Best web browser for Fast 040?

[System7]

I have been wondering what is faster, IE or Netscape.

 

[Unknown_K]

IE 4 or Icab, Netscape was too buggy for me.

 

[System7]

So far IE 4 is nice, but has bad scrolling speed.

 

[tomlee59]

If you don't mind text-only browsing, give wannabe a try. It flies on an '040.

 

[luddite]

iCab is really good, but it takes a bit of confiddling to get maximum performance.

 

[Flash!]

IE 4 or Icab, Netscape was too buggy for me.

"In the olden days "I used Netscape Communicator v4.7x which ended up being my favourite, and also IE4 on occaision (for those too buggy pages) At that time Netscape Communicator was a seperate product to "Netscape" which I found to be slow as custard and full of bugs. From memory version 4.79 was about the latest revision before it stopped being developed.

 

[Unknown_K]

Netscape runs a little better if you jack up the min/max memory footprint for the app (if you have the RAM to do so, helps IE as well).

 

[Charlieman]

Which ever browser you use, set up a RAM disk for the web cache unless you have a scary fast hard disk.

 

[LCGuy]

IE 4 or Icab, Netscape was too buggy for me.

"In the olden days "I used Netscape Communicator v4.7x which ended up being my favourite, and also IE4 on occaision (for those too buggy pages) At that time Netscape Communicator was a seperate product to "Netscape" which I found to be slow as custard and full of bugs. From memory version 4.79 was about the latest revision before it stopped being developed.

Ayup, I used Netscape Communicator 4.xx for the longest time, until I switched to Mozilla in 2002 when I went over to OS X, and then to Firefox in 2004, which I've used ever since. Netscape Communicator was actually rather nice back in the day, believe it or not. For the record, I think 4.8 was the latest version, but meh. I know that 4.08 was the latest version that supported 68ks.

 

[manimal347]

I like Netscape 3.04, and think it's the most modern tolerable browser on my G3 266. Believe it or not, it gracefully degrades on most sites that aren't Web 2.0, and even works on some forums. Unfortunately, on a 603e 100Mhz, it's like watching paint dry and reminiscent of dial-up, but other browsers are even worse offenders. I prefer to SSH into a Linux box and just run Links. It's at least as compatible as IE 5.x or WamCom 1.3x, and runs blazing fast, too. If I must pick a fast native solution, MacLynx, I guess.

Never had an Internet-connected 68k, but if 3.04 PPC version is slow, I can only imagine how rough the far larger and more bloated 4.0x is. Only for the saintly?