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Old May 18th, 2008, 11:04 AM
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iCab 2 is great for older computers. iCab 3 is awfully slow, but has much better support for new web features (most notably CSS2) than version 2. Personally I recommend iCab 2. It's the leanest browser available for OS 9. Load time, RAM usage and general speed are much better than Mozilla, Netscape or IE, in my experience.

Netscape 3 was fairly lean, as well, but it's not as advanced as iCab, and it may be hard to find these days.

The most modern browser for OS 9 is Mozilla. If you search mozilla.org, you can find an unofficial build for OS 9 that's based on a more recent version of Mozilla than the official one. I used that for a while alongside iCab 2. Running it with 32MB of RAM might be pushing the limit, though; Mozilla is a memory hog.
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