SillyDog701

[woodstockric]

I'm using a Macintosh G-3 PowerPC(biege) OS 9.2.2 - 266mhz
With Internet Explorer 5.1.7 and I was told by eBay that my
Browser needs to be updated
At the bottom of my emails it shows my Browser as (mosilla/4.0
compatable with IE 5.1.7) and I can't find anything in "updates"
that lists my Browser and OS..is this as far as I can GO?

Woodstock Ric

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.17; Mac_PowerPC)

[Antony]

Try Netscape 7.02 for OS 9.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) (CK-SillyDog)

[DJGM]

As far as versions of Internet Explorer go for your particular OS, you have reached the end of the line.

But, you can upgrade your browser to any of the following . . .

Netscape 7.02

Mozilla 1.2.1 (Official build)

Mozilla 1.3.1 (Unofficial build)

The last version of Netscape for Mac OS 9.x.x, was Netscape 7.02. Netscape 7.1 was for Mac OS X
only, and the forthcoming Netscape 7.2 will be also. The last official version of Mozilla, to be made
by mozilla.org for Mac OS 9.x.x was Mozilla 1.2.1. All official Mac versions of Mozilla since then are
for Mac OS X only. Meanwhile, there is an unofficial version of Mozilla 1.3.1 for Mac OS 9.x.x.
That is pretty much the latest browser you can get without upgrading to Mac OS X . . .

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[oscar_wonderboy]

What about Safari or compatible browsers for OS 9.2.2?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3

[DJGM]

Safari is strictly for Mac OS X only. The newest browsers available for Mac OS 9.x now, are
the ones I've explained in my earlier message. And even those are getting rather old now.

If you want to use the very latest internet browser on your Macintosh computer, then you
need to upgrade to Mac OS X, for which there are a wide range of web browsers available.

You might want to steer clear of IE 5.x for Mac though. Microsoft completely discon-
tinued all development of that browser for both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.x last year.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[Don_HH2K]

You might want to steer clear of IE 5.x for Mac though. Microsoft completely discon-
tinued all development of that browser for both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.x last year.

I would say to steer clear of IE altogether! If a PC's too old, I'd rather be running Netscape 4.8 than IE.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2

[DJGM]

You might want to steer clear of IE 5.x for Mac though. Microsoft completely discon-
tinued all development of that browser for both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.x last year.

I would say to steer clear of IE altogether!

In most cases, so would I. But, even though IE 5.x for Mac has effectively been rendered obsolete
by it's makers, it's still nowhere near as buggy and unsafe as it's god awful Windows counterpart!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[Don_HH2K]

Because of a lack of ActiveX support, I presume? Since I never used IE for Mac, I don't know if it has ActiveX support. Does it?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

[DJGM]

Because of a lack of ActiveX support, I presume? Since I never
used IE for Mac, I don't know if it has ActiveX support. Does it?

AFAIK, the Mac version of IE had very limited ActiveX support, if any.


And the reason Microsoft ditched IE 5.x for Macintosh? One word . . . Safari.

Surprisingly, Microsoft actually conceded (for once) that someone had made a
better browser than IE! Someone from Microsoft's Mac dept. even admitted it!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[Don_HH2K]

Either way, Safari is a much better browser than IE, although since my old Mac won't connect to my Lucent gateway I never used it at all. Since it uses KHTML, I can already see how a page looks in it by using Konqueror on my Linux machine, although that's very busy right now scanning Netscape's 11 main FTP servers.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)