Re: Browser suggestions for Quadra 605?

[finnanhaddie@sympatico.ca.spamstopper (Douglas Taylor)]

Byron Desnoyers Winmill <wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:

> Ernest (ernestls@home.com) wrote:
> : Hey, I just picked up a Quadra 605 with 32megs of RAM to put my IIe card in,
> : and I'm planning to link it to my @home connection. I've added a ProDos
> : partition that I'll use to store downloaded A2 disk images on. The only
> : annoying part is that I can't use the Ethernet card and the IIe card at the
> : same time since there is only one slot. Even so, I'm hoping that this set up
> : will work better than the cumbersome file transfer method between my PC and
> : IIe.
> 
> : Does anyone have any suggestions on which net browser I should use on the
> : 605? I haven't touched a Mac since 1996 so I'm open to suggestions.
> 
> I would suggest Netscape 2 or 3, since they will provide the least hassle
> while defining Apple II file types.  Use iCab if you want something which
> is reasonably modern, but it needs a third party extension (Internet Config)
> to handle file types.  Most newer browsers will not run on your new Mac
> (Netscape 4.05, and later, wants (the non-free System 7.6; after 4.5, IE was
> PPC only -- particularly troublesome since Microsoft won't distribute old
> versions).
> 
> Granted, if you are just transfering disk images, it may be easier to use
> ADT (or MacADT).  In combination with IIe (an emulator), you won't have to
> swap out that ethernet card.
> 
> Byron.


If you need a newer browser, I'd suggest Netscape Navigator 4.05 on a
Q605.  I find 4.05 to be considerably faster than Netscape 3.x.
Netscape 2.x is very fast on a Quadra, but is lacking in many features.

Byron's right, 4.05 wants OS 7.6 or later, but if you ignore the
complaints from Navigator's installer and do a Custom Install it will
work fine. Do a 68K install to conserve drive space.

When surfing, be sure you have 32-bit addressing turned on, or else
performance will suffer.

Good luck,
Doug

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