[G4] safari upgrade path & crash problem

[Doug McNutt]

>On 11/25/11, Doug McNutt <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote:
>> At 16:41 -0600 11/25/11, Tony Dabney wrote:
>>>I have G4/125GHz and finally figured out where and how to upgrade OS X
>>>10.1 to 10.3.9 and Safari 1.1 automatically upgraded to 1.3 (v312).
>>>I can't log into my bank and netflix says it does not support this
>>>(older) brouser.
>>>I can't seem to figure out what the upgrade path is and how to do it.
>>>Also to upgrede to a newer OS X 10.4 or whatever - is it free or a new
>>>OS X purchase and what Safari would it have included.
>>
>> It's likely to remain serious..  I'm using 10.3.9 so my SE/30 file server
>> can continue to work and that means Safari 1.3.2.  10.4 kills Classic OS
>> file servers by turning off AFP over ethernet.
>>
>> I haven't tried banking on the G4 recently but Google searches have stopped
>> working and that hurts.  For about 3 weeks Google has been  showing the
>> first search page for a few seconds and then manages to crash Safari.
>>
>> Firefox 2.0.xx is much better and might talk to your bank. Firefox 3 or so
>> running on my Ubuntu box is fine with my bank, credit cards, and broker.
>>

At 19:13 -0600 11/25/11, Tony Dabney wrote:
>I need OS 9 for older software that would be costly to replace and any
>old archives mat not open correctly. I have published a newspaper for
>around 200 months (20 years).
>
>Is it posibly to find safari 1.3.2 as a free download (or is that what
>v312 means)?  Mainly I don't want to try out a different brouser
>because I can't think clearly right now because I just lost my wife. I
>can use my G5 ot the office to do my banking and bill paying.
>
>I kinda remember useing Foxfire for a few days but decided safari came
>withthe mac so I try to use mac stuff as much as posible.
>

For OS 9 the only real option is Classilla
<http://www.classilla.org/releases/>

All versions of Safari are for OS 10.x.x

Firefox is pretty easy to use and, much as I agree that using Apple stuff on Apple machines makes sense . . . When the Apple stuff doesn't work try the open source offerings.

This comes from my OS 9.1 box which is an Apple 8500 with a Sonnet G3 upgrade. It's more of a workhorse than my G4.

Your banking issues just might be nothing more than the browser identifier line that is sent up with the first call to the bank.  It is possible to change that line but I donno how for Safari. Anyone know ??

Another option might be iCab which offers that change right up front.  iCab was my favorite until it moved to OS 10 and stopped supporting OS 9.  A lot of nice things got lost.

If you start with the Safari that came with OS 10.3 I'm pretty sure you can still upgrade to the most current version of that through the normal Apple channels.

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