Classilla 9.2.2

[ClassicHasClass]

Don't worry, Classilla users, I may be working on TenFourFox also but I haven't forgotten about you!

Classilla 9.2.2 is released, after much delay. As previously noted, this isa bugfix rollup only except for its big new feature, which is language

packs. This version includes Japanese and German, and we're planning for

Italian with 9.3.0. If you are interested in becoming a translator, please

see Classilla issue 151. Please treat the translations as "beta," and a big

thank-you to our community translators who worked very hard on them.

This version also includes several security fixes, including a patch revoking

the notorious certificate set from the Comodo break-in (see issue 158), a

fix for certain other SSL certificates, repairs for Script-B-Gone bugs, and

several interface problems.

9.3.0 is the big one and I hope to have that ready for Q3, but this will hold

the fort for now.

http://www.classilla.org/

 

[mx-v]

Yay.

No french translation yet? Let me look at it, I'd like to contribute to this project.

 

[kite210]

Works great on my Powerbook G3 Wallstreet @233Mhz, Keep up the great work!

 

[ClassicHasClass]

mx-v, do so! Sign up, visit issue 151, look at the jars. We're trying to build them similar to the existing translations (ja-JP, de-AT). Ignore en-*, those are laid out differently and less atomically.

kite210, thank you, kind sir.

 

[mx-v]

This looks like... work. That's good because I love work. I could sit all day and watch people work.

Will tackle it this weekend and let you know if I'm up to the task or not.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Don't worry, there's plenty of time. I'm not aiming for 9.3.0 much before Q3. Still a lot of work there to be done.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Well, I finally decided it was time to give it a whirl on my Wallstreet, Kanga & 5300ce so I downloaded it along with iCab.

Thanks for all the hard work! :approve:

 

[kite210]

Personally, I think that classilla is possibly the best thing ever released for OS 9, now let me explain:

In 2003, when I started using a Mac full time (A Performa 6360, details on the machine at the end), I had to deal with using AOL versions 3.0 and 4.0 to get online.

It was around this time that websites would not load correctly in both versions, and even using Netscape 4 would produce broken sites. It was at this point that I upgraded the machine around early 2004 to OS 9 and tried out MSIE 5.1.7, that was a bit better until more and more sites started switching to higher end flash, and more intensive javascript.

The broken sites continued and it was at that point that I stopped using the internet on my mac, until just last year, when I tried out Classilla 9.1 on my newly ordered PowerBook Wallstreet rev.2, I was blown away just by seeing the google search page actually render correctly and as it would on a modern machine, I started testing more and more sites, and was amazed by how well it could handle a lot of modern sites with little to no errors at all.

I would have loved to have tested Classilla on my Performa 6360, but it sadly died a few months back from a logic board failure.

Although I've said it before, Thank you Cameron, and everyone else involved in testing/translating classilla.

[/end fanboy rant] :quadra:

The specs on the Performa 6360:

160mhz 603ev PPC

32Mb ram, Ram doubled to 64Mb

32Gb Hard Drive

8x CD Rom

 

[Emehr]

I would also like to extend my thanks to Mr. Kaiser for working on browsers for OS 9 and Tiger. The thing making computers obsolete nowadays is not the operating system or hardware, it's our interface to the internet. My Macs running OS 9 and Tiger can do all the cool things they did in 1999 and 2002 respectively except browse the modern internet. Cameron's work has made these older machines feel like they can get online and not feel ashamed about it. Thanks, Cameron!

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Thanks for the kind words, but I'm not done yet. More stuff to come.

 

[Tron]

Thanks for your great work.

I'll send you a private message related to the "other" software project

 

[bittin]

nice updated the browser on my iMac G3

 

[beachycove]

I just upgraded from an earlier version, and to my surprise, find that this site now renders properly in OS9 in the default prosilver style on a Wallstreet. I then checked a website I run for work purposes that makes heavy use of the built-in CSS in OSX.5 Server, and find that it too renders properly, for the first time in OS9. Looks great, in fact.

I have now gone in to my settings here and changed back to prosilver from subsilver in the User Control Panel to reflect the happy new reality, as it really wasn't up to much in OS9 in subsilver (illegible). Huzzah and thank you!

If anyone has not YET upgraded to Classila 9.2.2, it is well and truly worth the all of 2 mins. it takes.