[iBook] Clamshell Browser???

[Joe Sporleder]

I have had good luck with iCab on an old beige PowerMac G3 running  
Mac OS 9.x that I setup for my niece to use.

Joe

On Jun 2, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Mary H. wrote:

> At 12:37 PM -0500 6/2/06, Pat wrote:
>
>> I bought a clamshell for a friend and set it up for her.  She's a  
>> total computer illiterate and intends to leave it alone  
>> completely. I have her running OS 9.1 with Outlook Express and  
>> Internet Explorer and would like to change the browser to a more  
>> current one without making it any harder than I have to for her to  
>> get comfortable on it.  She's had perfect service on the machine  
>> and I see no reason to update her any other way.  What can I  
>> download for her to run on that system?
>
> Maybe have a look at a site for general info on Mac browsers:
> http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html
>
> where it says:
>
> "In no particular order, here are some browsers that work on Mac OS  
> 9: Opera, iCab, MS Internet Explorer, WannaBe (text only), MacLynx  
> (text only) Mozilla, WaMCom Mozilla, Wazilla, Netscape 6/7 (not  
> version 4!). Don't expect everything to work with specific web  
> pages or web sites.
> ... your best bet for a modern browser on older systems is iCab 3.0  
> which is now the browser I recommend on older systems."
>
> Note that the Mozilla group now also recommends iCab for OS 9 users:
> http://www.mozilla.org/download.html#os9
>
>  M