Firefox

[Mikuro]

Netscape was a beast. And I mean that in a bad way. It was huge, and ate up tons of RAM. Netscape 2 was nice. 3 was reasonably lean. 4 was bloated. And after that it was just a sad shadow of what it once was, in terms of speed, features, usability, and just about everything else. It was just Mozilla's uglier, dumber brother.

I miss iCab. I know iCab is still around, but....well, I miss when it was fast and modern. When it first came out, it smacked everything else around soooo hard. And it was small, too. It's still my browser of choice for OS 9 (and 7 and 8, for that matter!), with a third-party build of Mozilla (not up to date, but closer than the official one, at least) as my backup.

 

[nixgeek]

iCab 3.0 is available now for PPC systems running Classic Mac OS. I tested it out and it's pretty good, especially when rendering sites. However, even though the demand isn't that high, not that many people have a desperate need to upgrade to OS X. Some people are just fine with OS and below. For this reason I don't understand why someone hasn't taken up the task to port FF, or even the Mozilla Suite (which is going to live on as SeaMonkey) at the very least. It doesn't have to have EVERY little fix that comes out, but at least to update it so that security-wise it's up to snuff.