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Web Browser, e-Mail Client options for Classic?
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I have a Power Mac 8600, upgraded to a 400 Mhz. G3 a few years ago. The 8600 is used primarily for word processing, web browsing, and to check e-Mail. It is running Mac OS 9. The word processing is covered by AppleWorks, and I am happy with that. iCab is being used for web browsing. Eudora is being used as the e-Mail client. However, I have encountered too many problems with iCab recently and Eudora is really not to my liking. I suppose that I am simply used to all the features of Mail.app on Mac OS X.
But, what other options do I have as far as web browsers and e-Mail clients on Mac OS 9? I remember I once installed Mozilla on the machine and it slowed to a crawl. It was a horrible experience. I suppose it simply lacks the horsepower to execute such demanding code. But that can't be all that's out there for Mac OS 9, can it?
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I would 100% recommend Outlook Express for email and Internet Explorer for web browsing.
For machines running OS 9 at that speed, OE and IE are easily best of their class. It was (IMHO) the time that MS made their best Mac software.
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Originally Posted by PurpleGiant
I would 100% recommend Outlook Express for email and Internet Explorer for web browsing.
For machines running OS 9 at that speed, OE and IE are easily best of their class. It was (IMHO) the time that MS made their best Mac software.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't doubt that it was good software, however maybe I should have specified non-MS software. For the years of browser darkness, I stuck it out with Netscape to avoid using anything M$. I also used iCab for a while as my co-browser, until finally bright days came along once again with Safari, Firefox and Mail.app.
So, I appreciate your suggestion, and I'm sure you're right about the software, on a practical level, but I refused to use M$ software then, and there's no way I'm going to use it now.
This brings me to another related question-- which would be a more up to date/capable browser-- an old Classic Netscape version or the latest version of iCab?
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iCab, for all its weirdness, should be more capable than Netscape 4. It's even got tabbed browsing.
Don't know about e-mail clients, though. Probably best just to search VersionTracker and see what's rated well.
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What Mozilla did you try? Some of the early releases were very very bad with the slowdowns but the last version for OS 9 (is it 1.2.1 I think...) is actually pretty good.
and shouldn't this have been put in the applications forum??
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Originally Posted by Mr. Blur
and shouldn't this have been put in the applications forum??
hmm... I guess you're right. I suppose I was just thinking "Classic Mac OS" and posted here instead... sorry about that.
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Netscape 7 runs under OS 9 as well, and it tends to be my preferred browser whenever I have to reboot in OS 9, but I can't speak for how it'll handle with your older computer. The latest version of IE available for OS 9 (IE 5.1.9, I think...or maybe 5.2.1) is loaded with bugs that, in my opinion, make it nearly unusable, so I commend you for avoiding it.
As far as e-mail...I always did use Outlook Express back when I still did e-mail on OS 9. Why not just switch to GMail and avoid having to have an application at all? 
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Any computer not capable of running OS X will not be able to run Netscape 7 on OS 9 acceptably. It was an absolute dog.
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I could be 100% wrong, but IIRC there where some builds (unofficial) of a newer branch of Mozilla for Mac OS 9 (1.3 I think). Then the project died.
If that's right, you should have both e-mail and browsing covered.
EDIT, I was right !
http://www.wamcom.org/
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Originally Posted by Sarc
I could be 100% wrong, but IIRC there where some builds (unofficial) of a newer branch of Mozilla for Mac OS 9 (1.3 I think). Then the project died.
If that's right, you should have both e-mail and browsing covered.
EDIT, I was right !
http://www.wamcom.org/
You also missed me posting the same thing yesterday.
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