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Free/Lightweight Browser for MacOS 8?

Nick Ryder

Fleet Captain
Fleet Captain
Hiya

Well, I'm trying to bring my ooooooooold PowerBook 3400c back from the Purgatory of computers, my closet. I know from an experience I had with my graphite iMacDV that OS 8/9 and the old Apple port of MS IE won't work now. So what I'm looking for is a free browser that will work with most websites now (things with flash and such) since I couldn't even get AOL's homepage to check my e-mail on it 'browser not supported'

Its only a 133mhz processor with 128 megs of Ram and a 1 gig hard drive with like 400 megs free. So I can't run gobs and gobs of stuff but is there a browser that's 'current' but would work with MacOS 8.6 I think it has. I can't upgrade it to OSX like I did with the iMac ...too old.

Any help would be appreciated, I mean it plays my MP3s but its kinda heavy to lug around to be an MP3 player LOL. Looking for something that will basically let me watch some YouTube vids, browse pretty much any website so I can mount it in my kitchen for my mom to use for looking up recipes and such.
 
I think Flash would kill that machine dead. It's a resource hog on modern processors, let alone a 133 MHz dinosaur. Heck, I don't think that you can even download a version of Flash for anything older than OS 9.

For the web, sans Flash, check this out: http://www.wamcom.org/latest-131/
 
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