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Best web browser for an SE/30 w/64MB of RAM

Oops, sorry. You are absolutely right.

I'd say MS Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Communicator 4.0.8 then. Although I hate to admit it, I think MSIE is better than Netscape for that vintage.

 
All depends on what OS you are running. If you want fast, I'd say use a text-based browser such as Lynx. I am sure there must be some similar MacOS program. But as fast as it is, many pages won't render well.

For full graphical page rendering I second the choice of iCab. It was the most recently supported 68k browser that I am aware of. Otherwise there are old IE, Netscape, Mosaic, and others.

 
If you want images of any sort, I'd say Netscape 3 on an SE/30, though there will be no support for modern standards such as CSS. On my old hardware I personally really like WannaBe, which is text-only but lightning fast. If the accessibility standards were universally applied (every site is supposed to have a workable text-only version for the visually impaired), WannaBe would actually be a viable browser for most old machines.

Cyberdog is also fun to see in action on something like a Quadra, but I don't think I would want to run it on an SE/30.

 
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