Hello,

--- On Sun, 1/20/13, Chris Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:

> G4 with os9 already installed within osx. These dual boots
> are pretty prevalent on eBay. The downside is you are
> prevented from upgrading the osx past 10.3.9. I haven't
> found anyone who's figured it out. This really makes using
> the Internet tough since browsers have advanced requiring
> the higher OS versions. 

Unless, of course, someone was kind enough to take the time and trouble to 
write and maintain a browser for OS 9 (8.6 is actually the recommended minimum 
OS) that could cope with the modern Web. :D

http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/releases/

Please be sure to read all the installation and release notes before you 
install it.  Just as it says on the page, the latest version of Classilla is 
still considered alpha-quality software (so caveat downloader).

That said, the more people who make use of Classilla, the more incentive the 
developer (and friends) will have to maintain it and the more webmasters will 
be more inclined to make sure their pages render correctly in it:

http://www.transcorp.com/v4/images/classilla-badge.jpg

Version 9.3.2 (released just a couple of weeks ago) is the tenth release of 
Classilla.  If anyone reading this hasn't tried it already, please believe me 
when I tell you that it helps to give relatively slow G3 machines a new lease 
on life when it comes to surfing the modern web.

If you try Classilla and like it, please consider shooting the developer an 
email via the floodgap.com site letting him know how much you appreciate the 
time and effort he and the other programmers have put into writing and 
maintaining Classilla.  

As you can probably guess, keeping Classilla going (the next version, 9.3.3, 
has an ETA of Q2 of this year) requires a Herculean effort since it is written 
and maintained by a fairly small (and unpaid) group of people.


Best,

James Fraser


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