.
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