PM 9600 Help .....

[vja4Him]

We just got our PM 9600 set up, but are having some problems .... I need to upgrade Netscape, but the download doesn't finish.

Would also like to download OS 9 Helper, but no luck their either. I've search on Googlge for websites to download OS 9 Helper, but nothing works.

Internet Explorer keeps suddenly quitting. Can't check e-mail on Hotmail (page dosen't load correctly, can't see the links or icons ...).

Computer seems to be running just find. The computer itself hasn't frozen (just IE).

Boots just fine. RAM is 320MB. First was set to Virtual Memory (1MB over), then I reset to 50% more, so now Virtual Memory is set to 480MB.

Plenty of HD space (two internal HDs, each one about 4GB).They are both working just fine.

Has the PM 9600 seen its day? Maybe it will only be good for playing really old games ... ??? Music.

Is there any hope to get this monster working at least for e-mail, and a better browser for surfing?

Help!!! Thanks ....

-- vja4Him

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[aphetica]

That's kind of what browsers in OS9 like to do... They choke on javascripts like crazy. Try iCab instead. It seems to handle java much better.

 

[Quadraman]

Good advice above. Try the most recent version of iCab your machine supports. All older browsers are going to be seriously deficient on the modern internet.

 

[Franklinstein]

Older versions of IE hate Hotmail (or the other way around), but work well enough with Yahoo! Mail, which is kind of ironic.

Your 9600 isn't done, but it may not be best suited as an internet machine. Old versions of AIM (4.1.2 or something) and Yahoo! Messenger work fine, though.

If you're really hot for getting modern web sites to work, iCab may be of some help. Otherwise, your only real option is to fill that thing with RAM (though 320MB would work, more is always better), blank out one of those 4GB hard drives, download XPostFacto, find an OS 10.2 installer, and slap Jaguar on that beast. Firefox works on 10.2 (you'll have to download it, I think IE 5 is included in the 10.2 installers, use that to get Firefox).

 

[equill]

OS 9 browsers are risky beasts because their inbuilt protection against malware penetration is slight. That, and their innocence about Java matters, makes them undesirable for Internet work. That said, Mozilla 1.0.2, despite that its parent organization has left it behind, can give a good account of itself for downloads, and especially with 20-40MB extra of RAM assigned to it in Get Info. (as should be done with any browser under OS 9 and older). Otherwise, after you use it to post here once, just to celebrate that you can do it, forsake all browsers for OS 9 and under forever. They are just too under-accomplished and vulnerable.

Your 9600 is capable of upgrade to G3 or G4 (daughter card or ZIF carrier) and OS X—at least 10.3—which is a far more secure vehicle on which to travel through the wolf-packs.

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