A few weeks ago, I did something crazy and shelled out 50 Euros for a G3 iMac. It was a 333Mhz G3 iMac with 96MB of RAM. It came with a copy of MacOS 9-- and that was what I bought it for. I wanted to experience first hand what OS9 was like. I did not expect I'd use the machine much. However, I was in for a rather pleasant surprise. Note: Read more on the meta blog about the new Sunday eve column!
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That must be a typo. Mozilla 1.3.1, AFAIK, did not exist (publicly at least) for Mac OS 9.
Slow is a subjective term. However you put it, though, IE flied compared to Mozilla 1.2.1, the last build I knew for OS9, and considering the alternatives by the time, the former was a fairly good browser. If you got used to its speed, switching to Mozilla was simply unbearable (note: wether or not its rendering speed was faster than IE's did not really matter if you did not have a powerful enough machine for Mozilla, being the resource hog it was, to feel at ease, and an iMac G3 333MHz with 96 MB of RAM surely was not).
BTW, I am not sure that yours is a reply to my message. I did not state that Mozilla crashed (I could not know, since, as I said, could not stand it feeling like a resource hog and did not use it very often).
Edited 2006-02-15 20:47
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2005-09-17
I think there were some excellent Mozilla builds for 9, if I remember correctly. Stable and fast.
Fast? Mozilla 1.2.1, the last build for OS 9 was a mandatory to have app, just because the next browser any decent at rendering web pages was Internet Explorer (which was heaven at that compared to its main competitor, Netscape 4, which should have never existed).
However, no one in their right mind would choose Mozilla over IE on their daily browsing basis. IE was fast, and considering the alternatives, quite standards compliant. Mozilla beat it on the latter, but crawled like shit compared to whatever other OS 9 app you can think of.