Mac GUI City :: New internet browser for Mac-classic and OS9!

GGoi · **Citizen** Topic Starter

On juli 1 a newly developed web-browser for the classic OS9 came available:

Classilla is a free, open source browser for Mac OS 9*
Classilla is bringing back web browser support to your classic Macintosh -- built on WaMCom, a port of Mozilla to classic Macintosh systems, using the same technology underpinning the popular Firefox browser. It's completely free and it's open source, and it's standards-compliant. Use it without cost or restriction; or, if you've got the skills, hack it and make it your own. Classilla brings your wonderful old Power Macintoshes back to life and back online.

Here's a direct link to the download&support site:
http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/

cactus · **Citizen**

Wonder if I could get it to work inside Sheep Shaver ... not because I need to, just for the hell of it. Cool

Dog Cow · **Mayor**

Nice to see you're back, GGoi! :)

Yes, I was reading a web page on this new browser just yesterday. It's nice to see that older systems are still be thought of.

WatchSmart · **Citizen**

Actually, it runs great in SheepShaver!

http://www.emaculation.com/sheepshaver/classilla2.png

Tabs!

Dog Cow · **Mayor**

WatchSmart wrote:

Quote: Actually, it runs great in SheepShaver!

http://www.emaculation.com/sheepshaver/classilla2.png

Tabs!

Ah, very nice!

I wonder: is it compatible with many newer sites? What about plugins, such as Flash or QuickTime?

WatchSmart · **Citizen**

Well, there have been some reports on the Google forum for Classilla of Flash working. But I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. I'll be looking for instructions, however!

It loads new pages really, really well. Java is disabled by default because it can be crashy, but otherwise it works great. And, frankly, you can turn on Java and not crash TOO many pages.

Big screenshot:

http://www.emaculation.com/sheepshaver/classilla1.png

With the classic Netscape skin:

http://www.emaculation.com/sheepshaver/classilla3.png

cactus · **Citizen**

Got it to run in Sheep Shaver (OS 8.6) without fuss.

Connecting to the outside world is another matter. I need to boot up my OS 9 machine and study the settings.

Dog Cow · **Mayor**

I'm slightly jealous of you people running Sheep Shaver. I've had it for months and it always crashes on my Intel Mac mini-- I've never gotten the emulated Mac to boot. Crying or Very sad

WatchSmart · **Citizen**

Hey Dog Cow, I have some documentation on my site that might help:

http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup

We've also got a really busy forum dedicated only to SheepShaver. You can do it! It's fun and easy...

Cactus,

If you are using SheepShaver in OS X, getting online is really easy. Just a couple of clicks. Scroll all the way down to the bottom for the (one line) instructions:

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/shee...etworking#macos_x

Dog Cow · **Mayor**

Ah, you know what? I've had an old version of SheepShaver and I never upgraded it. I think that's what the problem is. I looked at the web site and it had some newer stuff on it.

cactus · **Citizen**

I too had a lot of problems with SheepShaver crashing until I went through the documentation mentioned by WatchSmart. The instructions on the SheepShaver site didn't do it for me.

WatchSmart · **Citizen**

The SheepShaver site is out of date. The documentation there isn't all that great, and actually the version of SheepShaver available there has a lot of serious bugs. I'd recommend NOT using it.

The developer stopped working on it some years ago

People on the E-Maculation site have been improving it for the last couple of years. The most recent version is right here:

http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?...=asc&start=50

It is from a few weeks ago.

cactus · **Citizen**

Splendid ! I've just downloaded the latest version.
Can't believe how small it is.
Good to have a manual on my own machine for reference.

I wish I had an open version of OS9.
The only non-machine specific OS in my collection is OS 8.6 although that was quite a nice incarnation of the Mac OS in its day.

WatchSmart · **Citizen**

I like 8.6 a lot. That's what I use, exclusively, in SheepShaver. Does the trick for me!

I think that OS user interface design has gotten progressively worse over the years. Mac OS 9 is nicer than Mac OS X. But System 7 is better than Mac OS 9.

XP is better than Vista. But 2000 is better than XP.

So it goes...

jamie-jamie · **Citizen**

I've been using Classilla as pretty much my only browser for over a month now. I can't wait for the 9.0.4 release in November.

I'm a writer and I ditched all my newer computers to use my old Macs and 9.2.2. Well... 8.6 on my Powerbook 3400 and Power Mac 6500.

Seriously, best OS ever.