Thanks everyone, I'll download icab tonight and give it a whirl. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Kersting Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:24 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Best browser for an old Mac OS 8 machine?
Bill's right, iCab may be your best bet. I still operate with OS8.6 at the office. Netscape 4.8, though not blazingly fast, still gives me good results. I also use Mozilla 1.3.1 and, as much as it pains me to admit it, I often have to go to IE occasionally since it handles complicated Java better than Netscape with 8.x. Bear in mind, none of these will be speed demons on your machine. And with your low memory situation, Mozilla will probably choke it to death. Netscape 4.8 will be a bit better, but it's still a lumbering slug. Once again, with it's low memory requirements, iCab comes to the rescue. However, you should max the RAM out at least to give yourself some breathing room. The 5200 can be maxed to 64 megs. If you can find a faster hard drive, that will help a bit also. On the good side, if it ever does go belly up, the 5200 has got one of the great "death chimes." rob Rex Baldazo wrote: >So I finally got around to wiping the old PowerMac I picked up from the >swap meet, and doing an install from the OS 8 CD that I also got at the >swap meet (thanks!) > >Unfortunately the Netscape 3 browser that came with OS 8 is really slow. >Slow to start up, slow at loading pages, just really really slow. Not >certain if it's the hardware (a PowerMac 5200/75 with 32 MB of RAM) or >what. But I'm hoping there's a way to get a faster browser onto this >machine. I noticed the Netscape site does have downloads of more >recent browsers--anyone have opinions on whether a more recent rev >would be any faster on this old PowerMac? Are there any other good >alternatives for an old OS 8 machine besides a Netscape browser? > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be February >| 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >| List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be February | 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
