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Cut a few MB off the memory allocation. They set it to be pretty large.
And it has now been made known to the unwashed masses. 
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/220216/Classilla-a-New-Port-of-Mozilla-To-Mac-OS-9
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/220216/Classilla-a-New-Port-of-Mozilla-To-Mac-OS-9
Works fairly well for me on my Powerbook 1400cs with a 233 G3 upgrade and 64MB RAM. I have Classizilla set at 45MB and it works great. Better than iCab in speed.
Right now though I am posting with Netscape 3.01 just for fun. Rather speedy without Javascript
Right now though I am posting with Netscape 3.01 just for fun. Rather speedy without Javascript
Did you sign up here solely for the purpose of typing that?
I just downloaded Classilla today but haven't really played with it much. The system I'm using with it is an iBook G3 300MHz with OS 9.1 and 192MB RAM (all physical RAM, 136MB is usually available on a fresh restart).
My observations so far:
1. It doesn't seem to come with Javascript plugins so I'll have to install those manually.
2. It's not fast but isn't too slow either. IE 5 still wins for speed but the interface of Classilla seems to be better.
3. The only site I have tried so far is Facebook. It worked but didn't display "normally"--a few things were missing, many big spaces existed, and there were some problems with text display. My initial blame is on the 800 x 600 resolution of the screen but it could be something browser-related (if anyone else has tried Facebook on this browser please let me know how your experiences were).
Tomorrow I will be trying Bing, MLB Gameday, KDKA-TV news videos, and my personal website. I'll also get some plugins so these sites will be able to work.
I'm also hoping an FTP client will become available for this browser. I use FireFTP to update my website and am pleased with it and would love to see something compatible with Classilla in case I want to store something on the site from my old iBook (namely photos and MS Access databases, since the iBook is my Photoshop Elements machine and is also my Office 2000 computer via Virtual PC). (I'm not really a huge fan of Access but use it for the sake of compatibility with PC users, who haven't really adopted FileMaker).
My observations so far:
1. It doesn't seem to come with Javascript plugins so I'll have to install those manually.
2. It's not fast but isn't too slow either. IE 5 still wins for speed but the interface of Classilla seems to be better.
3. The only site I have tried so far is Facebook. It worked but didn't display "normally"--a few things were missing, many big spaces existed, and there were some problems with text display. My initial blame is on the 800 x 600 resolution of the screen but it could be something browser-related (if anyone else has tried Facebook on this browser please let me know how your experiences were).
Tomorrow I will be trying Bing, MLB Gameday, KDKA-TV news videos, and my personal website. I'll also get some plugins so these sites will be able to work.
I'm also hoping an FTP client will become available for this browser. I use FireFTP to update my website and am pleased with it and would love to see something compatible with Classilla in case I want to store something on the site from my old iBook (namely photos and MS Access databases, since the iBook is my Photoshop Elements machine and is also my Office 2000 computer via Virtual PC). (I'm not really a huge fan of Access but use it for the sake of compatibility with PC users, who haven't really adopted FileMaker).
Try using the mobile version of Facebook - it renders well on iCab.
Just a heads-up: Classilla 9.0.4 (assuming I don't have a total meltdown and my MDD build system is still chugging) should be out November 1st. This is not a huge leap forward but there are still some significant layout, JavaScript and security updates. However, I'm being bitten by a serious deficiency in the repaint code for OS 9 in Mozilla which was never fixed xx( (I have a test case for the interested which will work fine on OS X 1.3.1, but not OS 9 1.3.1, Classilla or WaMCom), and this kiboshed a big layout update I was hoping to land. I haven't figured this out yet, and I don't want to delay the release until I do, so I'm shipping the old layout engine with some fixups -- more on that later. One of those fixups is for this very site, and while it doesn't fix the rendering 100%, it makes it useable.
And, I do have an on-topic surprise for you guys which I successfully got to build on my PowerBook. Now to update it to its latest source (about 25% done) and then I'll have done my part for the 68K community It's not Classilla, but I think you'll enjoy it. 
(Oh: this post was done with 9.0.4, natch. Eating my dog food.)
And, I do have an on-topic surprise for you guys which I successfully got to build on my PowerBook. Now to update it to its latest source (about 25% done) and then I'll have done my part for the 68K community
It's not Classilla, but I think you'll enjoy it. (Oh: this post was done with 9.0.4, natch. Eating my dog food.)
A/UX 4? Cyberdog 3? Port of After Dark to OS X?And, I do have an on-topic surprise for you guys which I successfully got to build on my PowerBook. Now to update it to its latest source (about 25% done) and then I'll have done my part for the 68K community
FWIW, I still think you're crazy. It's a good crazy, but crazy nonetheless.
A/UX 4? Hah! I wish! (No, seriously, I wish. My Iici would find that fun, even though it has 3.1 and MacMiNT to keep it occupied.)
Thanks for the hard work and devotion, Classichasclass.
I'm very much looking forward to the new version. And also to the mysterious bonus for 68K users...
I'm very much looking forward to the new version. And also to the mysterious bonus for 68K users...
Okay, I have nothing more to add to it before shipping, so I'm shipping it.
The consolation prize for layout, since I can't solve that update bug yet, is the fixup renderer. In fact, with fixups on, while 68Kmla may appear weird, it is now totally useable and everything shows up. Even in its base mode without fixups on things still look a lot better. But I really, really want to get the overflow branch added back into Classilla because it renders this site 100% plus a lot of others -- but it ruins too many others to be useable until I fix that problem. >
Try surfing here with and without fixups: Cmd-Shift-X toggles.
Anyway, enjoy. I got about 50% done on my secret 68K project, too. A few more weekends and I should have something for you to play with.
www.classilla.org
The consolation prize for layout, since I can't solve that update bug yet, is the fixup renderer. In fact, with fixups on, while 68Kmla may appear weird, it is now totally useable and everything shows up. Even in its base mode without fixups on things still look a lot better. But I really, really want to get the overflow branch added back into Classilla because it renders this site 100% plus a lot of others -- but it ruins too many others to be useable until I fix that problem. >
Try surfing here with and without fixups: Cmd-Shift-X toggles.
Anyway, enjoy. I got about 50% done on my secret 68K project, too. A few more weekends and I should have something for you to play with.
www.classilla.org
Gah, it seems the BinHex wrapper tripped a bug in StuffIt Expander. There is now a "double-compressed" version that works around this problem.