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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. Re:Who cares? by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seriously. I mean, when are they going to port Mozilla to the Commodore 64? Oh, there'll be cheers that day...

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  2. Re:Who cares? by the_humeister · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Are you out of your mind? The point other commenters are making is that a non-trivial number of folks, with an emphasis on schools and other educational institutions, have old hardware that runs Mac OS 9.

    Name me one school that still uses old Macs, especially ones in Mexico where the price disparity between a Mac and non-Mac computer is amplified.

    It might be that, in some abstract, general sense, Linux or BSD is more usable and stable than OS 9 (although I disagree), but the question is what's more usable on the hardware available to these folks.

    Can't really argue against someone who doesn't believe in facts. For example, Mac OS 9 did not have memory protection or preemptive multitasking. It crashed a lot. I know from experience.

    As somebody who spent too much time in college (computer science program, university known for computer science) trying to get linux to run on apple hardware of this era, I can assure you that getting other OSes to work is nigh-impossible,

    Then you obviously suck at installing free unixes on these machines. Any Mac with Openfirmware can have a free unix installed. It is trivial to install with new world Mac machines. There are some quirks with old world Macs. And that's about the range of hardware that Mac OS 9 will run on anyway.

    and that few, if any, of the institutions that are *still* using this hardware could realistically take that option. So this is great for those users.

    Again, name me one school that still uses old Mac hardware to any significant degree.