on 2/7/02 01:30, Bill Jurgenson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are many alternatives (is Netscape an alternative to anything?) to > NS, including IE 5.1 which I have to admit works well and is as free a > NS. Then there is Opera which has its proponents (tho I'm not fond of it > and then there is Mozilla which is free, > Under X, IE, iCab and Mozilla offer all you could want.
Under OS X OmniWeb does renders the most readable pages of any browser on any platform. It's a bit limited in other respects (JavaScript is weak; doesn't always handle secure connections well (could be a JavaScript limitation)). If iCab and OmniWeb could come together they'd have a browser that'd beat the pants off IE 5.1. Opera on OS X isn't that smooth (at least, the last version I tried) and rather crash-prone. Opera for OS 8/9 is fairly decent though it too doesn't support as many web pages as IE 5.1 or NS 4.7 (& even 6.2 (just too buggy)). Mozilla is about as crash-prone as NS 6.x under OS X. The only viable OS X browsers (IMNSHO) are IE 5.1, iCab Preview (AWESOME), and OmniWeb. I expect Opera to stabilise pretty soon & unfortunately NS and Mozilla are too buggy (and BLOATED) to be worth running for more than a few minutes at a time (my opinion... I'd still like to see an objective comparison of stability between the browsers). For OS 7/8/9 PPC my vote for viable browsers has to go to IE 5.1 (for >100 MHz PPCs), iCab Preview (ESPECIALLY on slower PPCs and with a 1 or 2 MB RAM disk for the cache), Netscape 4.7 (faster PPCs/newer OS), NS 4.08 (slower PPCs/older OS). For OS 7/8 68K iCab Preview wins hands down; there's not a browser that can touch it. A distant second is NS 4.08 which works, and actually does secure sites (Apple hasn't made the SSL plug-in for 68K) but is BLOATED compared to iCab (it's amazing, iCab is a 2002 app yet it's a fraction of the size of NS and makes much better use of the RAM). PS for those of you with older PPCs or newer 68Ks, you can speed up iCab quite a bit by using a 1 or 2 MB RAM disk for the cache. I find my 6100/66 with 40 MB RAM and a 28.8 connection to be adequate for iCab surfing with a 2 MB RAM disk (& I'm used to a G3/450 hooked up to the web through a 10 BaseT connection to a T3 ;). http://www.icab.de http://www.omniweb.com http://www.opera.com Eric. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.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/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
