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Classilla, a New Port of Mozilla To Mac OS 9

Posted by timothy on from the old-ways-are-best dept.

oberondarksoul writes "Every now and then, you hear about a new port of Mozilla to one of the lesser-used platforms. Recently, a new version of Mozilla has been released for Mac OS 9 — an operating system no longer sold or supported, and with no new hardware available to buy. Dubbed Classilla, it aims to provide 'a modern web browser running again on classic Macs,' and the currently-released build seems to work well on my old PowerBook 1400 — despite being a little memory-hungry."

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  1. IIIGS by tepples · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe someone could port gecko to my System 6-based Apple IIGS?

    No, but Apple ported Safari to the IIIGS.

  2. Re:Does anyone even use classic anymore? by mdwh2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure that "robust" is a word I'd use for an OS lacking memory protection.

    As for only running a single app, the rest of the computing world moved away from that model in the 80s.

  3. What's old is new again - or maybe not by westlake · · Score: 3, Funny

    the currently-released build seems to work well on my old PowerBook 1400 -- despite being a little memory-hungry.

    Some things never change.

  4. Re:Not going back to OS 8/9 thank you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thank you, thank you. Amongst the worst operating systems ever. My roommate was a CS major and told me that his OS prof told the class that if someone turned in MacOS for their final project, he would fail them, because they clearly didn't understand how a modern operating system should work. This was in 1993.

  5. Great - when is the Atari 1040ste port? by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oh, but never mind - the processor is slower than the connection - the computer itself would be the bottleneck...

    :-/

    RS

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