On Monday 27 June 2005 11:53, James W. Greenidge wrote: > Greetings! > > This is a shot in the dark toward you Mac mavens, but here goes: > > I'm dusting off my old trusty cool (in many ways) 32meg OS 8.1 PowerBook > 190 to sub for my toasty eMac during NYC's broiling non-A/C and brownout > days and I'm trying to install a decent browser. I've rounded up IE 4.01, > Netscape 4.08, and with high hopes iCab 2.9.8 -- a CUTTING EDGE! browser > for ancient 68040 machines -- Hallelujah! > > However my bubble burst when I discovered that iCab starts gobbling memory > right out of the gate, and after a few minutes virtually jams my PB to a > standstill from hogging out my memory. Though I killed the load images > options and set the cache to zero, iCab keeps on swelling. My poor cousin > alternatives aren't much better; Netscape keeps slamming me with "expired > certificate" alerts every five pages I go, frustration and delay making it > almost unusable, and IE won't log into .Mac for the same balking > certificate reason. For right now I'm going with IE with a 350k disk cache > which helps crawl it along, but I sure wish I had a way to kill all these > certificate thingies or an older 68040 version of iCab which won't date > expire! > > Any suggestions will be much appreciated!! > > JimWG
Well, here's my two cents worth. I really like iCab on my 190, but, for me, it's the only option that works decently with 7.5.2, but that's me. I haven't touched an OS 8 machine in years, so I really don't know what would be best, but I'll tell you, right now, that I'd stay away from IE. That's just my two cents, but the reason I went to Linux, and bought my 190 is to escape Microsoft. Of course, Word 5.1a being the exception, but that's the only MS product I trust to function properly. I know the bias shows, but that's just me. You neglected to mention how much RAM you have in your 190. RAM, as you probably know, is a precious resource in older PowerBooks, and with OS 8, you're looking at a real RAM hog, considering the machine in question. I'd try going to OS 7.5.5, or 7.6.1, before doing anything, but that's my two cents. Caleb -- Rei: PowerBook 190, Mac OS 7.5.2 Setsuna: HP Pavilion a520n, SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
