http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~harunaga/mozilla-macos9/mozilla-macos9-1.3.1.se
a.bin
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.jp/wazilla/4701/wazilla-macos9-1.3f-7.sea.bin
-David
- Thanks for the insight David. Valuable information to
have.
Charles
Glad to See Good Mention of iCab
From Cary McKeown
I was pleased to see iCab
get some well deserved respect in your site's recent postings re IE
and other Mac browsers. Also nice to see I'm not the only one
disgusted with the pathetic anemic excuses other browsers for
download managers and the typical lack of save as options and
offline browsing support.
I know it's not perfect and in particular needs a massive update
to its standards support, but it's still my favorite browser.
Camino,
Safari, and
FireFox
all have their good points, but nothing that gets them past second
place for me. And when it comes to user interface, they all need to
be "more like iCab, less like Aqua" as I've told them.
Third place, for its compatibility with MSTCPIP and MSHTML.
etc., though I haven't used it in maybe a year or more, IE.
After their previous Mac beta, Opera needs to make a big splash
before I'll bother trying the new version.
OmniWeb
needs to get the Mac and put Aqua and NeXTstep behind it. Looked at
narrowly enough, it's probably the best overall in it's combination
of features and interface ala iCab with modern standards support
ala the rest - but I can't stand it.
-M
- Hi Cary,
I love iCab. I alternate among the others, but iCab I always have
running, and I tend to default to it when I just want reliable
performance, and especially for downloads. It's not the fastest,
but it's the most solid, IMHO.
If you haven't tried Opera 7.50b, you should take a look. It's
still pretty rough, but fast and has tons of potential.
Charles
WaMCom Tip
From Mike Richardson
Hi Charles,
If there are Classic IE users who say some of their sites won't
load in the Mozilla WaMCom browser, they should try the UABar
add-on for WaMCom.
This adds a bar where the user can spoof their browser to make
it appear as if it is another browser such as IE. This will get
around some sites where the author has regrettably decided to lock
out non-IE users. Most of the time, WaMCom will load the site just
fine!
UABar can be installed by going to http://uabar.mozdev.org/source.html
and clicking on "Install xpi here". The dialogs will walk you
through installation.
Thanks,
Mike Richardson
- Great tip, Mike. Thanks.
Charles
Browser Tips
From Metroxing
Some of your readers might be interested to know this "security"
trick that works with Mozilla, Camino &
FireFox
but not with Safari or IE:
To me, cookies are pointless with the OS X keychain fill in
feature that I can activate for on a site-by-site basis. It would
be okay if cookies were just set at the login, but a lot of sites
track every single page you visit so turning on "Ask me to set
cookies" is annoying because you're stopped at every page, and most
sites don't let you enter with cookies off.
But old trick here still works. Navigate to User/Library or
User/Library/Application Support folder and look for Mozilla or
Firefox or Camino. Replace cookies.txt, and for those fanatics like
me, also replace history.txt with folder (files) called:
cookies.txt & history.txt
When your browser window is active, all that current cookie info
is active and acts like all is dandy. Once you quit the browser, it
can't write over a folder file, so your cookies and history info is
deleted.
(Unless you like to backtrack a lot, there's no reason not to
set history to zero days, and everybody not running OS 7, dial
up, and counts their storage in MB (not GB) should set cache to
zero.
Now, when you quit, nobody knows where you've been.
When I last check Safari only lets you delete the cookies.txt
but history & cache are cryptic.
IE has one useful - only in IE can you print out FedEx online
labels. With the other browsers you can get as far as the last page
- then nothing. It looks like it's in JavaScript - hard to believe
IE is more compatible. Tried complaining, but basically if you're
1% of the user using the 1% browser, what do they care. UPS doesn't
work for Mac IE. At least the USPS works now for all browsers.
KC
- Cool. Thanks, KC.
Charles
Safari can Import IE, Netscape, and
Mozilla Bookmarks on the Fly
From Brian Warren
Greetings from Haines, Alaska...
Safari can import IE, Netscape, and Mozilla bookmarks on the
fly. To access this feature, you must enable the Debug menu. The
simplest way is to use the terminal: Quit Safari and then enter in
this:
- defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
(change the 1 to a 0 to disable it)
After that, just launch Safari and access all the "hidden"
features of the debug menu.
If you have terminal fear, there are plenty of freeware apps
that can do this and more. (such as Safari Enhancer:
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/dlpage.php?id=17776&kind=1&db=vt3)
Print Preview: Agreed, IE has a simple, easy-to-use print
preview. Safari does have that too (sort of). In that with Panther
all default print dialogs have the preview button that gives you a
print-preview of your document using, what else, Preview. Not as
"on the fly" as IE's work, but you get to see it before committing,
and I imagine that's what most people want.
take care,
Brian
- Hi Brian,
How's the weather in Haines? Snow is finally melting here in Nova
Scotia.
Thanks for the browser tips!
Charles
re: Internet Explorer Print Preview
From Jeremy Morgan
Kit and Chuck,
Firefox has a print preview feature that lets you adjust from
landscape to portrait, and printer settings. That's a compelling
reason to switch away from both IE and OS 9 :-P
-Jeremy
- Thanks Jeremy.
Charles
Import IE Favorites into Safari
From Jason Reid
In regard to Paul O'Keefe's
letter: TinkerTool has an option to "Reimport Internet Explorer
favorites on next launch".
- Thanks for the tip, Jason.
Charles
Print Preview
From Eric Matthieu
Charles,
For those, like Kit Archie (Miscellaneous Ramblings, 29 March 04),
who still use IE for its print preview capability, iCab 2.9.7 has
it built right in, with the ability to tweak scale, colors, images,
fonts, headers, and footers. Netscape 7.x has this, too, but with
far fewer options. In both cases, it's right above the print
command in the file menu.
For anyone using Epson printers, you can also do a basic print
preview through their driver software in OS 9. After telling a
program to print, just click on the "change to preview mode" button
to the left of the print button in the Epson software (looks like a
sheet of paper with a magnifying glass over it). The Print button
now says Preview... From which you can not only view what is
spooled but block selected pages from getting printed. Great for
eliminating unwanted pages while saving paper and ink.
FWIW, I haven't purged IE from my hard drive, but it seldom gets
used. I split my time about 50/50 between Netscape 7.0 and iCab
2.9.7.
Eric
___
- Thanks for the tip, Eric. Always glad to hear of another reason
to use iCab.
Heck, I still have IE on my hard drive. No point in dumping it, but
I might use it for a particular website twice a year. In OS X
use iCab, Safari, and FireFox mainly, fairly evenly split. In
OS 9, I use iCab 98% of the time.
Charles
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