Does anybody know of a decent browser for Mac OS 9?

April 28, 2004 1:25 PM

Does anybody know of a decent browser for Mac OS 9? I'm stuck on it at work, using an unofficial hack of Mozilla 1.3.1, and I'm getting left behind.

It's miles better than IE 5, granted, but it's crashed a few times on gmail (which is in beta, granted) and there are other bugs in this release that I know will never be fixed. Are there other secret projects to keep Mozilla running on 9 that I don't know about, or anything bubbling along under the radar?

Developers really hate OS 9 now, don't they? I can't even find a decent RSS reader.

posted by bonaldi to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

There's iCab, and I believe Opera 6 runs on OS9 as well. iCab is a little bit long in the tooth, and Opera 6 isn't the latest thing either, but they both have decent support for web standards. It's worth a shot if IE5 and a funky Mozilla hack aren't keeping you happy.
posted by zsazsa at 1:36 PM on April 28, 2004

I believe that Netscape 7.x is available for Mac OS 9. Try here... it autodetected OS X for me, so should do the same for anyone under OS 9, I'd guess.
posted by weston at 2:31 PM on April 28, 2004

Netscape 7.1 is only available for 10.1+ on the Mac (system requirements).

I still use IE 5.1.6 on my OS 9 and it works ok for the most part. But I too would like to find out the best OS 9 browser. How much better is Mozilla 1.3.1?
posted by gluechunk at 3:03 PM on April 28, 2004

Icab was my fav when i was still on 9...at work we use Explorer and Netscape (6, i think) on 9--feh and feh.
posted by amberglow at 4:03 PM on April 28, 2004

Response by poster: Mozilla 1.3.1 is *miles* better than IE, really miles. There's the speed difference, which is more than noticeable, and the stability helps. It'll take months for bugs to become irritating ;)

Get it here

I'm off to check out icab/Opera.
posted by bonaldi at 2:47 AM on April 29, 2004

By the way, I don't think developers *hate* OS9 as much as OSX is much easier to dev for, esp with newer technologies like RSS readers and web browsing.

For example, I can build a browser without writing any code on OSX, but I wouldn't know where to start on OS9.
posted by jragon at 9:42 AM on April 29, 2004