Best web browser for an SE/30 w/64MB of RAM

#1 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 - 01:44 68kMLA

Suggestions please?

Thanks!!

#2 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 - 02:42 68kMLA

For System 7, I'd suggest this one: http://main.system7today.com/browsercentral.html

#3 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 - 13:56 68kMLA

netscape 4.8 requires mac os 7.6.1

Maximum os for the SE/30 : system 7.5.5

#4 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 - 23:01 68kMLA

Oops, sorry. You are absolutely right.

I'd say MS Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Communicator 4.0.8 then. Although I hate to admit it, I think MSIE is better than Netscape for that vintage.

#5 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 - 23:02 68kMLA

iCab 2.9.9 is nice also, but unbearably slow and unresponsive in my experience.

#6 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 - 07:00 68kMLA

All depends on what OS you are running. If you want fast, I'd say use a text-based browser such as Lynx. I am sure there must be some similar MacOS program. But as fast as it is, many pages won't render well.

For full graphical page rendering I second the choice of iCab. It was the most recently supported 68k browser that I am aware of. Otherwise there are old IE, Netscape, Mosaic, and others.

#7 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 - 13:27 68kMLA

7.5.5 And looking to mostly just use instapaper.com and edit/view a wiki. thanks

#8 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 - 14:48 68kMLA

If you want images of any sort, I'd say Netscape 3 on an SE/30, though there will be no support for modern standards such as CSS. On my old hardware I personally really like WannaBe, which is text-only but lightning fast. If the accessibility standards were universally applied (every site is supposed to have a workable text-only version for the visually impaired), WannaBe would actually be a viable browser for most old machines.

Cyberdog is also fun to see in action on something like a Quadra, but I don't think I would want to run it on an SE/30.

#9 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 - 18:51 68kMLA

Any screenshots of wannabe in action? Can you go to instapaper.com and let me know how it looks/acts? Thanks!