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Article #49Re: Helping a friend with their imac: installing software??
From: Mike Dee
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:09
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:09
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spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote in news:41b2eff3@quokka.wn.com.au: >> spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote: >> >>>The imac is running OS 8.6 and a lot of webpages are not >>>displaying properly on the old web browsers that are installed. > > Thanks. I'm going to update her netscape to 7.02, as just about > anything is better with modern sites than netscape 4.x. I think > I'll *try* to import her mail and address book from the old > outlook express into netscape so she doesn't have to keep fiddling > with multiple programs, but then again, I might just leave well > enough alone. The old outlook express she's using seems to suit > her well enough. It's the browsers that are VERY problematic. Try WaMCom (unofficial Mozilla 1.3.1) It's the very final Mozilla to run on "Classic" Mac OS 8.6 and 9.x <http://www.wamcom.org/latest-131/> I use it on my G3 [MacOS 8.6] and find that it's great, has all the regular Moz features - no popups, highly configurable etc. -- _/_ _ (/(-(-
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From: Mike Dee <emteedee@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Helping a friend with their imac: installing software??
Date: 6 Dec 2004 03:09:31 GMT
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