George Szirtes complained recently of PooterGeek looking even weirder than usual on his old Mac. This was fixed by installing the free version of this Web browser. It also improved his experience of various other sites compared with the way they looked under Internet Explorer—not surprising given that IE is software written by bum-heads.
23Mar06 — 3
Just about any G4 should be capable of running Mac OS X 10.2, which is the minimum requirement for running the sainted Firefox (or, indeed, Apple’s Safari). Though I’m no longer its owner, my ’99 G4 is apparently still going strong, and uses either one or both of those excellent browsers.
No doubt iCab works too, but it’s a bit of a blast from the past (I used it many years ago) … still, rather that than the decrepit IE5, which is totally incapable of dealing with today’s funky blog templates.
On the other hand, Geek, the comment box in iCab is e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y slow and won’t actually post my deathless prose. Mind you, I do work on a Mac G4 with an ancient OS9.1, which might be a reason.
I find I have to read you on iCab but comment on IE.
PooterGeek looks significantly better on my G4 running Tiger and Safari than it does on my work PC running Internet Explorer.
But that’s what I’d have expected – and indeed hoped.