At 5:23 AM -0700 on 4/11/01, "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>iCab is wonderful!
Yes, it *is*, when it is working! That's what makes it all the harder to
swallow.
>I am using v2.4 on my 2300. This may be obvious, but have you tried
>increasing icabs memory?
>This should help stability quite a lot.
Thanks for your efforts, but this doesn't help. It's the 68040 version
that's problematic, not the PPC version that you're using. I've received
enough responses now to suggest there's a real problem with the 680x0
version with no obvious fix. In my case the problem renders iCab almost
unusable, since it always quits within at most 5 minutes of starting up
(for me).
For those counting, that leaves just Explorer, Netscape, Wannabe and Lynx
for surfing on 68040 machines, as far as I know. Explorer has problems
with scripting and expired security certificates, so you can't do https.
Netscape appears to work fine (for me) and is robust but v-e-r-y v-e-r-y
s-l-o-w. Wannabe is said to be great (I haven't used it much) but is
text-only --- which would be perfect if so many sites weren't unusable in
text-only. Lynx is also text-only, and also AFAIK only an old and dated
beta version is available.
Opera claims they'll release a 680x0 version *after* they complete an OS X
version. Since it's now been more than 3 years since they started on a
standard PPC MacOS version, I'm not expecting to live long enough to see a
beta of Opera 680X0.
I'm thinking my perfectly sweet and mint Duo 280c may be destined for the
dust bin a bit earlier than I had imagined!
Jeff
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