Best Browser for Mac?

[ray .]

A bit off topic, but I'm wondering what browser people use for Mac OS

9.2. I have IE 5.1, which works, but is slower than the outdated

Netscape 4.7.... Or would it be worthwhile to go to Mac 10 so as to

accomodate something else?

[._._z]

If you don't visit sites w/ CSS, look at iCab:

 

www.icab.de

 

It's got the best ad-blocking I've seen on any browser. Works in Os and OS X.

 

If you want a wicked-fast, text-only browser, look at WannaBe:

 

www.mindstory.com

 

It doesn't handle cookies, though.

 

Aside from those, I'd stick with Netscape. Better, upgrade to OS X if your system isn't too

old.

 

Better still, ask on a Mac-oriented site. Try looking around at

 

http://www.lowendmac.com/

[Brad_]

Ray, with respect to going to OS X, how fast is your Mac? If your Mac is older, say less

than 900 MHz, I'd stay with 9.2. I've been running OS X for about two years on three

machines - it hasn't crashed once. Where with 9.2 it seemed like a daily occurance...

 

I use Safari (comes with OS X) and like it tons better than IE. Built-in popup window

blocking, and the tabs feature lets you open a bunch of sites at once - then just click the

tabs to cycle through them. For example, with one click I can open 6 different news sites.

[._._z]

Safari is a dream. And Mike Solomon's

<u><A href = http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php>

PithHelmet</a></u> grafts itself onto Safari and gets rid of virtually all ads -- very

nice.

[charles_hohenstein]

Upgrading to OS X is a good idea in any case. You can always run your older

programs in classic mode.

 

Safari under OS X has worked better for me than any other browser I have tried. I tried

to support Netscape Navigator as an alternative to the evil Microsoft product for

several years, but Safari makes Netscape look clumsy.

 

Incidentally, I am running Mac OS 10.2.8 on a 350 MHz slot-loading iMac. Someone

implied above that one has to have a faster machine to upgrade to OS X, but I have

not found that to be true.

[mark_h2]

For OS 9, check our WaMCom. It's basically an older version Mozilla with patches from the newer, OS X only, versions. I find it faster than either IE 5.1 or NS 4.7.

 

For more information and to download it, head over to

 

http://www.wamcom.org/

 

Mark

[gary_a._hill]

Opera. I switched to Opera because upgrading Netscape would require a change to OS X, but I still keep the last version of Netscape which runs on 9.2 as an alternative.