>In my humble opinion, not that I'm extremly in hatred >of msn or anything.. but iCab is a whoop @ss, fast & >extremly customizable browser... so far I've been able >to do all my normal surfing on it, way faster without >a hitch,
Certainly don't want to start a browser war, since this is a PCI-Powermac list, but some observations based on my experience: Back when I had only 16 megs on my 7500, iCab was the fastest browser I could find (even compared to much much earlier versions of Netscape and the like). IE 5 was decent, but there was much swapping out. Experience was roughly the same with both 100 Mhz 601 and 200Mhz 604e configurations, with or without 512k cache. With OS 7.6.1, iCab was downright zippy, but under 8.1 and 8.6 it was markedly slower (because less memory was available). Now, with 256 megs, IE 5 zips along drastically faster than iCab or Netscape or Opera. I use it about 99% of the time now, except that it is much more unstable than iCab and Netscape. Particularly during downloads, rather than getting faster and faster as the download progresses like most ftp & http streams, it gets slower and slower. Ironically, this means anything larger than 5 or 6 megs is too large to download because it slows to a complete halt before the download finishes!!! Same appears to happen with really large web sites (Anyone else experience this? It's what my homies would call whack.) After it slows to a halt, it likes to be Cmd-Opt-Esc'ed, which then makes the whole system unstable. It was once said, "If cars were made by Microsoft..." I believe? I can't get Moz 1 to work in 8.6, which is a shame because we all know there ain't a whole lotta difference between 8.6 and 9.0. Anyone know of a way around this, or have Metroworks CW and some time to compile it natively under 8.6? I would play with it myself if I had Code Warrior (although I've never programmed on a Mac, just *nix). -- --Chris PM 7500/604e 200Mhz PM 4400/603ev 200Mhz 4 gig SCSI 2 gig IDE/12x CDROM 256 megs/512k cache 64 megs/256k cache OS 8.6 OS 8.6 (This machine rocks!) (This machine is being dumped.) -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Apple PCI Video Cards from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 Replacement Parts IN STOCK, Apple CDROMs from $19.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
